Tunnet

incredibly good! mining is fun, creating networks too. good idea, great execution. will now go back to the game to try and improve my garbage networks.

a really unique game for nerds

Okay review time bois. Overall I enjoyed the game, but i do have gripes. Pros ------ - Interesting Concept - A lot of potential - Enjoyable ----- Cons ----- - Large travel distances without any sort of custom quicker method of travel. There is a railway system in the game, maybe multiple, but it/they are limited to one direction and are barely faster. You also need to walk to it/them and the one i found was a decent walk away from the hub. - Confusing and unspoken mechanics. I understand a lot of it was supposed to be in the manual pages you collect, but i feel certain things should not be. Like hackers and the different color packets sent on the network. To give an example on what i mean. After i reached a part to find other mainframes, i went to the farthest one (just picked one) and dug to it. After getting it and then getting all nearby nodes hooked up, i then connected them back to the main hub, my network went up to 16k, then back down to 3k. Confused i went back to the new section of the network, to find my machines were labeled "ddos attack". So i disconnected the new section before solving the issue. After finding where it was coming from via following the red packets (up till this point i only had green) (and dying once) i used the filters to stop it, used the antivirus to clean the network, then reconnected the section, and then i was stuck on 2 things. The first was how do i get that hacker node back, the other was why was my network now filled with packets that were not green. Since i had no clue how to deal with the hacker i tried messing with the packet color stuff. Could not figure out what it was as the names seemed kinda like malware stuff, but i had no clue. I had to look up how to deal with hacker, apparently signalls that are *.*.2.2 are military outposts that when you connect the node directly to the hackers node, leave the area for a while, and come back. The hacker gets removed and you just need to anti-virus. I found this in the comment of a guide. After getting rid of one hacker, i immediately got on in my main hub at 0.0.0.2. I could not find 0.0.2.2 but found 0.1.2.2 and hooked it up. It was a hassle and not explained very well. I feel they should have had a tutorial event where a hacker grabs a thing a you supervisor instructs you on how to solve it. - Barely used mechanics. It honestly felt like some stuff was there for one or two things and then abandonded. First example would be the start button, at first it has its uses, but once you get a several nodes hooked up, its actually more beneficial to spam "F" or the key that sends 1 packet at a time, since it lets you tick packets through the system way faster then normal. The other big thing was the filter. Now maybe the filter had more use cases, but by the time i completed the game the only time i had used it outside of puzzles was for the ddos issue. - Drill was funky. This came down to 2 reasons, 1 when mining there was stone patches, they patches are buggy and could become unbreakable unless you mind around the spot you wanted to break. 2 it could break things you placed down, which is a massive hassle and led to numerous times were i accidentally disconnected an area without noticing. - Final boss SUCKED. Dont get me wrong at first it was interesting, but combine with the funky drill and the one enemy in a section, plus the fact that if you die the puzzles packet target changes and it just becomes a drag to do. Overall i had fun, but i can't see myself playing this game past one completion. With the biggest reason being the endless walking.