Granvir: Zero Front

Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

what i like so far: + large variety of mech parts and diverse weapons there's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of different parts and a wide variety of weapons, the mech customization reminds me of the amored core series with the ability to mix and match body parts. + toggleable first person view (recently added) its kinda basic but still super cool, your vision in first person is essentially inside a sphere in the mech torso with some black panel lines to imply various cockpit shapes, with different shapes for different torso parts. there is no detailed 3d cockpit or instrument panels, but the view is situated in the mech's head/torso area and you have a great first person view of your arms and legs and body, you can look around faster than the mech will turn kind of like a freelook. it works quite well despite the lack of detailed 3d cockpit models, its an efficient bit of design. + easily customizeable controls you can customize controls mid mission, with a keypress to open the menu. you can also toggle the mech's movement to be more tank style (the entire leg assembly rotates to face the direction of movement input) or foot style (the leg assembly faces the same way as the torso, and strafes instead of rotating leg unit to change direction). + camera offset settings i was originally put off by the promotional images for this game all showing a very offcentered camera stuck to the right, like fortnite whose camera setup i absolutely can't stand (seriouisly epic let me toggle sidessssss), but this game lets you reduce the camera offset with a bar to completely center it. i might suggest to also have an option to toggle the camera side with a keypress in-game, but i will gladly accept a centered camera over fortnite-esque rightshouldercam. what i don't like as much: - sluggish mech movement while i appreciate the leg control options, neither feels especially graceful or elegant to use. in default tank mode, moving backwards means your (likely bipedal humanoid) mech's legs will rotate a full 180 degrees to face the opposite direction of the torso, which while mechanically plausible for a mech doesn't look very cool at all. its a functionality i would associate more with armless mechs than humanoid, but perhaps i could make one of those if i found more parts. alternatively, in strafe mode, your mech looses much of its speed and maneuverability, you can't strafe very fast so your overall mobility is drastically decreased. idk if i would just increase the strafe speed or what, that might require difficult modification of the movement animations. perhaps a kind of hybrid mode, where moving to the sides (up to a certain angle) rotates the leg units to face the direction of movement input, while moving backwards (up to a certain angle) while have the leg unit walk backwards as in strafing mode, with the leg unit facing directly opposite the direction of movement input in this case. - not enough energy for dash maneuvers this might only be a problem early on, but i never have very much energy to use dash or boost or even sprint mechanics. the dashes do not seem useful enough, they do not go far or fast enough, to ever really be worth the cooldown and heat buildup. again, maybe a problem solved with better loot, i am struggling to get past early campaign stages personally. - no zoom feature? again, something i might just not have found the right loot to use, but there is seemingly no way to zoom in your view or activate a scope view or anything like that. idk if this is to facilitate the relatively close spawn range of enemies, but i would much prefer to have longer ranged combat capabilities in a mech game like this. i suppose it could also be this way to facilitate melee builds, which this game has a lot of options for.