Recent reviews by kubixus

Great value for the price. Very fun. However, AI is a bit braindead and will rush in front of a machine gun just to die. Also they underutilize grenades (and it's also annoying that you are usually just given one). Tanks are a bit too OP. Infantry can't really do anything to them. Tanks without infantry support should die easily in urban environment.

I have some minor gripes with the writing in this one. I feel like the alternative cure you are after is never really explained other than handwaved technobabble. That was not the case in the base game. New voice acting for minor characters has gotten worse (I mean people like vendors or characters in some gigs).

Speaking of gigs, the new ones in Dogtown are all high quality, although they all seem to follow the same pattern of having a plot twist at the end where you have to decide whether you will stick to the objectives given by the fixer or choose a more ethical option. Speaking of fixer, it's kinda sad they completely changed Mr. Hands although I like the new one too, possibly even better.

The main and side quests are great.

I really dislike how they force you to install a faceplate implant though. I wanted my V to have a natural organic face and now it's ruined :(.

But all in all it still hits very hard and can cause some emotional damage which is what makes this franchise great I think.

Dumb chosen one type story, generic space sci-fi. Boring gameplay. Landing cutscene and loading screen simulator.

+ You can have Lamborghini Countach as a starting car
- Driving doesn't feel good
- Looks meh
- Bad music
- Cringy dialogues (not as bad as Forza Horizon though)

Didn't feel like playing more than 30 minutes even though I've got it for next to nothing for 10h via EA Play

It's definitely unpolished and needs rework of some features and balancing and patching others, but the game is a very promising and good base for future development.

Current problems:
- Warfare system is absolute trash. While I really like the idea of hands-off approach to combat (since I hate Europa Universalis style micromanaged warfare) the current implementation is really bad. Managing your armies when you have many of them is pure pain with the current interface. Your troops also like to make braindead decisions when their currently assigned front disappears, or even worse decide to go home after performing naval invasion. Since they immediately teleport away you will be waiting 50 days until they come back but all of the land you managed to take will be retrieved by the enemy by then. Speaking of naval invasions, they are absolutely broken right now. The best way to win wars is to go full D-day on your enemies and take their capital without any resistance.
There is a limit of 1 battle per frontline but you can have super long frontlines like Russian-Chinese border, so advancing there will be a pain. Frontlines also like to split in unpredictable ways, but you can't split your armies assigned to a general.
- Trade interface will give you wrist cancer. Doing simple things involves a lot of clicking.
- Liberalism is broken. Your inteligentsia will be 2022-like blue haired liberals pushing for multiculturalism, which doesn't make any sense in 1836. If you enact multiculturalism racism and discrimination in your country is magically gone. Everyone is happy and everyone (even people living in the middle of some god forsaken jungle, who shouldn't even know your country exist) will be imigrating to your country, which is overpowered because you need people to work in your factories. Your native population won't be unhappy at all about you importing foreigners en masse. Since assimilation only happens when your pops are not discriminated against, everyone will magically turn white in a few decades anyways.
- Fascism is broken. There is no point to play as a totalitarian nationalist dystopia. You can't get rid of unwanted pops so at best you can hope they emigrate away. Ideally you should be able to separately decide who is discriminated against, and what form of discrimination is allowed in your country.
- AI starts wars even if they can't reach enemy's land with their troops. Since you can only wage single war at once, countries get stuck in very long wars where nothing happens.
- Diplomacy is pretty much nonexistent. Just launch diplomatic plays and pray that France won't join against you in your conquest of Bumfrick-nowhere. Of course concept of limited war doesn't exist to AI, so they will send every single french man there.
- AI is pretty dumb when it comes to building stuff, so be prepared for the shortage of every good like oil, rubber or opium.

Well, after writing all of this I realized that the game seems to be pretty much crap at the moment, but nonetheless I spent 85 hours playing it and I had a lot of fun, so I guess I can recommend it. I have a lot of hope in regards to the future development since devs addressed a lot of the issues in their roadmap.

This is actually a step in good direction in regards to DLC. This does not lock any new mechanics behind paywall, which would make the base game feel bare and empty for new players. This content is not essential to fully experience CK3 and through buying it you can support Paradox in further development of this game (meaning free updates). I wish that was the approach from the beginning (only selling events and flavour).

Seems like a solid remaster so far. It's great how they don't require you to unlock all missions in campaigns by plaing.

Fighting and movement feel super smooth and satisfying. However most of the open world activities are repetitive and uninspired. Also the stealth sections which you play as MJ or Miles Morales are annoying and kill the pacing. Overall flawed but very enjoyable.

Fun to price ratio is through the roof

It's kinda sad though how I keep losing 100% achievement completion due to new achievements getting added (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Great gameplay but stupid, over the top, "i am 14 and this is deep" story that you need to complete before endless mode