Very nice, need to give a proper sitdown in order to review it tomorrow. Will say, I played a bunch of Kenshi and this was pretty good. I liked the way artifacts work.
One small thing I will say I didn't like: I kept pressing esc to leave the menus, but that brought up the options menu.
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I spent a bit more time:
First Impression:
Basically what I already said, I spent a bit of time looking for a weapon, but couldn't find any to start. I tried followed the guy to the cave with his glasses, but never actually found them. I liked the passive skill recharge. I immediately stepped on the weird blue circle and ended up teleported. I took the airship to town and found a nice chest with amazing loot. I recruited a dude, gave him some stuff, but when I tried to follow him, it didn't work and I accidentally removed him from the party.
After thoughts:
I spent a bit more time playing, I liked that you can see NPCs take dead mobs away, and you can incinerator them and they scream. It's a nice touch, I backtracked a bit since I missed a lot by taking the airship. At first I didn't get the point of gathering resources, but it came up in some quests. I like the enemy variety, there's a lot of content here. The art style is very nice, gives runescape vibes. I wish there was more set dressing assets.
Something that didn't go as I expected:
I never ended up finding a weapon to use, and made little use of other party members. I was a little disappointed that interiors weren't exploreable but that's OK given the scale of the game. I didn't try to craft anything really.
Thanks for spending some more time on it! It seems like a lot of people had issues with weapons at the start. I hope to improve that next DD with a basic character creator.
Definitely don't want people accidentally removing party members! I'll investigate that.
The interiors were initially explorable but I had to cut that a while back because it was simply beginning to be too much. Crafting is one of the only other reasons to gather resources.
Thanks again for your thoughts and giving it a go! You're a champ for all the demos you're trying and leaving feedback for!