scalie stalker

insurrectionists are on sight.

It's a really cool game with a cool concept, but it is unfortunately held back by a hardcore save system that doesn't allow you to save your game outside of level transition screens - leading to the inevitable situation where you will spend multiple hours navigating a complex maze-like dungeon only to lose all of your progress and have to start from the very beginning after making a single mistake.

It's a really disappointing thing, too, because otherwise the game is largely well executed. However, if a game doesn't respect my time, I just won't play it - end of story.

Aside from that, another gripe I have is that half of the closed lockers and loot containers in the game are locked, and they're impossible to access without lockpicking them. However, lockpicks are nearly impossible to find, aren't sold by any trader, and have an extremely high (effectively 80%) chance to break. I'm not sure what the intention is here, especially since there's a class that gets a bonus to lockpicking - but they don't have any way to even get those lockpicks??? On a side tangent from that, there are a lot of locked rooms and offices that can't be accessed without the proper key -- but I haven't found any of these keys even after meticulously searching entire zones -- so I'm always leaving behind cool looking loot rooms because they're impossible to access. And no, you can't lockpick them - they have a hardcoded 100% chance to break lockpicks (though this is never communicated to the player, it's just a fun little tidbit you have to work out yourself, and it still allows you to waste all your lockpicks on them)