Hemmingjay, I love you bro, but this release is really disappointing. I know it's Early Access but after two hours I'm not seeing the potential anymore.
Frankly, the interface is horrendous in so many ways. Click on a country, you'd think that pop-up with the "trade" tab would actually allow you to trade? Nope, it just shows supply and demand. (Gotta go to buy/sell on the bottom toolbar, and that only applies to the player's location). So what to buy? Assuming you bought intel on buyer countries, you're told *only* the highest offer from the buy window. Grr... fair enough. So you buy a load of arms for a short route from Russia to Kazakhstan. Here's where it gets even worse. Okay, so I'll click on Kazakhstan, right? Ok. Then travel on the popup right? Unless you want to be frustrated or travel empty, click on private. Now click on the yacht, and load cargo. Okay, now a retardly oversized popup that's partially off screen appears. And for some reason it doesn't know that I want to travel to Kazakhstan, so I have to manually plot to Kazakhstan again. Here's also where you actually get told what countries want to buy your inventory. (Wow, you'd think that would have been useful at the buy/sell screen). Whatever, send that shit. Hooray! We made it. Now try to sell it. (Don't click on Kazakhstan and then trade, that would make too much sense.) Click on buy/sell. WHAT? I have to pick through an inventory of every possible market choice to sell my load?!? And there's a 'demand' quantity, nobody mentioned before. (Good thing it's apparently broken and does nothing.)
...and that's supposedly just an easy move. It get's worse when you're trying longer hauls and multiple vehicles. Also, a pet peeve of mine, right click does absolutely nothing... a completely wasted UI opportunity.
Lots of other design choices I could go off on: no auto-save, lots of large pretty animations on the UI but they're mostly useless, the map is flat so don't even think of trying to cross the Pacific, the second generated travel quest was unsolvable for me, despite owning multiple vehicles ONLY ONE can move at a time, what's even the point of the player char and his yacht being separate entities?
And being an Alpha, lots of features are still TBD: alignments, quests, adversaries, plot, etc.
Bugs: Booting up the game, both "full screen" and "windowed" are checked, which was strange and I had to uncheck one. Also, because the truck sprite is side-profile while every other vehicle sprite is overhead, it moves upside down when westward.
I really wanted to like this game, but I can't honestly recommend it.
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Topic: Arms Dealer - Back from the Dead (Read 56296 times)