Even as a storyfag it's HW2 lite: a messy confusing plotline dumped on a game that didn't particularly blend with it well. You honestly nail it, Kharak without the HW name bolted on it would have been ignored by everyone. After playing it at release and after the fix, I'll freely admit that the fixes are good, the original THIRTEEN BATTLECRUISERS is good only for a specific player niche. Bad playtesting on that one, by itself the mission should not be bad. The Gateway rescue shows how the autobalancing fucked up heavily with mission design. HW1 didn't need to try to artificially create pathos: HW2 costantly tries to make the player care and costantly fails. The problem is that HW2's story is a delirious hack job of pieces thrown together by a massacred original version (the entire plotline of HW2 was heavily rewritten as the game run into development problems) and it commits the sin of FORCED MYSTICISM and FORCED EMOTION. I guess? Some missions are creative I have to admit, and in theory HW2 has some better mission design than HW1. The athmosphere is confusing (a shitton of retcons that make Cata seem like a work of narrative art) the pacing is wildly off, the story dumb and the challenge is ok. Sure, you can find it fun, but for most people it was a boring slog and it even fucked up the balance of some missions No reason at all to give money this early. Or maybe they are? Either way, I'm OK with holding off to give Steam my money or just buy the thing off Humble or GOG or something. They dont need my fucking money they aren't an independent short of cash. Gearbox can eat a bag of dicks if they expect me to give them money in advance for an Epic exclusive. It just isn't HW, but it does have HW-esque trappings and that was enough to give me pleasure. More of a side story and if I didnt love the HW universe I wouldn't have bothered. I did enjoy Kharak, but it wasn't that great a game. Some levels are badly designed, the gateway rescue in particular. I know I did, but I knew it just required better play so I dealt and overcame. I regret the difficulty being lowered to the degree it was, but I do think most players get really sad at fleet wipe. I bought it Day 1, finished it with the insane fleet scaling difficulty (6 battleceuisers coming at you at once is pretty awesome), and it is one of my favorite games due to the excellent atmosphere, pacing, story, and challenge.
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