The current date is May 22nd, 2024. This Capsule will be 'opened' and revisited on May 22nd, 2029

What is this?

This is the 'time capsule'. A way for users of the subreddit to digitally write down their own thoughts and ideas of what gaming might look like in five years time. When the five years are up, the time capsule is then posted on to the subreddit so people can see what types of predictions people had about gaming half a decade later. It's a fun way to 'write messages to people in the future', and to have a look at the past.

What are your expectations for gaming in the year 2029? What types of predictions do you have, what messages for people five years from now? Some things to keep in mind:

• The consoles as of now mainly consist of the Playstation 5, Xbox Series X, and the Nintendo Switch (with its successor planned to be announced later this year). There's also 'lite' variants of the Series X and Switch.

• The Nintendo Switch in March 2017 (seven years ago) The PS5 and Xbox Series X in November 2020 (three and a half years ago).

• In the last few years Microsoft has acquired ZeniMax Media (Bethesda) and Activision Blizzard, whilst Sony has acquired Bungie.

Some questions/notes to give you some ideas:

• When will the next Playstation and Xbox consoles release?

• Will Sony or Microsoft try to direct with the Nintendo Switches form factor (Portable or docked)? If so, will that release within the next five years?

• Are there any titles that were announced in the past few years that you think still would not have been released in five years time?

• How many franchises that are active today will have begun to fade?

Then there's the state of gaming:

• How will monetization evolve in the gaming industry in five years? What MTX practices will grow, and what MTX practices will fade? Will $70 (USD) games be the norm?

• How will the industry look, in terms of acquisitions, downsizing, and mergers? Will the current big players in gaming grow, stay relatively the same size, or shrink?

• Will VR become more popular and accessible? Will AR?

• Where do you think game companies that are popular today will be in five years?

Anyone here still play video games? Like PlayStation 5 or Xbox x or the Nintendo switch? Or even PC games on steam?

So Square Enix has created two games with extensive critical acclaim (a scroll through metacritic shows that they're adores by critics) that are PS5 excuses.

However Polygon () has excluded both of them from their list of PS5 games to play.

I don't really follow video game sites much, but was shocked to see them excluded while looking at the list for new games to play. Did I miss something?

Having played both (and many other games on the list,), I would have thought at least FF7 R should be on there.

With all the talk of this game needing to sell more, it's a shame it's not on this list.

Edit/update: I'm not saying I'm upset or bothered they're not on the lists, I was just surprised they are not and was curious to see why. Thanks everyone for sharing your perspectives.

** Since so many people have been asking about this on a daily basis I decided to repost this method that I had deleted several weeks ago when the method was patched, but it is working again now, hopefully we can get this pinned and I'll keep it updated as best I can **

• XP method: AFK

• Maps/Game modes available on: Festival Main Stage (No Fill) (also works on Jam Stage but out of consideration for other players it's recommended to do it in a solo environment)

• Daily XP Maximum: 420,000

• XP earning rate: 30,000 XP per 15 minutes (maximum earned within 3 1/2 hours)

• Daily XP reset time: 10AM ET (or, the same time as daily match quests reset)

• Known bugs/glitches:

  1. Intermittently appears to get no XP, to avoid this, check to see if you didn't receive any XP after the first 16 mins, if not return to the lobby and then log back into Festival

  2. Intermittently appears to give excessive XP (I've experienced and also heard of people getting between 480,000 and over 520,000 XP in a single session for no rhyme or reason. (finally a bug that is a W!)

• [] Steps involved:

1. Load into Festival Main Stage (No Fill) (Do not choose any songs nor select "ready up" from the menu, just remain in the backstage area)

2. Perform one of the two following tasks:

• A) For Xbox, Switch and PC controller users:

• Turn both analog sticks inward towards each other which will cause your character to run in circles, then, using a rubber band, string, or a cable, secure both analog sticks so as to maintain movement persistently. (For Xbox users especially: Since there is no setting to prevent your controller from automatically going to sleep, connect the controller to your console using a USB data cable (a charging only cable may not work). You may also need to do this if using an Xbox controller on PC.

• B) For PlayStation 4 and 5 Users only:

• Perform the same task as in step A, but instead of securing analog sticks, while holding them inward and walking in a circle, on PS5 tap the PlayStation button, which will bring up the bottom menu or on PS4 press and hold the PlayStation button until the quick menu comes up and then release it. Your character on screen should continue to walk in a circle so long as you leave that menu up.

• I know I had previously posted this method and then deleted it when it was patched about 30 days ago, but recently was awesome enough to alert the community that it was working once again around the time when Epic implemented the XP boost for BR.

Hi guys,

I’m looking for some advice on buying a sim racing setup as a birthday present for my boyfriend. He’s been a huge F1 fan for the past two years, watches every race, and loves playing the F1 game on his PlayStation 5. I don’t know much about sim racing gear, so any advice or recommendations from this community would be greatly appreciated!

What he currently has:

• PlayStation 5

• F1 Game

• TV which he connects the PS5 to

• Decent-sized monitor setup *Photos attached - not sure if helps*

What I’m looking for:

• Budget: <$1000 for the entire setup. I’m thinking about starting without a full cockpit to stay within budget. Obviously, I don’t know much about this, so let me know if my budget is unreasonable or if I need to adjust my expectations.

• Components: What’s the most important element to spend the majority of the budget on? Are a shifter and handbrake necessary to buy, or can they be added later? Is a cockpit necessary or can he use his chair/sofa right now

• Brands/Models: Are there any popular brands/models (I only know about Logitech) that offer the best value and are most compatible with the PS5?

I really want this to be a special gift that he’ll love and get a lot of use out of. Thank you all in advance for your help and recommendations!

I've already made a similar post on this, but after a small breather away from Nioh 2 I went back into it, and it might be my second favourite game ever (I doubt my favourite is ever being beaten) but it's scary how much this game gets right, and how little attention and acclaim it recieved from the press (it got good reviews to my knowledge, but almost no hype). Unfortunately I think big game reviewers are forced to finish and review games in such a short period of time, that it's almost impossible to really get the full picture of every detail and mechanic of this enormous game and why everything works so well.

It seriously reminds me of a mid-year PlayStation 2 game with how it prioritises player fun and engagement over everything else. I try to get into a lot of different modern video games but too many of them feel floaty, unresponsive and have a low skill ceiling to appeal to the mass. Nioh 2 goes in the opposite direction, and still manages to be one of the most accessible "difficult" games on the market. I think most people can finish this game, even if it does lack accessibility features that it should ideally have like colour blind mode (things definitely get hard to see sometimes, worse so in Wo Long I found) and one-handed play that some modern games have invented. At least you can actually pause this one!

The combat is so good, I could talk all day about it. The stance system is a natural way of letting us fight enemies and also giving us an enormous moveset for every one of the amazing weapons, it does this without having one of those annoying "rock-paper-scissors" systems that actively force you to use the "correct" way of playing. This is reflective of most of the game's design - the player isn't told how to play correctly, no map markers, pop-up tutorials, forced stealth sections etc, they already KNOW how they CHOOSE to play thanks to the way each mechanic incentivises personal usage and discrepancy without being overbearing and patronising. The actual meat of the combat is how cathartic the movement and attacking feels. Especially on a PlayStation 5 controller, this game feels like a treat to play - and your characyer actually listens to your inputs.

