Drug Dealer Simulator 2

I want to like this game, but I cannot recommend it. I feel like it had so much it could of done if they fixed the problems, but the developers have shown that they have moved onto there next game, and left the mess I will describe. There is a lot of bugs, jagginess in terms of gameplay and story. So let me run you through it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lets start with the main story, if you can call it a story. --The main story has no driving factor. The only driving factor is your own desire to sell to the area and other areas. There is no major conflict, despite the war going on in the background which causes you no problems, until they realized how flat the story was and tried to cram some in at the end, but it wasn't satisfying. The ending that was so rushed. It requires you to steal supplies, some which you can only get in certain places every 2 days, which causes your reputation you built to go in the trash. As for the people you interact with, the main influencers don't feel like they have any personality, and could very easily be replaced with a blank wall with a note attached and I wouldn't notice a difference. Honestly, if you told me about your day at work, that would have more thought put into it, than this main story. Most of these characters are not voiced at every part, so prepare to read. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robbery, Reputation, and Wanted System --So you can rob warehouses, chests, crates, cars, and medical tents. Warehouses contain chests and crates with chemicals, crafting supplies, and sometimes weapons, clothes, and recipes. A little of a neat system. Robbing these lower your reputation in that area, and doing it enough will cause you to gain a wanted level. The wanted system has 3 levels, person of interest, which last ~24 minutes irl, suspect for ~25 minutes, and wanted for ~30 minutes. Plus when Wanted runs out, it goes to the lower level one, then the level below that. If you plan on robbing, get used to seeing these at the top of your screen. Even if you rob a warehouse in the middle of the jungle with no one around, you will lose rep and gain wanted levels. The police have some good sight, don't need to stop to gain stamina, and love to beat you down. But guess what, that is not the end of your wanted level. One of two things will happen, either you will go to a jail cell and can walk out, but you still have a wanted level, or you go to prison with a wanted level. Prison is fun, you have to do laundry or bake bread to earn 50 cards to get out of prison, or pay 75k and get smuggled out, or just jump the wall. But it gets better, the police will treat you as a threat in the prison and beat you down and where do you respawn? Outside of prison in the town next to it, while still being marked in prison. So either you climb back in or say goodbye to whatever you had when you were arrested. For more law enforcement stuff, see the raids section. In terms of reputation, it is very easy to get, but if you have negative reputation, you cannot park your car in a town/area. Don't you love spending 12 mill on a mansion and you cannot park there because you lost reputation in that area? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Employees and clients --First note is that you cannot turn off sales on the first island. Why does this matter? Well if you have a dealer there, they will ping you that they are out of product every time someone tries to buy from them. So you must always produce weed and Amp to shut them up, otherwise you'll hear the buzzer a lot. You can have lab assistants who produce drugs with cash, which is helpful, but a bit too easy. The dealers are simple and useful, but run out of product and the buzzing starts. Distributers give product to the dealers so you don't have to give everyone stuff, just them, but if they run out, prepare your ears to hear 4 dealers tell them that they need stuff, and they will buzz in your ear nonstop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Production of product. -- There is never a point where this doesn't feel grindy. Best example is making Amp. Well getting one of the basic materials for it is can be taken from a chocolate bar. How fun does it sound to hit 6 stores across multiple islands to get ~150 candy bars? What about stealing the supplies? Well check the robbery, reputation, and wanted system section for the problems of that. But back to the production, the production feels too grindy, and once you manage to get past the set up and producing a lot, there isn't enough demand of product for your massive operation. Mixing feels like a joke compared to DDS1. Like why did they even include it. Raids may hurt at the start, but eventually, you can have kilos taken in a raid, and it wont feel like a problem. Which brings me to the raids section. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raids on your homes. --So raids can happen when you're not wanted, but have a higher chance when your at the place. They will take all the drugs, which make sense. But what if I have items stored in the safe room? Those are gone as well. The safe room is for you to stand in. After the raid is done, how fun is it that the guards and still standing on your front lawn ready to beat you down? Not very fun, but it has happened a lot. Saving and loading is the only way to fix this bug, but hey, when you load back in, you get to see the raid happen again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Map -- I kind of like the map to a degree. Broken up into small islands that get large and large. The downside is that traveling feels like garbage and it feeds you false information. Are you running? Enjoy sliding down hills to escape cops, but also enjoy finding pits and areas where you must use the emergency teleport to get out of. Are you driving? Well I hope you weren't hoping that you could actually drive instead of teleporting, but at least you are going places, unless your reputation fell too low, then you better start running to that mansion. Are you boating? Well the boats are the only good part, well some are. Most boats you can actually drive around and dock on any part of the shore that is reasonable. Which is helpful because for me, most docks didn't work on my 2nd playthrough, but the beaches worked as my dock. But what about spending 12 million on a yacht? Well back to teleporting for you. Plus I its a gamble if the storage space is what is listed. 30 slots? Na, this baby takes 5 slots. You know what is even better? When the map shows a road where there is no road or path. Sounds like a simple thing to fix, yet the devs do nothing about it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Character stats --Your character has a couple stats that are very obvious, but sometimes it is not. You may decide to test your product on yourself to see what it can do. Well it gives you a stat boost. Lets take Amp for an example, all the game tells you is that you have the amp effect. The game give no other info, so you are force to look up online and find a spreadsheet by some people who dug through the game code. _____________________________________________________________________ Home decoration --Simple, there isn't enough furniture in the game to make your home feel properly put together. There is some stuff, but I am willing to bet to you that the mansion you buy, won't feel like a home.