Absolutely horrible

[Bbautista]

it looks like a 5 year old created this game in 15 mins in unreal engine. Completely ranks as one of the worse games I have ever played in my entire life. Refunded...

[Apostle_of_Death]

Origineel geplaatst door michal.puczynski:

Hey there, everyone's entitled to their opinion so it's cool, we can accept someone not like our work. But I'd like to address specifically this:

Origineel geplaatst door Macbuk:

their games have no substance past 30 minutes of gameplay

which for DDS2 is very ironic as it's a game that evolves its gameplay over hours and hours. New mechanics are introduced long into your playtime, and you go from being a street dealer to managing a network of employees with a hierarchy of their own. There are branching story paths, two major stats (Street Cred and Respect) which are related to different playstyles (business and brawler approach)...

It's a much bigger game than the first one and I think if you give it more time you'll notice that it does have much, MUCH more inside past the 30 minute mark.

And why is it not as advanced as triple-A's? Because it was made by 5 people who poured their heart into it. But that's also reflected in the price.

So, I hope that you can give it another try and appreciate it for what it is. But if you don't want to, or if you simply don't like it, that's okay. I just wanted to respond to the statement about gameplay "not being there".

Cheers!

Look man we appreciate you guys for trying but I have to agree that most of the changes from DDS1 to 2 were negative. Just for me personally the original system of actually working with the product was a lot of the pull for me, and replacing that with poorly explained menus just wasn't it g. I was also really in it for the environment and the vibe which are also totally different. I wish you the best in your future endeavors but I'm going to have to pass.

[random]

Origineel geplaatst door Fernandinho Piccoli:

I was about to buy it, why is so horrible?

It's not a horrible game. It's an unfinished game.
If you are patient enough to wait for problems to be fixed while you play the game, then I recommend buying it.

[random]

Origineel geplaatst door Wings Guide:

Origineel geplaatst door Heerless:

Personally, i haven't encountered any bugs nor glitches and i've been playing for the last couple hours. I don't actually understand why people think this game is bad, im enjoying it a lot actually. I've read some reviews and i can't agree with most of them. A guy posted a negative review because when dealing you had to input how many grams/packages you want to give to the client, seems like that guy was just lazy imo. Another guy said that the ui is not user friendly in a negative review, while i can see how he came to that conclusion i don't find it hard to navigate, it's all clearly labeled.

The only things that are negative about the game is that some locales are still in polish or whatever language it is (you can still understand though what the interaction does, it won't break your immersion or at least didn't break mine) and that the fall damage is a bit too much.

I really can't wrap my head around why people hate/dislike this game, a lot of things will change in the course of time and the game will only get better. Did i mention it has co-op ?

Ok let's not pretend the game is in an actually good state on release because it isn't.

You get info bombed by like 30 different tasks in the early game, and lots of important information is missing in that. I was waiting for my amp station to be ready on small island, got tired of waiting and went to buy a hideout to cook myself. Had no clue where a pawnshop was HOURS into the game because the game simply never tells you where one is in the early game at least. Lots more missing information as well.

When you play through the main story, you are told to pick up a suitcase of money from Lanzo. Once you pick up the suit case, you are then told to drop it off at a pawnshop, where the location of the closest pawnshop is shown.

[oto45]

Origineel geplaatst door Bbautista:

it looks like a 5 year old created this game in 15 mins in unreal engine. Completely ranks as one of the worse games I have ever played in my entire life. Refunded...

I agree. DDS 1 was way better. I was super disappointed when DDS2 BECAME OPEN WORLD! now it totally sucks! I hate the vast distance I have to travel to sell my drugs. I just wanna go out my hideout and sell immediately...

[[006400]Elron MacBong©®™]

Origineel geplaatst door oto45:

Origineel geplaatst door Bbautista:

it looks like a 5 year old created this game in 15 mins in unreal engine. Completely ranks as one of the worse games I have ever played in my entire life. Refunded...

I agree. DDS 1 was way better. I was super disappointed when DDS2 BECAME OPEN WORLD! now it totally sucks! I hate the vast distance I have to travel to sell my drugs. I just wanna go out my hideout and sell immediately...

Not the games fault, if you sell everything by hand and complain the game about it, if you dont have todo so.

[Imran Khan]

DDS 1 is one of my favorite video games. I've played it over and over, built all the manions many times now. I've tried to play DDS 2 a few times now and can't get into it. I haven't seen a police officer yet. No doubt there is much more to the game but the beginning of it is so boring I can't keep playing.

[Rabob]

Origineel geplaatst door Heerless:

Origineel geplaatst door Fernandinho Piccoli:

I was about to buy it, why is so horrible?