The story is far more than the "serviceable" affair critics gave it in my opinion. I found myself actually getting invested in it, from the chill and vibey start to the more sad and bittersweet end, it has a fantastic and natural shift of tone and it retained me far more than most big video game stories. The DLCs are fantastic too, though I would've liked to see more of the Tengu's Disciple as that felt a little short on story and ended what felt like half way through the final mission. Anyway, it clearly did something right as I'm still thinking about Hidechiyo, Tokichiro, Mumyo, Nobunaga, Otakemaru and so many others even after beating the game multiple times, which is more than can be said for most TV shows, movies and video games.

Boss and enemy design is fantastic, aside from the ones I don't like to fight (which I can count on my fingers) I think they all do a fantastic job of culminating the amazingly designed and wonderfully varied levels. They all look so cool too, and sometimes adorable. I love the way the game uses colour to make enemies and environments pop out at you. Games often suffer from "where-is-the-enemy-that's-hitting-me-itus" but they really stand out in the environments in Nioh 2 I find. The environments are so gorgeous too. I wish we got one or two more areas on the level of Byodo-in, Distant Dream or Palace of the Damned, but they are all presented in fantastic art and visual design and feel just the right amount of labyrinthine.

The mechanics are the meat of this game. Everything flows together so amazingly, and it you never feel interrupted by mandatory mechanics or forced sections - and it's so deep that I'm still discovering things hundreds of hours later. I just love everything about this game, AAAAAAAAAARGH!

Anyway to bring this rant to a close, I really want Nioh 3! Please please please please please please. Please.

10/10

Hi guys,

I’m looking for some advice on buying a sim racing setup as a birthday present for my boyfriend. He’s been a huge F1 fan for the past two years, watches every race, and loves playing the F1 game on his PlayStation 5. I don’t know much about sim racing gear, so any advice or recommendations from this community would be greatly appreciated!

What he currently has:

• PlayStation 5

• F1 Game

• TV which he connects the PS5 to

• Decent-sized monitor setup *Photos attached - not sure if helps*

What I’m looking for:

• Budget: <$1000 for the entire setup. I’m thinking about starting without a full cockpit to stay within budget. Obviously, I don’t know much about this, so let me know if my budget is unreasonable or if I need to adjust my expectations.

• Components: What’s the most important element to spend the majority of the budget on? Are a shifter and handbrake necessary to buy, or can they be added later? Is a cockpit necessary or can he use his chair/sofa right now

• Brands/Models: Are there any popular brands/models (I only know about Logitech) that offer the best value and are most compatible with the PS5?

I really want this to be a special gift that he’ll love and get a lot of use out of. Thank you all in advance for your help and recommendations!

I've asked here before, maybe twice before, but that didn't get anywhere. This time I've provided an even better recreation from a YouTube video:

I animated that, trying to match the graphics with a mix of what I remember and what I'd assume it actually looked like, plus filters for what a game recording of it might've looked like, idk. There might've been a GUI, but I don't remember that at all.

Platform: I played this on a Windows 98 computer, maybe online. With it being online that kind of opens the door a lot. I've previously searched through archives and lists of games, but I haven't found it.

Genre: It was an adventure game of some sort. I think I controlled the character with the arrow keys and was confused by the directions it went. I remember walking through the corridors, but not too much what the gameplay exactly was. I know it was intriguing though.

Release Date: I'm not sure. I played it around 2001-2003. I recalled my older sibling introducing the game to me, but they don't recognize the game.

Graphics/ Art Style: The graphics were definitely crusty, probably prerendered. Maybe the Main character was a small 3D model rendered in game, but I imagine it would've been simpler for the main character to be prerendered like the backgrounds and other objects. I tried to capture that idea in my animation, but I didn't want to put the effort into actually prerendering the graphics. I feel as though the Anubis statue and the main character might've been more detailed, but I didn't want to detail them more.

Notable Characters: There was the Adventurer character who vaguely looked like what I presented, but it might've been a more tan suit, and the pants might've gone all the way down instead of having boots over them. There was also a statue of Anubis or some monster guarding doors. But they were always doors I couldn't get to. They were across the void.

Notable gameplay mechanics: I feel as though there were bats that could hurt you, along with a floor that would crumble beneath you. There might've been snakes and arrows that shot out of the wall. I think the snakes were hard to see. Same with the bats.

Other Details:

And of course, the doors that were across the void I couldn't get to. Maybe my sibling had played earlier and now those paths weren't available, I don't know. I recall asking about it, like "Why would they put pathways and doors in places you can't get to? How do I get there?" And my older sibling would just shrug it off. But of course, they don't even remember the game lol.

Some people have insisted it was actually an NES game or city building game, but no... I didn't have an NES, and it was definitely not a city builder.

I played this on our family Windows 98 computer. My sibling was the one who first found it and opened it. I might've asked for the website once and opened it there a few times myself, but I eventually forgot and lost what that was. If it was a website.

It might've gone into full screen or just been a new window. I get this feeling that I would click the link on the website and it would launch the game. I think it was just one of many games on the website. Not a full MMO or whatever.

If my memory of the website is correct, it just had a white background with a list of games to play, this being the most fun one it had, while the others were lame puzzle games.

When bringing this up with my sibling, they said they remembered an egyptian style game, but not this, rather it was Charmer. Which was a game I forgot about, but I did play that as well.

Another suggestion they gave was that the website could've been crayola and it was a game from there, but I couldn't find anything on that.

If I make a new post in the future, not only would I expand the gameplay animation, which, I don't think I have much to add, but there is the second door, then I'd also animate like the website to give an idea of that.

Further context: I was around 4-5 when I played this game. Basically, around when I was going to preschool. Maybe a bit older, but not too much older. My family only had a Windows 98 computer, we didn't have any consoles or older software. There wasn't an NES or an Amiga or whatever. Later, we did get 2 XPs. One family one and one just for my older sibling as they loved computer games. I did too, but I was younger. And even when I did get to my older sibling's age when they got their first computer, my parents didn't get me my own, despite the fact I was constantly on the family computer. They probably didn't have money.

We later had a knock off console, the Zone, which was a knock off of the wii with Atari graphics and awful games. Not worth looking into. Then we had a Nintendo DS when I was around 9 or 10. It wasn't until I was in high school I got my own laptop. Anyway, yeah

This is just to reiterate that it probably wasn't an NES, Amiga, or Comodore 64 game. Nor would it have been a Playstation 2 game. My neighbor did have a PlayStation 2, but he only had wrestling games and a snow boarding game. Plus, he'd only invite my twin sister over, not me, mostly.

Previous Suggestions:
Challenge of Empires (Platformer with vastly different art style)
God of War (This is a different genre)
Secrets of the Pyramid (Right vibes, but this is a point and click game without isometric backgrounds)
Knight Lore (Very different art style, wrong time period)
Egypt Dungeon Escape (This is a point and click mystery game with toony graphics. The game I'm looking for, while potentially having point and click mechanics for movement, played very differently)
Dark Secrets of Africa (Best suggestion so far in terms of looks, but too big of a world)
Prince of Persia (The game I'm looking for isn't a platformer, plus it ran on Windows 98)
Scarab of Ra (Wrong art style, and more of a pseudo 3D grid maze text game.)
Entombed (Comodore 64)
Curse: The Eye of Isis (This is a full 3D game, which isn't what I'm looking for.)
I Have no Mouth and I must Scream (Ellen's Portion) (This has cutscenes and the art style doesn't fit)
Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Right angle, the game might've looked like it, but clearly not this game)
The Mummy Online (This one has full 3-D graphics, definitely the wrong art style.)
Heimdall (This is an amiga game, and it's the wrong art style)
Cadaver (Ditto to above)
The Pharaoh's Tomb (Best suggestion in terms of gameplay, wrong art style, and wrong time period)
Ultima VIII (Too Big of a world, too much freedom of movement. Plus, doesn't look right to me)
Egyptia (It's a puzzle game with a 3D or bird's eye perspective)
Captain Salve and the Secrets of the Pyramid (Not much info, I'll look into it more)
Ankh (Full 3D game)
Rich Diamond (Too Zoomed out)
Solstice (NES, not the right style, too big of a game)
Mummy Maze Deluxe (Top Down)
K-Mart Haunted house (Too toony, plus other characters)
Little Big Adventure (Too Wide out and full of a game, but I'll look into it more)
Mystic Towers (Wrong Perspective)
Immortal (Wrong System)
Pokemon Gen 3 gym 5 (I haven't played that game, but no)
Crypt Raider (Purely 2D game)

Previous recreation images:

Recently got back to gaming after long break, too much real life obligations. These days just a casual gamer, got back to it after my kids wanted a Playstation and I just joined PS+. Played gods of war ragnarok, really loved it. Ghost of tsushima, amazing game. Horizon zero dawn. Then followed up with some ubisoft games. Last farcry i played was 4, so tried 6...really tried to like it but can't. Farcry 5 much better overall, but I rage quit after getting captured in the dream sequence for the nth time. Never played ac games before, and I tried ac odyssey, thoroughly enjoyed it, even splurged on the dlc. Then tried origins, loved the Egyptian setting, mechanics not as polished as odyssey, but still really enjoyed it.

After some break from ubisoft and tried rdr2, I gave Valhalla a try. After few hours, I am not enjoying the game... The world is really dull looking / in a lot of ways, uglier than odyssey. Not really impressed with the mechanics. Does the game change much or visually it's just bleak / gray looking for the rest of the game? It was very fun climbing buildings, finding artifacts, and exploring in origins and odyssey...does the world get more interesting? As for the story, I'm not even really sure it's engaging so far... Thanks.

There is an opportunity here to post a Feedback Survey and have your customers and fans provide their feedback in a format which is easier to analyse to help identify root causes and make informed decisions moving forward. It’s good stakeholder engagement and analysis practice.

The FIG backer survey was okay, but I think it’s questionable if the feedback was used based on the fan feedback regarding the game across multiple fronts. For transparency, once it has been analysed and used internally, it is good to share the feedback with the fans so they can see it for themselves.

Ensure the survey is ‘selection’ and ‘checkbox’ based for analytics purposes that can be used in tools like PowerBI or Tableau for example. And for Free Text feedback relating to the survey questions, have them submitted via a specific forum with HW3 SURVEY category. Leave the Survey open for enough time that you capture a sufficient number of customer responses.

Examples of Questions:

This survey is specifically for customers who have purchased and played Homeworld 3

• How many hours have you played HW3

• To help us understand your prior homeworld experience, select the Homeworld related games you have played prior to Homeworld 3. (Use Survey logic for next question)

o Homeworld (Original Release)

o Homeworld Cataclysm

o Homeworld 2

o Homeworld 1 Remastered

o Homeworld 2 Remastered

o Deserts of Kharak

o Homeworld Mobile

o Homeworld: Vast Reaches

o Homeworld 3 is my first game from the series

• Please provide a rating between 1=Terrible to 10=Excellent of the previous Homeworld games you have played. (provides you the demographic of prior opinion/experience with the franchise and can be useful to categorise responses based on prior experience)

• Select what you have played (Use survey logic to take them to additional questions relevant to their selection) [checkbox]

o Campaign

o Wargame

o Quick Match

o Skirmish

• What game features were you looking forward to before Hw3 was released? (Use survey logic to take them to each category they selected) [checkbox]

o Campaign

o Wargames

o Quick Match

o Skirmish

o The ability to use Mods

• Campaign – Rate your satisfaction rating for each of the following 1=Very Satisfied, 2=Satisfied, 3=Neutral, 4=Dissatisfied, 5 Very dissatisfied

(Similar structured review for the other game types above)

o Graphics quality (Depends on their PC – might want to set some hardware questions prior to asking this question)

o Sound quality

o Game art

o Map designs

o Mission design

o Music

o Cinematics

o Gameplay - Performance

o Fleet Ship Options – Strike craft, Corvettes, Frigates, Capital Ships, Support etc.

o Fleet capacity – Ship Numbers

o Ship Models – Design

o Game speed

o Game controls

o Camera controls

o Cut scenes

o Game difficulty

o Storyline

o Antagonist – Tiaa’Ma

o Enemy – The Incarnate

o Protagonist – Imogen S’Jet

o Karen S’jet

o Issac Paktu

o Etc.

• Are there any features based on your experience with other HW games that you would have liked to see in HW3? (question based on survey logic above) [checkbox]

o Manual Hyperspace Jump at the end of each mission

o I want to finish collecting resources before I Hyperspace Jump

o Ship modules

o Ship sub systems e.g. engines, primary weapon etc.

o Ship/pilot/crew veteran rating

o Drone Frigates

o Marine Frigates

o Hammerhead Frigates

o Corvettes (list options)

o Cinematic animation between missions

o Progenitors

o Sajuuk

o Progenitor Dreadnoughts

o Other races

o Revisiting locations from previous games

o Etc.

• What are you looking forward to from the Road map that has been share to date?

o List Road map Items

• Are there other things you would like to see on the Road map?

o List what you think is relevant.

• What game platforms would you like to play Homeworld games on?

o PC

o VR

o Mobile (Phone)

o Mobile (Tablet)

o Playstation

o Xbox

o Nintendo Switch

o Other

The list of questions could go on and on obviously and can provide very valuable insight into what your customers have enjoyed/disliked so far and what they are hoping to see in the future.

If Customers and Fans are legitimately interested in sharing their feedback to help provide insight, they will spend the time to fill in a longer survey where the trolls often wont. Set the expectation that it is a X number of questions that will take approximately X amount of time to complete.

As a kid I remember watching my cousin play through Sly 1 at his house, but never having the opportunity to play the games myself (we were a Nintendo house until we got a PS4). These past few weeks though I was able to finally play all four games through PS5 emulations (brave, I know. Dealt with a lot of streaming hiccups but I powered through!) and I just wanted to give my thoughts on each game as a new-ish fan of the series.

SLY 1

Highlights:

• The platforming levels are amazing as well as the atmosphere of each level

• The soundtrack is also very good (I think Mesa City has my favorite tracks)

• I actually like the levels where you get to drive the van/use the hovercraft (I'm honestly surprised future games didn't let you drive the van)

Low Points:

• I really don't like Bentley in this first game. He's kinda obnoxious here tbh (and his hacking mini-game at the end sucks)

• The boss fights aren't the greatest. Mz. Ruby would be fun if the music wasn't desynced, Panda King is a joke, Mugshot wasn't fun, and Clockwerk is okay but they needed to add a checkpoint at the end or something because I did not want to have to do that boss like 10 times before I beat him

• I HATE the one-hit life system. It's why I can't play Crash Bandicoot, it genuinely is not fun to me

SLY 2

Highlights:

• Getting to play as the entire gang is fun

• The open-world/mission structure is a lot better than the first game's design

• Probably the most consistent story of the four games

Low Points:

• Any section where I have to use a turret sucks. The final boss took me over an hour and I genuinely despise it, despite the story payoff.

• I didn't care much for Neyla tbh. Her just becoming Clockwerk at the end wasn't very interesting.

• THE. FREAKING. WATER. BUG. MISSION. That's all I have to say.

