M.E.R.C.

**Updated as of 3rd Oct 2017** After months of the game being pulled off of Steam and zero word from the developers, I'm sad to have to change my positive review to a negative. I will keep my old review below, which pretty much sums up the current state of the game, however, don't expect new features. Quite frankly, I don't expect the game to ever release and I can see that it'll disappear off Steam again in the near future. Also, the game constantly crashes. **Old review** So far, the game is great. I've definitely been enjoying it. At the moment, though, I can't play for extended periods of time due to the game crashing, BUT, speaking with Chris, one of the developers (who by the way, responded to my support email within a few minutes of me sending it!), the game has good things coming, and they are addressing the crashing issues. Other than the crashes, there isn't much that is gamebreaking, and so far I seem to be one of the lucky few who crash as often. For an E/A title, there's a surprising amount of content, with randomly generated timed side missions that you can play co-op and main story missions, you have tons of content to get your teeth stuck into. So it all boils down to this list PROS - Loads of content Co-op gameplay for side missions Skill customisation Equipment progression Real strategic gameplay CONS - Somewhat repetitive go here and kill that, EVAC I wanted to stick in that there isn't much of a choice when it comes to weapons and armors, but that's likely to the game being an E/A title.

This game had too many ambitious ideas and not enough essentials. I liked the graphics but they run poorly. It has janky controls and a janky game loop. I can confirm Tiny Mobs shut down the majority of their operations some time in 2016 very shortly after MERCs release. I feel like if they had got their core ideas out there earlier it would have been obvious what was working and what wasn't, but instead you get a bit of a mishmash of stuff that's overwhelmingly excellent and stuff that's janky and only a fraction of it is compelling in any way. Long and heavy tutorial section, on-ramping is tedious.

bidon

Well, I crash alot. :/ but other then that its fun so far. Yay early access.

EDIT: Long since abandoned. Don't waste your money. This game is really great, even as is. Plays similarly to a hybridized Full Spectrum Warriors and old Syndicate, Satellite Reign, or I s'pose XCOM.

Looking forward for the full release of this creative and interesting game!!

Great Potential game needs new maps asap cuz every mission looks the same and it gets abit repetitive after a while but other then that im happy so far keep up the good work

tl;dr - Cripplingly boring and repetitivw. fun for the first 1.5-2 hours. After that, overly redundant and simple. Especially once you get better gear. -- [b] difficulty: [/b] So, not having the options to change the difficulty does make it rough at the start, since you can easily go into a mission you are not ready for. the "threat assesment" isn't so much a warning of how much damage the enemies do so much as it's a heads up on how many enemies you will encounter. .... [b] Controls: [/b] A bit odd, but not clunky as lots of people describe. Just not typical. but can easily perform maneuvers. [b] Camaera: [/b] Camera stays with the squad. when you select both squads it can jump. and it can get stuck in some odd angles at times. Limited range, but u can pan a away from the group for a moment.... think of it as the camera only lets u go so far as fog of war. Not bad, but not great... neutral. [b] graphics [/b] great graphics and visuals. love the map layout as well. And now, back to the difficulty.... it's easy to save money. and once you've got say ... 10k to outfit one soldier, it just gets easier from there. The armor, while helpful, only adds about 10-20% hp via dmg mitigation.... the weapons however give you at least a 50-60% dps increase (Base damage + fire rate). Once you've got the guns, missions get easier, then you get armor, and you can just walk through the game. i routinely will have 2 squads split up, and search / handle different parts of the map independantly. Not a bad game. but can get boring / repetitive due to how easy it is after the first hour / hour and a half. I can't recomend the game, as i personally think there could be more done with it. But im not against it either. Neutral i suppose. (Maybe add in harder enemies here and there to mix things up)

Excellent Game Hope for more like this. I havebewen Really Impressed with The real-time tactical combat is excellent with simple customizable control Options. Only Complaint are Have not been able to get the alterate teams command to work Unfortunately you are limitted to 4-man squads & 8 Total Troops.

This is a good solid game, its at the moment a rough diamond that needs more polishing before it can truly shine but it obviously has potential. There are a few things to work out, such as more enviroments and side things to add but overall its pretty decent for an Early Access game made by a small group. I can only imagine what they'd be able to do with a full triple AAA budget.