The art style is exactly the same they have been since the kickstarter began, so its exactly what they promised, whatever you like it or not. Also, try a real argument next time, instead of just being a edgy retard.
So? It's still pure shit artistic direction. WL2, both it's 2D and 3D elements, is beautiful.
Just tweaking? The current combat is turn-based popamole, people in cover taking shots at other people in cover.
"Describes many third-person console shooters where the gameplay is all about sitting behind some brick and shooting heads of enemies popping out from behind other bricks - one of the ways to cover up the inability to dodge and do precise shots fast with a gamepad. Very similar to pop-a-mole or a whack-a-mole game hence the term.
First appeared in Kill-Switch and was copied in many games since then."
"Wow shooting people in Mass Effect, Gears of War and GTA4 feels like popamole"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=popamole
Yeah, no. The cover hits a penalty to-hit for ranged attackers, and thus improves tactical options.
Now suddenly they are adding stances and thinking about aimed shots... do you have any idea of how big a change it's to add something like aimed shots at this point?
Stances aren't a big deal, they just need to make sure the AI has the right scripts to use it right, and also that the "standing" stance is balanced against crouched, so both have advantages and distadvantages, and being crouched at all times isn't a no-brainer like Jagged Alliance 2.
But really, if you want to blame anyone for WL2 having more combat options, it's the backers, who complained that the combat isn't complex enough. Inxile probably considered that the fans wouldn't complain because Wasteland itself didn't have very tactical combat, it didn't have stances or cover or aimed shots, it was a game of interaction primarily even though the random encounter rate was high in line with most RPG's of that era.
If you can't see that combat is being made more complex by fan input, you're deluded, and that's why the game has been pushed back. Fargo just evaluated (probably from center code suggestions and general forum chatter) that the majority of backers wanted more tactical options in combat.
In Wasteland 1 you could still split your party for combat and different characters could have different positions in combat, though the limitations of the old engine made it very hard to control. Wasteland 2's initial combat in the beta wasn't too different from that, just with better interface.
Adding new UI elements, reworking the AI, and rethinking the entire balance of the game!
Sounds completely normal for a beta to me.
How lazy and shallow must have been their pre-production for them to only now start to focus on making the mechanics actually interesting...
Things change when you have thousands of people playing/testing your product. Pre-production things mostly "on paper" or with primitive prototypes are never going to survive completely intact when faced with how the software actually really functions when real people are using it. Something can be good on paper, but end up less than great in real implementation in the game.
Same thing the C&C; they wrote the bare minimum, and now the beta testers are giving all the ideas and suggestions they couldn't come up for themselves.
Not really
Yeah, how dare I expect fucking Brian Fargo and Chris Avellone, without any publisher to hold them back, to produce anything great? Nah, they'll just take systems that have been done way better before, make a mediocre copy of them, paste it all together and call it a day. And all the fanboys like you will rejoice on how awesome they are... because it's totally impossible to make a great RPG.
You immediately associate a "great RPG" with coming up with all these ~innovative~ or whatever new systems, which is false. You should see the WL2 forums, backers are already not happy because of how far WL2 has gone from the original WL mechanics. Again, I think you're in a very small minority here, most backers want original or unique RPG mechanics, they want familiarity, they want to see those old CRPG mechanics and just have them copypasted. Which I think is fine too, this isn't supposed to be a game about innovation or originality or whatever, and really who gives a shit, we want nostalgia.
Fargo promised and keeps promising a game that is more replayable than any of his old games, focused on reactivity and all that. He has to deliver what he promises; what you want or care matter absolutely nothing here. Go play Borderlands.
And have you played the complete WL2 game? If not then STFU. If you put Wasteland and Fallout together and make a game, I'm not exactly sure what you get but it's sure gonna have unavoidable combat dungeons out the ass.
; this is game done using penut budget for KWA chill down a bit.
