Few ideas

[Toantesfo]

Well just started my second play through and I have to admit stunning little game (besides a couple of insane levels, missles vs scrambler and nuke vs many nukes). Any plans for DLC or a sequel?

Would be nice if you could group guns on the fly to a number key, so that you could give orders together etc and groups would automatically hold fire till all are ready for salvo.

Would also be decent if you had access to the basic level of all weapons without having to buy due to some levels being extremely difficult without the right tech. Money is generally well distributed and though I couldn't buy everything I did manage to make it through on my first play but I never invested in alot of the tech and if I'd had the 1 room basic I would have experimented. Understand this is easy mode but I didn't want easy mode I wanted options ;)

And finally, multiplayer!

[Toantesfo]

Oh and being able to preview the enemy fort would be better than sliced bread! Even if you had to buy a piece of equipment or do a side quest to gain the world most powerful periscope!

[Ryuu]

Originally posted by Toantesfo:

Any plans for DLC or a sequel?

Seems not, really a shame, the game mechanics are so good, it has great potential, too bad the developers seemingly don't consider it successful enough(well, their fault for not adding replayability, some random-generated endless mode for example or New Game+ mode at least).

> Would be nice if you could group guns on the fly to a number key, so that you could give orders together etc and groups would automatically hold fire till all are ready for salvo.
True.
BTW there's additional unmentioned hotkey:
E - manually fire current weapon (if it's set to hold fire)
Others see here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=671119050
Not perfect but with WASD + pause it's manageable. Far better than playing mobile version with no hotkeys.

And too bad no modding support. I couldn't even find a way to cheat/mod/edit to try out all perks. Orange ones are pretty cool!
Theoretically you maybe can collect all perks or at least the most cool ones but it requires too many restarts(with swapping saves back) to be feasible. I tried. After each mission you have a chance to get new perk but even with maxed out chance it's not high enough :(
Also it seems the more perks you already have - the less the chance. Probably game rerolls same perk again and just drops it then?

Anyway i recommend getting some orange perks, it's what makes second playthrough more intreresting. You can reroll first level when you get a perk until you get what you want, because it's the only level with 100% chance… Hmm, if only i could find a way to edit that chance for other levels…

Devs, please, give us some tool or instruction

[Ryuu]

Originally posted by Toantesfo:

Oh and being able to preview the enemy fort would be better than sliced bread! Even if you had to buy a piece of equipment or do a side quest to gain the world most powerful periscope!

You can, just start the mission :) If you abort mission before first shots are fired - you don't even lose the win streak.

BTW enemy forts DO have perks too! Click their name at the bottom of the screen IIRC. Some have immunity to fire or poison for example.

[Toantesfo]

Cheers for the advice! I was hoping the perks might stay even if I lost all the equipment but no luck!

Also I wish the perk selection was alittle more ordered but I guess it's a mobile game so options are limited ^^

But a sequel with a map where you pick your battles across the whole front with turns and random events in multiplayer.... a map can dream ;)

[Ryuu]

Originally posted by Toantesfo:

Cheers for the advice! I was hoping the perks might stay even if I lost all the equipment but no luck!

Yeah, I was really hoping the perks would stay after the ending and "next story loop". What's the point otherwise? It really looks like a New Game+ mode but it isn't! T___________T
If it was - i'd replay this game 2-3 times again, even though missions are linear. Still perks(especially orange ones) do add flavor.

> Also I wish the perk selection was alittle more ordered but I guess it's a mobile game so options are limited ^^
What do you mean? After reopening that screen they usually resort themselves, so you always see different colors of the same perk in a row.

> But a sequel with a map where you pick your battles across the whole front with turns
Or at least randomly-generated forts with increasing difficulty. Events would be nice too. This game really could be "FTL with forts". But for now it's just a linear non-replayable strategy. They got into wrong niche - this game is not casual but nor it has enough content for hardcore players.


Here are my saves BTW if you wanna see how's it like to have 50 perks to choose and also what equipment i use(hint: i center on boarding, Charon + lasers are almost unbeatable)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1i8v7r6b4jQi2XpZZg5JQXm8hgaiALloq?usp=sharing

If you find a way to cheat/edit/unlock perks - PLEASE LET ME KNOW! I'm dying to try them all out T_T

[Toantesfo]

Weird my perks always display in order of finding... but thanks and I'm usually don't play with the back end of software but if I find anything I'll pass it along.

[Ryuu]

Originally posted by Toantesfo:

Weird my perks always display in order of finding...

Well, maybe only after restarting the game they get resorted, don't remember exactly.

Do you know where savegames are stored?

Well, i tried editing them, in hex-editor since they're binary, but that didn't work, maybe they're encrypted/compressed or have a checksum inside. I'm just dreaming of trying them all :(
See my saves how cool orange perks are, they're unique, unlike white/green/blue they're not just another numerical bonus but can do as much as add another soldier to your base and other cool powerful things.

Well, or just any other ideas how to "spice up" second full playthrough. Really boring because missions are the same.

[Sichimus]

Originally posted by Ryuu:

Originally posted by Toantesfo:

Any plans for DLC or a sequel?

Seems not, really a shame, the game mechanics are so good, it has great potential, too bad the developers seemingly don't consider it successful enough(well, their fault for not adding replayability, some random-generated endless mode for example or New Game+ mode at least).

> Would be nice if you could group guns on the fly to a number key, so that you could give orders together etc and groups would automatically hold fire till all are ready for salvo.
True.
BTW there's additional unmentioned hotkey:
E - manually fire current weapon (if it's set to hold fire)
Others see here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=671119050
Not perfect but with WASD + pause it's manageable. Far better than playing mobile version with no hotkeys.

And too bad no modding support. I couldn't even find a way to cheat/mod/edit to try out all perks. Orange ones are pretty cool!
Theoretically you maybe can collect all perks or at least the most cool ones but it requires too many restarts(with swapping saves back) to be feasible. I tried. After each mission you have a chance to get new perk but even with maxed out chance it's not high enough :(
Also it seems the more perks you already have - the less the chance. Probably game rerolls same perk again and just drops it then?

Anyway i recommend getting some orange perks, it's what makes second playthrough more intreresting. You can reroll first level when you get a perk until you get what you want, because it's the only level with 100% chance… Hmm, if only i could find a way to edit that chance for other levels…

Devs, please, give us some tool or instruction :hee:

They didnt consider this game succesful enough? Damn! I love this and have played it for like 2 years on my phone just repeating it over and over. I am probably going to buy the PC version just to support them and maybe I can mess around with cheat engine.

[Ryuu]

Originally posted by Nevada Six:

They didnt consider this game succesful enough? Damn! I love this and have played it for like 2 years on my phone just repeating it over and over. I am probably going to buy the PC version just to support them and maybe I can mess around with cheat engine.

I've played mobile version a little, then switched to PC and i'd say it's worth it if for hotkeys alone, makes replaying for great score much easier :)
For my region Steam version is cheaper than max payment for mobile as well.

On mobile you can mess around using Game Guardian, it's basically a Cheat Engine for Android. But it's best used on Android 4 AFAIK and requires root. And on low RAM devices it might cause reboots. On PC it would be faster and easier, yeah.

> They didnt consider this game succesful enough?
Well, i judge it on amount of reviews on Steam and rating. I love this game too, really unique approach and robust mechanics. Really needs some replayability.