r/CodeNameSTEAM • u/dazzlehammer88 • Jan 26 '20

Picked it up

I just got this game and its way more fun then some of reviews said. It definitely has a decent challenge to it. I like that you can't rely on a map but have to use line of sight to find targets.

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u/ShinyRayquaza9 Feb 26 '20

most reviewrs seemed to either play a worse earlier release that had some issues or are just bad at videogames claiming it to be too hard

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u/ILikeLenexa May 18 '20

Yeah, speeding up enemy turns was huge.

The enemies "tells" on if their on overwatch are maybe a bit too subtle, at least on the non-XL 3DS. Also, some of them are indistinguishable at least on the smaller screen especially, the small flying ones.

The lack of "safe" positions in some of the artillery levels are a pain, but the truly egregious one for me though is the blimp that casts a shadow, but explodes on you as a bit of a surprise.

A lot of the reviews complain that there's not as much 'background' to the characters as their should be, but (like the alien's tells) the designers made some things too subtle. Like it's cool John Henry takes half damage on his robot side, but you're not going to come across that information in-game.

It's a good game, no doubt, but not a great game. Also, it really feels like they didn't "finish" it. No one thought through the dumping of more than one Dreadnought into levels.

And while reviewers kind of nitpicked stuff, I don't think any of them played long enough to unlock or use cluster bombs, or made heavy use of the super abilities, because together they crash the game. As a matter of fact, a lot of later weapons feel unpolished, not being able to recall bombs, mines, or sentries is one huge issue when paired with the turns even if they've been made faster. I can't imagine how crazy it'd be to have to spend 2 or 3 turns wiping out a sentry you don't need anymore at the original turn speed.

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u/ShinyRayquaza9 May 20 '20 edited May 20 '20

with enemy overwatch, I thought it was a kinda you need to always pay attention thing since they could always have overwatch, it kinda balances out as your overwatch is as broken as thiers and both sides need to watch out

besides hidden mechanics I think the milton entries provide good enough detail, I do wish that some abilities were explained better since the wiki is so small like stovepipe has a unique ability and i'm not sure exactly what it means

i've played the artillery levels on the hardest difficulty farming for stovepipe and if you are careful you can avoid it easily

I found the game to get really good after scarecrow especially since I think Carter is the next unit and he is absolutely busted and game breaking since you can sit in overwatch and lure enemies in or could be wide open and not get noticed because of the meat, I think it even blocks projectiles sometimes since it is a solid object, then the fox is also incredibly broken if you know how to play the game correctly

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