Nightingale

Прошел основной сюжет почти до конца и так и не понял, а где тут игра? Да, графон шикарен, можно часами обустраивать хату и любоваться как тени викторианских вензелей играют на стенах, но это не игровой процесс, это просто симуляция обустройства жилья. А игры самой тут похоже и нет. Миры заполнены одинаковыми примитивнейшими точками интереса, которые видимо создавались для процедурной генерации. Но генерацию так и не реализовали как я понял в результате. Ресурсов достаточно много, но 99% из них в результате просто занимают сундуки в виде бесполезного балласта. Точек интереса много, но в них нет никакого смысла. Квесты есть, но настолько плоские и с такими бестолковыми наградами, что лучше бы их не было. Есть много разноуровневых материалов, шмоток, инструментов, декора и прочего, но кроме чисто декоративной роли смысла в разнообразии никакого нет. Есть только небольшая разница в характеристиках, на на практике это кроме искусственного растягивания геймплея ничего не дает. Сюжет прост, но искусственно раздут до невероятных размеров пустой бессмысленной мишурой, отчего похож на сгенерированную ИИ билиберду, которая настолько кривая и душная, что привычку перематывать диалоги развивает уже в первые часы игры. Говорят вроде разработчика купили китайцы, может поэтому игра многими чертами мне напомнила последние игры funcom и неприятную историю с известным варфреймом (их обоих кстати тоже купил китайский tencent). В общем на данный момент как симулятор обустройства хаты - вполне себе очень даже неплохо. Но как игра - чет никак вообще как то.

I love this game, its got all of my favourite elements: gathering, crafting, building and exploring. I do play on the easiest setting, as I am not a fan of combat, for me this is a mindful and engaging way to relax after a busy day.

I tried the same at launch. It was so buggy I had to quit for a few years. Now I'm back and it's crashing again. Worked fine for a few days and then it crashed mid game and since then I can't start up a session again (apart from seeing the menu). I did all the regular things. I Verified the steam files. I deleted the cache. I restarted. It tried joiing a session and starting a solo game. I didn't install directx 12. All my other games on my PC still run fine so it's not hardware. Sorry but if you don't fix then soon you loose me and all the friends that just started a server

I bought Nightingale two or three years ago. Back then it was in such a bad state that after around 8 hours I just quit and uninstalled it. Now it’s definitely more playable. But there are still massive issues. Balance feels completely off. Spells are a joke. There’s basically one “correct” weapon type because everything else feels pointless. Builds don’t really matter. There are no real skills to shape your character. There are more resources in the game than actual meaningful things to build with them. It feels like quantity over depth. And they’re talking about full release next year? That honestly sounds unrealistic unless we’re only seeing a small slice of what they actually have internally. I really want this game to succeed. The concept is great. But right now it still feels unfinished in core systems, not just polish.

Симулятор групповой перезагрузки игры.

Nightingale has a fantastic setting, in both senses of the word. It really is a marvel to traipse around in the Victorian gear in the well-designed world sets. The crafting starts off accessible and then kinda spirals into this augmented materials game that, at least for me, required jotting down notes to assemble the gear. Combat is crisp and doesn't seem to favor melee or ranged, although the shotgun-to-the-head method is most effective. I started after Realms Rebuilt and can't speak to the early release that garnered so much of the negativity. There were only two significant bugs - one regarding a mission achievement and once the vault spawns didn't load - both of which were solved with a restart and redo of the activities. However, the game still feels not quite finished. The major characters for the most part lack voiced lines and, with the exception of Puck who is fabulous, the plot is abbreviated. There are hints that there is more to the story, but the writers didn't get to finish some of the thoughts about it. I recommend for the settings, visuals, and traversal mechanics. Getting on a high vista to look out at the landscape tapestry below is a true pleasure. Sadly, the dev chats point to lack of funding to finish the game as Inflexion intended and bring it to the full release they envisioned. Perhaps we'll get a few more bobs and bits and they'll call it a day.

The only combat encounter we've had in nearly 2 hours was extremely dull, and boiled down to me spamming left click and pressing Q (the quick-use button) once to instantly heal to full health. There was no combat tutorial so I'll never know if this was a suboptimal way to fight. Then we decided to build something, but no building block is unlocked by default. Known recipes are also not shared, which made me understand that the most optimal way to play the game is to only have one person in our group be able to build. 2 minutes away from being unable to receive an automated refund, this told me that the game is probably going to let us optimize the fun out of it. The introduction just does not bode well.