Dungeons and Duct Tape - My Feedback

[Megu]

Now, I'm not as into Escapists 2 as I used to be, and therefore combined with this prison's sudden difficulty boost compared to other prisons, is probably why I will not be attempting to reobtain my 100% achievements. I do recall this being a game that a lot of younger audiences play, in which I feel like this prison is much more difficult compared to all the others. Not even Big Top Breakout, Area 17, Fort Tundra or Kapow Camp compared to this in any way. I have yet to complete any escapes and I doubt I will end up finishing them. In my opinion, I just feel like this prison doesn't fit in the game. I liked that Team 17 made a harder prison... but this is harder than it should've been. I have yet to find out much about doing the Perimeter Breakout, but the Single Player escape seems like a massively boring grind and RNG-fest, while the Multiplayer escape seems kind of the same, with a little more frustration of finding that Counterweight. It's a good prison design and concept, and everything else seems good. It just feels way too hard for what it should be.

[Maldo Straken [FR]]

Wait Harder ?
There isn't a single contreband detector in the whole map
The sniper can't shoot at you
There is a lot of space place for hidding you and items with the use of a hook
Breakout Perimiter is just about digging a bit and repair the boat
The multiplayer escape just need some coordination
I escaped with each way on 9day on the same run with 2 players
That thing is maybe a bit grinding for the solo but that prison is a straight succes

[PeoplesPersonsPeople]

Originally posted by Maldoran Straken:

Wait Harder ?
There isn't a single contreband detector in the whole map
The sniper can't shoot at you
There is a lot of space place for hidding you and items with the use of a hook
Breakout Perimiter is just about digging a bit and repair the boat
The multiplayer escape just need some coordination
I escaped with each way on 9day on the same run with 2 players
That thing is maybe a bit grinding for the solo but that prison is a straight succes

there are detectors(library)
the sniper can get you outside just like always

[Maldo Straken [FR]]

The library is the only room who have library and it's not a strategic location
In the Gulag prison the detector are in Sport, L8brary and Canteen.

The outside of the map is quite useless. Only working place
Most of the time i'm just walking beetwen floors. The only interest there is the well and the small room near the perimeter.
Honestly BigTop was harder, space was harder, Gulag was harder
Even Kapow camp was harder

[Megu]

Continued: So I went back and completely finished Escapists 2... again. Wasn't as hard as it led me to believe at first, but I feel like I spent more time figuring out this prison than any other. Was pretty okay though.

[MekaDovah]

I had thought I settled into a routine of figuring out a prison pretty quickly in the game. Big Top I felt was really easy. This one's more confusing layout did slow me down and make me take longer to really figure out what I had to do. That and I wasted time just looking around the lovely place. I think it's just a little harder to visualize the vertical aspect which leads to some of the confusion I was having.

But once you learn the place, it's actually quite generous in places to stash things, the ability to search other desks, and the ability to just get around without many obstacles in your way. Though there was that incident where it turns out the entire guard wing of the castle is easy to get into, but needs a key to get out again.

Perhaps the biggest pain though is - like on a lot of other prisons - key items that show up randomly in standard desks are very dependent on luck and you can go days without a key item turning up.

When doing a new Escapists map for the first time, I keep trying to prep two escapes at the same time, so after doing one, I can reload and do the other without having to redo everything, but I end up always having to redo everything anyways because it's like starting one escape locks out the key items for the others. They just stop spawning entirely. Supposedly it's just luck, but this pattern has been very consistent for me.

If I had any suggestion, it would be unique key items that serve no purpose other than to aid in a map specific escape should have special desks that they will ALWAYS spawn in. As it is, the shoes and gloves do exactly that and you just have to find them. They all should have been like that. It would be more adventurous and less boring to break into the guard wing to, say, get the feather rather than keep searching the cells every day and just hope it turns up.

[Josh.GY]

ngl ive played escapists 2 so much that i was almost dissapointed by how easy i found his prison. I saw the boat in the prison tour and knew immiedietly that was my escape (keep in mind i hadnt watched any vids or anything). I then managed to easily get out on day 3. I feel the prisons are just a bit too predictable so i wish team 17 added a few more wacky ways to escape, and the fact that the ony way you break out of the perimiter is on a boat is also dissapointing and means that there is litterally only 2 possible ways of a solo escape, which is a letdown. Overall i am quite dissapointed with the dlc for a completly different reason. Or maybie ive just played this game too bloody much lol

[Megu]

Originally posted by Josh.GY:

ngl ive played escapists 2 so much that i was almost dissapointed by how easy i found his prison. I saw the boat in the prison tour and knew immiedietly that was my escape (keep in mind i hadnt watched any vids or anything). I then managed to easily get out on day 3. I feel the prisons are just a bit too predictable so i wish team 17 added a few more wacky ways to escape, and the fact that the ony way you break out of the perimiter is on a boat is also dissapointing and means that there is litterally only 2 possible ways of a solo escape, which is a letdown. Overall i am quite dissapointed with the dlc for a completly different reason. Or maybie ive just played this game too bloody much lol

This post is a year old and outdated,

I went back and fully completed the game a long time ago, the entire game is still insanely easy due to being way dumbed down for children.