Got to be honest hear.

[rman88]

Ya, i had some very high hopes for this game. As the idea of Building your own bio weapons and causing a zombie Apocalypse sounds cool. As who wouldn't want to be a horribly negligent corpo with dreams of world domination or whatever.

Issue is the game itself is holding itself back. First of all staff management is Broken at this point. Stamina and exhaustion, Both are the same exact thing. Whatever Stamina means you need a coffee break, exhaustion means you need a nap. both these mechanics suck due to how Fast they are consumed. Like i seen a character i ordered to do something like. Deploy healing drones to heal my boss man up. Go from full Stamina to nothing before even reaching him.

What dose Fake umbrella corp only hire people who are Lethargic. People who need to rest after taking 20 steps. That they need a nap or a can of soda or whatever the hell they drink?

Maybe this wouldn't be so bad if they didn't just steal the idea behind Recettear. Yes, this game is pretty much just a Evil version of a child need to pay back a dept in less them a month. Granted in Recettear you got an entire month to pay this back. I think you only have like 12 days to pay that stupid franchise fee.

Granted i don't even know why this is a thing? Why is Fake umbrella corp forcing you to pay a franchising fee? Why is it growing almost at an unsustainable rate. Where the final payment only gives you a little under 48 hours to pay back almost 3 times the amount you originally needed to make in 7 days.

Combine this with the fact that the game is Super buggy. Take for example building durability. Your Engineers wont repair anything that has High durability. Yet Your labs will Turn everyone into zombies if it reaches medium durability. Meaning it is impossible to actual maintain the labs. And to prevent them form Spawning Invulnerable zombies.

Yep another bug, where a zombie spawns and just wails on your room. And guess what.. you can't attack it. And don't try to stay in the room. Or else o look game over everyone except the zombie just blew up.

Like, this game had so much potential. But they insisted it be Recettear.. This dumb Rouge like game where you don't even get freaking upgrades. i have the third map unlocked yet I cannot actual use any of the achievement upgrades. Nor can i upgrade any of the directors i have.

Like at this point i wish i could just refund it.. as this game is beyond disappointing.

[Torasko]

Get Rimworld + Anomaly DLC to scratch that SCP itch.

Believe me, you'll forget about this 'very' dead game very soon.

[rman88]

Na, that game while great. Don't get me wrong i already own it. Isn't the same thing as trying to run umbrella corp. The idea that i am Playing Albert Wesker trying to make a bunch of cash while preventing a zombie outbreak is just such a interesting idea.

Can't do that with rimworld as its not about Eldritch horror or anything like that. It is more about Being A evil megalomaniac running a company that freely kills their employees and turns them into bio weapons.

[GlitchScofflaw]

TBH I think its a game that encourages micromanagement and being subtle and attentive. You really want to look for things like Jogger and Coffee Lover perk, and sometimes its better to tell staff to nap instead of going to get coffee on the other side of town for example. It also makes Directors like Worky with unlimited stamina a viable option.

As for why the Franchise fee is unrealistically more demanding, there are several reasons I have headcanon for, but its probably because our medicine turns people into zombies (shhhh its secret in case you haven't noticed) and illegal black market operations encourage big cash grabs and escape. If you were a property owner, you would probably be pissed if you were liable for all that, hence why all these rooms and building come pre built with a self destruction mechanism and evacuation protocol. This allows Worky's "3rd Party Affiliate" as a franchise to distance itself from the Endswells brands well known shenanigans while raking in a ton of cash with automated drone construction and rentals, and keeping this madness going.

This game feels almost too subtle and genius for it to be struggling this bad. It is a buggy game, but eh so is helldivers, so a few crashes wont stop me. Its when the characters and rooms get bugged and I have to restart in a new game that bothers me most.

[rman88]

Never even got a single perk unlocked. As its one of those rouge like that only reward you for actual beating a level or something. So the 10 times i tried and failed i got nothing but wasted time.

[GlitchScofflaw]

Originally posted by rman88:

Never even got a single perk unlocked. As its one of those rouge like that only reward you for actual beating a level or something. So the 10 times i tried and failed i got nothing but wasted time.

Some stuff like perk points are in game achievements while others are extraction based. I think others are in-game, like selling 3 different kinds of bioweapons in one week. I use the drone assembly perk, black market order cancellation policy, and sometimes the sewer map plans and sometimes the biomass collection protocol. Sometimes its better to re-roll an easier map with more rooms or closer coffee shops/bus sleeping quarters etc. Take more time surveying the map to see if its even worth investing in, some world generations are honestly more challenging than others even within the same game mode. Don't forget to pause the time flow to look around and micromanage more. Beating the first map is usually easy enough, but you don't want to make too many mistakes with placement and rush to buy things you aren't immediately using until time. Some perk/perk points are going to basically demand you mess up intentionally if you want them fast like make and kill 10 zombies and fight the cops, others will be easier like making 100 treatments, and the hardest objectives basically demand you play perfectly and extract after 3 franchise payments with a certain amount of money. Don't get too disillusioned, it is legitimately just hard game at first sometimes that encourages trial by error, just keep going and try the new levels so you can unlock all the easier stuff to help you with the harder stuff. And don't forget to harvest biomass and don't be too worried about suspicion besides police suspicion. Remember to use the Investigator Operation once you unlock him to control whether you get raided. I had to play this game straight day and night for a whole 90 hours before I "got" it, and that was only because I was too focused on being "good" that I didn't keep experimenting and observe interactions enough until I understood the broad scope.

[rman88]

Issue is their is nothing to it. This is purely a rouge like with little to no story. Or point outside of getting a better score. I am not running umbrella corp. I am not building an army. I am just some low level manager running a franchise which is designed to fail.

And this isn't even talking about the bugs. Like dam so many bugs. and worst bit is, their is actual no real progression. As ya once you get passed building drugs/weapons/bio weapons. That is it, their is no new content.

You don't get to design your own plague.. You don't get to go all Albert wesker and try to make a super human race. It is just a rouge like with no actual pay out. only thing you unlock is generic new maps.

But hey if you like doing the same thing over and over. go right ahead, to me this is just boring. after i built my first bio weapon and Lost another game to an invincible zombie. I just realize its not worth exploring any further.