Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters

Es una representación del juego de mesa

Неожиданно отличная игра.Хотя узнал о ней только в 2026 .

With the story, graphics, music, and sound all being very "mid," I barely found it in me to give this game the time it needs to learn its mechanics. I am a big WH40k fan so that helped it a lot. Sound effects aren't bad but neither are they satisfying. Music is repetitive and quickly annoying. Level layout is repetitive. Combat is repetitive. Animations are clunky. Worse, the game blasts you immediately with a lot of impenetrable terminology - tooltips are helpful, but there's just a wall of things you're instantly supposed to read and understand and no gradual introduction of powers/abilities that give you time to learn anything. I didn't find a natural understanding of the interplay of them all until dozens of hours in. You'll think you'll know what you're doing if you've played xcom, then you'll die and fail a lot on the standard difficulty. Start on the easiest difficulty - trust me. I think the greatest failure in this game is there wasn't enough thought in introducing the player steadily to mechanics. This goes for inventory, enemy mutations, warp phenomenon, etc. What is an "auto?" What does "purge" do? Why does it matter? You'll have to figure all this out plus two dozen other things in just the first couple missions. Every item has 5 different variants with a plethora of different, but mild bonuses, making you feel like it doesn't matter who gets what. Multiply this by 6 different "types," each with 4 different choices, and you are simultaneously overwhelmed with what it all does and eventually deciding none of it matters. But then you learn it it does matter - those 5%s for this or that decide whether you live or die. This makes requisitons stressful. Post-mission you're supposed to pick new gear from a random pool without any idea of how it compares to what you already have (can't look, and even if you could, a new player will still be confused wondering what's good). I just grew numb to the entire process and started picking things randomly. For the longest time I couldn't figure out how to "upgrade" a weapon, the option sat there forever taunting me like I was supposed to be doing something. There's no hint that this needs to be researched way down the road. The same sensation comes with leveling. There's so many directions to go and I just can't predict what any of it does or how it synergizes. Not without getting dozens of hours in - usually i love learning things in games, but this made that aspect unfun. The RNG balance also seems bad, with some missions being a cakewalk, and then suddenly due to luck of the draw your tiny 4 man squad, empty on willpower from multiple engagements, now has to walk into 12+ chaos marines aggroing from in front on the same turn 3 portals open up behind you. Even worse if you get awful luck of the draw warp phenomenon - those can be anything from a mild annoyance to totally mission-crippling. Bleh! Not my idea of fun. So why did I give it a good review? I restarted on the easiest difficulty and failed my way to learning the game. It finally started to be fun once I got the hang of things. This game would be an 8 or a 9 out of 10 if they worked harder at gradually teaching the player the game.