Eh, depending on the game, there can be some carryover of abilities and upgrades, which to me just sort of feels like a New Game+ mode, but without requiring you finish the game to do so. But yeah the ones where you have zero carryover, are annoying, though I honestly can't think of too many of those offhand.
They're not hard... they're weird. They're turn based but with a fix order of one of your character and then one of the enemy. This mean even if you outnumber the enemy, they'll get to act the same amount of time as you. Unlike every tactic game you want to avoid killing enemy one at a time and instead want to whittle down everyone and then kill them all at once. Otherwise you can end up with one enemy attacking the same character over and over again without you really being able to do anything.
If the issue of the turn order system bothers you, but you like XCOM, then you should try out Chimera Squad. One of the main components of the game, is the turn order, and ways to manipulate it with abilities. In fact I built a squad that specialized in doing exactly that, and one character in particular, through a combination of abilities and items, basically was this Webweaver of turn control. She pretty much never shot her gun, because she was just so vital using her various abilities, that cycled on cooldown where it was pretty much always better to have her do something else than pew pew. It felt incredibly satisfying to turn some fights, that at the start, were incredibly overwhelming, and through tactical use of turn reduction, turn boosting, totally neuter the enemy assault, and make the fight WAY more manageable.
Yeah, I'm not super fond of parts of the fanbase myself. There's a portion that wants to help you are long as you're willing to learn and then there's the "GIt Gud, Scrub" jerks. And then there's the griefing community of the series, who gets butthurt if you don't bow or fight them the way they want to fight(despite the fact they invaded YOU). Dark Souls 3 is apparently the worst because invaders tend to get matched with 3 to 1 odds against and thats terrible because now griefing is no fun(for them) anymore.
Yeah, there's some really odd & hostile elements of the fanbase. It's really quite against what the game should be about, as well; the series has always been about overcoming these ridiculous obstacles and difficulty through (jolly) cooperation where necessary.
There's a lot of the same stuff in the DS3 multiplayer world. Lots of people with very specific ideas of how fights should go, with rules and bows and such that they've come up with. I immersed myself in that mire in order to max out the covenants and gain the platinum.
Level up that ADP stat ASAP. Prioritize it until it’s at least 20. DS2 has a lot of jank in its design but there’s a lot of good to be found once you get past the steeper learning curve. The other thing is once you kill most enemies enough times, they’ll cease respawning. It’s a nice little compensation for the bs if nothing else.
I just find the games completely uninteresting. I know there IS a story in the games, but nobody ever talks about it in "public" circles. I admit I'm not a huge pursuer of gamer social media channels and outlets, but even with my incredibly limited involvement over the years, the ONLY thing anyone ever actually has to say about the DS games, is the fighting, and how hard X boss was, and what their strat was, etc etc. So as best as I can tell, nobody actually plays the game for the plot, so the plot might as well not exist.
I have mixed feelings about that game. It's the closest I can find to the joy I had playing Tribes 2, but the scale of it does sort of give me serious issues. Partly performance based, so it makes it hard to actually enjoy the massive combat when my frame rates dies a slow, festering death. But it also just it's so...fluid. Like, we spend hours trying to take a region, only to have it immediately lost because a new batch of players logged in from another part of the world, and several of ours logged off. It makes the effort I put in feel pointless, even though I love playing a support in that game
They came out with some new patches and at the moment I'm still enjoying it. Plus, I found a good way to get certs, if you are on a continent when it closes you get at least 150 cert points. I'm not sure if that is new or if I just somehow didn't notice it before.
