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I played return to moria this past two weeks. It's a survival crafting game. Gameplay wise it is fairly standard for the genre. The setting of middle earth is fun. I'm not a massive LOTR nerd, so I'm sure I missed some subtleties.
There are some mechanics that definitely make the game better suited for co-op. I played it alone and felt like I was missing out. Storage sizes always felt too small, there were legendary gear items that you could only carry one of, and you could be picked up upon death by a comrade if you had one. I eventually downloaded a mod to fix the first two issues. It expanded storage and allowed carrying multiple legendary items.
Progression happens entirely through gear. And gear drops on death. Corpse runs were not as brutal as I feared. The game seemed to handle agro and grave placement in a way that helped corpse runs.
Resource collecting was generally pretty standard but sometimes I'd find myself making fun little mining platforms to get higher.
The map is procedurally generated, but it's more like pre-made rooms that are stuck together in an odd assortment rather than fully new terrain each time.
Navigation was tricky with the map not helping much except to provide general directions. I ended memorizing a lot of tunnel layouts in order to get where I needed to go.
Replayability felt low. I didn't want to totally start from scratch after getting used to all my awesome gear. The next update is supposedly adding NPCs for bases, I'll probably replay the game when that comes out.
Funny idea for a Victoria 3 mod:
Change the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence from nonnavigable lakes/rivers to a navigable sea zone. Change the Mississippi and the Illinois from nonnavigable rivers to a navigable sea zone. Add to Chicago a canal connecting the two new sea zones.
Change the Rhine from a nonnavigable river to a navigable sea zone. Change the Danube from a nonnavigable river to a navigable sea zone. Add to Neumarkt a canal connecting the two new sea zones.
Having never played Victoria, what effects do you think this would have?
I actually haven't played much Victoria 3 either—I've just made mods and observed what the AI-controlled countries do with them in "hands-off" campaigns. But, from watching YouTubers play Victoria 3, I imagine that adding sea access to the interiors of North America and Europe would significantly increase those regions' economic output by alleviating infrastructure bottlenecks that otherwise cannot be overcome until railroads are constructed and expensively (due to the high cost of engines) maintained.
In the vanilla game, these navigable inland water bodies are represented with a flat +15 or +20 bonus to infrastructure. This is equivalent to getting a blockade-immune level 5 or level 7 port building for free, which IMO is a bit extreme.
Two things off the top of my head: that would result in AI Great Britain now teleporting 100k regulars (plus their endless tide of Indian peasants) into Missouri or Budapest every war.
And if anything, the +20 infrastructure bonus currently in game is laughably underpowered. That's one basic railroad, and says more about how little infrastructure ports provide, which off the top of my head i believe is 3. It also does nothing during a blockade. Blockades only have to block market capitals off from the world market to fuck over the whole country. I think it can try to reroute, but even the US or China only have two or three nodes to block anyways. The Brits start with like 5 fleets each bigger than anyone else save France anyways.
I agree with the great lakes canal, but I don't believe you can actually close canals you control like Panama during war. I could be wrong though, I despise the Vic3 war system and avoid anything resembling a fair fight if I can.
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