Sly 3

Highlights:

• Having this game basically be an Ocean's Eleven heist is a cool concept to follow up on the story of the second game

• The airplane and pirate ship are both surprisingly fun to use

• The Cooper Vault gauntlet is hands-down the peak of platforming in this series

Low Points:

• This might be the weakest story imo. None of the villains connect to each other, and Dr. M should have been built up to more instead of him just dumping his backstory on you at the end of the game

• Screw the dragon boss fight in the China level. That was not a fun experience at all

• There are too many mini-game sections here for my liking and not enough pure Sly gameplay compared to the other games.

SLY 4

Highlights:

• This is my favorite game in terms of visuals and music. It looks like a Saturday morning cartoon come to life and I love it

• The gameplay is also very fun, with everyone being fun to control and unique environments for each time period you visit. It's the only game I actually went out of my way to get all of the treasures in, that's how fun it was for me to play and run around the open worlds

• I like getting to meet the Cooper ancestors and how the villains are all tied together like the Klaww Gang was in Sly 2

Low Points:

• Motion controls on a PlayStation controller are not fun to use, so screw that ball hacking mini-game

• I like that everyone has a wheel of gadgets/costumes to switch between, but the mechanic to switch between them is too clunky for my taste. Loading in general is an issue (even if the PS5 mitigated that somewhat)

• The ending gauntlet level is amazing, but the final boss could have been more than just some QTEs (especially since Le Paradox being an evil foil to Sly was pretty cool in concept) and I will be forever salty that Sony didn't let the devs make Sly 5 or at least wrap up the story with DLC because that cliffhanger is a mean one to leave the series on

So overall, if I had to rank the games from best to worst, I think I'd put them as:

Sly 2, Sly 4, Sly 1, Sly 3

I've heard it's a "hot take" to enjoy Sly 4, but I honestly had a lot of fun with the game as much as Sly 2. The real TL;DR of this is that I'm now officially a fan of the Sly Cooper series, and Sony seriously needs to give us a new game already!

Important Notes:

• I do my best to include every sale, but at the same time I focus sale with a noticeable price drop, meaning sales start with at least 20% and up. I usually skip anything below that unless it's a worth while title.

• Click on the price to visit the store page for that game.

• The end date of the sale isn't mentioned, you can check the store page to see it.

• All of these sales are based on the US store front, so some sales may not be available depending on your country.

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🟧 Playable: Means the game is Functional, but requires extra effort to interact with and configure .

"--" Unknown: Basically unconfirmed or still under-review.

~ General Recommendations (All Consoles) For Anyone Who Can't Decide ~

First off, I won't recommend big or famous games like Final Fantasy or Persona, this is more for lesser know, hidden gems, or just games where it's hard to find someone talking about them.

[Valkyria Chronicles]

[Valkyria Chronicles 4]

This one is really hard to explain through words alone, but just in case, the VC series is a World War 2 military setting story, where you act as the lead of a squad and take mission to drive back the enemy. The story is drama heavy and the gameplay is tactical turn-based, but it's mixed with real-time third person shooter.

You can also make your own army by recruiting different types of solders, training them and upgrading their gear. From rifles to tanks, this is a game you have to experience to understand.

[Fuga: Melodies of Steel 1 & 2]

Great game, great art style, and really well made and balanced turn-based combat. That alone is enough to get the game. Then you add the time-management part of the game, where you spend time upgrading the different tank rooms, cooking, exploring ruins, spending time to bond with other characters, and so on. It's also great if you want a game that you can play for an hour or 2 and then put down for later. As the game is played through stages, and once you're done with a stage, you get an intermission to do what you want and come back to it later.

It's not a long game (compared to the usual JRPG), as you mentioned, it's about 20 hours. Story-wise I think it was a bit too short. Gameplay wise it was great fit, because it didn't outstay it's welcome, and it ends when you feel you have mastered the gameplay and want to face the final challenge.

The story is good, but isn't the focus. Gameplay is the main focus. In fact you'll feel that a lot of context isn't told in the story, but instead left for you to either read about in the in-game wiki or just figure out through obvious clues in the story.

There is a big mechanic that this meant to put a lot of pressure on your playthrough (don't worry about it being spoiled because it's literally explained in the first hour of the game). The thing is though, if you have experience in JRPGs or just play in a really well thought out and relaxed manner, then that mechanic might not be as big a deal as they make it seem to be. Yet it's still fun nonetheless.

Fuga 2 is even better. It fixes a lot of the minor issues the first game had, and what's really great, is it improved the "big pressure" mechanic I talked about, and now it actually is a big deal. Then add to that so much little new mechanics added that just makes for a much more fun and challenging game. The 2nd game also continues the same story.

[Ni no Kuni] Series

If you're looking for that great Isekai fantasy adventure feel, then these two games are where it's at. Fantastic visuals and great music, coupled with a great art style, a combo that is perfect for a chill and relaxed gaming experience. Especially when talking about the first game, with the help ofStudio Ghibli, they managed to make a truly whimsical world with that Studio Ghibli classic touch.

- Important Note: The games aren't connected story-wise, so you can start with any of them -

[Wrath of the White Witch]

For a the best fantasy adventure feel, while the combat is a hit or miss depending on your taste, don't let that stop you from actually diving into a true fairy tale world, this is the one with the better story in my opinion, so if you want more story than game, this is for you. Still it has a good share of gameplay, from raising and collecting Pokemon-like monsters, to learning and using different spells, not just in combat but for the overworld too.

[Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom]

This one focuses more on gameplay, with a Kingdom builder, Army battles, Heavy loot focus, and even character collector, this is the one to go with if you want more game than story. Still has the great music and he fantastical art style and setting. Add to that a lot of side activities like beating rare monsters, collecting cute creatures to help you in battle, and even going around the world to gather people to help you build your kingdom. You'll never be short on things to do.

Finally, both of them have beautifully draw world that is just a pleasure to walkthrough, made even better with the amazing orchestral soundtrack.

[Star Ocean The Second Story R]

The original PS1 game was already an amazing JRPG and a classic. But this remake takes it to go even further beyond SSJ3. It should be the standard on how to make a faithful remake on of a classic title.

I don't want to overhype it more than I already did. So to keep this short, this remake does so much:

• All major story events are now fully voice acted. This includes a lot of the private actions too.

• Fully redone and better translation of the game.

• New Character to recruit to the party.

• New Private Actions and 13 new Endings.

• New character portraits, not just for the main cast, but also for many other characters.

• A complete rework for the battle system to be up to modern standards.

• So many QoL features:

• Auto-saving

• Fast-forward cut-scenes or skip them.

• Text log

• All difficulties can be accessed from the start

• Fast travel

• 3 different voice dubbing options to choose from (New English, Original Japanese, New Japanese)

• Your choice of different art styles

• Choose between original OST and new rearranged OST.

• No random battles anymore, as enemies can be seen and avoided

And believe me when I say I still haven't touched half of the amazing work that has gone into this remake.

[Sword and Fairy 7: Together Forever]

They did a great job with the presentation of the game. Great voice acting (Chinese), great graphics, amazing music, and an impressive attention to details of the world and it's lore, especially the engineering of the buildings and their decor. Then you have the really beautiful design of each piece of gear, and even just normal attire of each NPC and the disciples of each sect or soldiers of each of the different of each plane (gods, humans, demons).

Then we go to how great looking the monsters and local flora and fauna of each realm. You can feel the intense work that has gone into making and animating each of them. It really is a joy to watch them, as much as it is to watch each environment you see them in. There really isn't enough time to talk about how good the presentation is.

As for the story. First off, I am not an expert in Chinese novels mythology, but I am a big fan of Xianxia and Wuxia novels. So when I say that the story is...good but nothing great, I am saying this as more than just a JRPG fan, but also someone who is very into this type of world and Chinese martial arts fantasy setting. it's nothing that will stick in your mind, apart from the events that take place in some of the beautiful set pieces in the game, or the cut-scenes with beautiful action cheoragphy.

