But see, my problem is... once I'm up there at Qubba, I still gotta outrun the police somehow. How can I do that... I first need to earn enough money to get a car. Then with a car + horse to carry my stuff, I can imagine it might somehow be possible to avoid them.
The other guy was talking about robbing a car? what... from a caravan or robber??? where??? and if it is robbing a caravan, it always tells you that it will "ruin your reputation". I dont know what that means or what it will cause.
I've looked and looked and I just cannot find a way to turn any profit after the first few months of game time. Its impossible to predict the market, and the news doesn't help. A few hours ago I saw alcohol was selling Drush, Poca, and Cag for 24 dollars. So I decided to get out of the circle and go to Merdin... there I saw it on sale for 5 dollars... I'm like YES!!!!! I bought as much of it as I could and took it back to the 3 original cities... only to find now they were selling it for 4 dollars a unit.
I really cant figure out this game.
Now lately I've started writing down in a word pad all the values of a given economy. Each time I visit a town, I view how much everything costs, write it down, what the economy is, etc... and I've noticed some absolutely wild fluctuations that make it damn near impossible to win. Poca will sell clothes at 23 dollars a unit... when you get to Drush, they're 19 dollars... ok so you buy them, and when you get back to Poca, NOW they're selling for 18 dollars a unit, meaning you've just lost a shit load of money.
I really dont see how its possible to win this game.
The trade route you're first advised to take is leather from Poca to Cagenel, shoes from Cagenel to Drushlack, and clothes from Drushlack to Poca.
However, after the first 2 times of doing this, you can no longer turn a profit, as you've already satisfied the demand for each of those supplies at those places.
You -=HAVE=- to make around 30,000 dollars so you can afford a horse, cart, and get a car of some kind before you can go to Qubba. Its the only way to avoid the police there.
What huggybear said earlier is a goddam lie.
I can make 4,000 dollars in 1 run by selling alcohol or fuel to Qubba, but on the way I run into an average of 3 police, meaning I only make around 1,000 per run...
and it seems impossible to avoid them.
Another thing I've just discovered - the enemy does not respond at all to being stunned or flashed. They can still shoot, stab, throw grenades, while if it happens to you, you're unable to move permenantely.
Also, even when you try to take 1 step out from behind a wall, then shoot, you cant move back. Your turn is over.
And clicking "aim" paralyzes my guys. The only thing they can do is shoot, and you cant undo the aim option. I have to hold the mouse over shoot BEFORE I click aim just to make sure I can hit someone.
If the enemy didn't consistently have longer range weapons that can always hit you no matter where you stand, this might not be such a pain.
2/5
In the tutorial you talk about how you can hide behind objects, implying you could come out, shoot, then run back and hide or use some type of strategy like that.
Hiding behind objects ONLY works in this game if you're the enemy. The player seems unable to hide behind anything, no matter what it is. I've had an enemy walk across to the other side of the screen, turn in the OTHER DIRECTION, shoot in the air, and it hits me while I'm behind a wall.
Enemies can shoot through walls, stumps, barrels, barricades, and they hit you every time. You cant shoot THEM if there's anything in the way.
You should really have rethought that during the game design.
The first level constantly interupts you with some type of mission status screen - on which there is nothing.
The second mission has the enemies coming at me one after the other when I'm still trying to figure out how to play.
If you want to quit a level, there doesn't seem to be any way to. If you want to just start over, forget it. The only way out is to let the enemies completely kill you. There might be an option somewhere - but since there's no real tutorial other than an extremely brief and confusing overview of only some of the buttons, there's no way to know.
Score: 1/5
I ordinarily cant get enough of tower defense games... but this one is just HORRIBLE.
The tutorial is terribly insufficient. It doesn't explain to you exactly what all the buttons and icons me, what they do, things to consider... I end up feeling lost and just figuring things out on my own.
Its buggy as hell. The caravans and market place will stop working for no reason, and the carts look like they're running in place without moving.
I'm surprised everyone keeps talking about how hard it is... its not THAT hard. In fact the only point I really had a tough time with was arming the bomb you send down to the mole guys.
Its a simple process of elimination. You move a bear until
1. he cant do anything else, or
2. the only thing he can do is something really stupid.
At that point, you do something else... usually only the correct solution is available.
For everyone having trouble with getting the pride sin... I've just figured out the mechanics of it.
You need to answer all the interview questions without getting some type of dirty response. If he calls you a conservative scumbag or a liberal hippy, you've answered the question wrong. Also, if you click something about your hair and he tells you that has nothing to do with the question - you answered wrong. Anytime you DONT get a response, you've answered right! If you answer them all right, its pretty easy to win.
To anyone who doesn't know...
on the second quest, once you have 9 shards, you have to click and drag them on your character (use them) and they become a stone. When you drag the stone to your character (use it), you're warped to the last battle.
You cannot get to the last battle unless you do this, and the dungeon will go on and on forever.
And how exactly do the shields work? I would THINK that by holding my shield exactly level with his sword, I should block - but I dont. And FORGET that "95%" block rate on the item screen - thats total BS. Blocking appears to be 100% random.
No, seriously... I hit some dude IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD and he still blocked.
So basically I swing my sword 21304956120834512837412 - and 1 of 4 things happens.
1. Nothing happens.
2. I miss (no it actually says "missed")
3. He blocks it
4. I HIT HIM OMG I ACTUALLY HIT HIM and took off 2 hp. yay.
If he swings, 2 things happen.
1. I block - about 50% of the time... maybe. If I'm lucky.
2. I'm instantly killed by the first swing.
Sorry, but this thing gets a 0/5.
Ok, so we're pressed chest to chest for a while now... I'm swinging, nothing happens.
The enemy swings ONE SINGLE TIME - and I'm instantly dead? Wait... what about my armour? I spent all my money to buy the most expensive armour with the highest melee rating, and I'm killed in 1 hit? okayyyy...
Ok, I'm really not getting the mechanics of this game...
I'm pressed chest to chest with someone. I swing my sword - nothing happens.
I click - I dont swing my sword... I click - still dont swing it. Click clicl cliacliaclais claisda lic lcicl iclcic and click... ok finally I swing once - but I'm still pressed chest to chest with this guy so when I swing it does nothing. Doesn't say blocked, doesn't say missed... just swing and nothing. Now its click click click click click again... come on its been 30 seconds since I last used my sword why wont it swing...
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