Recent reviews by oglahai

Unbalanced.

Don't waste your time with this game. The development team has no clue how to balance and everytime that they do, they manage to either way overshoot the difficulty or remove any fun you can have with the weapons because they are too powerful.

There is a reason they have lost so many players - they have no clue what they are doing.

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Patch after patch and the game is just a glitchfest.

Crashes on every 2nd mission in a row.

You can softlock yourselves wasting all the time in the mission because the designers didn't make the evac ship invincible so you can be griefed by other players. Its just really annoying. Mind you they fix this stuff at a glacial pace while still releasing content and premium packs ya know, instead of fixing the game.

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The makers of it don't seem to understand that to make this fun you actually have to have a chance.

Dropping in solo, with 5 lives, and facing overwhelming waves of bots whom know EXACTLY where you are at all times isn't fun. And being constrained to one type of play style (stealth) because that's what the developers think you should play as means they either don't care about making it fun or can't balance anything else.

Not recommended unless you like frustration.

Really falls into the issue of skill vs. time investment.

The game fails to understand the reality of warfare, as games do, but it kinda defeats the reality of the situations when you keep getting gimped over and over by tactics that are not viable in combat.....but are in games.

Janky controls.

Unbalanced levels.

Don't pay anywhere near full price - the game is too unpolished for that. $10-15 tops.

Strongly preferences the later towers that on mobile you have to purchase.

They will state it is balanced for the free towers, but you'll find you have to play flawlessly with them to get the same result as using the later towers.

Thus, poor balancing, if you want to be fair.

Played it back in the day on consoles, but never finished it.

Picked it up intending to finish it.

Just, no. Not worth the time. Amazing how (retrospectively) it becomes evident just how poorly designed a game is. Vehicle physics pinballing you around. A ported game that is broken by removing frame limiting (can't backup vehicles without a work around).

Not worth the time.

EDIT:

So yeah, this is just going from bad to worse. Kept playing and we are starting to get hotfixes.

Now we have graphical glitches, can't respec from Act 2 + or it hard locks you in Act 4, and I just had my play halted by a 100% loading bug that is caused by killing certain people who were in your party that betray you.

So yeah, I'd recommend one of two things: 1) Don't buy this game, period OR 2) Wait for a year plus down the road and buy it on steep discount.

I'm fine with games not being perfect, but literal game breaking bugs in this amount just shows that they don't care and / or are incompetent. Add that to the balancing issues that are prevalent and its just not worth the trouble.

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I don't have trouble with the HOMM 3 type minigame, you just have to min / max it.

I do, however, have an issue with a sub-par developer modifying the underlying game to make it more difficult.

I'm in the Drezen seige and attempting to fight a demon spellcaster that somehow has 5 attacks and a +13 dexterity modifier....which is like God level dexterity. Mind you, looking at the basis Adventure Path reveals 1 masterwork dagger and a modified AC of 19.

I'd say Owlcat needs to leave Pathfinder to Paizo, but I've experienced enough bugs in the game to say that some other company needs to tackle this else its really not doing justice to Pathfinder.

No thanks.

I've learned my lesson with Paradox games.

Look, this is a good effort, but poorly executed.

The story is the best part, but the jank just keeps getting in the way. Poor controls (double clicking something to move it into your inventory just doesn't work how you'd expect), no feedback on the effectiveness (or lack) of attacks on enemies, no explanation of the GUI, and wild difficulty make this not worth your time or money.

I love the premise. The implementation leaves a lot to be desired.

Selecting which survivor you want to do something is by using the keys or a really poor clicking mechanism.

Artificial difficulty is added to expeditions by having to answer their transmissions. If you miss them, they return empty handed, but cost you the resources (why would you return with NOTHING?!).

Not recommended.