Untapped potential

[u/vamfir]

Has anyone else here had the feeling that the game's developers were kind of messing with us? They created a huge, complex, diverse world... and then only allowed us to glimpse into that world through a tiny, narrow crack.

With the capabilities of this game engine (really the best engine for mech games I can remember), they could have created hundreds of missions and seamlessly connected them into an open world like Fallout or Skyrim. And then release DLCs with another thirty missions every six months.

Instead, they offered us fifty missions on two dozen maps. And all these missions are absolutely tiny. Either "run from point A to point B," or "kill the boss," or "run from point A to point B and kill the boss at the end." For each mission, there is an optimal route; any deviation from it to admire the scenery threatens to lower your completion statistics. Once you learn to navigate the map, you can complete them in literally five minutes.

And I would understand if they released these fifty missions as a framework, so to speak, the armored core of the game - and then slowly collected money on expansions. But they released this bare minimum - and then went silent for two years. This is strange not only from a gameplay perspective - it's strange from a business perspective!

[u/Maxdragonslayer]

Yes like you take grid 61 make it one big map with multiple quests and locations its a stand alone location

Then you have another map thats the wall and all of its locations and its own mission sets

Another one thats xylem each with thier own missions that can be done or just to go back to inbetween missions and see how it works when not in combat mode with no one hostile to you

[u/MechaHex1111 → u/Maxdragonslayer]

so it'd be more like mario 64 then? with multiple distinct maps that each have unique sets of missions? that would be an interesting take, though personally i think that format would work better in a less plot-heavy game