Just played through this and…. it’s awkward and with some nasty bugs
Could never equip the lava swords. Saw a comment that it’s supposed to just have a small strength requirement but I was way past that. Also ends up not mattering since you lose them before the end stint anyway
The game flows somewhat decently up until the turning point in the middle. It came before I could conquer the towns and, at that point, there was a bug preventing me from doing so: If I conquered a town it would send me to the final camp where I couldn’t do anything.
Since I hadn’t started the final quest, I couldn’t even progress, but since you can’t leave once you’re there, I couldn’t quit.
The money from towns every 30 days feels utterly pointless though. That whole bit of the game felt so awkwardly grindy.
It didn’t get much better at the end. I came into the ending quest with I THINK 200 soldiers and it was BARELY enough to get me through, I thought I was soft-locked at the very end, actually, since you can’t acquire money freely. If you’re at the very end and it’s not enough, tough luck, i hope you had a save just before moving out
Bonus points that I had a corruption on my stats which reduced my Vitality to 0. I thought it was a different bug because enemies just started doing huge damage and I thought it was just poor scaling in the end. But it also meant I couldn’t use the large medikits. you can’t use an item which would heal you past maximum in this game so I thought my inventory was bugged.
The story has many sour twists which come out of nowhere and make for a pretty unpleasant… entire second half, I guess. The main character is just…. weirdly swingy? Sometimes he’s “just a guy trying to survive a shitty situation” but he turns into some incel random violence on a dime which is uncomfortable even though I do play a bunch of other stuff of questionable taste
All in all, kind of regreted pushing through to the end, past all of this buggy jank, very unsatisfying.
Also some translations seem to be missing and the game will fall back on original russian randomly