The gameplay is also about average. The side-quests are fun and are worth doing if nothing more than for learning more about the lore and the world. But the actual battles and action gameplay isn't as good as the best ones out there, but it's not bad. I have ran into some bugs, some small, some big, but that was when the game just came out, and it did receive a lot of patches since then. You can tell that they aimed to make a huge triple A production, but didn't have the time or manpower to test a game of this size. It's still fun to play and experience, but the level of gameplay is nowhere near the level of the presentation that the game gives the impression of having just from watching the gameplay or trailers.

If you enjoy walking through magical and fantastic looking JRPG worlds, or if you enjoy Xianxia/Wuxia fiction, then this is an easy choice. Hell even if you don't, it's still worth a go at this price.

[Blue Dragon] & [Lost Odyssey]

These two are classic titles that will probably won't be ported to or remade to modern consoles. That's why this might be the last way you'll ever get to experience 2 classic titles of the genre. Lost Odyssey has great story writing and unique character settings, and Blue Dragon has great exploration and a really fun character class customization system, and one hell of a boss theme.

[Monster Sanctuary]

This is a solid game, everything in is polished and balanced to make sure you are having fun collecting new monsters and customizing your team through evolution/skill trees/gear and making the best in-sync party you can. I only wish it was longer, it's not short by any means, but it's not long either. I would say depending on if you're trying to "catch them all" and explore everything and fight all bosses, this could easily be a 30+ hours game, but if you focus on the story, then it's about 20 to 30 hours. Now even longer with the 2 new free DLC expansion added.

Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining that it's short, but that I was having so much fun, that I wish it didn't end.

As always, please do add your own recommendations, and let me know if there is mistake or if something was missing, and have a nice day.

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eFootball gameplay seem to be going in a bad direction for the past months. To much AI defending/assistance/game balancing, game adding input lag, interceptions, poor passing, fouls not called for, hot potato football not rewarding any type of skillful play. The gameplay feels like its on rails, freedom is gone, players don't respond to your inputs and chances are created by either teams AI players mistakes or incredibly stupid runs. It's just not fun to play anymore. Neither online or vs AI.

eFootball could be fantastic if Konami would listen to ideas, criticism and improve. Here is my wishlist. Feedback based on me and the kids playing on PS4, PS5 and mobile. Offline and online.

1. Reduce the heavy AI assistance / game-balancing / handholding / Auto defending / Auto interception / Auto block / Dynamic Difficulty / momentum / whatchamacallit (scr...). I understand its for getting new players staying in the game, having a chance getting coins in the events and winning games. And perhaps make games more non-predictable "anything can happen, maybe". With the current AI handholding level its "anything will happen, constantly". So many chances are created by either teams AI players making mistakes or just making incredibly stupid runs, its like a badly scripted B-movie. The amount of goalpost hits and missed open goals is just silly currently, this goes on until the last few minutes of each match. Please reduce it, or even remove it from Co-op and other game modes where skill should be rewarded. I'd rather get smashed 15-0 and learn from a good player. Than having to play another game with: added input lag and your players turn, react with 0,5 sec delay / 1 team loses every header / 4 shots in goalpost / own goals / missed open goals from 2-3m consequently, instead you have to run the ball into goal!!! / hide n seek players with pass receiver running away from the ball positioning behind defender / every ball intercepted / misdirected passes / every pass straight to other team / passes goes through "invisible" player / player freezing or even running wrong direction vs your stick / opponent attacking with high punt or lofted pass but your defender running past the ball towards opposition goal / ball glued to opposite player in the box / every attempt clearing the ball goes short distance straight to other team, even goalie high punt / all stunning shots 3m over the goal before 85min + all the other crap that's in there. This gameplay on rails is so unrewarding. If I manage to do something skillfull the AI assistance just kills the opportunity with any means. When the AI assistance takes a break, I get an easy goal with no effort from a random through pass + tap in. Many times I can't tell if I am playing well or the game has decided I should win/lose, it kills the joy for me and it's just boring. If Konami could tone down all the weird punishments I'd be very grateful.

2. Passing and interceptions. Currently worst ever IMO. Game just decides your pass from a player in balance is 90-180 degrees of straight to opponent. Even on Beginner AI and no matter PA1, 2 or 3😂 And the constant interceptions. No flow in the game. Please work on this Konami.

3. Remove the artificial input-lag. (This is a controversial one, some players simply don't believe our experience it. For me it's obvious as it can be tested offline in several ways on PS5, on mobile I havent tried to confirm it) Stop punishing one side with artificial input lag which make the gameplay feel heavy, unresponsive and your players turn & react with 0,5 sec delay. This is not from server lag as it's there in AI matches and local Trial matches as well, just switch controller between team 1 & 2 and feel the difference. It might activate from beginning of game, or in 2nd half, usually when you are doing well. And vice versa it can dissapear in 2nd half. From my experience it can be reduced or removed by switching playstyle. When finding the right playstyle for that specific match, your players suddenly become responsive again, it can even happen after switching to lowest Manager profiency. I assume its part of the game balancing mechanics. For me this is one of the worst things in the current game, when it kicks in your players don't respond to inputs in time and gameplay just feels awful.

4. Fix the player freezing. Example: after losing a header to last defender suddenly your attacker just freezes. What's going on here? Have Konami added to much AI handholding and broken the game? 😂😂😂

5. Reward different playstyles like build up play. Currently most games seem to be high press, interception ping-pong, quick pass and no dribbles. Hot potato football. Holding the ball has become very difficult. Before the AI assistance and auto defending went berzerk, you could actually keep the ball for a second and do something creative. Without 3-5 guys surrounding your player with no options. Now the gameplay is boring with the lack of variety.

6. Create a game mode free from AI assistance & artificial input lag. Just pure skill. It could be beta, division free or whatever just let us play without the heavy AI handholding. And maybe eFootball will be esports ready 😉. To be honest if another football game is released without momentum/game-balancing /added input-lag and with gameplay based on pure skill. I think eFootball will lose a lot of players.

7. Add Dream team into Trial match. As Trial match is the only game mode which supports 2-4 local players on same screen using one Playstation. We have 2 kids who love the card collecting and building their team. But playing online is of no interest to them, and won't be in many years. They want to play local PvP or co-op with their own Dream team on the same screen from one Playstation. By now we are very tired of playing the same local play Trial match Argentina Vs PSG. The kids have almost stopped playing eFootball, since they cant play against each other with their own team.  In addition this would be a great way to test out new players, builds and game mechanics together with a friend. Much more fun than training mode. This mode is what my family is missing most from this game. And if it would be a "pure" mode without any momentum/game-balancing things would be fantastic. Just pure skill, best player wins.

8. Please add Dream team to Trial match local co-op Vs AI. As Trial match is the only game mode which supports 2-4 local players on same screen using one Playstation. Would be so much fun to test my Dream Team against the AI together with the kids or a friend on the couch beside you. Would love this mode if it would become available.

9. Add local co-op (one screen, one Playstation) to Events. Would be great if me and the kids could take on the events together from one Playstation. At least add it to the AI events. Then we would actually play them and not just sim them for GP and experience.

10. Myleague local and online co-op. Add both local co-op (one Playstation, same screen) and online co-op into Myleague please. A reason to play it and win the league together with the kids or friends 😀

11. Make My League worth playing. 100.000GP for completing 38 matches and winning the league is very poor IMO. Add some skill trainers, position trainers and raise the GP perhaps?

