it visually is incredible and a lot of the set pieces areas are super good but it needs a lot of balancing and more playtesting I feel like.

the HP of a lot of the new Xen enemies and amount of ammo needs to be adjusted throughout.

Also think that overall this chapter is great, especially Grand finale battle - it feels very real and enemy pressure intimidating enough without being overwhelming. Final final battle a bit confusing though - is it necessary to shoot controllers or just make a timed jump? Still well done.

But compared to previous chapters Focal point leaves mixed vibes: way to much arena battles and obligatory 'elevator level', both of which makes you feel you are being force fed with gameplay. And new colored lesions - it may seem devs are mocking original CC's idea - parasite growth sucking sap from vines, now it's just rgb bio-buttons. Puzzles involving it seem a bit forced. Also new bullsquids - they just suck - green-thing ones have Gonarch attack but smaller and a part superficially dedicated just to present them; red-things ones exist just to be blown up the moment they appear on screen. It won't be so sad, except for the fact that there is a really cool new creature - electro-eyehound, which seem a bit lacking on appreciation and screen time it deserves(no, like really, both idea of "electrifyed" eyehound and it's lingering attack seem quite neat).

If devs going to tweak some stuff - I'm on "crane kind of confusing" bandwagon, had to spend quite some time trying to find how to access carrying platform "the proper way", before just rush-jumping onto it. And last alien grenade receptacle puzzle - had to check forum to see that you supposed to bounce it of the green wall (just this one puzzle for the entire game btw); the section where you carry grenade through a door does not cover it at all.

In the end, I want to thank HECU Collective - for that they done out of sheer passion - Blue Shift, despite some rough edges, provides fun and experience on a triple-a game level!

Help please. I am stuck in one of the puzzles in focal point. I have jumped and fought my way to the floating rock (ish) with the two bombed-out bases on it. The whatever keeps pounding away and I have run out of ideas. I crawled all over the rock and cannot for the life of me figure out where to go. There is some type of device with a frame outline of a crystal. Am I supposed to work with that?

OK, I figured it out. I am all the way up to the Focal Point facility now. I guess that I need to open the door to the generator, but I'm stumped. Based on all of the health and ammunition laying around, I am thinking that a boss fight will be triggered soon.

I really liked xen in blueshift. I dont think either the puzzles are too hard or the enemies. I only spend some time in the 1324 computer puzzle in the base. Other than that there are many green health puddles. Ammo is a little scarce sometimes but it forced me to use all my weapons.