Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem - Kickstarter Update
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I bought this game on Steam early access back when it was first released in March. It's the only game that I have ever refunded on Steam. I'm not saying it's the worst game ever released on Steam for early access, it's surely not even close, but I found it unplayable and had to refund it. I played it for about one hour and I really couldn't go on.
Here's what I can tell you about it and the reason why I found it unplayable.
The game is actually very pretty. It sort of reminds me of Grim Dawn as far as game play goes. The problem is the camera. I didn't write a review on Steam because I feel like it would be very unfair to do so with less than 2 hours gameplay, plus it being an early access game. I left a comment describing this more in detail as to why I refunded.
So getting back to the issue. The camera is just weird. The best way I can quickly describe this is that you can zoom out and in quite a bit, which is great. The problem is that when you zoom in, the camera doesn't angle down to something more like 3rd person like other isometric ARPG games do, for instance DOS and POE. You actually have to see this to know exactly what I am saying, but the camera remains almost facing straight down and it's really strange and disorienting. I found it unbearable. Also, the camera will rotate and that I also like, but the rotate sensitivity is way too high and there's no way to adjust it, so the slightest attempt to rotate the camera will just send it into a wild spin. Remember the first time you got really drunk and got that spin thing? It's like that. It's not pleasant.
I'm watching it because I think this game has a lot of potential, but they have to fix the camera.
Here's what I can tell you about it and the reason why I found it unplayable.
The game is actually very pretty. It sort of reminds me of Grim Dawn as far as game play goes. The problem is the camera. I didn't write a review on Steam because I feel like it would be very unfair to do so with less than 2 hours gameplay, plus it being an early access game. I left a comment describing this more in detail as to why I refunded.
So getting back to the issue. The camera is just weird. The best way I can quickly describe this is that you can zoom out and in quite a bit, which is great. The problem is that when you zoom in, the camera doesn't angle down to something more like 3rd person like other isometric ARPG games do, for instance DOS and POE. You actually have to see this to know exactly what I am saying, but the camera remains almost facing straight down and it's really strange and disorienting. I found it unbearable. Also, the camera will rotate and that I also like, but the rotate sensitivity is way too high and there's no way to adjust it, so the slightest attempt to rotate the camera will just send it into a wild spin. Remember the first time you got really drunk and got that spin thing? It's like that. It's not pleasant.
I'm watching it because I think this game has a lot of potential, but they have to fix the camera.
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At least these devs pumped lot of energy into making the game super nice! Notice the absolutely beautiful forest scene with the morning sun. Also those snow covered trees are fantastic and the whole game looks mighty awesome!
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I think every time I fire up steam I see an update for this game. Still have yet to try it as the patches alone tell me it isn't done baking yet.