Date played: October 25th
Platform: 3DS
Time played: 70 minutes
Session fun rating: 6/10
I played a mission where I had to blow up a drone birthing train and defeat the incoming enemies. While that doesn't sound that hard, there are things I didn't know the first TWO times I played it. First, I put my team out and sent the engineer to set the three charges required to blow up the train. That went well except that I didn't know that all my characters had to be at least one square away from the train for it to blow. Now that would not have been a problem except that I set down a turret on a space adjacent to the train and thus, could not blow it up until I picked up the turret. Since my engineer was so far away, I was overrun by robotic drones that spawn from the train every few turns.
The second attempt was better. I didn't set down a turret and I was a bit more meticulous but when I blew up the train, a horde of enemies spawned near my sniper and killed him very quickly, failing the mission once more.
The third time, I had this shit down. I knew exactly what to do and where to put my troops. As I was clearly about to win the match, the fucking battery died on my damned 3DS. I thought, hey no problem, I'll just plug it in right? The thing is, I'm in a foreign country right now and I had not tested my power converter yet. Guess what? It doesn't fucking work. So here I am, about to finish the mission and I can't charge my console and I won't be able to play it for the rest of the trip.
Long live PC gaming?
Platform: 3DS
Time played: 70 minutes
Session fun rating: 6/10
I played a mission where I had to blow up a drone birthing train and defeat the incoming enemies. While that doesn't sound that hard, there are things I didn't know the first TWO times I played it. First, I put my team out and sent the engineer to set the three charges required to blow up the train. That went well except that I didn't know that all my characters had to be at least one square away from the train for it to blow. Now that would not have been a problem except that I set down a turret on a space adjacent to the train and thus, could not blow it up until I picked up the turret. Since my engineer was so far away, I was overrun by robotic drones that spawn from the train every few turns.
The second attempt was better. I didn't set down a turret and I was a bit more meticulous but when I blew up the train, a horde of enemies spawned near my sniper and killed him very quickly, failing the mission once more.
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| Maybe The Escapist was right all along |
Long live PC gaming?
