About Synapse X:
My negative opinion is mainly because of the single player city portion of the game. The tactical part is for 90% of people probably the same as in the first game and doesn’t offer enough new content to be a reason to buy the new version. So, for me at least, the reason to buy (and now refund) the game was the campaign part. Why did I refund? – first of all – the bugs: * The game crashed three times during the two hours I tried it out. Each time causing me to lose the complete progress up to this point. * Apparently unless you read the forum before, you have to restart the campaign to enable more than one squad as otherwise the tutorials block it. – the obscurity: the game is full of systems that are not explained anywhere. There’s no manual of any sort, the tutorials cover maybe 10% of the game. Nothing gets explained. I picked up a mission to drop off a parcel as my first “freely chosen” as it looked quite straightforward and looked like there was not much risk involved. Turns out your squad can pick up the parcel (although you for some reason get a dialogue where you have to agree to leave an apparently hostile owner of the building) but then, if you try to bring it to the drop off adress, you get the same dialogue. Only if you agree to leave, you can’t deliver the parcel. And if you don’t, you have to fight the recipient. Sounds logical? Then it’s the patrol building mission. Once you start it and get an alert of a storyline mission (which you can’t ignore even for a second) you get the choice of “send squad” or “send other squad”. This without a squad selected. Sooo… what happens when you press “send squad”? Maybe you get asked if you want to cancel the current mission, so you could decide to “send other squad”? NOPE. You simply get an angry message from the employer saying you breached the contract… It’s a MESS. I’ll give it a try when it goes on heavy discount (or ultimately lands in a bundle) after a year or so of patches…
