I'll never understand games which force you to stop playing. Great games thrill you, make you want to do one more battle, uncover one more item. They don't make you stop for 24 hours whilst you wait for the game to let you play. Utterly pointless and I'm disappointed with myself for even loading this.
This game is so flawed its hilarious. Its not just the controls. The interface is awful, but perhaps the worst part is you never are going to have any idea what you are doing. You have no way of telling what your enemies capabilities are before, during or after the battle. So it comes down to trial and error. The battles don't get more strategic as the game progresses, they are all exactly the same, you just have to try and work out which plating and component combo works. As the controls are utterly pointless, that, in the end is all this game offers you. The chance to click "buy" and "mount", then watch the computer play with itself, leaving you just a dirty voyeur wasting their life away.
@jetz5424 - click both the robot and the thing you want to mount so they are both highlighted - but you're right, there are no instructions and its not remotely intuitive
So the top 5 comments with 1000s of likes absolutely slate the controls and say it renders the game basically unplayable, and yet this is a BOTD on a game with a 3.87 rating..
If following shockpyra's very useful advice, don't pause after level 27 (with the credit page). You can't unpause at the start of lvl 28 as the screen is massively expanded.
Having said that.. its still a very fun and well-made game. The problem with the hard AI is that its in some ways too easy (usually you can just hang back, absorb the initial assault whilst constructing just a few of the correct units, often to gain mastery over the sea, whilst the AI doesnt continue money production and builds too many of the same type of unit.
I've got to agree with comments about the hard level. Its particularly difficult to plan tactically when it tells you an enemy plane will do 25 damage, your equivalent enemy plane has 25 health, and yet will be destroyed by one attack.
I cant see this elsewhere in the comments.. which means I'm almost definitely doing something stupid, but I cant seem to get any stars for my normal exploits.. even when I kill every monster.
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