I'm really enjoying this. The 100% refund is very helpful in the context of "replay last wave on fail" - it's so refreshing to not have to replay 20-25 minutes of gameplay just to get to the point of failure. Awesome.

And yet... it's still challenging!

I also like the split between monsters who zero straight in on your fabricator, while others will simply attack the nearest tower (or any tower on fertile ground). It keeps you on your toes.

The tower restriction (3 towers initially, but you unlock a larger roster over time) is super cool too. Strategy is all-important.

Great game. I need to get a review in on Steam. I follow the Dev on BSky, and he was overjoyed when his creation hit the "New and Trending" list!

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I find those GTK "tabs on menu bar" to be so ugly. But the rest of it looks brilliant. I'll give this a go. I've played around with CoreCTL before, but it's definitely not as pretty or as intuitive as this looks.

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Such a cool game and concept, and really nicely executed too. I'll give this another go, I think. I was slightly turned off by how suddenly certain events could crop up and leave you grasping to get the necessary buildings/infrastructure in place. But with a story-mode, this should be much better guided and telegraphed.

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I was vaguely excited about the new Doom, then I visited the Steam page.

1. Denuvo
2. £70
3. 2-day Early Access if you pre-order
4. Ray Tracing as a requirement

Almost any single one of these red-flags would prevent me buying a game. But four? Good job, Bethesda. Very thorough.

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Played the demo and enjoyed it, but goddam, those graphics are terrible. And despite the frame-limiter set to 60, it cooked my PC at 140+, and the damn PC nearly over-heated!

Anyway, good game, although the fights felt slightly grindy, and I didn't quite grasp the whole "shoot one gun to build up ammo in the other" until about 30 minutes in!

I think I'll end up grabbing it, but in the meantime, I'm going to check out Deadzone: Rogue (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3228590/Deadzone_Rogue/), which launched a few weeks ago, and appears to be... well, let's just say "very similar", but with much-better looking graphics!

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Glad I was sitting down, or I might have hurt myself when I fainted from sheer shock and disbelief. /s

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Feels like Truckful, the other also-unreleased "truck driver delivering stuff to a small town with spooky atmosphere" game. Is that a genre now?

I've stuck 'em both on my wishlist.

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I was playing Outriders (https://store.steampowered.com/app/680420/OUTRIDERS/) a few months back and I got an absolute blast of overwhelming deja vue, before I realised that it was triggered by remembering Gears of War 2. That's the only one I played for any length of time.

I always thought the series was slightly over-rated (albeit, fun story/characters carrying it a bit) but the impact it had on the FPS genre is unmistakable. Walls. Walls, everywhere! Duck over the walls to shoot. Stay behind walls! Run from wall to wall!

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At least they have a shiny new anti cheat, huh?

Titanfall 2 was the last EA title I ever bought. It was amazing. I feel for anyone affected by these layoffs.

Is there a more hated games company, I wonder? It's a low bar, I guess. <sigh>

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An accuracy rate of ~99% is pretty bad when dealing with millions of users...

Yup. Sounds like they inconvenienced 330K gamers with false positive bans.

And the hidden headline for me is that Javelin might have a 99% accuracy rating once it's found a cheat, but identifying 33 million cheat sessions out of 2.2 billion suggests that the entire cheating problem only affects just over 1.5% of those sessions!

Dunno about anyone else, but I feel like Javelin is missing some serious action.

EA really is just shit.

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