Note to Devs for The Surge 2

[Devil Dog]

Maybe I'll turn this into a review, maybe not because the game is just about EOL - v2 is out in a few weeks. So for what it's worth, please don't be as lazy with the second version as you were with this one;

1. You have a lot of otherwise useful but empty screen real estate right now and it takes just a bit more effort to type a few more words explaining why I would need a component. Instead I have to get out of game and use a search engine to read how one of the implants I was trying to use, would never work. Funny that a web page had that one sentence of critical detail, but the game didn't (https://thesurge.wiki.fextralife.com/Ancillary+Core).

Devs - "Let's make the game purposely obnoxious instead of interesting."

2. Crafting kinda sucks. Unless I'm not yet at that stage of the game, there appears to be no way to destroy weapons or gear, maybe reclaim some of the components. I can pick up broken crap, but can't make my own??? Why force me to carry around a rusty pipe when I have a PAX? Why carry lnyx gear when I have Chrysalis?

EDIT - just as a test to see how broken the crafting system is, I was able to create another complete set of Liquidator gear. The game should have not allowed this as I can't do anything with it, but hey I got another set to admire!

UPDATE - go into GEAR tab, which is outside of the gear crafting tool (weird) and I can destroy useless equipment. Can't destroy weapons, so I'm stuck with those two pipes.

3. Give us an option to turn off/disable that annoying female 'welcome' voice for the base room. Step out, "Have a nice day." Step in, "Nice to see you Warren." Step out, "Be careful out there. " Step back in "This is not a scheduled break." HOLY STFU BATMAN!

4. Your implant icons are bad. At a glance I should be able to see what is hot swap, what is injectable, what is not, what is a higher version, what is a lower version (sure I can sort, but only to a small degree). Instead I gotta spend a tedious amount of time going through every one, reading the few details (see #1 above), regardless of color to know what is useful when I need it. Colors just appear to be chosen at random, because even hot swaps aren't the same.

And the same philosophy carries over to labeling crafting items - aside from that brief moment after I pick it up, I can never tell if I picked up MK 1, MK 2, or MK 3 alloy because all the symbols look exactly the same.

The game is already tedious, with the same back and fro for hours on end, so why do it ad nauseam?

[Dave_Jame]

Apart from having to navigate a bit more stuff,, why is not being able to destroy weapons such a problem since there is no inventory limit or weight penalty?

[MAKAIROSI]

1. How were you trying to use which implant? From my playthrough, i found i completely understood how every implant worked, and it worked as i thought it would.

2. I had the same issue with a billion weapons, but is it really such a big deal? I mean, they would probably have a weight penalty instead. And we do NOT want that.

3. The voice is probably programmed in by people smarter than Warren. He uses computers only to see messages ffs. To open doors he prefers brute force (overcharging) than hacking them or doing something else. It would be unrealistic for him to hack into the programming and disable the voice. But again, is it really a big deal? The game is rather short anyway.

4. This is the only thing i can probably agree with. My beef was between injectables and the rest. But i thought of it this way: If the implant is too good, it's probably an injectable xD

As for their levels, just keep them sorted according to levels. That's what i did.

Tbh, these are the least bad things with the game. My worst thing was that you can't grind, and you cannot use MKI components for anything other than MKI level. So if you have a ton of those, you can only use them for MKI stuff. That was the worst.

[Devil Dog]

#2 I edited, twice. Otherwise thx for the feedback.

[Dave_Jame]

Quick question. You have Two pipes? Unlike armor which you can can craft as many copies as you wish. Weapons should only appeat in 1 copy, every other should be transformed into material.
Also. There is one hiden armor set that can be aquired multiple times but cant be deleted.

[prototype81]

Whats with people these days thinking game development is easy and insulting devs on every forum. Its disrespectful and makes you look like a sad individual.

[Devil Dog]

Originally posted by prototype81:

Whats with people these days thinking game development is easy and insulting devs on every forum. Its disrespectful and makes you look like a sad individual.

I'm a sad individual. There, now you can go back to sleep sheep.

[prototype81]

Originally posted by Devil Dog:

Originally posted by prototype81:

Whats with people these days thinking game development is easy and insulting devs on every forum. Its disrespectful and makes you look like a sad individual.

I'm a sad individual. There, now you can go back to sleep sheep.

Wait. So me calling you out for ignorantly insulting a development team makes me asleep and a sheep? You're crazy. And probably use terms like "woke."

GL in life.