Machinefall

very first mission, bugs attack. You're told to defend but not how. The only instruction so far is how to move units. Everything just walks through walls. Can't controll or retreat the workers. Bug creatures and workers seem to ignore each other. Walls might as well be ghosts. No idea how to man turrets or even line soldiers up at the wall without them just walking through it. Very first mission shows more bugs then actual enemy bugs, what a mess. This is a genre I love, I would have loved this game if it was anywhere near playable. This was a 5 minute refund sadly.

This game is not release ready, in game functions dont work. the grouping of cities in the game is ridiculous, small amounts of housing areas result in micromanagement of insane levels. things get patched, other things break, very doubtful theres much testing going on. Workers can use "backpacks" yet they still only carry one thing at a time when doing any job. certain areas will have lots of housing yet the small range of the ai that will auto assign jobs restricts this. construction camps can build in an area that the ai will not actually use. what ends up happening is you relocating workers to areas that then die because the enemies will bypass walls/rivers/mountains, ignoring the multiple defenses shooting at them and beeline straight for the workers, which will equip themselves with weapons but wont use them. when building said defenses it will auto assign a worker to a defense tower to man the tower before its built. if its out of range of a city it will not build. if theres not enough workers, it wont build, they will stand out there and die before building a tower. you wind up with hundreds of units grouped up in cities not doing anything but taking up resources in the game…

Overall a good game, but it'd be a disservice to say it's finished or fully playable mid game. With the pathing issues, there will be multiple times where I have a selected group of units and only a few (or sometimes none) will be able to move from their previous work place, causing a lot of the workforce to be stuck in limbo of moving to a new area and doing their already assigned. Also units will sometimes get locked inside buildings close towns, which one or two is no problem, but when you have multiple cities it can get tedious to have to slowly creep all your units out of towns. Also with barges they cannot path out of more intricate paths and require more guidance. I've only had one bug that has caused me to start over and it's exclusively happened in the scenario mode where all enemies will stop moving and this is usually paired with a construction glitch that won't allow units to build. This has happened both times reaching the waste management stage of the game. The UI needs a few more variants of things such as which buildings to highlight so the screen doesn't become too cluttered and the trade route selection screen needs to highlight where they are as well as make t…

This is a refreshing new form of RTS and economics, fun game! Very much its own breed. Excited for the future!

The game is not finished. I would not recommend buying until it gets updates. The game cannot keep track of the number of units it allows when using certain transport units. Units inside zeppelins can go missing completely when transitioning between world view and regional view. Nukes completely break the game balance and give you the win. The game wants you to kill objectives around the globe but doesn't handle late game well, just nuke nests to win. Islands are completely unbalanced. Once taken over enemies do not spawn there and have no means of attacking. Game pushes you to turtle on an island and just nuke nests. There is no reason to not start in Japan. My biggest complaint is the lack of ability to manage more than one unit's backpack at a time. Dumping arrows for ammo or ammo for grenades is a monumental chore. I would also like to tell units exactly what they can resupply their pack with without having to gut the inventory of a building.

Its fun