The Flaws Are Showing - Part 02 (Blind) Against the Storm Early Access
2And it is time to have another look at Against the Storm. Sadly, the flaws are showing now.
Honestly, I don't think I have ever played a game in which increasing the difficulty from what could be considered as easy (Settler) to normal (Pioneer) had anywhere near this much of an effect.
The game went from RNG-dependent but chill and nice experience to basically having to do everything perfectly, where a single mistake kills your run.
To explain this in FPS terms, it is essentially on-par with playing DOOM on normal difficulty and then switching straight to ultra nightmare where a single mistake makes you restart the entire run.
This is rather silly.
Pioneer difficulty also shows other flaws that I mention in the stream. Like the game giving you tons of pointless alerts but doesn't give you homelessness alerts, which can slam dunk your run into the ground. Or how there is a way to tell your woodcutters to not cut into Glades, but no way to tell them to not cut during Storm, which I have learned makes pop happiness essentially insta-fall. Or the fact that the tutorial and Settler essentially teach you that you can win via missions, only for Pioneer to be like "lol no, you have to do Glades and sell all of them to the Queen, no resources for you". Or how Harpies are essentially pointless and you might as well restart the run if you get them. Or that the camp unlocks are so important that you do not really have much of a chance if you have not grinded your way through the Queen's City in order the unlock what should have been baseline, really. Or how the consumption tab is entirely pointless. Or how your people eat way too much even if you have 6+ farms.
Yeah, there are a lot of problems.
I happen to not like it when a game lies to me in the tutorial. And I have clocked in about 20 hours now so one could say that I have a pretty good idea of the ingame mechanics.
But yeah I do feel like the game needs another difficulty level between Settler and Pioneer. Cause Settler is too easy and Pioneer is way too difficult. Pioneer should be hard mode, not what's essentially considered normal mode.
I have actually not touched the game since this stream a couple of weeks before uploading this VoD. Just not been in the mood ever since. Especially with the devs seemingly not seeing this, rather obvious problem, as a problem at all.
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