I don't want to disappoint you Pew, but maybe compare your game with for example Frantic. A rating of 1/5 does not mean that all your work wasn't worth anything but you have to realize, that this isn't the stuff the players are looking for. It's repeating, it doesn't involves action in the meaning of action, it is endless, and you can't do anything besides just go up, down, shoot and die. :-/
As stupid this "game" might be... I like the idea a bit. I'll rate it 2/5. It is quite a bit useful but it isn't something I would consider as a game. ;-)
Yeah more accuracy in close combat would be nice. It is quite impossible, that the soldier that stands directly in front of my soldier survives the shotgun-shot unharmed. And trenches should still provide more safety.
The trench should give more protection for bullets. I understand it, when a well placed Grenade is blowing up the trench, but my men are dying like flies in there.
I have to complain about how random this game is. It is still realistic yes, but I don't like it when my whole defense instantly collapses because the Enemy is killing 3 Units with three Shot (in my example: Spec Ops, Soldier (instand headshot) and Medic). That pretty much decidet the game. :-/
Oh man... My last round was freaking awesome. :O I had a spec Ops who gained 100 experience and 3 Machinegunners in a bunker. I held out till wave 67 with only 24 killed soldiers (and less than 10 till round 50) until a well placed shot finally took him out and killed in the next instance the medic with him. Awesome... I think I gained 3 Awards during this fight.
One funny thing was, I picked up one supply crate and then there stood: you picked up a supply crate that contains A SOLDIER! (Don't ask)
But then at the end I lost because the Germans got a couple good hits and then I tried to strike em back with a bomb but the airplane didn't like my defense and dropped the bomb right in the middle of it. ;(
You get a higher rank when you survive many waves with your squad. The average will determine your rank. You can see that when you hold your mouse button over the white flag in the upper right corner.
I did actually pretty well in my last try till artillery and a bomb killed nearly all my men and then the Germans just run over the couple units I had left.
Actualy sad... And Nagar: The rating doesn't goes down because we all suck. It goes down because some suck but everybody is failing on this incredible stupid AI.
I can give you a hint how you can make it impossible to skip paths with right click: Make that your have to guide a small Dot through the labyrinth. He follows the mouse very fast so that nobody notices it, but then when they use right click and jump the Dot is running over the lines to get to the mouse and comes automatically out of bounce.
*lol* When I surrendered the statistic said me that there were 666 shots fired on the battle! War is Hell :P Besides that: daimienxiii even I can complain and I'm truly not really picky with the AI but when a single soldier can straight run through without being shot down then something goes horribly wrong.
I just realized this game would be awesome with an online multiplayer mode. But not an open World... Only, that you can sign up for dungeons and then make thosedungeons with a group :D