Recent reviews by Dirkradix

Pros:

Great atmospherics. (The best was in mission 1, lol).
Great music.
Great sound effects.


Cons:

Butchered storyline.
Butchered "formations".
Butchered ships. ex. frigates have longer range than destroyer and battlecruisers. Battlecruisers
are trash. Corvettes are trash.
What pisses me off the most is the pacing of the game. It felt like every mission was on a
timer to finish asap, couldn't even enjoy the battles.
HW2 had epic battlecruisers, every time those ion cannons charged you could feel the
firepower. But in hw3, battlecruisers are utterly worthless. WORTHLESS.
Right click hit box on enemy ships irritatingly small.
You locked some of the fancy ship types in a game-mode that no one plays.

Get the game on sale.

throws the player into 100000+ icons with no tutorial. refunded.

Get it on sale. Short game.

Janky gfx on dx 12.
No replayability.
Boring weapons, 6 slot inventory for 60% of the game lol.
Overpriced.
Meh actors, Isaac Clarke better.
3/5 rating.

You won't miss much. 10-hr game. Get the game when its on 50% sale.

p.s. all cutscenes are meshed in, can't be skipped.

9 years early access. jesus.

“We don't want to work on Stranded Deep forever. If all goes well, we're hoping to have it completed by the end of 2015.

2015.

30min search for teammates....

Challenging Roguelike card battler game.

Plagued by Game-breaking bugs.

Still fun though.

F*ck the keyboard controls.

The game is good, with the potential to be great. Watch the steam combat vid, it is quite engaging.

Now for the drawbacks:
1.weather pattern obscures a lot of the screen, you sometimes can't see things/what you are doing.
2. bullet holes, vertigo, smoke, lots of cluttering artifacts...makes combat a pain.
3. You want to repair a ship? Land it "manually" and incur more damage(sometimes, more often than not) oh and you can't
stay repairing for >20hrs or you'll get hunted, or shot at by cruise missiles.
4. Physics.........seems your bullets/shells curve, while enemy fire always shoots in a straight line, with great auto-targetting.
5. No manual saving. Major negative here.
6. Inifinite money thru buyback-then-cancel. And vice versa. Fuel is ridiculously expensive.
7. A lot of the weapon systems are buggy, ex. Added flare dispenser, doesn't work.
8. A lot of the things in the UI are taken for granted, expecting players to be experts on your first mission.
9. Mouse Acceleration is a b%tch.
10. Moving dial for radio signals is a pain with middle mouse button only.
11. UI has a lot of random annoying stuff, signal decoding, radio intercepting, signal jamming, strike group attacking, cruise missile firing, sudden strike, aircraft launching, ......etc...ui is imo cluttered.

Conclusion: Wait till dev patches some of the major annoying things.


p.s. this game...it's like you are given an minigun, and ordered to shoot full auto, but you only have 10 rounds for it.