Frostpunk 2

Гра потерпіла дуже великих змін ніж перша частина, однак це пішло їй на величезний плюс, тому що 11bit не побоялись створити, щось нове, що за духом продовжує першу частину, а геймплейно відрізняється в край, до того ж політична складова геймплею напряму наслідувана першою частиною, однак значно удосконалена, що є величезним плюсом, а містобудівництво змінилось лише у кращий бік.

Una continuación del 1 a nivel narrativo, adoptando también la dificultad de este y esa ambientación/temática que me recordó en varios momentos a la película Snowpiercer. Un buen juego de estrategia, en general.

While it's still a decent game, I definitely found some enjoyment, it's nowhere near as immersive as the first. It's just not. With the original as the comparison benchmark it falls short.

Not a fun game anymore they made the sequel into a try-hard Politics Management Simulator nothing is the same with the previous Frostpunk title. You now have to satisfy annoying factions all the time and run the city like some puzzle game trying to find out the correct pieces to make everything work. This is a try-hard mess where you have to save scumming all the time until you find a way to succeed. Sorry, this is not the Frostpunk i was waiting to play i don't like it.

After getting addicted to the game a few days I have to say I am disappointed. The game is too easy on hardest once you figure it out. Way easier then the first. Big fan of Unreal Engine but weird choice and implementation is VERY VERY demanding for no good reason, more so then many 1st and 3rd person games done in UE5. Even with lightning and shadows to low and DLSS to balanced I cant get 60 FPS where I get that in other UE5 games with DLSS on quality! Visually it seems to take style and visuals over gameplay, and that is bad. And I do not even think the game looks that impressive, they could just stick to Unity and have a more clear look. FP1 was more pleasant to look at and IXION even better, both done in Unity and run better and its all that is needed. You build in tiles, not really bad BUT you have to press a key to even see where your buildings are, you have to hover over your districts to even see where there start and end, its annoying. The city builds itself and the devs are super proud of this fancy dynamic city that builds itself based on where you placed things but its weird. Same goes for trails and skylines, it picks style over play ability as its not easy to see where you already build and it actually builds not where you place things but dynamically near that. Mechanics are flawed and annoying after a while. Massive illusion of choice as you are basically forced to just do what your factions demand most of the time on harder difficulties. I failed a few times figuring out how the game works but after I finished the story I finished two "Utopia Builder runs on hardest (Captain) difficulty and easy finished them both on the 2nd try after I figured out he map and resource limits and things. All the end game mechanics are totally meaningless and irrelevant. The game is decided LONG b4 that, its not really well thought out. And choosing different factions barely effects anything really. There is no "playstyle" its just tiny bonuses and things that you get at the very end when you already made it. The first and 2nd storm are the hardest, and the game is very forgiving even on captain you can lack every resource I basically NEVER have anything stored but as long as the deficit is not to high you are fine. Sadly if you really play the game for long you find out how flawed it actually is. Its very much like the 1st game, despite what people claim. Lots of things are exactly the game. Generator, fuel, heat, cores. It just feels more sandboxy and has a bigger scale and more mechanics that in the end give you way more opportunity to turn things around. In a way this is a good thing but it lacks serious fun challenge, its not easy but its repetitive, gets boring and annoying and the endgame is really filled with lots of things you will never need. Maybe DLCs and mods can save the game but probably not. FP1 on hardest was too hard for me actually, it felt like if you made one tiny mistake in the beginning it all spiraled to the end, it was too much like "turn heater on in that exact second or die" type of gameplay that was not that good either, but at least it was like constrained and thought out very well so it was actually very challenging. FP2 just offers so much stuff without giving it actually an opportunity to really shine. And overall I think the first game is better in both graphics (for gameplay) and the gameplay itself. Again UE5 is great but a game that tries so hard to look fancy that it ends up just looking confusing annoying. It took me a while to get used to it. The UI is stunning but also has like shifting elements after clicking it that are not very good for gameplay. Also why TF do I not get the generator view by default when clicking the generator? So annoying. Also the "switch between city/settelements key simply do NOT WORK, last patch 1.0.4, bind them to different keys, nothing happens when I press them. Its also annoying to sit through the annoying ass voting animation 100 times. If you just play the game for a 9 hour or some story then this is more for you but if you look for some deep engaging RTS this is sadly not really it.