Останні рецензії користувача Microcosm The Catboy

Paradox once again merging the "starter pack" dlc's with base game because they refuse to update them. If they were simply making them free, it would be great, but they aren't. They are merging them so they can revamp the content from the old DLC's and repackage it as something new. They've already done this with HOI IV my sheeples. Don't let Parashill mislead you.

Not a difficult game at all, just tedious. I've only played on realistic so far, where you have to pave your roads and stuff. Wasn't hard to play or become self sufficient, just took time. I would basically lay down 15 buildings and tons of roads, then go afk to let the vehicles and workers slowly build it.

The game is honestly pretty decent so if you're on the fence, you'll probably have a great time. Wouldn't recommend realistic though as it has completely burnt me out.

Edit: I would like to mention, I didn't do any tutorials and just threw myself straight in without having watched any videos. The game is very annoying at times, like trying to see what vehicles can carry your crane. Also maybe its because I didn't do the tutorial, but I had practically no workers spawning in my city. I would move people in, but no workers.

Very short. Completely unbalanced. Lacks so many easy to implement mechanics. You can't even send the Ratte or Maus to the front, they just take up space in your warehouse. Unenjoyable experience.

This is still in early access, even if the developers say it isn't. This is far from being a "full release".

Don't quite understand the purpose of releasing a single song as a bonus, but a bonus is a bonus.

People have already spent too much money on this game if they own the base game. You shouldn't be sprinkling in "free bonuses" that aren't even free, or bonuses. 2/3 of these tanks are lazily copied directly from World of Tanks. Your devs are so incredibly negligent in World War 2 knowledge that the VK.3001 doesn't have the company designation at the end, which is the most crucial part of the name. Imagine your friend tells you that they have a Dodge Dart but they don't specify if its the one from 1969 or 2013.

So basically if you waste 37 USD on this like me, you get a "free" supporter pack that has 3 lazily made assets, 2 of which are blatantly copied from world of tanks. This is proven by the fact that World of Tanks is already fairly inaccurate on the design, and it appears these models amplify the oddities on the world of tanks even more.

Thanks Paramocks for once again slapping your human wallets in their faces.

Bad game, even worse dlc's

This game is like Frostpunk 2, but it has enjoyable mechanics and you actually feel attached to your city. 2024 Predecessor of the year.

The most unenjoyable "city builder" I have played in years, even considering its a 3 day early access. It is a travesty to even consider this is related to Frostpunk. It is a spin off. The only similarity this has with the original game is that they're in the same universe.

The entire time I played this, I was comparing it to the original, and even reinstalled Frostpunk just to make sure I wasn't wrong. I put 3x the amount of time into Frostpunk over the past 2 days than I did playing this 3 day early access.

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Lets start with the graphics. There is nothing notably better than Frostpunk 1 (FP1). The only thing I noticed is that FP2 is horribly optimized, leading to regular lag spikes and average frame rate below 60 fps on medium graphics.

Update: I wrote this in google docs yesterday and just to prove a point before posting, just for this game I decided to repair my computer that has a 4090 and i9-14900KF. With V-Sync enabled, constant lag, sub 60 fps. With DLSS and Frame Gen on, V-Sync off, I got a little above 60. I don't know how they managed to do this. Almost top of the line PC and still struggles.

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Next is the buildings. In FP1 you built buildings but in FP2 you draw districts. After placing these districts you can place a single building on it to increase output at the expense of using more workers, but its the only way to actually get large amounts of resources. You can expand a district to house ONE additional building. The housing district needs to be expanded to have a building, and can only support one. The game encourages you to plan your cities by having different districts give proximity debuffs. It is awful.

If the city building was rather just placing buildings on hexagonal grids with proximity debuffs, or free form district drawing, I would probably have no issues, but this system is simply ghoulish to play with and not enjoyable to me.

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Next is the scouts. Unlike FP1, FP2 requires you to "frostbreak" (excavate) to the border of the map to build a logistics district. This will give you 15 "Frostland Teams". These are your scouts. Rather than have singular scout teams that can go everywhere, FP2 has turned it into a resource meaning some undiscovered areas will require more Frostland Teams than others to go to. There is also a new danger system for exploring that is useless as you can just research to decrease the danger.

This system is flawed, but not really bad. Just needs some numbers tweaked to balance it out.

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Similar to FP1 Settlements, FP2 has outposts, settlements, and colonies. Outposts are found with your Frostland Teams, and can have a trade route established using some resources and your Frostland Teams. Outposts can be upgraded into Settlements for more Frostland Teams and resources. It will also take some population to construct it. The downside to Outposts and Settlements is that they have very limited amount of resources before they run out.

Colonies are mini cities that you can actually build in and trade resources with. They're used for getting more resources from other locations after you run out in your main city. They are essentially resource depots. You can also shuttle your populations between them if you need more workers in the colony vs city.

I don't like or hate the Outposts and Settlements, but I COMPLETELY adore Colonies. They are the most enjoyable aspect of the game by far.

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I'm not even going to bother explaining resources because I'm simply too dumb to. I don't hate the new system but I hate the resource balance and how buildings are required if you want to not immediately fall apart.

I will say this though. Heatstamps are required for every building and district in the game. You gain them passively from people living in the city, and this number can be increased by producing ample amounts of goods. It is the worst "addition" as it literally is just there to impede progress. It is similar to the hospital death spiral in FP1. If you go into a deficit while not having enough goods and you can't get heatstamps quick enough, its game over. I found that 230 weeks in.

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That is all I can remember of what I would personally like to completely forget. I would add more but I've largely forgotten and will not be relaunching until at least the first patch. I don't hate this because it's different or new. I did like the outposts, but thats it.

The best game I can compare this to in recent memory is Sins of a Solar Empire II. The planetary buildings and poor resource collection is very similar to Frostpunk II in my opinion.

Game is definitely amazing, but will only appeal to the few rather than the many.

Modern computers are too good to run this now. Community patches/mods are the only way to enjoy this relic. I just discovered I can't even use save games due to "compression errors", don't understand what that means or how I can't load a file.

If your players can't run it, you shouldn't be selling it.