Vigilantes

combat is not rewarding enough, too slow. enemies take too long to take action, and you gotta wait for ALL of them to move. ALL of them ! at one point, i started listening to a video in the backgrount to break the tedium... i almost gave up on this game at around 4 hrs mark. again at 12 hrs mark. then decided to call it quits. it's not a bad game per se, there are some really cool elements in there (the gangs, the setting, some humor here and there), but would i recommend this to someone ? no.

Basically everything this review said: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198001914453/recommended/545600/ It's got the *framework* of a good game but the AI is just incredibly dumb, and consequently the tactics are also just tedious and require nothing of the player. Then you do basically the same boring fight over and over again. Maybe something changes later and it gets more interesting, but the last straw for me was on the fifteenth identical no-effort fight the game also crashed. If it was the only game I had available I would play it more, but there's plenty of better games waiting to be played; this one doesn't merit my time, or yours. Any of the XComs (including the ancient ones) does it better, and if you've already played all of those to death, it would still make more sense to play one of them again than to play this. (Or, play "I Am Not A Monster: First Contact" which is truly great.) Oh yeah, also the UI is not great, it uses both mouse buttons in a not-intuitive way with note visual indication of what each button will do, and when you do a "shoot" action there's a painfully slow animation that's often playing off-screen so you can barely tell that your click e…

Ultimately quite a satisfying experience. Five hours in I was leaning towards a negative review due to slightly unclear map/base building UI and tedious progression. However, after a few hours more the gameplay loop became quite addicting as you gain better equipment and level up the characters. Weapons can be improved with crafting, but it is tedious and I would have just preferred more variety and unique weapons/loot. You can make very efficient builds based on compounding effects from gaining AP from kills, but there is no need to optimize much, since the AI is quite stupid and mostly rushes you over barren terrain. Overwatch-focused ranged party was an obvious choice and worked like a charm everywhere, including boss fights. If in doubt, wait for sale.

Just finished my second run. I love the grittiness and world-building that accompanies your team's attempt to clean up the streets. The combat is good, although it tends to reward turtling and waiting for the enemy to approach you. I always prefer AP based systems, rather than "1 action and 1 move" per turn systems, and this one allows for lots of strategic decisions in terms of your loadout and how you want to balance more accurate but AP intensive shots vs less accurate hip firing. I also made extensive use of overwatch, and appreciated that you could set a CtH threshold so that you didn't waste shots on enemies that were too far away to hit. The skill system was well implemented, allowing you to spend points when levelling, but also gain skills through using the underlying abilities. I tried building my team in different ways, but there are definitely some perks that I applied to my entire combat team, like one that heals your character for 10% of their health when defeating an enemy, or any that boost AP. Playing this again made me really excited for Prometheus Wept, by the same developer, which I have purchased but not yet played. I have been reading the dev logs fo…

Ok game, not superb, however it is balanced and system makes sense. I enjoyed some tactic elements, modifications, crafting and base building

I dont even have this game!