12. Add all Goal Scorers, Assists and Passes made to Half Time and Full Time game stats. So we can quickly get the overview of which player cards performed well in both teams. That information would be highly appreciated.

13. Contract renewal is way too expensive. Considering many players have paid plenty in real money to get the favourite players, and you only get to keep your player for 1 year. We are paying for this digital football Pokémon and we can't even use it as long as we would like. There should be more ways to get contract renewals, the periods should be longer, 3/6/9/12months and the price should be lower. Currently it's just irritating and another killing the fun factor.

14. Make each playstyle worth using. And reward playing different type of formations. Instead of everyone using META 4 defenders and no wingers/LMF/RMF.

15. Better & more expensive Point shop players. Can we please have some decent players? I'd gladly spend 50000-100000 pink points for a player if his stats are good. IMO there hasn't been an interesting player since Ferrer & Pires. Currently I don't see any use for points except contact renewal.

16. Remove the GP cost for player reset. Every reset period I only have time to retrain and test a few players. And then having to wait for 2-3 months and then stressing again for a few free weeks to retrain and test new builds. It doesn't make sense and is just another unnecessary annoyance from Konami. GP is too valuable for me, I use it for Legacy Transfer and Contract renewal, and the few occasional GP buys for Events or hidden gems. I enjoy training players and trying out new builds, if free it would keep me logging in even when there is nothing else to do in the game.

17. Reduce the cost for Legacy transfer. Getting your wanted skills and then transferring to your favourite player is one of the game aspects I really like. But 257,000 GP for one transfer is a lot and takes away much of the fun in Legacy transfer. You get 1 Mbappe for less than 2 Legacy transfer. I am always low on GP these days, and I think 100,000-150,000 GP would be reasonable for Legacy transfer for 1 skill.

18. Legacy transfer of skills to POTW cards. If we could add 1-2 skills to the POTW the cards would be more interesting and I'd spend more coins spinning. We would get more varied and unpredictable squads instead of everybody using the same players. Most players know the good cards, what to expect from opponents cards and how to counter. Lets say you add some strong passing or shooting skills to a player usually weak in that aspect. The unpredicability would be awesome!

19. Replace/delete added skills. Building players would be much more fun if I could replace a trained skill with another one using legacy transfer. Or just be able to delete an added skill. Perhaps my playstyle changes and I want Neymar to have Through passing instead of the previously added Long-range shooting.

20. GP an option for pack spins. But it shouldn't be easy.  Hard grind should be rewarded as it gives a reason to play the game.  I am thinking 7,5M GP you get 75 spins in a 150 pack. That takes perhaps 6 months to grind. And perhaps the remaining 75 spins is coins only. Lower thresholds like 10 spins för 1M GP would be great but I understand its not gonna happen, as it would hurt the coin sales.

21. Remove the 500 player cap or reduce cost of adding player slots. If you are grinding skill trainers with 0GP players and training players the 500 fills up quite easily. Or reduce the 500.000GP for an extra 50 players to maybe 100.000GP. This 500 player limit is very annoying and seems unnecessary.

22. Add skill trainers and position trainers to each match pass. Would make the Match Pass way more interesting and I would spend coins.

23. Make it worthwhile playing League / divisions. Currently I don't see much reason to play it. A few skill trainers and low GP reward can't motivate me spending the time. Add prices like Special unique cards, Kits, Avatars, POTW spins or something else to keep players motivated. This game needs special rewards!!

24. Find a way to prevent players from forfeiting games, at least events and co-op. Maybe if you are down a few goals sometimes add a random bonus like score with player X to receive 1 skill trainer, 10000 GP or something. Just to motivate players completing the match. Or create a non forfeit streak, like 10, 20 or 30 games without forfeit and you get an free extra POTW spin. (Credit: Part of this idea is from eFootball Universe Youtube)

25. 1st celebration should also be skippable. It's just time consuming in online games. Not adding any value to except maybe noobs who scored their first goal ever.

26. An option to make Sub tactic clearly visible in Game plan if activated. I played to many games now without knowing I had sub-tactic activated 😂

27. Matchmaking. This was good for a while after the matchmaking update, but not anymore. There must be something seriously wrong here. When playing in Division 9 to 7, we constantly get division 1-2 opponents in the events. Had top 120 and top 200 in a row even. 750M downloads and nobody else playing. Really?

28. The daily penalty needs an upgrade. Suggestion: More fun If I could choose player from my Dream Team. And add random Epic goalies to spice it up 😉

29. Add statistics of headers, penalties and free kicks scored on each player card. This would add value and make it more interesting building squads. Konami you have the data, use it!

30. More variety in Events. BBVA, Turkish, Brazilian Italian, English, Japan league. Over and over and over... Cmon Konami create something different so we can rotate our squads more. Suggestion: An event where only max 4 star players are allowed? Or higher GP rewards the weaker squad you use? (Credit: idea is partly from Rockchok Youtube)

31. More Beat the Clock type of events. Both me and the kids enjoyed this one. Create something similar for skill moves. Example: Perform 5 Double touch + 5 Marseille turn across pitch with fixed dummies or defending players. Or a sequence where you have to perform skill move x and y before scoring.

32. Objectives with extra bonuses. Add weekly objectives or similar. Score a hat-trick, win on penalties or score 5 times using skill move. And get some type of rewards, GP, Skill trainers, Position trainers, avatars, whatever just variety and something to play for.

33. Co-op events. So much potential but the gameplay on rails, AI assistance and the constant random AI punishments kills the fun for me. You feel almost instantly if the AI assistance is on your side or against you. Either everything goes your way and it's too easy or Epics can't make a simple pass, the input lag kicks in and your player is even dragged out of position so the other team can score. Every game feels pre-decided with almost every touch being a mistake or fumble by the team who is supposed to concede a goal. Or its 1 goal back and forth with short sequences where the conceeding team can't touch the ball. In my experience the AI assistance is at its worst in the Co-op games. Quite easy to spot as players regularly just drop the controller. And game continues to auto defend like prime AC Milan, the non-active player is forcefielded holding the ball, every ball in the box is magically sucked to defenders feet and passes and clearings going 90-180 degrees off straight to opponent. Recent example which has happened in several co-op games: Goalie makes several stupid run outs to a perfect 4 man defending line, leaving the net wide open. Changing goalie doesn't help. Same thing with 2nd goalie until opponent gets his 2 goals. Sorry but when my player, gameplay and result is controlled by AI instead of me and my teammate I lose interest.

34. Add 2nd local player to co-op online events. Why can't 2 players join the co-op events together from one Playstation? Me and the kids would play co-op events a lot if this was possbile.

35. Booster player forms. Wirtz card and several other are never on A-form. Whats the point of creating a booster card then? (credit: PES Pepe Youtube)

36. Communication. Info on gameplay changes in each update would be appreciated. Like before. (credit: PES Pepe Youtube)

37. Heavy first touch or fumble receiving the ball. +90 Ball control player cant receive a pass without starting to fumble or needing several seconds to gain control, then losing the ball, again and again and again. Does stats even matter when game balancing just decides anyway?

38. Don't launch Crossplay with mobile. I suspect the recent braindead heavy assisted gameplay is needed for upcoming crossplay console & mobile update. This might be what we are getting. Gameplay on rails, autodefend, no skill, unrewarding, boring. I hope I am wrong and the previous fun gameplay on console is not gone forever 😢.