Personally, i haven't encountered any bugs nor glitches and i've been playing for the last couple hours. I don't actually understand why people think this game is bad, im enjoying it a lot actually. I've read some reviews and i can't agree with most of them. A guy posted a negative review because when dealing you had to input how many grams/packages you want to give to the client, seems like that guy was just lazy imo. Another guy said that the ui is not user friendly in a negative review, while i can see how he came to that conclusion i don't find it hard to navigate, it's all clearly labeled.

The only things that are negative about the game is that some locales are still in polish or whatever language it is (you can still understand though what the interaction does, it won't break your immersion or at least didn't break mine) and that the fall damage is a bit too much.

I really can't wrap my head around why people hate/dislike this game, a lot of things will change in the course of time and the game will only get better. Did i mention it has co-op ?

In a lot of ways it just feels like an early access game.

- No wholesale. Mostly small drug trades (under 10 gram per trade). No major exchange like you see in movies and where you might get ripped or getting to rip off other dealers.
- No automation of drugs crafting. You have to manually set the queues for everything.
- Buslines not connecting on the same island
- No driveable vehicles apart from boats which are mostly useless
- Most drugs cannot be mixed. Only coke and amp can get mixed and it makes no sense (there is no penalty/benefit like in DDS1 where people could overdose or get addicted or complain about the quality)
- Wanted status basically never going away because there is always something that triggers it. Meaning that you get raided daily and everyone bothers you. There is no mechanic that reduces your visibility/wanted status like in DDS1
- Raids being poorly implemented in how they trigger.
- Lacking mechanics like bribing cops for an area so they stop bothering you constantly. Similar for thugs.

The big pros are 1. Coop 2. Open world 3. Dealers & distributors which can take over a lot of the orders/clients. 4. Having some combat, even if it is poorly implemented.
Mechanics wise I think DDS1 was a lot better for production and also the drug dealing aspect itself.

[Brack.83]

I didn't play the first one, but I saw it played and I liked it so I had to get the 2nd. I'm enjoying it, but some things could be improved. For example, we buy everything with "dirty" money and it's fine for cash payments, but to pay into a current account you should first clean up the money through dirty money laundering, purchasing properties in the game that do so. Then with clean money you can purchase shelters, houses etc. Then one thing that I don't really like is the fact that drug dealers only have 6 customer slots and in the end there is always some customer left out that you have to go and replenish manually every day. Drug dealers should serve all customers in an area. For example, on the initial island I can only put one drug dealer who has 6 slots, but in the end there are 8 customers, and I have to serve them every day, the same goes for the Archipelago. If you assign them to a 6\6 dealer you have a penalty. I don't like this. Then also the exchange rate of small Bolivar money has a 1\1 ratio with Big Bolivar denomination and should be 100\1 to be realistic. Overall I like the game and I hope that many things will be added and improved in the future.

[zoeren]

It's not that this game is particularly bad.

This game is disappointing as a successor. It's been released in a questionable technical state but full price.
Given that fact they already had a great game to build on, it's disappointing.

The constant excuses make it really difficult to acknowledge the developers.
Building a fancy new Caribbean world is nice but with only 5 people it's a game of resources. That's what you see in every corner of the game.

Let's enjoy the island while going by bus... Oh wait there's just a progress bar filling up

[Dooly]

Origineel geplaatst door Bbautista:

it looks like a 5 year old created this game in 15 mins in unreal engine. Completely ranks as one of the worse games I have ever played in my entire life. Refunded...

After having loved the 1st part as much as I have, yeah, I 100% agree with the fact that DDS2 is extremely disappointing. It has a few fun aspects to it, but it's buried underneath an ocean of issues & bad optimization.
Still remember getting pissed off with the dev team at release because they were giving us selfies with some backstory of their irl life instead of focusing on fixing the game right away. lmao

[JASONWALKER34]

Origineel geplaatst door Brack.83:

I didn't play the first one, but I saw it played and I liked it so I had to get the 2nd. I'm enjoying it, but some things could be improved. For example, we buy everything with "dirty" money and it's fine for cash payments, but to pay into a current account you should first clean up the money through dirty money laundering, purchasing properties in the game that do so. Then with clean money you can purchase shelters, houses etc. Then one thing that I don't really like is the fact that drug dealers only have 6 customer slots and in the end there is always some customer left out that you have to go and replenish manually every day. Drug dealers should serve all customers in an area. For example, on the initial island I can only put one drug dealer who has 6 slots, but in the end there are 8 customers, and I have to serve them every day, the same goes for the Archipelago. If you assign them to a 6\6 dealer you have a penalty. I don't like this. Then also the exchange rate of small Bolivar money has a 1\1 ratio with Big Bolivar denomination and should be 100\1 to be realistic. Overall I like the game and I hope that many things will be added and improved in the future.

Technically you can put eight customers on the first Islands dealer it just slows him down a little but it still works I don't even have to go over there anymore unless I'm dropping off drugs

[Huslaa]

DDS2 Is The Best!