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PaperclipPerfector  5d ago (text post)   2694 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 13, 2026

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MENACE came out in Early Access on Steam, and I've been enjoying the hell out of it. Sure, it's got rough edges and needs some balance tweaks, but the devs are absolutely cooking.

That includes a banger OST. Just listen to this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xt55wnTWt60

Hoorah Major. Every time I hear it play, I absolutely lock the fuck in. It's going in my gym playlist, I don't even know what genre this is, but I want more. Inject it into my veins with a fire-heated needle.

Didn't we have that thread last week?

Anyways, I ran out of content in MENACE, and I worry about replayability. I worry because I fear that my next playthrough would look an awful lot like my first. After all, I would end up recruiting the exact same characters. Some difference might be injected by me not having acccess to the exact same gear, but that feels relatively minor. It feels predictable. This has been my worry since they announced their intention to have fixed characters, and having played it now, I see no reason to think otherwise.

I think the game, as of Today AD, has about 15-30 hours of content in it before you're really scratching the bottom of the barrel. That is honestly not bad at all, compared to many other titles, but it's clearly unfinished if not quite barebones.

That's fine. I bought it in EA knowing that it's maybe half-done. I had fun, though I'm beginning to notice the burnout. The devs seem competent, I'm not too worried.

I wouldn't worry too much about the fixed characters. I'm part of the largest modding discord, and we've got mad motherfuckers making brand new SLs, units and laying the ground for entire total conversions (WW2 and 40k, because those settings are the obviously correct choices). All of that before we have an official modding SDK.

I intend to play till I feel like I've seen it all, and then I might either download one of the many balance mods or the few ones that currently add new content. Or I can wait a few months and come back to a lot more, including both official and modded content. If you're worried you'll pick the same SLs again and again, then there are already mods that randomize the starting pool, and it takes at least a dozen hours before you have the majority unlocked and can fall back into old habits.

WW2 and 40k

This I just don't get. People who see a new, (somewhat) original setting and immediately go "I must turn it into the same thing I've seen a million times before!".

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