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just wow

Ich habe ChatGPT ein paar meiner lieblings Puzzle Games wie Portal(2), Antichamber, Superliminal, Whitness, Talos Principle und Moncage aufgezählt um zu fragen welches weitere innovative Rätselspiel es mir empfehlen könnte. Manifold Garden war eines der Empfehlungen und es hat mich bisher nicht enttäuscht. Es hat bisher ein super Pacing und hat das ein oder andere Mal meinen Mund offen stehen lassen. Ich freu mich auf mehr und muss ChatGPT wohl öfter um Empfehlungen bitten.

Super addictive when playing with friends

awful on higher resolution displays, everything is way too small and the UI scaling doesn't help, also playing on lower resolution instead doesn't fix the issue as it looks very bad. controller support is also a mixed bag, first time I could not even finisht the tutorial because of a bug.

- Missing saturation setting as colors are way too vibrant to the point it hurts
- Menus and everything way too small on 4k TV even with higehst scaling settings
- Awful controller support, finicky to navigate and character either does not move or moves on its own, super weird

Macht mega Laune mit Freunden, aber auch Randoms und könnte durch den Galactic war auch für Langzeitmotivation sorgen, vor allem wenn wie geplant Content nachgereicht wird.

Gameplay, Atmosphäre, Grafik, Sound und Musik sind herausragend und fühlen sich frisch an wobei es sehr hilft dass jeder Planet sich anders spielt und aussieht. Dadurch und die verschiedenen Gegner Typen gibt es bisher genügend Abwechslung um immer noch eine Runde spielen zu wollen, bin gespannt was noch kommt.

Mittlerweile kommen wir auch gut auf Server und haben deutlich weniger abstürze.

EDIT;
A dive a day keeps the doctor away.
Eins der geilsten Spiele mit der beeindruckendsten Community von richtig coolem Entwicklern, das erste Game bei der ich sehr gern ingame Währung ausgebe um es zu unterstützen, obwohl man es eigentlich nicht braucht weil man es auch ohne freispielen kann.

Even though I'm disliking it at the moment, I don't regret buying it and it's probably worth it for many especially ones which want to dive into EW. It's beatifully modeled and you can tell that a lot of exertise and love went into creating the EF 24 but unfortunately I'm not having fun with it and am a bit dissapointed. Theoretically the plane gives you a lot of options but to me it seems like you only be left with one, which is EW.

Why I don't like it:
- Can carry only less than half as much as a FA26b, I think you can carry the least amount of weapons from any jet in VTOL. The FA26b even gives the option to carry weapons instead of extra fuel but the EF 24 can only carry the fule tanks with no option to put ammunition on them instead.
- Super sluggish to fly, doesn't want to turn and is bad at dog fights even with extended wings. Even though the 26b woul carry what feels like three times as much the EF 24 would with less load still fly much worse and generally less fun.
- Seems to be only worth for EW (which other planes now can do as well to some degree) but is not good for multi-role things like having enough stuff with you to fight air and ground targets after another. The description of the jet says its a normal jet adapted for EW but then I don't get why by that it becomes underwhelming at all other roles.
- The roll the 24 is good at is pretty boring in the type of flying we do. While you can jamm and decoy stuff to get close to targets you then don't carry enough with you to deal damage so all you can do is a support roll and you will need others do the fun work.
- All together make the EF-24 pretty much useless for the kind of missions I fly with a friend currently because instead we are better off using two 26b, carry more, be two targets instead of one and much more agile.

What it needs so I could have fun with it:
- A bit better maneuverbility and less sluggish to fly, when having the wings spread it should not fly like a brick and be at least halfway decent in dogfights but at the moment it just doesn't want to pull any gs. Would be cool if I could use manually spreading the wings as more of an advantage in dog fights but it just makes it sligtly less bad.
- Higher amount of weapons to carry so we are not empty as quick and can be equipped for both air and ground targets at once. Why can I not put more bombs/rockets on one mounting point or chose weapons instead of fule tanks like on some other planes like the FA26.

Some background info why I don't like it:
What I currently do most is flying coop missions with friends, mostly dynamic ones where it's about taking an airfield with e.g. 4 air targets and 8 ground targets or cleaning a city nearby with 10-15 ground targets and other random things. Because the EF-24 can cary only very few weapons we are constantly out of ammo and would spend most time flying back to a base for rearming. Because of the bad capacity it's also hardly possible to prepare yourself for multiple tasks like having some bombs and anti radar missiles while still having enough AIM120 and AIM9 to defend yourself against air targets. When a friend and I each fly a FA26b which carries like twice us much rockets and bombs than the EF-24 we can take out several other jets still have enough bombs left to clean ground targets or big part of a city. With the EF-24 we can either have enough for air targets or for some ground targets but by far not enough for both especially if we woul go for sharing the cockpit instead of flying each our own jet. Because of this in most missions we go back to using the FA26b again which is a shame as I think the 26 didn't age well and with its bigger sized cockpit feels much less immersive to sit in as in the T55 or EF24. I would have loved to move to a new jet but have to go back to the old one just because it's far superior in versaitlity and also maneuverability.

Edit: Now I've also tried the F45 again and its much more effective than the EW24. It can jam without the need to carry pods (just less options and maybe a bit less effective), it can carry more weapons and still pull more Gs which makes evading missiles much easier. I can dominate situations alone in the F45 where we would struggle hard sharing cockpits in the EW24 and the fact that instead of flying in the EWO seat my friend can fly another F45 in coop missions makes it 10times more effective and fun that the EW24. Currently I can't see a reason using the EW24 until it can carry a bit more and fly less like a brick.

All pretty good now, having a lot of fun but also can't wait for MSFS 2024 to get more things to do.

Graphics, sound and gameplay aged very well and its still a lot of fun to this day.
Just wish the action would not be so interrupted by cutscenes and things would happen more during gameplay instead.
Can't wait for the remakes of the first two games, hope they will be good because I still remember them and their story more interesting than the third title.

Ich bin beeindruckt wie gut das Spiel schon funktioniert obwohl es gerade erst in den Early Access kam, bisher sind mir fast keine Bugs aufgefallen und es macht eine Menge Spaß. Die Grafik ist offensichtlich nichts das einen vom Hocker haut, aber wenn man in die Action eintaucht vergisst man ziemlich schnell wie simpel das Spiel aussieht. Überraschender weise hat es auch mehr Teamplay und Taktik und jeder hilft dem anderen. Noch verblüffender ist, wie gut der Sprachchat funktioniert der nur in den seltensten fällen nervig ist, keine Ahnung wie sie das geschafft haben. Alles in allem auf jeden Fall einen Versuch wert, vllt aufgrund der Grafik und dem Chaos nicht für jeden etwas. 15€ ist auch ein super deal.

Positiv:
- Eines der besten und kreativsten Rätsel Spiele, erfrischend anders.
- Gute Mischung zwischen anspruchsvollen Passagen und leichteren bei denen ein Flow entsteht.
- Super Hilfestellungen die einem nicht zu viel verraten wenn man doch mal länger auf dem Schlauch steht.
- Schöner Grafikstil und tolle Atmosphäre.
- Sollte gleichermaßen für geübte und ungeübte Spieler Spaß machen.

Negativ:
- Manchmal schwer zu verstehen worin das Ziel zum weiterkommen besteht
- Sollte öfter das Auge unauffällig in die richtige Richtung weise, bei 5 Seiten des Würfels und verschiedenen Zoom stufen pro Seite, ist man öfter auf die Hilfe angewiesen als einem lieb ist wenn man nicht ewig auf das gleiche starren will.