Prototypers

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"Prototypers" is certainly an amazing looking RTS but unfortunately the slick visuals aren't met with an equally slick gameplay design... making me wonder if this is a student project or something. What do you do in the game? Well it's an action RTS and it plays okay initially, but you'll quickly find the AI has serious problems, and the game has some of the shoddiest balance I've seen. The thing about RTS games is not mastering the technology to create them, really, RTS games tend to have very simple technical implementations (small maps, just a bunch of units on mostly 2D planes). But they do have to be meticulously polished and balanced so they can be viable vessels for E-sports, or just a good fun campaign like Starcraft. That's not happening here. The graphics in this game are really quite good, which at least makes the game look more appealing. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. Insultingly, the developer insists that you should play this …

[h1]Before I played Prototypers, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

That sure was a prototype alright. My experience was, hold the "target/attack" button and point at enemies, collect the money they drop to make more units, and repeat until you finally blow up the enemy base. 6 or 7 missions with different landscapes, but still doing the same thing. It seems like there might have been supposed to be more mechanics/strategy to do, based on reading the other reviews and looking at the videos, but I didn't experience that. It's really good looking though and it was fun to amass big armies I encountered two issues: - Steam told me the game needed to have a VR headset, and it crashed after launching, but it worked after I did the download_depot trick - Level 4 has a bug where an invisible impassable wall/area insta-kills any unit that walks into it, so you can't progress, but I was able to just hit the "Next mission" button

you should add some AI soldiers so that you can do one thing and they can do another thing just to make it fair because the enemy AI can send a army to to every single spot about to go/attack but still is still good

There is no tutorial to how to play this game, Not recommended