RIFTSTORM

roguelite loop is genuinely one of the coolest I've played. the meta progression is pretty meh tbh, but its early access so I hope the devs refine it. also starling exists. these two facts are unrelated but both worth mentioning.

游戏在build构筑上面给到的空间很足，局内拿到的每一份刻印、每一件武器，都可以用来调整自身的战斗逻辑，个人比较喜欢堆高射速走持续输出的路线。

I dunno what the fuss is about. The weapon scarring mechanic is fire. Keep it.

Fun game. We need character skins for the characters, ASAP.

中规中矩，可玩性不高，值得期待未来发展

Yeah, Ima keep it a buck because I know they can do better. Played this game at PAX like 2-3 years ago. Back then, idk if the game was different, or it was more for playtesting reasons....but the game was more of a roguelike, and the focus was on clearing floors and experimenting with builds. This is literally a different game and it's an exercise in pointless progression. Every single level I take 0 damage, I literally do not need to purchase a single thing, and I have to go through this weirdass grinding routine to unlock better guns. What is even the point of making me unlock these? I'm bored out of my mind, running from point A to B, just WAITING for enemies to spawn because it's easy as hell. If I clear the mission, I get to what....get better stuff and clear ♥♥♥♥ even faster? The mission structure, inventory/crafting system, even the fking skill progression is all unnecessary. It's literally just fluff that makes it harder to play the actual game. Just let me pick a character (limit my SP points, and make SP for passive buffs only), make weapon cases actually drop weapons during the game, and make skills/abilities shim-buyable. Then, drop my ass into the game, make the enemies scale with time, and let me go til I drop or decide to extract. Idc if it's a tower/level based system or a gigantic map where objectives/enemies continually spawn. Just please, let me load in once, fix as many rifts/comms/protect researchers/etc., as I want to, and then leave when I'm satisfied or dead. If you want to attach some kind of progression system or narrative, COOL. Just make it apply after my run is finished. No more of this literal fricken workflow for PAM->Mission Reward Accept (why is there even the option to submit individual rewards when there's a submit all button btw, it's completely redundant)->Complete Directive->Walk over to Mission Select->Click Three times to Select Mission->Walk over to enter mission. It's such a massive momentum killer. I know that was harsh, but PLEASE, something has to be done here. Three years ago, I had lots of fun playing the demo. Now I feel like I'm stuck in some bizarre, Sisyphean gaming experience.

Riftstorm is a roguelite looter shooter with a great presentation but very weak gameplay as its insanely easy with the player having a strong regenerating shield that will block 90% of the damage you should be taking making health not an issue and enemies are slow, dumb and easily killed which they try to fix by giving every big enemy past act 2 a big elemental shield that takes 5x longer to break than it would be to kill them but even that doesn't suddenly fix the problems they have, the only time ive actually died in the game was when i entred a red zone area on my map only for it to spawn multiple spam teleporting bosses and a dozen other elites in a small area and i couldn't really fight back. The general gameplay loop is a bit weak and repetative something similar to warframe where you have a set objectives and enemy types of the missions you can go after but the gunplay is fairly weak leaving me pretty disengaged from the game and the dialogue from the narrator / assistant is boring and lifeless after you do an objective or progress your base you are then told that you can now do the things the progression has let you do while it tries some weak attempts at humor ocassionaly. With this being a roguelite you can find power ups during a run and enhance your character but there isn't anything special outside of boring stat bonuses aside from being able to spawn a drone or robot from a few specific ones but you have the usual damage, crit and fire rate bonuses which do not have numbers associated on the buffs which is unhelpful as you just have to assume the perks are significant enought to matter which you can feel the effects of but not giving the player information is always annoying especially when there are negative effects on some of them. Loot is fairly good with a decent variety of weapons per category which can all roll with modifiers that effect the guns performance which are similar to the powerups if not the same of what you would find in the mission which does lessen the impact of loot but if you were to fail a mission in the game your weapons get scarred which removes an existing perk and replaces it with a negative modifier which tells the player win everything or potentially brick your items which isn't a good system to encourage experimentation or attempt harder content you might fail.