39. Master League? Promised some years ago. I guess it does not generate enough coin sales?

40. Edit mode. Create a custom crest and kits for our dream team.

41. AI games are boring and inconsistent. Even on easier difficulties the dynamic game balancing makes you miss so many chances in 1st half, open goals whatever. Then in 2nd its just walk the ball into box and quick shot goal. But if you decide to pass the ball in the box then it's magnet to defender, why not reward passing in the box? The inconsistency in the AI is just bad. And the coding seems lazy. I watch our 11 year old play and do all the right things, but the game just kills all her self-created chances. On harder difficulties even if I read the play and position perfectly to intercept a pass, the pass goes straight through my defender. And adding to that the constant interceptions and not being able to hold ball more than 0.3sec. To my understanding the AI was better before without having to bypass game mechanics (cheat), instead it was actually playing smarter. For me playing the AI is either too easy once the early game "Thou shall not score" wears off or just boring on higher difficulties. How hard is it to develop AI gameplay which is both fun, rewarding and teaching how to play better?

42. Player speed is broken. The slowest defender will catch up in 2-3 seconds with any attacker running with the ball. No matter stats of players. You make a great pass but this broken game mechanic ruins the opportunity. This is both unrealistic and highly unrewarding.

43. Player switching. Another game mechanic which seems broken and with hidden punishments added. I have mostly been using semi-assist and player oriented switching, R stick to switch. Recently switched to ball-oriented. And in my experience. When the game is against you, it constantly punishes you with bad player switching and worst default player selection. Many times the game refuses to switch to player in front of ball when I am trying to defend. Instead I am flicking through the guys behind the attacking player, while I am trying to get control of my defender. When I have free kick against me, default player is always the worst possible option eg. my CF standing 10m behind the free kick taker. Why? I enjoy a challenge but having to fight with my controller is not one of them.

44. Sort player list by team name. Would help when choosing team for events. And a nice feature when browsing all my players.

45. Position trainers. This feature was a nice addition. But can be improved and made more interesting. (A) Remove the possibility of getting duplicates on full position slots. It's just stupid and annoying. (B) Add random playstyle rewards on the new position. So an AMF Hole Player could also be SS Deep Lying Forward after Position training. (Credit: efNuts YouTube)

46. Add Position and Skill trainers to point shop. At least we could spend the pink points on something. (Credit: Shoshinsha65)

47. Header, Aerial superiority, Jump and player height doesnt matter? Played several games where either sides Maradona is winning 50/50 headers vs tall players like Rodri (w. Header skill added) and Saliba. Seems like another broken mechanic in the game.

48. 2 sub tactics, one offensive, one defensive (credit: thehottee YouTube)

49. Add 2nd and 3rd local player to Friend match co-op. So we can play 2-3 players from on one Playstation Vs 1-2 players online.

Some of these are cosmetics and should be quite easy to implement, whereas others like new type of events takes more effort. Dream team in Trial mode and adding already existing local Co-op to more events/game modes shouldn't be that difficult. Gameplay affecting changes are likely hard and need to be tested so it doesn't affect game in a negative way.

I guess Konami calculates profits are better by pushing all players to online play. But at the same time they are neglecting the player group which prefers offline, and are willing to buy coins to get their favourite players cards. Hopefully Konami will reconsider, add a proper Master League and more offline modes with co-op and PvP.

All in all it should result in a more enjoyable experience for both ballers, casuals, squad-builders, card-collectors and those who just want offline couch co-op or PvP with their Dream team. More people having fun and spending time in the game usually results in praise, recommendations and growing user count = more coins spent. Konami keeps earning and customer base is happy. Everyone wins.

/ Cheers and thanks for reading

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Inspired by a post recently, I decided to write my own feedback on the game. Please note that these are my opinions, so you may or may not disagree with some of it and that's fine, I respect that.

Mission effects:

• 50% call-in time should NOT affect extract countdown (1 extra minute is a lot, either in a dog fight, or sitting around doing nothing)

• Bug spore map is fine, until there's a mountain that cut across in the middle of the map with no gap to cross in the middle until you run to the end (which end? u have to find out by walking around it, have fun wasting 5 minutes)

• Fire Tornado is NOT fun and doesn't add anything to the game other than wasting your time when they choose to go on objective or just kill your civilians doing almost nothing to enemies that walks in it.

Mission Type:
Evacuate trapped civilians(40 minute and 15 minute variant):

• Civilians can get stuck on nothing occasionally, if both () paths are bugged, it's game over, there has to be a fallback for this

Evacuate trapped civilians(15 minute variant):

• Bugs are fine, but the bot version on this mission is near impossible to clear (without using certain tactics blablabla), more so after factory strider have been added to the spawn pool

Evacuate high value assets (20 minute 8 rocket mission):

• It can get bugged and missile refuse to continue launching, killing the entire mission (suspect it has to do with network instability, especially from network host)

• Bot (when called by smaller bots instead of mission spawn?) can spawn on the helipad or in the compound, this should not happen

Enemies:

General:

• Dead bodies should despawn sooner (or based on amount on the screen because defence mission on bots can have enemies piled so high that you can't see or shoot past it, god forbid u get stuck under one)

Bug front:

General (almost every unit):

• Should not be able to dig their way up through solid rocks (just remove the dig mechanic, I don't know why it should exist other than bugs digging through solid rock when players stand on top of it by jetpack)

Spewers:

• Nursing Spewer's dead body hitbox does not fit model (after butt have been popped, the hitbox remains, cant walk past)

• Bile Spewer's animation between them raised their butt in the air to suddenly spewing when you are close is non-existent (it's even faster than they running and raising their head to spew, they skip the head raising animation and go straight to spewing)

• Should not one shot players for something that spawns in such numbers

• (still) running too fast

• Too quiet for something that can one shot you out of nowhere (should not one shot)

• Their attack should apply DOT status similar to bleeding (either stim or dive in water to clear), remove the direct damage

Shriekers:

• Dead body deals more dmg than being alive

Stalkers:

• Does not unstealth after taking damage from Incendiary Shotgun from a distance (they should remain unstealth while taking damage, either from bullets or DoT like fire)

• Their knockback sometimes cause your character to have a long [explicit] roll animation if the ground is not even, which is basically a death sentence when fighting them

Brood commander:

• Can call breach without head

• Can track you without their head

Charger:

• Non-intuitive design where the butt is NOT a weakspot to everything (it's ok if I need 1.5 mag of my shotgun to kill it, but at least give us more option to kill that thing than just AT to the face or explosive dmg to the butt)

• Too quiet for something that can one shot you out of nowhere

Bile Titan:

• Non-intuitive design where the SHINING OPEN MOUTH during spit animation is NOT a weakspot, but the forehead is (without any indication)

Spore Spewer:

• Bouncing stratagem at the base of most layout

• Requiring certain weapons/stratagems to destroy after buffed (lowering weapon choice is not a good decision) Possible solution: allow hellbomb, or revert the changes. It's really frustrating and NOT FUN to deal with after the changes. Their main role is to obscure the map until players find it, it shouldn't be hard to remove as well (perhaps removing the red marking on the radar to make it harder to locate, instead of making it tougher)

Shrieker nest:

• Stratagem bounce on certain terrain/layout (particularly the two nest on a mountain layout), making placing hellbomb difficult

Bot front:

General (almost every unit):

• Should not be able to re-engage infinite distance away after been previously engaged before (should lose aggro ~1 minute without line of sight and revert to their regular scan distance)

• Why isn't Arc weapons doing more damage to bots? It should bypass their METAL armor and deal good damage to them

Dropship:

• Killing the dropship should have more significant impact to the enemies they are carrying/carried

Scout Strider:

• Revert whatever changes was made last buff

Berserker:

• Very bullet spongey, not very fun to kill when multiple of them are chasing after you, needs lower TTK

Rocket Devastators:

• Limit their rocket firing to x amount of salvos (to reflect their model), can add in (infinite) reload downtime to replenish their rocket (so players have opportunity to fire back)

Heavy Devastators:

• Gun firing angle does not fit model sometimes

• Can shoot through wall if they hug the wall (placing the scan further back from their body's hitbox might solve this as it wont be able to phase into the wall and see past it)

• Needs to add more inaccuracy, especially long distance away

Hulk:

• Face hitbox is weird (might be my potato aim but I can miss my shot when I shoot it near point blank)

• Flamethrower variant should not one tap (remove direct damage and just make it deal burning status, burning is already deadly enough)

Gunships:

• Having a VERY small pool of support weapons that can effectively deal with this enemy. One of the worst thing in the game because it's very limiting on what weapon you get to pick IN CASE you see one.

