Okay where do I start.
-The tech tree is amazing and follows a believeable concept
-The UI is hard to learn but easy to master
-Graphics are good. Better graphics are not needed in a tactical simulation.
-The game has way more depth than HOI IV
-I do have a lot of fun even tho the game is very challenging
But sadly I also got a lot of negative points :
1.)
The interface for "what changed" is pretty simular to the one of Anno1800. This is not a bad thing but if your game got more than 4 countries this is a desaster:
Every country does something, every Agent does something, every Alien does something, Values change, Controll Points change, etc... This means after one skip to the next operation phase I get about 900 Messages pop up on the left side of my screen. In Anno 1800 you get a warning because your trade route takes to long. Here I get "head up's" for everything. Means 900 Notifcations for half a month ingame time.
2.)
The notification PopUps that pause your game : I do not care at all about the fact that one country declared war on another, they are back to peace again, aliens are moving. Why do I get notified? I cant do ♥♥♥♥ about it until the next operation phase anway, so why pause my game every second?. Please change it that you can 1. Disable certain popups completely and 2. Make it that you get the Notifications at the begining of your "Turn" like every other "round based game" does it since their existence. Please dont be special. Just use the running system.
3.)
-The Game is pretty balanced until its not at all anymore. The first 5 ingame years you can do stuff relatively unbothered. Doesnt mean you dont get bothered at all but it means that you are actually able to achieve things if you keep an eye on enemy movement. Not easy but doable. Now in Year 2027 The US and Russia decided to nuke themselves to irrelevance and now my "Unified Europe" is the arch-enemy Nr 1. for everyone. Wich leads to the following.
I got average 14+ enemy Agents on my teritorry sabotaging me in any possible way. Can I minimize the damages they do? Yes, Im actually pretty effective doing "counter-propaganda" and at keeping the revolts to a minimum. But it doesnt stop. Im at year 2028 right now and wasnt able to play the game for an entire Ingame year. The AI isnt doing anything anymore besides trying to sabotage me. Their agents are not reinforcing their interest in their countries anymore. They do nothing but leaving all their diffrences aside to try and bother me. Literally the entire world is free to grab. If I only could use my agents for something else but defence. This needs to change ASAP. The game has literally no gameplay anymore at this point. The "Kill Agent" Option is irrelevant because even with maxed out bonuses my top agents are not able to kill theirs. Enemy Agents who stay to long in "enemy teritorry" should get hefty debufs if they are not in their homecountry. Basically Do a Mission in hostile teritorry and gtfo or loose your Agent.
Because of the last Problem I can't currently recomend the game at all.
Devs I like the game a lot, please dont dissapoint me and make it playable!
And please forgive my bad english, its not my native language.