Recent reviews by Mechanicus

You MUST add a MUCH MORE OBVIOUS warning to the Steam Store-Front:


The game itself, is actually really good :(
A shame it suffers bad reviews right now because of something that would seem so insignificant. But it is not. For a lot of us 30$ (the current price) is a lot of money and when they see F2P, they expect F2P and are rightfully not happy with having wasted their precious free-time on something, they simply cannot afford. So ADD THE WARNING! PLEASE!

At first I thought that the weapons being unreliable is a bug ...
But no ...
It is merely true to the original ...

OLD Review:

For now, I am leaving this review as proof that I am a day 1 player.
... Because I really WANT this game to succeed, and I am willing to overlook the NFT-stuff for now, I give a thumbs up for now, but I REALLY hope I can keep it that way.


NEW Review after doing basically everything you can do in the current Phantom Galaxies:

My hopes are shattered.
I have been a gamer for about 20 years now and this might very well be the overall
WORST game I have EVER suffered. The only reason I completed it is probably some kind of insanity inherent to my very being ...

To give you some detail:
This game has only ONE saving-grace ... and that is the fact it is free-to-play.
Even still ... I feel like I should have been paid to force myself through it.

It is just so ... INCREDIBLY bad.
I could describe the gameplay but all that needs to be said about it is:
NOTHING WORKS!
Neither the PvP, nor ANYTHING ...

... Does the future hold any hope for it?
Possible ... but atm this future would be SO far ahead ...
That I simply cannot justify NOT giving this game a bad review ...

And ofc it also has NFTs ... I am not necessarily against them as where others see only scam,
I actually try to see the potential ... BUUUT playing on Steam (understandably) prevents you from ever getting them in-game, while still sharing a world with others that do.
So that alone would already force a bad review here.
ESPECIALLY!
Because the cherry-on-top is that they provide in-game advantages.
Not hard-core P2W as it is just economic bonuses it seems, but still very much P2W ...

... I somehow feared that it would be bad, but this ...
This is beyond even my most pessimistic thoughts ...

1/10 Horrible, just Horrible.

First online-game I ever played ...
Back when I was a sweet child ...
The very concept of actually fighting another human via Internet was completely new to me back then.
Until then I only ever got to play games where the only form of Multiplayer was a direct connection.
Or LAN at best ...

I remember my first day playing Teeworlds like it was just a week ago ...
And for that, I want to thank the Teeworlds Team :)

While the connectivity-issues are still ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE!
And at the moment I simply CAN NOT RECOMMEND LotF if PvP is what you want,
LotF IS still a masterpiece, in everything except for that.

And the fact that this studio is SO incredibly active when it comes to updates and actually reacting to feedback, ... is mind blowing.
(Assuming it is really him) Saul PERSONALLY responded to my YT Bug Report about the Red Reaper and the effort to answer to my humble review is also most certainly a soothing balm on any frustration that my Invasion-Attempts caused me.

Maybe I am too easy to impress but I have NEVER seen a studio engage with their community that much and that directly ever before.
(And I have been a vocal gamer of many games for a LOOONG time).

So even if they only ever fix the connectivity-issues in the far future ...
For now my faith in Hexworks has been restored from the brink!

And seriously, if a good PvE-Experience is what you desire, look no further.
The Coop also works ... ... ... acceptable.

... Just not the PvP ... Stay the hell away from that until they get connectivity fixed ...

Works as advertised.

When it comes to the gameplay itself,
Warhaven has one issue above all else:

The current implementation of the Immortals.

They should not simply be available for everyone once per match.
More often than not, it results in a chain-reaction.
On person triggers one, another does too, and so on ...
And even worse than that, it makes them feel cheap ... a consumable, nothing more.

It should be implemented differently,
my suggestion:
The ability to transform into an Immortal should be granted by contributing to the match.
Not necessairly just by making kills, that would perhaps create a snowball-effect.
But instead just by being in combat itself.
If impemented correctly, they could even be used as a mild form of underdog-support system.
E.g. My team is loosing bad, as soon as the final phase of the battle commences, everybody gets a fair boost to their Immortal-meter.

That is ofc just an idea,
yet the way they are done right now just feels wrong.

The story:
It is OK. It is purposefully kept minimalistic and some people like to interpret that as
"in-universe" and "deep". It is not, it is just minimalistic. But the story is ok nevertheless.
You could describe it as a reverse "Ocean wide, Inch deep".
Yes, that actually describes it very well. The story of Armored Core VI is:
An Ocean deep but an Inch wide.

The PvE:
It is very good. The Boss-Battles are few and in-between but they are good, the PvE also feels good, makes you feel like a 1-Man army and is still very challenging in the beginning and can stay challenging up to the end if you want to S-Rank everything.

The PvP:
Oh boy ... oh boy ... Well, at first glance: It is great, they also made the lobbies much more enjoyable. You can 100% the game without ever touching it though, if that is what you care about. Thing is: It is FromSoftware PvP and that means one thing: The LAG is BAD which lies at the root of everything. E.g. You CLEARLY dodged that Energy-Cannon but you take full damage nevertheless. That is the royal flaw of ANY and ALL FromSoftware multiplayer titels and this will most likely not change for a VERY long time. And keep in mind that here in Armored Core VI, it is actually the BEST multiplayer experience FS has delieverd so far YET it is still plagued by this royal flaw which will prevent it from ever becomming truly e-sport-worthy.
ALSO: It suffers from a VERY clear Rock-Paper-Sicorss balancing-issue. This becomes less and less important as you reach the higher leagues of skill (and I think I have a right to say this after having made it to the top 100 of the global leaderboard) BUT EVEN at the pinnacle of skill, it is still very much existent. And for the vast majority of non-Tryhards, you WILL loose or win most battles in the garage and not on the field ... and I percieve that as a big flaw to be honest.

HOWEVER:
THIS IS NEVERTHELESS, AN ABSOLUTELY AWESOME GAME!
If you are looking for an action-packed Mecha-Adventure with a serious undertone and a still very much GOOD multiplayer:
Look no further.

Ever heard of Wargaming?

It is actually a really good game.
I honestly wished that more ppl would play it.