Hard to make progress
Contant breakdowns here or there, how can you make progress??!! How can you get fulfilment from playing??
Too Complicated
There’s so much going on it’s not easy for beginners to catch on like the original game. I have played the first TerraGenesis since it first came out. I wanted to give Landfall a try but it was too much info being thrown all at once. The progress in production is what’s killing me in this game, if you had 2 rovers available starting out, it would be easier to retrieve ice for water. The problem with that is in order to bring new settlers to operate; you must take too many risks that is either shutting down a facility or a water shortage. This is problem. I can’t bring anything to the table if there’s nobody to operate the facility or a rover to bring it because there is NOT ENOUGH RESOURCES. Another thing I do not like you don’t have a chance to choose your faction or name the settlement. It’s like each settlement is owned by different factions and you have complete one settlement to unlock a new one from a different faction
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Only game I’ve played that punishes you for playing
The game will punish you (facilities get damaged, personnel killed in accidents, research lost) if you do not leave the app the *instant* you finish a task. So don’t "take a minute" to look things over (or even wait for the last 10 seconds of a build/search/research task to finish). I’ve had <10 secs remaining on 3+ hour research tasks that were lost 1.5+ hours after a power surge destroyed 33% of my progress.
The "levels" (at least on Mars) are 3 bases in different locations with only slightly different challenges. The actual challenge is to your patience since research from one base (on the same planet) doesn’t carry over to the next base. This means you have to research things like oxygen tanks for every base. Why not give us new problems to solve, or add research areas to improve on existing research? Instead, the challenge is figuring out what research/facilities were a waste of time and resources at the last base and building the next base without.
The "levels" (at least on Mars) are 3 bases in different locations with only slightly different challenges. The actual challenge is to your patience since research from one base (on the same planet) doesn’t carry over to the next base. This means you have to research things like oxygen tanks for every base. Why not give us new problems to solve, or add research areas to improve on existing research? Instead, the challenge is figuring out what research/facilities were a waste of time and resources at the last base and building the next base without.
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