So, it’s not a looker, performance is less-than-stellar and the camera’s a ‘mare. A halo effect outlines obscured party members, but it’s far from ideal. Rocky boundaries or buildings frequently obscure your view, filling your screen with ropey scenery textures, and camera issues are compounded in tighter interior areas. Frustratingly, you can’t zoom on that screen, either. Clicking the stick cycles between modes enabling you to survey ahead but same-y environments make it easy to lose your bearings, so you’re forced to open the map screen (on the upper directional button) repeatedly. During normal gameplay, it’s rotated with the right stick and zooms out from the default 45° angle to an almost top-down vantage point, though we constantly wanted to move in closer than is possible. If only this dry, dry desert could offer a glimpse of a blue sky to relieve the monotony!Īlas, the obstinate camera is having none of it. Poxy radiation and your squad’s thirst restrict exploration, forcing you to find oases to replenish your water supply. You push a location marker over it encountering (or avoiding) random battles. Traversal between outposts (beginning in Arizona and moving to California later in the game) is done via a drab overworld map surrounded by the fog of war. It’s not a deal-breaker for this particular genre, but there’s a disconnect and these issues stack up to make a lousy first impression. Worse is the noticeable lag push the analogue stick and there’s an obvious pause between your input and character movement. To be fair, Kingdom Battle makes Splatoon look sombre, but the bleached palette and repetitive environments had us jonesing for a splash of colour.Ī choppy framerate and occasional hitches when opening doors or talking to NPCs don’t help. It looks and feels much older than its years, especially when compared to Switch’s premier XCOM-alike, Mario + Rabbids. Loading screens aren’t tortuous but from the look of this port, you’d expect them to be sprier. Wasteland 2 is built in Unity, an engine with a chequered history on Switch. It takes a while to parse the information, but it’s all there. A varied group skillset – from demolitions to dog whispering – is the key to success and tooltips on loading screens give plenty of hints to survive the dust bowl. Radioing HQ upon victory bestows points in three areas: ‘Attributes’ for character traits like Charisma or Luck, ‘Skills’ for areas of expertise, and ‘Perks’ which unlock bespoke buffs and benefits. Using cover or crouching increases your percentage chance of evading attacks and friendly fire must be factored into your strategy.
The dials also function outside of combat with available skills highlighted in the presence of appropriate objects – a pickable lock, for example. Pulling ‘ZR’ brings up a radial menu of attack options and ‘ZL’ activates a similar menu of skills surgeons, for example, can suture wounds and revive downed teammates if they have the right gear.
All actions during fights – from basic movement to attacks and reloads – require Action Points (AP) to pull off, of which each character has a limited number per turn (a small amount can be carried over to the next). Encounters begin when enemies spot you and a grid materialises over the field. Outside of combat, you have direct control over party movement and cycle between members with ‘L’ and ‘R’. Wasteland 2 forces you to make choices which can affect the narrative considerably stealing from a weapons cache in an allied camp, for example, may have dire and lasting consequences, but there’s no ‘right’ choice and you’re encouraged to live with whatever happens rather than reload your last save (although that’s always an option).
Really, I think they should include that in the free version and give the director's cut stuff that's worth $4.Along the way, you’ll pick up friends and enemies who shape the story. Okay, there are some benifits, but it isn't even worth $4, let alone $20. One last comment I have to make is the fact that for $4 (and originally $20? WHAT?) you only get an extra map with SOME features. Once, when I entered the "Benjamin Club," I wasn't able to play any of the games, but it fixed itself when I logged off and logged back in. I've also been experiencing some bugs, like the very left portal at the very end just gives me a neverending loading screen. I just hope they make it fullscreen, though. Nobody likes the fact that the screen is pretty small, but I'm used to it because it's as big as the screen you get in the browser edition.
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