Recent reviews by Hakuso

Had a lot of fun in it to the point of 100%ing and running major alliances over several resets, came back after being away for a while, now uses Epic Online Services.

Uninstalled.

Nice little cozy game with decent house building in place, and a fair amount of story content though it gets really grindy after a while harvesting ungodly amounts of resources using tools with durability you need to repair using those resources so it takes even longer to collect what you need.

There is one thing to be careful of.

If you sign in the first time it asks you if you want to link or create an account, for some reason creating one here will link it directly to your Steam account and there seems to be no way to get a username to log in on Switch. If you want to play on *both* systems make sure to go to their website, create an account there *BEFORE* playing on either system, then log in on both of them rather than creating one as you set it up. There is no way to do cross save unless you do it from their web site, and you can;t even file a support request to link the accounts.

So, I have two accounts, which makes me less likely to play both of them, and totally opposed to buying any "premium" currency that will only apply to one of the accounts even if they release some skins that don't make my eyes bleed later on.

Sadly, despite all the fun I had playing this game while there was still missions left to finish, I can only recommend it as a short term game as there is *not* enough content to keep playing and everyone I know just logs in to do dailies quick and then pops off again to play a more interesting game that's not just eternal repetition of the same three events and lots of world hopping.

Camps are fun to work on, despite having one of the jankiest build systems in any game I have ever had the displeasure to work with, though there are tricks to break the bad system and actually make things work like they should in spite of the official mechanics.

The new "best build" thing being on all the weekly scoreboards and many of the dailies is really skewing the "likes" to the absolute worst camps that just happen to be close to where someone is when they log in. Good camps made to a theme or built around the landscape or using a lot of well done merges or... Never seen one with more than ten likes. A camp that looks like the Atomic Shop vomited all over the wasteland? Likes off the chart.

Quests run out. Fast. Then you're running a few mediocre dailies and world events to farm gold and plans over and over and over and over and...

Legendary crafting is a joke, the mod boxes drop at a lower rate than Faschnat masks, and plans are almost impossible to acquire.

The new caravan thing is a mess, and just more worthless grind, trying to make us stay logged in and not just pop on at the top of the hour to hit mutated or the current themed event.

Honestly, it was a lot of fun while it lasted, but this isn't like ESO where you have a massive amount of scripted quests and interesting world events that pop up as you explore and gather on the map.

Yes, ESO is a good comparison despite it being Zenimax not Bethesda who run it. They're both pay to join, so we miss out on a lot of trolls the truly free games have, but unless you are a complete noob you will *need* to pay for ESO+/FO1st since they both have an *intentionally* broken inventory system made usuable by the Craft Bag/Scrapbox.

On the one hand, ESO has paid expansions, and so far only two of them have been worth paying for. Fallout has free updates, so despite both of them forcing you to subscribe FO is cheaper since there are no expansions to buy. Still, even with only two of their expansions being worth it, both of those have more content than FO76 does as a whole on top of the bnase campaign which is also much larger.

I dropped ESO, recently, and moved to FO76 because they sold *another* terrible $50 expansion that would be a rip-off at $10, but at least they had actual content, even if only two or three areas were interesting and had a good quest line.

A few months here, though, and I'm at level 300 with all the missions completed and most of my weapon/armor grinding done before they made it worse with the horrible legendary drop rates. There's just nothing left to do aside from wait to see Radiation Rumble or Safe and Sound or Beasts of Burden or one of the nuke events pop up.

So...

They boot the guy who made stupid insensitive jokes at the worst possible moment, and though a thirst trapper was hitting on him and flirted back... Yes, back. I've seen the screenshots of the DMs and even snipped it was obvious.

Then they censor the game, including deleting Indiegogo goals that people *paid* for in their support of the game... Not just in the game, but in the companion book as well, and "updating" it so they could make the old version disappear from all services it was sold on.

Then they start releasing new characters in a more than a decade old 2D fighting game that makes Tekken or Street Fighter DLC seem sanely priced and content rich.

Yeah, these people are done.

Note: I played this primarily on PlayStation, not Steam, all my friends I played this and BlazBlue with are over there so while I own it on Steam I never actually played it much here and most of that in offline vs mode that Steam is notoriously bad at actually tracking time in game for.

Not a bad game.

Pretty rough, still, especially with pathfinding for your pals in a base.