Tanks:

• Too quiet

• Shredder variant turns too fast to be able to reliable target the vents at the back

• Can climb things unreasonably well for something that runs on tracks

(Stationary) Cannon Turrets:

• Should not snipe you from 200m away without any warning or prior aggro, limit their scan distance}

• If they do want to snipe, make their dmg fall off with distance as to not get one shot out of nowhere from something you barely see

Factory Striders:

• Can shoot through wall if their face hugs the wall

• Their cannon turret is a bit too tanky for my liking, for something that already have two deadly MG on the chin

• Limit their spawn per dropship wave to 1 or 2 (especially in defence mission)

Detector Tower:

• Stratagem bounce issues

SAM Site:

• Very hard to locate

• Does the job that it's supposed to do very poorly

Stratagem Jammer:

• Should have limited enemies on them because you can't use stratagems, sometimes it's easy, but sometimes there's so many devastators on there plus dropship it becomes hell

• Can be deadly when spawned close to Gunship fab, perhaps limit the distance between these 2 sub-objectives

Command Bunkers:

• One taps you out of nowhere sometimes (no one likes getting one tapped from full health)

Extract:

• It's not red on the map in mission briefing, but you can drop into an extract with Factory Striders etc

Stratagems:

SOS Beacon:

• What does this do, exactly? Other than being a free one-time use hellpod dmg for host if they manage to attach it onto enemy

Airburst Rocket Launcher:

• Sometimes just fly past enemy's head, what's the proxy radius exactly? Should increase radius but only detonate after x amount of clearance from user (can be time or distance based)

Autocannon:

• GOATed (esp against bots), nothing wrong with it but it's so fun to use against bots that I just want to put it here.

Spear:

• Lock-on issues (it's like wanting to sneeze but you can't)

• For something that require lock on and only have 4 shots, it better one shot regardless of hitzone (or make it lock-on to weakspots instead)

• Useless in snowstorm even though I can see the enemy clearly

• Why would it lock on but miss if the target is too close, what's the point of lock-on if the projectile isn't actually locking onto the target

Orbital Railcannon Strike:

• Needs to lower the CD for something that only targets a single entity

• OR make it one shot every unit in the game (factory strider can be one shot by 380mm, so I don't see why railcannon can't)

"Guard Dog" Rover:

• Sometimes does not target enemies in-front of you, attacking you, or the enemies you're shooting, not sure why

"Guard Dog":

• The constant downtime is so bad compared to its counterpart, PLUS it runs out of ammo

Sentries:

• Non-existent health, too soft for something the developer wont let players place at hard to reach places

Mines:

• Doesn't feel as impactful as other stratagems, other than teamkilling

Shield Generator Relay:

• Should prevent enemy unit from entering

• Should have infinite health until time is up

• Should just be DRG's gunner shield

• Have problems with plasma punisher (the projectile cannot pass through the shield)

Smokes of all kind:

• Needs to work better, enemies should stop firing into/across the smoke or something. I brought smoke to survey mission and smoked the objective, between me and enemies (before the bots drop), I was the one who got smoked instead

Booster:

• Needs to give precise numbers on what EXACTLY each one does (maybe on wiki or something, to prevent people from coming up with nonsense like localisation confusion will create more patrols etc)

• UAV Recon Booster should do something to bug spore map (either reveal the map but not enemies on the map, or enemies nearby but not the map)

• Flexible Reinforcement Budget needs to have more impact to the cooldown time, as it stands it's the worst booster

• Expert Extraction Pilot needs to have more impact to the countdown time, 18s/27s is not good enough for something that does nothing throughout the entire game until the end

• Only a couple booster tends to be taken to missions because the power level of boosters is very different

Misc:

Gameplay:

• Stratagem should NOT bounce, let players decide where we wanna call our stuff, make it stick to walls, top of rocks (if players manage to land the stratagem there, why not), and enemies (sometimes you can stick stuff to chargers, sometimes you can't, I never understood why)

• Equipment/Stratagem loadout would be great to have

• Allow players to finish the mission in solo mode if kicked or lost connection, this would greatly reduce the impact of griefing and/or steam's weekly maintainance. You can prevent abuse by giving each mission an ID that can't duplicate reward if same player complete it twice. (just like Super credits that wont be given twice if you pick up the same one from the same mission)

• Enemies should have more ways to be killed and objectives should have more ways to be solved, so people actually can try out more loadouts than feel pressured to play the "meta".

• Patrol spawn rate should increase when we call extraction, not right after we finish main obj. Finishing sub obj is way harder if we finish main obj first (in blitz especially, where you can't choose when the main objective ends if you want to clear everything)

• Supply packs should have an icon on the map

• Icon for dropped items should appear in a larger radius

• Samples, Requisition Slips, and Medals should have uses other than being allowed to be capped (one interesting idea is the ability to purchase extra stratagem slot for operations/missions)

• Tier 4 Ship upgrade felt underwhelming, like it's AH trying to give players something to do while not wanting to reward the players. (the cost-to-impact is horrible to say the least)

• Armors should have more passives and stat variety, instead of the exact same stats and passive but different color

• Armor passive could be swappable (for fashion divers).

• Allow Stimming at any time (for stamina boost even if health is full to run for longer)

• The animation of rolling slowly after falling/diving/knocked back onto un-even ground is long, unnecessary, and annoying

• Allow viewing of Support weapon's stats like primary and secondary

• Allow players to customise weapons (especially the scope)

• Ship Module "Superior Packing Methodology" does not affect weapon backpack that you DID NOT CALL

Lobby:

• Nickname given to Steam friends should not appear in-game, this can cause confusion between players as I see different name and player tag (ie: H2 vs D2) in mission from other players. But indication of the steam nickname should still be given, maybe upon entry. (ie: "dremskiy (HD2 dreamskiy) has joined the lobby")

• Allow sending friend request from party list (I don't know why this isn't a thing)

• Allow viewing of Steam player's Steam profile (and playstation profile for PSN players? I have no idea of the PSN ecosystem)

• Allow host to disband and create a new lobby (to mitigate the current multiplayer bug that might happens if someone leaves, or just so you can change party members without kicking)

• Allow host to set minimal join level for their lobbies (I know, this is controversial, but I'm tired of Lv20s joining Helldive missions. A good portion of them don't know what to do and run around like headless chicken and using up reinforcements. I'm here to enjoy the game, not carry and get frustrated when I get teamkilled or have them bring a big group of enemies into objectives. Everyone has their preference and "standards" when playing. I also know level isn't an indication of actual skill, but the proportion of frustration I've had with low levels vs higher level players is very different. I once had a lv10 matchmake into Helldive difficulty. How is that even possible? Don't they need to clear lower difficulties first? Yeah, they did nothing but die the entire mission)

CALLING ALL ANTI-PSYKOS AND ZANE FANS!

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