some thoughts on the game

[waywer]

Just finished the game and had some thoughts it wanted to share which might be helpful on making the game even better.

Although I had loads of fun with the game, the last chapter was kind of a grind and more of the same. After having all the upgrades, the hospital kind of runs on its own and you don't have any problem anymore. The magic of difficulty/shortage you had on the first chapter, you just don't have it anymore. It has no priority but the end game is kind of meh.

Now just some points:
- I have discovered really late how you can get more scouts in your scout teams. I did almost all the scout mission with no scouts in the teams itself. I still could complete the missions so i also didn;t saw a point on improving it.
- 4 scout teams are way to much for the amount of scouting missions you have. Almost all the time, the teams were doing nothing
- the blue alerts (events during operations) are kind of annoying if you have 7 of them at the same time and you just click something. In the first chapter they are cool, but in chapter 2 and 3, they become to common
- The trauma patients duration kind of fills up the whole rehabilitation center. This is due to the long treatment they have. I had in chapter 3, 20 trauma patients waiting with 3 doctors. I don't expect that this is meant to be.
- It is annoying to find and click on the crew that have leveled up. Maybe put a button somewhere on the screen to level up the crew. This is especially annoying with medic teams that are somewhere in the trenches.

Maybe I think about more things, but this is the first batch :-p

[.#DonRaj]

+1 to all of this but the trauma patients.

My biggest problem in the end was that I had over 400 military money units und over 20 unused personal points while completely struggling in chapter 1.

Chapter 3 definitely needs more balancing since it is way easier than the two previous chapters.

[Soter - Dave]

Not able to see which staff have bonuses in which areas in the assignment menu.
Lost in chapter two randomly, morale when from 80% to 0 over 5-6 days with no explanation for the big drops.
After almost having finished all the scouting events in chapter 2 I still haven't found a use for trucks.
After taking all of the expensive/safe options for the tunnel building the germans still find it and blow it up creating 70 casualties (right after a line offensive so there's even more waiting for the acs)

[C1ark3y12]

Originally posted by .#DonRaj:

+1 to all of this but the trauma patients.

My biggest problem in the end was that I had over 400 military money units und over 20 unused personal points while completely struggling in chapter 1.

Chapter 3 definitely needs more balancing since it is way easier than the two previous chapters.

i dont think it was easier per say than chapter 2. definitely easier than chapter 1 due to the hospitals increased capabilities but chapter 1 you are just screwed. in chapter 2 you generally expand the hospital and dont really have any kind of capacity troubles

Originally posted by Soter - Dave:

Not able to see which staff have bonuses in which areas in the assignment menu.
Lost in chapter two randomly, morale when from 80% to 0 over 5-6 days with no explanation for the big drops.
After almost having finished all the scouting events in chapter 2 I still haven't found a use for trucks.
After taking all of the expensive/safe options for the tunnel building the germans still find it and blow it up creating 70 casualties (right after a line offensive so there's even more waiting for the acs)

completely forgot about the tunnels. didnt even register it at the time. i had 80% morale for a short time but was normally sat around the 95 to 99% mark

[waywer]

Originally posted by #donray:

Quoted text+1 to all of this but the trauma patients.

My biggest problem in the end was that I had over 400 military money units und over 20 unused personal points while completely struggling in chapter 1.

Chapter 3 definitely needs more balancing since it is way easier than the two previous chapters.

I obviously do not agree with this. My whole rehabilitation center was full of trauma patients. In chapter 2, after the special event my rehabilitation center was constant +20 over capacity due to having more then 20 trauma patients while having max doctors. It also raised the question for me if a trauma ward on a front hospital is history accurate but thats beside the point.

1. Some other points which came to mind is the inefficiency of the time slot mechanism. The 8 hours is not good because your employees are just doing nothing for 2/3 of the time and every slows to much down to a point that you dont get enough resources, treatment of patients are to slow etc.

The 12 hours is to long for most employees and they get exhousted/collapsed within 12 hours. This leaves you with the 24 hours and just doing it manually. But maybe i minx/maxed it to much.

2. Another point of the trauma doctors. A patient can take 18 hours, and they can treat 3 patients in a row. This means that they work for 40 hours and then take a rest. This is a little bit of a long time.

[.#DonRaj]

If your rehab station is overcrowded you need to assign more nurses to it. It will speed things up there quite a lot. I have seen upwards of 90% faster rehab times.