Drone Sector

TL;DR: A solid 6/10 RTS-Shooter weighed down by its resource system and largely lacking in originality. Maybe worth your money, not worth your time. Important note: I played the Drone Sector demo and liked the singular available mission. It contains all the good elements of this game, minus a few of the more exotic weapons systems. --- THE MISSIONS The guns are satisfying to shoot, the sound effects are a solid 7. Commanding your units isn't very tedious, which some similar RTS games can be a pain with. Graphics requirements are completely reasonable. The UI and controls are simple and easy to understand; the tutorials are informative and to-the-point, when it comes to the 'missions. The mission concept in general is solid, if nothing original; a good PC port of similar drone-strike mobile games, with the expected graphics and quality of life enhancements. --- STRATEGIC LAYER The strategic layer is...a drag, for lack of a better word. Each mission gives you resources (bulk materials, warhead materials, electronics, optics, fissiles, etc) which you can use in two ways: making ammo and researching new stuff. Making ammunition for your weapons is, in short, a pain in the ass. It transforms a strategy game of levels, increasing capability-difficulty curve and possibly even some story elements into a 'survival-shooter' where you have to select your missions based on what materials you want to grind. One of the reasons I bought this game was to enjoy the Rambo experience of laying waste to troops, vehicles and fortifications, and by the second play-through (the experience is more sandbox than campaign) I was budgeting my bullets like an accountant! Research trees aren't bad, they do make for some good progression, and this one did in fact make some sense. It's also a nice way to change the difficulty settings, since easy/medium/hard difficulties start with differing tech levels and quality-of-life enhancements (medium difficulty has no thermal sights to begin with, for one). --- CONCLUSION Drone sector, at the basic mission level, is a well-made remaster of the popular drone fire support mobile games that have existed since the 2010s. The graphics and sound effects are good, the hardware requirements reasonable, and the gunplay almost satisfying. The strategic layer shifts the tone of the game from an action-shooter to a survival-shooter, and correct resource management significantly dampens the largest selling point of such games; unleashing torrents of gunfire on your enemies. Changes such as fixed per-mission ammunition counts (with research tree upgrades to capacity), alongside a proper tutorial or introduction to the strategic layer would make the game truly satisfying, at least for me. I'll lurk around to see all the features and possibly update my review, but I doubt I will be keeping this game.

I tried liking the game but man are the squad vehicles so annoying. every damn time they get stuck on the most dumbest loop possible where they would drive up to a wall and spend the next 5 minutes reversing then driving back up the same wall all while getting shot up by enemy then dies because it spent the time looping when it could've moved on to the next ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ waypoint I set up. I tried guiding them to the waypoint one click at a time and still manages to get stuck in a magic loop of reverse drive into a wall, what a fun experience.

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按住左键不松手，某种高级抢滩登陆， [spoiler] 正反馈拉满 [/spoiler]。 真正的问题不是游戏【不好】【有BUG】【半成品】， 而是不知道自己想做什么。 最令人诟病的寻路问题，其实是设计问题——小车要躲开树木，模拟城市和树林里艰难的行动，还有避开敌人的残骸，还有高速行驶的时候转弯不减速导致转弯不足飘去出了。还有地面部队拿着一堆烧火棍半天打不死人（因为地形复杂没有枪线）。 这些在精细操作的RTS里都是常规乃至惊艳的设计。但在这个游戏里不合适。 这游戏实际上上做成什么样子？首发打个折六十多RMB，你指望做武装突袭吗？ 如果是连营级的RTS，专业如红龙、断箭，车辆单位在树林里是数值上的减速而不是瞎寻路。而且如果是精细RTS，那为什么开局没有高精度等高线？没有等高线我怎么看高地摆火力网？全员装甲车冲锋完成任务然后跑路吗？那和打丧尸有什么区别？ 如果重心在无人机控制，那就做好无人机移动目标瞄准，现在高度不同，瞄准点是不同的，一堆装甲车冲锋榴弹炮都打不死，怎么控制地面小队周边敌人的数量？地狱火要持续瞄准，怎么不是射后不理？地面的事情就地面的指挥官现场去办，我要把注意力集中在[strike] 割草 [/strike] 空中支援上。 如果重心是空地协同和深度战术策略，那就做好地面的等高线，细化地面单位的配置，摆好火力阵地，而不是天天上演进城被埋伏。平衡好敌方单位的击杀难度和数量，打磨好战术战法。 实在不行，弹药降价移动瞄准提升，让玩家在空中射个爽也行的。 这几十块钱的独立游戏，千万不要想着大包大揽，不要磨叽，找到自己的初心。 祝大卖

Very unique game. Commanding infantry while also playing what is essentially the AC-130 missions from COD. Very fun, very intuitive, great controls. 10/10, definitely recommended. Hope to see some larger missions in the future, having more than 4 squads would be very cool, even if limited to the sandbox mode.

It's everything I wanted from a game like this

指揮要素のあるガンシップゲー キル音がチキチキなるので敵をまとめて吹き飛ばしたときの爽快感が最高 ただ機関砲をヒャッハーしてるとあっという間に弾切れするし、使った弾や損傷はミッションで得たリソースで生産するので”詰み”がありうる イージーは見慣れたサーマル画面＋フレアその他装備、ノーマルはナイトビジョン他、ハードは生画面＋とくに研究無しから始まる CODなアレをアレしたい人ならイージーが無難