Transience

Wow, first impressions? The game looked not too bad. Upon first boot, I was greeted with a cool main menu with some cool futuristic sound design to match. I load up the story and I'm impressed by the intro segment. However, the comic art style was bad. It just looked cheap. The yapping of the protagonist was extremely boring. I've beaten Max Payne 3 multiple times, and hearing Fry compare this to that game is a joke. Max Payne even after all of these years, stomps the life out of Transience. Seeing the in-game billboard advertisements created by community members was a really cool sight to see. But, that doesn't constitute a good game. The budget was $250,000, from what BigFry says. The hype didn't meet my expectations. The bad : - ADS bug preventing player from aiming down sights - Sometimes melee doesn't trigger - AI stalks player through walls (Turn character slightly away from enemy and watch AI run at you) - Horrible visuals and awful FPS for scoped weapon (Sniper) - Wave survival gadgets don't work (Noise dart does NOTHING, "Come get me" doesn't work either) - AI has nearly perfect accuracy leading to unfair deaths - Some level layouts don't make sense

My biggest disappointment in this game is the lack of patching or updates after release. Its a great concept and good artistic design. Unfortunately it missed on the fundamentals. I dont think the game problems will be fixed because the developer has an air of superiority like they think its fine and we are all just filthy casuals. Hope im wrong.

There's good stuff here. I'm sincerely blown away this game was made on a reported budget of only $250k. My honest to God question is [b]"How???"[/b] Unfortunately this game suffers SO poorly from restricting access to your armor (and visor abilities) to completing mission 3. Out of 9. You are missing fundamentals for a third of this game and you FEEL it. Additionally the enemy AI essentially has two observations:[olist] [*]There is no one here [*]Oh look. That guy from 80m away needs to get drilled[/olist] There's very little in-between, and it's not because of the light mechanic. But if you want to ignore both of those warnings (and a bloviating plot): enjoy the game. You WILL get a tactical stealth FPS out of it. I would even agree it gets better as it goes along. Unfortunately I am keeping this review negative because I often felt I was forcing myself to finish it. Do I regret that decision? Not particularly. But you should be asking me whether or not you feel like you [i]want[/i] to continue the game. Often I did not.

If it weren't for the fact that I won this in a giveaway, I would have refunded this game. I feel entitled for a refund regardless simply because of the waste of time for me. Intro is the longest and most dreadfully boring cinematic i've ever had to sit through, the gunplay and stealth is clunky most of the time, and AI ranges from mindless to spec ops with no consistency anywhere. I tried to be open-minded to the lore, but even then it is a complete cluster ♥♥♥♥ and it feels like they attempted to force it down your throat all in the beginning. As for how I got the game, yes I did win it in a Big Fry giveaway. Yes, I also still watch his content and enjoy the OTHER things he does. However the glaze of this game in order to get the games rating over 70% is diabolical. The only reason this game sits over 70% is because he encouraged the rest of his fan base to turn it around for him. This game in my opinion is not worth your time or money, even if its on a sale. With it being free to me, it felt easier to be excited and interested in the game, and it completely failed in almost every way. Save your money and your time and go play a trending indie game or something.

Insufferably derivative of recent games in the cultural zeitgeist, mainly [i]Ready or Not[/i] and [i]Cyberpunk 2077[/i] with a bit of half-assed [i]Splinter Cell[/i] stealth mechanics thrown in for good measure. [i]Transience[/i] uses the word "corpo" at least 10 times during the opening monologue and then attempts to one-up [i]F.E.A.R[/i]'s latter half with a condominium crawl from hell that seems to have the express purpose of running out the refund timer before the awful optimisation and dreadfully trope-heavy narrative can make you think enough is enough. Oh it has the [i]Max Payne[/i] comic book cutscene thing going for it at first and then does away with it entirely by the next time a cutscene rolls around, lame!

Nice combat. Worthwhile for a short campaign with that combat + really basic stealth. Will say the stealth is pretty underwhelming, visibility meter can't go below a certain point (get spotted real quick even in pitch black) and takes like over halfway in the campaign to unlock a suppressor (for your primary). Holdout mode is pretty lame but it's there to pass the time.

bigfry has certainly proven that having a team and money will result in a better game than a 1-man $0 project, but does it make it a good game? i don't really think so and i ain't letting that refund timer run out. gunplay is great but it seems oriented towards CQB style gameplay and instead the game has all this half-assed stealth slop in it that just really annoys me. lots of tacticoolness and a futuristic dystopian story thats so cliche they used the word "corpo" like 10 times in the opening sequence

unplayable

played for 6 hours soon as I reached the first boss fight with this maniac SQL. Game became impossible to beat. This brings several problems. 1- Game tried to reinvent the mechanics such as armor and slow-mo. Which showed the flaw throughout the game. When the situation arises let's say you want to refill your armor or bullet time. You need to make sure the enemies needs to be stay outside of your 10 mile radius. It's very clunky. Instead using a hotbar key like cp2077 or any other game. It locks you in a quick bar menu use it then re equip your gun. By the time you refill your abilities enemy drains that within mere seconds. Which makes the game unplayable. 2- The Ammo. Getting 4 rounds from killing a man. I don't know whether the game wants you or forces you to play in stealth. When things get dire it feels like a joke. 3- Optimization. Maybe it's because ım using a ♥♥♥♥ laptop but ıdk. Sometimes ı can't get anywhere above 30fps sometimes Im getting 80fps. 4-Boss fight. This where the problem-1 arises. Im gonna be honest I was reaching my end. By the time I tried to get my ability bar full boss rushed towards me and killed me. Doesn't matter if you do it in stealth you most likely to fail your cover and boss will rush and destroy your armor. If he doesn't kills you his minions will definitely will. Trepang solved this issue very easily. You can just refill your armor, health and abilities via getting kills or simply walking towards the item they dropping. Second one is the boss. Bosses were also difficult but not impossible to beat. But for some reason in this game(Transience it was a more of an annoyence rather than enjoyable.) 5- Story was good until gameplay wasn't. And I don't think I will play it again.