As much as I'd like to support them again the trolling by Nintendo I can *not* recommend a game that runs EOS and connects to their online services even when playing an offline private world.

Do I reccomend this game?
Yes!

Do I recommend the mess that is buying it on Steam and getting it linked?
Not so much.

Okay...

I'm completely addicted to this game now.

The problem is:

The account creation takes you to a page offering PC, Mac, and PS4/5 accounts. If you create one there and then link it to Steam as the prompts tell you it *will* give you an unusable account and you'll spend time with Square Enix Support which seems to be some kind of AI throwing FAQs at you for the first three emails before a recognizable human steps in and actually helps.

You *have* to get your key code from the Steam purchase to use while creating a service account for it to work. That account can't have a PC copy or it freaks out and starts having issues, so if you *do* have a PC trial and want to play via Steam you need to create a completely new Square Enix Account and do *NOT* add any service accounts when prompted to do so. This is *NOT* apparent from any of the warnings. It only becomes obvious when you try to upgrade and get a fourth option on *that* page you're unable to select... Steam.

Moving on to other issues...

This game does *NOT* save your password, the risk of lost passwords is not so much in someone logging in physically to *MY* PC where the account is locked to a Steam account with additional security but in the remote exploits and cracks run on the web. The fact that it *refuses* to save your whole login means you need to use a easily typed password that can be readily remembered and entered. This is far more of a risk to account security than saving my login on my private system that has physical and digital security of its own to protect saved logins. They do have 2FA, at least, but unlike many services that use it when you add 2FA it will demand a token *EVERY* time you login not just when you access the server from a new IP address.

You *can* pay for time with Steam, but it isn't obvious right off, when you go to pay for something you can log in to steam and pay for it with your wallet. So it seems that you can buy cosmetics or pay for game time without adding a payment method to their site.

Square Enix *really* needs to learn how to do online services, they have been terrible at it since the 90s when they used this terrible "launcher" for the PC ports of Final Fantasy VII & VIII. They make good games, but they *really* need to offload services to someone who can actually do it properly.

If they took this, and spent some time studying *very* well done online services like ESO, it would be perfect. The absolute mess of managing accounts and making any purchases really detracts from this while in other games that I like less the ease of account management, upgrades, and "premium" content adds to the experience. I can log in to Steam, get a trial of ESO, buy the game after, add any expansions, make a few bundle premium purchases, subscribe to Plus, and buy Crowns *very* easily. Here I need three accounts, none of which are totally compatible, and all needing to have payment info added separately.

It's actually a really good game aside from the absolutely ridiculous "crossover" things, which is so very Japanese, just throw two things together even if they are in no way related and see if it sticks... The way you get weird stuff dumped into a game is very much like the little anime gacha phone games. "Oh, so people like this thing? Let's put it in this totally unrelated thing people also like because that *has* to be a good idea!"

To be honest, while I *do* recommend this game, the fact that you still need extra accounts means you may as well just buy it direct and use the "PC" client. It's simpler, and faster, than messing with the poor linkage between FFXIV and Steam.

Updated to use EOS, as in that garbage wasn't there when we bought the game.

Uses EOS, should have known with Gearbox publishing it...

I wonder if the GOG version is free of this cancer?

Pretty "meh" compared to the original Injustice, and obnoxiously excessive with the phone game level of grinding microtransactions, I got this for a literal dollar extra when I bought MK11 and feel ripped off this game is so garbage.

There are some annoyances in MK11, too, but this seems like an exercise in just how to make a terrible "AAA" release. It makes all the complaints I have had about Mortal Kombat and Tekken and Street Fighter over the years of them all going downhill seem not-so-bad by comparison to this steaming pile of garbage.

I normally play the story mode of fighting games, then play local vs games after beating it, but this was such a mess I didn't even bother to finish the single-player story mode.

Make the warning that you can't use a real account bigger, #^$%it!

What a waste of bandwidth only to see "Yeah, you can't use your account, this is a free account tied to Steam and you can not buy things to use with a real account on Steam or use things bought with a real account here.

Learn from ESO FFS!

Heck, I think I could even use a real account with DCUO when it came to Steam.

Only this, and Old Republic, have been "Nope, you can't in any way link an existing account and purchases to Steam.

WTG, AreaNet/NCSOFT... You have joined EA in the hall of suck for Steam MMO releases.