#BREATHEDGE WALKTHROUGH CHAPTER 2 MANUAL#

#BREATHEDGE WALKTHROUGH CHAPTER 2 MANUAL#

The save/load interface isn't great: I only died a couple of times, and it often wasn't clear whether my manual save or auto save was more recent because they aren't individually timestamped. The need for manual saves isn't clear as a result. The rules about when they happen aren't clear early on. directoral stuff, but that ship has sailed). There's miscellaneous UI stuff that could be improved as well (and. That'd be a big deal (probably necessitating a whole new tech tree worth of progression) but it would add symmetry to justify the late game changes to gameplay, break up the pacing, and an opportunity to start over in a new area where our existing station and vehicle advancements could be of actual benefit.Īnd I think that'd just about do it? The early game is excellent, but endings always disproportionately stick with audiences.

Let us build some engine modules, dock the Normandy, and warp the whole station to the centre of a new exploratory/survival chapter before we can unlock the final level. Or better yet: bring back a hyperdrive recipe for our bases. Then, we could either access new content by blasting stuff out of the way with the Normandy.

Obviously a major change, but it seems like it was intended based on the barely-used navigation map and the warning when you start the shuttle which implies we're coming back: allow the player to choose a warp destination after repairing the Normandy, including returning to the starting area. Being able to build a shuttle airlock is just confusing. The utility of base-building and uselessness of many base modules is another major complaint. Stuff like that, but it's pointless to go too far down that speculative path. The blaster projectile seems too large so it clips on obstacles a lot, which feels clunky. Tweaks would be necessary if they did pepper in more challenge this way, but they're minor. Since the late game doesn't require/utilise any particular suit (and cleverly torches it in the end cutscenes) this might be a good option, and one which would mitigate the 'constantly returning to your ship just to craft one-off bullshit' criticism. Or simply retooling existing blasters to recharge using lycoplasma, perhaps.Īnother option might be a new spacesuit recipe with a built-in workbench for mobile crafting. An unbreakable blaster recipe, or one which uses some of those 1000 lycoplasmas lying about for ammo, would help. Obviously this would require the player to stay armed. There's even arena-like spaces that really felt like they were meant to have foes. As it is we get grenades and blasters but there's barely anywhere to use them, and it's evident the late game was looking for excuses to need them. Populating all those hallways with enemies to shoot would go a long way, and minimise the 'empty walking game' criticism. But it's anticlimactic once survival disappears completely. Currently the game has basically an inverse difficulty curve, which isn't uncommon in survival games, and it's good design that Chapter 1 is an uphill exploratory microcosm and your concerns shift after that. (These are my thoughts based on browsing the sub but I wanna hear yours)įirstly, I think the absence of any challenge in the Normandy sections is as much of a problem as anything else.

Related threads: Opinion on 1.0, Understanding Saving/Autosaving and death, Is the second part really that bad? (I'd add more but I'll probably delete this account after this. It might be fun to think of constructive feedback. Game kinda rules, but everyone seems to have similar thoughts about how the ending lets them down.

Breathedge walkthrough chapter 2