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One thing i really dislike about this game is how the final fate of SAs is handled. In EG1, each demise not only has a functionally custom animation and effect, but also fits thematically. For reference it went like this: Mariana Mamba - Main weakness : 100% reliant on beauty to operate. Defeated by: made ugly by a biologist. Jet Chan - Main weakness: hubris. Defeated by: defeated in a "fair" fight due to spiked food/drink. Katerina Frostonova - Main weakness: buried emotional trauma. Defeated by: execution of the one thing she had an emotional attachment to. Dirk Masters - Main weakness: illegal steroids. Defeated by: special chemical to cause steroids to go haywire. John Steele - Main weakness: None. Defeated by: Your superplan succeeding. So for each agent they have a clear weakness and are defeated by exploiting it. Except for Steele, he's just THAT super, so he dies by you winning the game. EG2 doesn't even have ANY animations, with the agent just turning into a corpse bag with an unidentified cause of death. But worse than that, the agents are generally defeated nonsensically. The Blue Saint - He's best paralleled to Jet Chan. His defeat comes from the fact that he must follow the luchador code and presumably THAT outlines that a pindown is loss. Also presumably getting mobbed does not count as a fair fight for this. But you kill him by... putting him on knockout gas. I get where they are going with this, but since superagents are presumably defeated by shattering their will to fight, it doesn't seem like some gas would cause Blue Saint to properly admit defeat unless he is terminally stupid. Which doesn't seem too likely since he has a chemistry background. Symmetry - Has a ying-yang and "balance" theme. Defeated by...putting her on a slippery floor. What? "Oh wow i slipped, now i can no longer continue". What the hell? Yeah, she sure goes "And i never even lost my footing" but that execution makes no sense whatsoever. Especially since one of her flavor blurbs mentions that she could endure torture really well. Atomic Olga - One of 2 agents that make sense, defeated by using a magnet trap to remove the theta radiation empowering her, removing the source of her special powers. Parallels well with Mariana in that regard. Agent X - Was originally a journalist and according to flavor one of his first missions as agent X almost revealed some PATRIOT corruption. Apparently lost a dancing contest at some point and therefore dies to...being made to dance in a laser disco? The very same one he can be caught in normally and suffer no ill effects? Really, his whole story seems like you could defeat him by exposing PATRIOT as a corrupt shithole not worth protecting, but the actual defeat method is very out of left field and does not resonate with his themes at all. Were the devs like, afraid to smear USA? Wrecking Bola - Just likes wrecking poo poo of bad guys. Defeated by a robotic dog....because she likes dogs? The weakest super agent in terms of her story (nonexistent) and the defeat method is relevantly unsatisfying. One would expect some danganronpa poo poo, where you make her choose between saving a dog or herself, she manages both, except the dog is literally a bomb. That would make at least SOME sense, but is probably out of scope for the engine. Ms. Foxworth - The other agent defeated logically and satisfyingly - first you nuke her training grounds, then you kill all remaining Steeles. Presumably she could recover in a few years, except that's beyond the scope of the campaign. That's a 2/5 and the misses are really oof.
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Well let's see the standouts:quote:
Nice changes overall
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So from my experience which is an educated guess, the way the pathfinding works is that when a minion wants to build an object he first finds the closest object source and THEN goes to the object. If your hangout is in the basement, depot would be closest. They will use it if they have enough...desire to build 2 in a row but it does not increase construction speed as much as you'd expect.
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Oh boy, the DLC is out and people are raving mad both in reviews and on the steam forums. I kinda get why, but wow that's heck of a review bomb.
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https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/700600/view/3057360165194952409 Well at least they are aware of some of the issues?
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From my experience if you assign ANY priority task to a minion they will aggressively avoid going to the helicopter... but that comes at a cost of giving them a narrow task so.
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