Trepang2

this review will go into enough detail in regards to graphic advice. gameplay experience, and difficulty to hopefully let you make an informed choice on if the game is for you. i have around 50 hours in the game although feels like i have played substancially more, i finished the game on rage mode thus having all achievements, although not fully 100%ing the game yet due to some cosmetics that are still up for grabs. 1st graphics. because this can be changed immediatly theres issues i recommend fixing on the player side in regards to graphics but overall theres nothing needed. i beat the game without changing my graphics on rage mode and first discovered the latter 2 of these settings a bit ago although after a bit of testing it definetly makes the game easier to play. although it will only really make the game easier on extreme and rage mode where faster movement is more necesary, regardless it will always be nicer with these changed in my experience. the issues in question, are as follows. (keep in mind the game is playable without these, but its more enjoyable with these changes in my opinion) 1. up your fov. by how much is preference but it makes it alot easier to not get caught out by someone you did not see. (although with good enough movement and posistioning you shouldent really by in posistions where you are getting caught out like that, but thats only really posible once you learn the maps. so for newer players i do highly recommend the higher fov if you have nothing against it) 2. turn off motion blur (you gotta tick advanced setting to get to this) when your moving really fast especially when using the sword from the dlc, this will allow you alot more visibility. only necesary for higher difficulties but its hard to go back after having turned this off. 3. and most importantly. turn off TAA and switch to the other post processing, because frankly ♥♥♥♥ TAA. TAA causes constant ghosting which can again especially when using the sword from the dlc make it alot harder to see, and its also just very noticable in general. (this is actually just a general recommendation for any game with TAA tbh its terrible, just use anything else, i prefer no post processing even.) these changed make it substancially easier to see whats happening when moving fast and alot of effects are happening, which can be so valuable. 2nd. gameplay experience. the game can be played with a variety of styles, although the game highly rewards an aggresive playstyle even on the highest difficulty where you die in a couple hits. (couple being the right word, most things 1-4 tap you) the story is wonky as balls but has charm to it, won't explain why, but lets say if you need a coherent story the game is not for you. however every single mission (exept one) has gotten a good laugh out of me with some of the dialogue, the game has very fun writting in that regard some of it is a bit cliche like alot of the callsigns for the HVTs but thats not a big detractor. the combat is fluid although i will say if you get stuck using shotguns, swords, and explosives as your primary weapons, picking up a pistol or a rifle can feel strange after a bit. i completely forgot both the machinegun and assault rifle for the entire game because i prefered the previously stated weapons. i still used em when available and i did not have access to afforementioned weapons. the game has plenty fun ragdolls and i have in some of the more open maps, seen enemies go to damn near orbit while screaming the entire time. the game overall has good satisfaction while feeling a little silly meanwhile. it definetly has an indiegame feel which is not a bad thing necesarily i quite prefer a bit of jank over a overpolished game that lacks resistance. though the game is not built around you being tanky, 106(you) is engineered around being fast, hard to hit and someone that hits hard, rather than a tank. 3rd difficulty difficulty changes alot of things, but here is a summary: the damage you take enemies reaction time enemies vision (both how good their periferal and how fast they see you) how many grenades the enemies throw minibosses (HVTs) enemy accuracy the enemies do not get tankier (although easy will make them less tanky) few more minor things. there is 6 difficulties in the game the difficulty can be seen a bit like an exponential scale or like the Mohs hardness scale where the last bit spikes substancially higher than the rest i would from my experience label the difficulties like this. easy: your basically a bulldozer with a gun and superpowers fighting hamsters with firearms. i beat a mission by holding W and spamming melee and literely not doing any other inputs than interaction with the objective. so literal 3 buttons to play. if this is one of your first fps games its a fair place to start to learn the barebones normal: very similar to easy but now you are fighiting actual people instead of hamsters, you can no longer beat the game with 3 buttons (if you use good posistioning you still can tbh) as it now takes 4! because the sprint key makes your melee much better! required a lil bit of thonking to not die but i still did not die here while using only 4 buttons same as easy. these 2 difficulties you can put up any real resistance and easily come through without problems or any death they are difficulties best used for learning controls and brutalising the poor creatures trying to fight you hard: i know i just said the others were the easy one, but this is kinda a transitionarry difficulty. you can still beat missions with 4-5 buttons. (the fifth being jump or slide) but you will die a fair bit depending on mission and this is where you actually are forced to engage with some other systems. it is still easy do not get me wrong, but you can die here if you ♥♥♥♥ up. this is where you wanna learn controls if you are experienced with fps games, or the place where you will begin to learn the game a bit more if you are newer to them. also the people can fight back here. but its an inbetween between letting you easily brutalise the ♥♥♥♥ out of the enemies, and actually having them fight you back they throw grenades more and can hit semi reliably. very hard: a real jump from hard and probably the difficulty i would consider "canon" to how powerful 106 should be you can easily beat missions without your firearms if you know what you are doing, although it requires your full moveset, you truly feel like a menance while also knowing that if you ♥♥♥♥ up once you might die. its my prefered having fun difficulty. because its not served on a silver platter and the enemies feel very human in their reaction accuracy and such they have proper perception, but not too much. its the most balanced and fair to the player difficulty and in general what i would argue the average player will prefer and is the most fair to play. theres some challenge and the need to use your full toolkit while still leaving room to do flashy stuff if you know how. big recommend. the next two difficulties will be the "challenge" difficulties. i recommend completing all main and side misions on very hard before jumping into these so you are familiar with the maps, as this makes it substancially easier. extreme: the last difficulty that actually contains new HVTs (although only 3 since the majority unlock on hard and very hard) this is the difficulty where your required to begin using firearms proper, flashy stuff is difficult but possible. fun difficulty but not too unfair. what i would expect enemies to be like in a world with augments. rage mode: enemies got eyes in the back of their heads and will sometimes almost see you through walls. they are on every drug and will do a 180 and shoot you before you can react to it. big challenge but fun regardless some missions are truly painful though and took me hours. very unfair but fun if you like challenge, reminds me of PayDay2 DSOD. wanna say more but out of characters