Section 13

It's a fine game, but I don't want to spend my time repeating the same areas over and over to be gaining a small incremental boost so maybe I get to a new area....where I will die once again.....just to start the process all over again.

Что ж, это были приятные 20 часов жизни :) Игра досталась бесплатно, и мне есть что о ней рассказать. Это крутой top-down шутер с интересным сюжетом и элементами рогалика. Ну и, конечно, кооператив, если у вас есть друзья. Начну с части про рогалик. Придётся десяток раз умереть, чтобы пройти до финального босса. Мне хватило 15 раз, после чего я дошёл до пика возможностей персонажа, рандомизации перков и понимания, с каким оружием можно играть. И всё это время меня удерживал сюжет, который открывается порциями при трате спец.валюты оперативника. Да, у каждого оперативника своя сюжетная валюта, поэтому придётся раз по 6–7 бегать в рейд за каждого. Сюжет здесь подаётся порциями через сообщения на терминале. Где-то логи событий, где-то переписки, где-то общение персонажей между собой. Сюжет, на мой взгляд, — это самая сильная часть игры. Обычно я скипаю ненужную болтовню, но если тут не следить за сюжетом, то и смысла отправляться на миссию не будет. Персонажи отлично прописаны. У них есть мотивация, характер и даже концовка. Немного странно, что все 4 линии персонажей пересекаются по ходу игры, но концовки не дают полной картины. Немножко не дожали. С точки зрения геймплея игра — достаточно просто сделанный аркадный шутан с видом сверху. Первое время я даже играл на геймпаде, не особо парясь. Но вот последующие сложности (я дошёл только до 2-й) уже лучше играются на клавиатуре и мыши. Много разного оружия под любой геймплей: от скорострельного ПП до мощной снайперки. Рекомендую пробовать все виды, потому что только под конец игры я обнаружил имбу, с которой легко пробежал и убил босса. Много разных рандомных перков, которые выпадают по 3 на выбор в ходе миссий и заточены на разные цели забега. По итогу игра меня сильно удивила — я не ожидал, что проведу так много времени в ней. Жаль, что ничего о ней не слышал целый год с релиза.

Быстро выдыхается, пару циклов и все.

For context, I used hacks such as removing skill cool-downs and increasing in-run currency when I played, and I would not have kept playing if I had not, because I played it solo. The game may be too hard for a single player. I finished my first run ever using Beaker, the female chemist, because she had an AoE, heal-over-time skill. I'm placing this first because this game was balanced for co-op, with a difficulty option, and the base difficulty is almost an easy mode, where one doesn't even have to consider ammo consumption. And after you beat a run on a difficulty level, you can set it to the next difficulty and so on until level 3, which is the last and has achievements tied to it. Where the game excels is that it feels good to play, but again, there needs to be a serious balance pass in solo play. Certain weapons such as the minigun are nigh-useless, the ramp up time is what holds it back, until you get addons (they drop from harder enemies), which allows you to craft a build; and that gets to issues most rogue-likes have such as not getting the exact addons you need to make the build you want in the run; and btw, how do you know if a build is good for a given weapon? Well, you don't, and that's a problem. There's no way to test weapons you have; for example, as a solo player, the mini gun is near pointless because the time to fire (called weapon charge time) and reload time is too high, and your character slows down as you turn. But if you manage to get addons that fix the first two and a special one that makes your bullets home in on the target within 7 m, then the minigun feels much better. But how would you even know that? There's no way to test the weapons with addons attached. The bottom line is that the game feels good to play, and right now it's on sale for 5.00 USD. Are there better top-down shooters? Probably, but I haven't played any yet with a feel as good as this game. If you get it for $5 USD at its current sale price, I'm confident you'll get your money's worth if you're willing to deal with the issues I listed above. If you decide to buy it, here are the best weapons to unlock first, I found, starting: [list][*]Sub Machine Gun [*]Shotgun [*]Sniper Rifle [*]Revolver [*]Flame Thrower [/list]

Very pleasant co-op top down shooter. Controls feel tight and responsive (that's a problem for about half the games in this genre). Up to 3 players in a game, still not too hard to play solo. Gameplay wise, the biggest hurdle is the general lack of reliable healing except one gun (the SMG) that has a healing weapon perk. This limits build variety since NOT taking the SMG for healing as one of your two guns kneecaps you. The characters and humor in the story also click with me. Story bits unlock with tokens gained during the missions, but you play the dialogues or read the data files between the missions so there's no time pressure or anybody waiting on you to absorb it. I haven't run into any bugs. If you have very high ping to the host (250+) then multiplayer gets real annoying; you can roll away from an attack (gives I-frames) but get hit anyway while your dead body still lands at the end of your roll. Lowish ping and that's not a problem. There's also one spot - the lab with fire vortices turned on - where it gets framey (but still playable). Besides that one spot, I've no other performance issues - buttery smooth. I think $20 is a pretty fair price for this. I got it on sale for $5 and I've definitely gotten MORE than I paid for.

El juego es divertido aunque no para todo el mundo. La cantidad de farmeo es excesivo para un juego realmente corto donde el tiempo dedicado a este será repitiendo los mismos niveles hasta mejorar nuestro personaje. Hay muy poca variedad de enemigos. La variedad en los niveles es nula, siempre será el mismo camino, se diferenciará en que se abre una puerta u otra o se bloquea un pasillo y pasas por otro pero nada que no vayas a ver en su totalidad en 3 runs. Cabe destacar, que de todas las armas tan chulas que podemos desbloquear, la mayoría, son inservibles o nos llevarán a una muerte segura en infinidad de situaciones por lo que usarlas nos hará más difícil avanzar en el juego. A pesar de todo eso, la jugabilidad está muy conseguida y es divertido y con una gran oferta merece la pena.

Saturday morning cartoon version of Control (complimentary). A bit janky but the story and voice acting more than make up for it imo

It's a shame, I liked this game having tried it about a year ago. Saw it on sale finally decided to buy it and... couldn't get it to work. It would show me the logs and stuff while booting up but then when it got to the actual menu... it gave me a black screen. Tried verifying game files, reinstalling, launching as admin, updating drivers, etc... nothing worked sadly.

I would recommend the game if you are looking for a lighthearted roguelite to play with friends. It has some flaws like unbalanced weapons (some are just WAY stronger than others), missing level variety and the anime-like artstyle clashing with the rest of the game BUT if its on sale its worth a buy. The game lacks some variety but it plays very well.

单人游玩疑似有点太坐牢了