Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

The game itself, as in the gameplay loop, level design etc is good, but the game lacks so many QoL features that it makes it annoying to interact with the otherwise good game. Sin 1: Controls: You can't select units with keybinds (such as numeric keys), you must click on them, which is 'extremely' annoying (especially when they are too close together). A lot of actions simply do not have keybinds, every action should have an (optional) keybind (I'm ok with them being unassigned unless you assign them). Sin 2: QoL: Context menu: Want to kick a door? Well, depending on what you have available (context1) you need to switch to context2 to kick the door. Why can't we just have smaller icons(or a second set of outer-icons) instead of having to cycle multiple context menus (which gets annoying really fast)? Clear Orders: Game really needs the option to 'clear all current orders' both for singular unit, and all units (which exist, we get it at start of the map! We should have it available constantly). Here's why this is needed: Say you have a chain of 13 orders, but for whatever reason you want to stop. Well you now either delete 13 orders, OR you create a new root-movement (drag from unit) and delete that. Unless the root is a view direction, then you need to to the above, clear that, THEN do another clear(to reset the view), 2-3 actions, simply to clear the orders. This should be '1' action operation, not 2+. Units at level start: Why can we customize individual units if you're going to populate a map with what you think is the 'best' selection despite my support only having a pistol?. I'm being a bit facetious, but it's another 2-click operation that simply shouldn't exist. There should be an option to choose if we want levels pre-populated with recommended units, or have no units, as every mission is a set of "click remove all, then add". Loadouts - Because of every mission being different, some situation require different loadouts. While 'units' can work for this in principle, in reality they can't (especially in campaign where units get injured etc and their state carry over). Simply having selection of say 3 loadouts, so we could do say, normal, subsonic (mp5), CQC would go a long way aleviating the tedium of changing loadouts every mission (very relevant to campaign). Planning: While improved over DK1 (at least from when I last played DK1) it's still terrible. What we need is the option to hide every other planning path expect current selected unit. While selection is fixed (You won't select another units path while a unit is selected) the visual noise is extreme and at times can be unwieldly. Also wouldn't hurt to be able to hide everything before/after checkpoints. Sin 3: explanation of mechanics: While it does a good job at core mechanics, it does expect you've played Door Kickers 1. There's no explanation about shift+rmb(alternatively lmb+rmb) viewsetting and how it works (there is in DK1). There's also no explenation for how night-time works (Why can't I see a unit that's far away, why do they suddenly appear out of nowhere? I assume it's NVG view-range limits, but this is never explained or noted anywhere). -- Apart from these 3 sins, the game has a lot of questionable design decisions. Such as no lockpicks (with missions where alarm triggered is likely to cause failure), VIP's causing your entire squad to scream, breaking stealth (thus triggering 'alarms', if you're unlucky with the procedural seed this can break the mission from the moment you start it because the VIP spawned in the first window). For the VIP issue, simply do not have the squad scream or attempt to have them surrended if stealth-mode is on. -- Like I said, the game itself is good, the foundations are great. But these "minor" issues start to feel like "extremely major" issues after a few hours. DK2 like DK1 is a game about micro-managing 2+ units and does everything it can to make that process as tedious, and unenjoyable as possible.