Strain Tactics

This is by far the rarest gem in Steam Store. It is an RTS game with complex mechanics yet with easy controls. It's always a great fun to boot this up an replay the campaign.

I want to play this more. I want to love it more, but the controls. You somehow made an RTS with tank controls. It's not as bad as Zomboid, but man. It's a good game but the controls hurt it for me

If I had just one word to describe this game, it would be "clunky" Its not just because of the mobile-derived interface that has your mouse constantly ping-ponging between every edge of the screen just to achieve basic gameplay tasks. as many others have mentioned, rather, there is an overall feeling of discontinuity felt in several areas that makes the game feel cumbersome to play. Here are just some of the things that make the game feel just straight up unpolished and bad: Even within the first mission its clear that the game's sandbox is bloated with a number of redundant consumable items, there are at least a dozen whose only feature is healing a small amount (something which is already free in your helicopter that you can retreat to at any time), serving only to take up space. Lines of sight are utterly unclear. I honestly cant even tell if this game uses a fog of war system, room-based vision, or traditional vision cones as there is little visual distinction between visible and obscured terrain. There are zero tooltips for items on the ground, you have to pick them up to see what they are. A lot of basic information throughout the game is either completely with…

goated game

I like the game as a whole, but it has not the biggest, but EXTREMELY annoying disadvantages, because of which I cannot recommend it. - the game has HUGE problems correctly registering a successfully completed mission, very often it turned out that the completed mission was not marked "completed" on the map after its completion. - the game also has problems marking the completion of goals on the mission itself, for example, in the "Neurocity" mission there is a goal to "keep the hostage alive" (which is not rewarded in any way, which is also a common problem in the game), which is not marked as "completed" even if the hostage survived after the Cyborg was eliminated. - there is no way to change the behavior of units when encountering infected neutral units, or infecting allied units. They immediately open fire on them, which often leads to mission failure. - separation of stores on the main base and stores on the mission, which is quite inconvenient. it seems to me that the best thing would be to make sure that after the successful completion of the mission, the contents of the stores and cryocapsules from this mission are added to the stores at the main base. - it would also be de…

Yuppers, F all for a wiki/solid info. Gotta learn stuff ya self/find SOMEONE that knows anything. Like other folks, Door kickers comes to mind. Story? it has it and Lore but like the wiki comment not much is out their, gotta learn it on ya own. Combat? Strain, Humanoids, and Robotic foes. Want a AC-130? you got that in a Heli-Base. People are people in this, they WILL panic/do things you don't tell them at times/often. IE ordering some one to run into death, they will attempt to but probably end up backing up while shooting. Robots follow orders to a T "mostly" issue? You can't revive a robot or gain skill, and some are harder to "heal" repair. Keep in mind this review was made YEARS and YEARS after I first played it, and only replayed it for a week or two upon this review. Thank you for ya time if you read this far.