Interregnum: False Prophet

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*Warning* might contain miner spoilers! But my review is in early access as well so I'm allowed being a bit of a turd. Interregnum: False Prophet. Fun for a while.. until it ain't. A mixed hybrid of Xcom / Wasteland 3 & This war of mine! How could this go wrong? Well, maybe because it's in this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ state.. Crashes and bugs everywhere. And it's not even fair. It's like the developers are having a blast, knowing what an abomination Interregnum early access is. It's not even CLOSE to being playable! (edit: might be too harsh of a statement..or i dunno?!. I'm 40 hours in so It's very much an early access hate / love relationship at the moment. There's no map, and the area you'll traverse is fairly huge. You have no clue where you're going and ending up. Constantly wondering if you should backtrack or keep moving on. (edit: Since last time I have now worked out how to quickly locate the caravan and how to find my party members with a mouse click.) The stuff you scav is much the same and becomes repetitive. Fruits, bandages, meds, Coca cola bottles, juice flasks, Oil cans, clothes, guns and ammo.. It's perhaps variety enough you might argue but considering the amount of work you put in I beg to differ. And since very little fights going on (working) it's basically all you do and making camp.. (edit: After spending lots of time developing and researching my caravan base - more blueprints and variety regarding crafting will be available.) I promised myself to never buy an early access game again after Baldurs gate III two year+ long beta demo version, but surely I couldn't control the urge. Baldurs gate III turned out a gem in the long run so everything is forgiven. The Game have crashed for me two times already. (Edit: 4 times, often very randomly. Last time when adding meat to the contribution box). At one point when I crashed I reload and 1 of my characters where gone and replaced by a clone of an already existing party member.. wow!) When you start the game for the first time as a new adventure you can choose two options: a standard difficulty and easy mode (explorer). Explorer is just bull crap, I couldn't fight bandits or survivors even if I wanted to. apparently a fight should commence but nothing happens when I had extended all the dialogue. And when I rescued the girl and bringing her to the citadel nothing happens after all dialogue. No fight! just a whole lot of nothing. So I started a new game and went with normal mode instead thinking it must be why it didn't work. And yes, I was able to progress at that point. (edit: the game could really need an in game tutorial instead of me learning by doing.) But the bugs and crashes persist. And if you crash you can lose many hours of progression. Loot, weapons and even new recruits. That in itself is bad! but if I tell you that all that works is scavenge houses, barns, and buildings and very little gunplay is working you should be alarmed. I find myself at times unwilling to loot buildings and just try to open up the map as much as possible. And if my party members are exhausted, sick, dreary and dull so be it. What's the point if you're going to lose it at any given moment. I'm 20 hours in but it feels like only the beginning. (edit: 40 hours now). I REALLY wanna like this game. I do want to give a thumbs up and promote this game. but I can't! I truly believe that this game will be successful in the long run. The developers just need your hard earned money to reach Alpha status. (edit: between alpha / beta). 5.7 / 10 huge potential! I shouldn't play this game as much that I have in the current state.

the game is fun but keep crashes

Refunded. After what? Just a couple of lousy minutes? YEAH, seems that it tries to be that nuclear winter fallout extension a team of modders did some time ago (iirc fallout frontier) Don't get me wrong, game is decent, character creation is, good I guess, nothing crazy and a bit more convoluted compared to other games but just slightly. It has a lot of systems to take into account later on, combat is rather decent too, just not my thing, if you want more of an old fallout-esque experience this isn't it, plus, never been a fan of that whole post apocalyptic winter thing, but that's on me, game itself, well, it could definitely use some improvements but overall it's not bad, maybe the soundtrack was a bit off for what little I was able to play.