Minor issues and Campaign thoughts
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Some minor bugs I've noticed recently.
Multiplayer:
1. A Hologrammed building doesn't pick up the Off status of the adjacent buildings. The Nightime status has been fixed, as promised, but this one I am not sure. It's been a while since I took this screenshot though, so it's very possible this particular issue has been solved by now as well.
http://i.imgur.com/YCUyfNc.png
2. Statistics seems to be off sometimes. Most of the time it's fine, but every once in a while it seems like the game fails to log the changes from a certain point on.
For example in the screenshots below it's clearly visible I had 8 techs. The post game report showed something different.
http://i.imgur.com/yYPhpzc.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nUt7y6o.png
In another game resource summary was completely off for all the players. According to it the winner was at 50k loss and sold a total of 50k goods give or take, which is impossible. Unfortunately I don't have the screenshot.
Campaign:
I decided to give the campaign another shot (reluctantly, tbh) and was both pleasantly surprised and irritated at the same time. I think the campaign got a lot harder, which is great. AI is slaughtering you with BM. On the other hand, map generation is a total hit or miss. I went through Scientific campaign with no problem but Scavenger, very much to my surprise, was a lot of pain. Many of the missions were just plain awful for Scavenger, Bad carbon, bad BM. I found myself struggling to upgrade to lvl 2. Other maps were like a walk in the park with good carbon spots and favorable BM. And again, I couldn't avoid thinking that resource balance could use some more work.
I also had some issues with AI perks. Free Offworld in particular. It's highly abusable. If you happen to have mutiny and a goon squad all you need to do is to alternate buying them and you have a free offworld from a get go. Even though the goon squads are quite an overkill, since AI doesn't mutiny its offworld back anyways.
I also noticed some little bugs:
1. In one of the missions I received a free Adrenaline Boost as my winning perk, which was supposedly automatically applied during the next mission. I got the notification but no actual boost. The game suggested it was carbon that got boosted. Not true...
http://i.imgur.com/O4arw9J.jpg
The whole thing was really confusing,
2. AI's bidding algorithm is... strange. Is Magnetic Storm really worth 126k?
http://i.imgur.com/H9lmE2X.jpg
3. In one of the mission a rival corporation (out of 2) has not founded at all, yet kept bidding the auctions.
4. A winning perk can be unlocking a certain type of HQ. Sometimes, it's the same one you use for your campaign. Auto-skip mission.
I probably forgot a thing or two and will add them if I remember.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
