I've played this about 5 hours.
I'm pretty sure I'm still kinda in the tutorial.
Hmm... I'm not sure what to say.
I really like the atmosphere and the ridiculous amount of text and fluff. However, I think the character models and options are so shit.
I really like the sheer number of stats. However, I really despise how they make it so hard to figure out what the current situation needs. Am I supposed to brute force this guy? No. First aid? Computer science? Oh, it's outdoorsman. To figure this out you need to select the person with the skill, activate the skill, and highlight the thing and it'll tell you whether it's possible. Was it so hard to implement a right-click menu showing a list of options?
I enjoy the combat and how many different options there are. It's fluid and splatterific. However, the UI is so freaking garbage it's like a monkey designed it. Why does left click and right click change depending on what you're trying to do? Right click is move most of the time, except when you're trying to pick something up. Then it's left click. Here's a timed puzzle. Make sure to run your entire group through it as fast as possible. Oh, when you need to solve each part of it, make sure to select the individual capable of the task, click on the duty, and click on the target. Make sure you're using the correct type of click by the way. It's left click for selecting and right click for moving, except when you're interacting with something then it's the opposite. OOOH you forgot to unselect your whole group now everyone just shot the door and switched weapons. Sorry.
Seriously, even Fallout 1's UI was way better than this. At least you could move around your party's order and set movement formations so you don't look like a group of retards hugging each other. It's so stupid because when you aggro a group of enemies you're always clumped up unless you manually move everyone around and hope they don't get detected. It's not like you can tell that you're going to get detected either. I even ran through a group of enemies once because I thought they were docile (they were mutant rabbits) but when I walked past two of them suddenly they aggroed. WHY!? I was standing right next to them the whole time with no problems. You can crouch, but if you want to walk you have to stand up, then crouch again. It's shit like this. All these tiny things make you want to throw this game out the window.
AAAARGH. The UI is so freaking terrible. I say this even as a massive lover of the old Fallout games and all those brutal old school RPGs.
I'll probably wait a few days and try again to see if maybe it was just needing to get used to it. My first impressions are not very good though. It's quite likely that I'm just tilted from all the rage and am not looking at this objectively.
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