Fedora, Solus and Ubuntu walk into a bar. A quality assurance test breaks out.
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: INSIDIA ($30 DLC edition)
Webzone: Insidia
Devel: Bad Seed
Engine: Unity
Price: Free to Play + DLC
Wazzat: INSIDIA is a tactical game of turn based duels. Carefully move your team of powerful champions and weave their attacks together to claim victory in the field of battle. Conquer your foes and claim the spoils of the post-apocalyptic world.
Mandatory Disclosure: Dev sent us keys for the Founder Pack DLC
Venn:
Does It Launch
- Launches.
Performance @ 1080
- Solid 60 @ 1080.
Graphics
- Full / windowed works.
Control
- Click, click, click.
Jordan:
Does It Launch
- It do
Performance @ 1080
- Holds 60 @1080 with a little herky jerk at the beginning of the match
- Gan get you 49 on UHD
Graphics
- It looks ok
Control
- Click your mouse, hotkeys for squaddies and abilities, wasd for camera
Pedro:
Does It Launch
Performance @ 1080
Graphics
- All the characters look like they’re from the same breed.
Control
- Work fine except you have to be careful about where you click.
QA Score:
Fedora:
Soulless:
Ubuntu:
Fun section:
Fun?:
- Venn:
- Turn based, DIAF.
- Thought the the simultaneous turns thing would be kinda neat, nope.
- It’s simplified to the point where I knew what to do.
- Casual TBS.
- Not ugly, simple to pick up, priced to sell.
- If this genre is not your business don’t expect this to be the one that changes you mind.
- Jordan:
- This game is a wee convoluted
- You can only move one unit per turn
- Each unit has a passive ability it does each turn anyways, such as moving, shooting, etc
- Each player inputs their shit at the same time, so you can bluff and predict, sort of
- The most effective strategy I found was try and hold the center for a long as possible and failing that, stall until enough people have rezzed that you can just send a dude through
- Honestly, I’d like to see more characters with varied strategies. There are just a bunch of heroes who just aren’t good
- OF course, this is all against the AI
- Nobody’s playing this
- I like the turn based strategy aspect, but that’s about it
- Pedro:
- The biggest problem with this online tactical duel game, it’s that no one else is playing it.
- And the reason no one is playing it is because there’s one winning strategy, it’s not about tactics it’s about picking the winning team and not deviating from that formation.
- At least, that’s what the AI can do.
- There’s no way to tell if it’d be different against other players because there’s no one else.
- But it is unlikely it would be much different.
- The game has had no updates since May, there’s no meta-shift to keep things interesting, there’s nothing.
- And that is unfortunate!
- Because it’s a vicious cycle of nope, now.
- The devs won’t update the game because no one is playing it. Players won’t return to the game because it’s not getting updated. Rinse, repeat!
Fun Score:
Venn:
Jordan:
Pedro:
