How does it compare to Front Mission 4?

[ratbuddy]

If similar, I'll buy..

[talkslow4me]

I would say "go play the demo and find out" but as for some reason its common practice not to have demos anymore (IDK why??). I guess you and many other potential customers are in the same dilemma and its the developer that put you in this situation. So thats on them and hopefully one day, they will see that demos might actually benefit in sales.

But short response is; its another form of turn base strategy. The game pauses and you then tell all your troops, individually, how you want them to move (like in DoorKicker games). You hit play and both sides play out at once in sometimes a pretty epic scene of glorious Mech combat. Goes on for 5 seconds. Then you go back to planning phase.
While different than Front Mission combat it definitely does scratch the itch of building, planning, and watching Mech fights within a city. And in many ways, this was way more entertaining.
Only thing is, sometimes it can be downright confusing planning 5 seconds ahead while considering maybe how 8 enemies will react that you will just say move here and shoot FFS.

[grendel_kamisori]

THIS, except my standard is Front Mission 5.

[Mentally Unstable]

Unlike FM4, this game has no pilot progression in terms of stats, levels or skills. They are just there to act as a second health bar(unconscious) and to prevent you from repeatedly(fatigue) sending out the same ones.

[Mitth'raw'nuruodo]

Originally posted by Mentally Unstable:

Unlike FM4, this game has no pilot progression in terms of stats, levels or skills. They are just there to act as a second health bar(unconscious) and to prevent you from repeatedly(fatigue) sending out the same ones.

And there it goes from my cart into "wait till inevitably given away for free by Epic Store" list.

[Mitth'raw'nuruodo]

The developers actually put "RPG" as one of the official tags of this game. That seems very dishonest if there is no character progression.

[Mentally Unstable]

Originally posted by Mitth'raw'nuruodo:

The developers actually put "RPG" as one of the official tags of this game. That seems very dishonest if there is no character progression.

Tell me about it. They could propably defend it on technical grounds that players are "roleplaying" as a squad of survivors but then again, that would mean that nearly every game could be classified as an "rpg" because they all involve us playing from a certain perspective, even call of duty.

[MrGergoth]

Originally posted by Mitth'raw'nuruodo:

The developers actually put "RPG" as one of the official tags of this game. That seems very dishonest if there is no character progression.

You have ur mechs progression and ur base progression

[Stryker]

It doesn't. It plays like Frozen Synapse.

[djheat]

It's nothing like Front Mission other than the mech building. Totally different gameplay and I didn't see any RPG elements in what little I played

[Servius88]

It's a 'real time with pause' kind of game rather than turn-based one like FM series.

[Reinier dash]

least front mission had dialog between the pilots in missions lol and story mission!