Why are there mixed reviews?

[GnomeSlayer]

I am disappointed by the reviews for this game. I was hoping to see positive reviews especially after the glowing reviews of FtK1.
I was hoping to pick this game up - can someone please explain what is going on?
Thank you

[Discotooth™]

Plenty of people that haven't played FTK1 and expected this to be the next Baldurs gate.

Also plenty of people that look at their favorite old RPG and think "THIS WILL BE EXACTLY LIKE THAT."

It isn't, its a improvement of an already fantastic FtK1.

[Lagrossebête]

There is some bugs, here and there, nothing crazy- and the game is quite hard when you are not used to it.
I guess the ego of people gets hurt because they play on novice ( i do, no choice ^^ )
I play solo, maybe people have problems online.
Anyway, the game is good, challenging for sure.

[CaptMuffinman]

Well aside from a few balance issues, the game is ok. Nothing worth paying for when it plays 99% exactly like FTK1. So if people already own and have played FTK1, this is just paying for another DLC story really.

[Bony]

I wanted to play with controller and my xbox controller just speeds around the map. I wanted to play with my gf, with two controllers, now even one doesnt work. Also you have to pass over the controller in couch coop. The devs say controller will be a focus point of an update in 2024... So what do you expect, a glowing review from my side?

[Discotooth™]

Originally posted by Bony:

I wanted to play with controller and my xbox controller just speeds around the map. I wanted to play with my gf, with two controllers, now even one doesnt work. Also you have to pass over the controller in couch coop. The devs say controller will be a focus point of an update in 2024... So what do you expect, a glowing review from my side?

It sounds like you have a broken controller on the first part, or driver issues.

Yes? Why the game get a negative review because you want to play it on a couch? You have plenty of time to refund without a review at all if you haven't had chance to play the game and actually review it. The roadmap and information about controllers were freely available before the game was released, its meanspirited to then leave a negative review just because your preferred way of playing a PC game is with a controller.

[KRAFTPANZER]

Originally posted by Bony:

I wanted to play with controller and my xbox controller just speeds around the map. I wanted to play with my gf, with two controllers, now even one doesnt work. Also you have to pass over the controller in couch coop. The devs say controller will be a focus point of an update in 2024... So what do you expect, a glowing review from my side?

This. I didn't leave a negative review as I really enjoyed ftk1, but even though I knew local co-op was not properly implemented yet, I didn't expect controller support to be so buggy and poorly implemented. Huge step down from the first game even though ftk2 already has the full controller support tag on the store page. It feels like it wasn't properly playtested using a controller at all.

Other than that, we didn't have any issues / bugs and the game seems really fun, balancing is really good too, so.. seems like a great game to me other than the poor controller support.

[ArchThrone]

Alot of it was multiplayer bugs and issues on launch, but they have now gotten hotfixed, so people have not udpated their reviews yet

[KRAFTPANZER]

Originally posted by Overtyrant™:

Originally posted by Bony:

I wanted to play with controller and my xbox controller just speeds around the map. I wanted to play with my gf, with two controllers, now even one doesnt work. Also you have to pass over the controller in couch coop. The devs say controller will be a focus point of an update in 2024... So what do you expect, a glowing review from my side?

It sounds like you have a broken controller on the first part, or driver issues.

Yes? Why the game get a negative review because you want to play it on a couch? You have plenty of time to refund without a review at all if you haven't had chance to play the game and actually review it. The roadmap and information about controllers were freely available before the game was released, its meanspirited to then leave a negative review just because your preferred way of playing a PC game is with a controller.

Well, there is a tag called "partial controller support", or they could've left it out completely until it actually works..

I wouldn't leave a bad review because of this myself, as stated above, but I personally expected that the game would work using a controller without any severe bugs due to how it was advertised. However, it doesnt. ;)

[PhoenixAscended]

To sum it all up, the negative reviews are from bugs that were on release, they are being fixed extremely fast, 90% of the really bad ones are already gone, but spoiler alert, those people got loads of clout from their negative reviews and wont change them, so just ignore the rating for a while.

Also, people are saying the game is too hard or something, first of all in my run with my friends we decided that it goes like this

No matter what it says, our attacks work 90% of the time
Enemy attacks basically never work, and when they do we dodge or something (not every time but quite often)
RNG for loot and stuff is good
gameplay loop is fun.

I have about 500-1k hours in fk1 I think?

[F.O.A.M]

bugs (i have only seen 1)
and the fact that people are bad at videogames and blames the devs for it

[Tsuru]

It's got mixed reviews cause people say it's a good game but they hate 1 thing about it and give it a thumbs down for 1 small reason that doesn't really affect the overall gameplay.

[Majickthyse]

Originally posted by Overtyrant™:

It isn't, its a improvement of an already fantastic FtK1.

I'm not sure the game engine/mechanics have been improved. I think they have been changed, and in some cases not for the better. For example, the UI, the camera angles (poor choices and lack of dynamism) and stilted transition between screens.

The first time I played FTK the combat animations made me chuckle every time. Not going to happen with FTK2 because the camera is zoomed out and always side on, which has lost effect big time.

I haven't played it enough to decide if it is a good successor overall, but my initial impressions are that some things have been changed for the worst for no apparent reason.

[Bullet]

The new classes are very similar, like 2 of them just spawn an ally that soaks up damage but you can't manage it so it tends to screw you over instead of help on the new grid battle format.
Camera angle in battle is static and terrible angle behind your team making it very hard to target enemies. Not much explanation for ANY of abilities, passives, overhead chaos, etc. It tells you to hit "shift" to get more explanation but you literally get @#$%ing nothing. Game freezes a lot. The content is on world map is much much smaller than FTK1 which is shocking since they had so much time to work on this game.

One of the dumbest issues and I think is completely retarded is if you hit I for inventory, it goes to your consumables on bottom right and then if you hit again, it finally opens the @#$%ing inventory for your characters.

The game is complete trash and unplayable, I thought I was being critical and put some hours into the game. Realized how many problems it has for the release. Seems they wanted make the game bad on purpose instead of better without listening to players from previous version.

[Crow]

because multiplayer dosent work

[Discotooth™]

Originally posted by Crow:

because multiplayer dosent work

Does now, that was hotfixed