Steam says I have 250h playtime in JWE2 so I think I spend enough time in it to do this.
Even if nobody is interesting in cause I'm just a gamer who enjoyes this game. No Youtuber or something like that.
So let's get startet:
Pros
This are, in my opinion, the most important points of the game.
Maybe you're confused by the same thinks are at pro and at con, so let me explain this.
Animations looks very, very good, if they work correctly. In most cases... they don't. I let them hunt and fight hundrets of times and realy in most cases the animations wasn't clean or just wasn't complete shown. Often had the thing that 2 enemys startet the circling for fighting, then both "dance" in each other and after that they just start running and both are injured but nothing really happened.
Why mods you ask? Cause they are out and most of them are great but frontier do not like to see them. No problem for me personal but thinking of the poor console players who'll never get them.
My conclusion:
I really enjoy the game and it looks so so amazing, but there is so much to work on. At this point some early acces games feels more finish than this game.
The main story is done in about 2h and feels unfinished. We all know this is cause of Dominion isn't out yet and there is not much space for story telling between FK and Dominion. Maybe it will go on when the film is released.
Chaos Theorie mode wasted so much potential. In most cases it was just build a park. No decisions or something that freshes up the game. Most disapointing in my opinion was JP3. No spoilers but this was not what I expected.
Sadly the challenge modes are all kind of districted. There is no map where you can unlock all avaliable species at the same time.
Sandbox needs more options for instant incubating and such things.
The biggest problem is the AI and pathfinding.
MVU and Ranger Vehicles have big problems to find they're way. Often the units drive in circles to find a way even if the target is 30 metres away and there is nothing in they're way. I really don't know why these vehicles are needed. Frontier had choose the easy way and let everything do by the helicopters. That would clear up so much problems.
The territory system is a joke. The Dinosaurs are even more stupid then they were in the first game. Every try to let them free roaming, cause I want a real Side-B, end up in complete disapointement (tested even over night while I'm sleeping letting them do their things). Most species had made the whole map they're terrritory and no herding. They all spilt up everywhere, somites there were two near ech other cause they made they're social animation. Told of social animations, they are now like the hunting/fighting animations in JWE1. Dinosaur 1 get at that point, dinosaur 2 walks in position and animations plays (often glitchy).
Last but not least, Hunting. In wide exibits or in the Side-B tests it doesn't really work. The pathfinding is so wired. I gave them so much complete flat open space and the carnivores are moving like crazy chickes, turns 20x around themselves or stops every 2 second for a moment. It just feels complete broken when there is to much space. In small exibits it works relativily well but there are more clipping issues cause of the lost space. Also some animations can play through the fences so the dinos are in some cases free after an animation is finished.
I love the game but no AI improvements makes me so so sad and I don't think it ever will happen that we become some day a real immersive feeling.
So far, Thank you Frontier for houndrets of houres fun!
If someone read till this point, let me know if I'm alone with my points
Even if nobody is interesting in cause I'm just a gamer who enjoyes this game. No Youtuber or something like that.
So let's get startet:
Pros
- Optics
- Species diversity
- much colour variations
- Animations
- shops
- occupation
- fun
- mods
- pathfinding
- Vehicles (Land)
- Animations
- "dynamic" hunting/fighting
- herding
- Ai in general
- Campaign/Chaos mode
- mods
This are, in my opinion, the most important points of the game.
Maybe you're confused by the same thinks are at pro and at con, so let me explain this.
Animations looks very, very good, if they work correctly. In most cases... they don't. I let them hunt and fight hundrets of times and realy in most cases the animations wasn't clean or just wasn't complete shown. Often had the thing that 2 enemys startet the circling for fighting, then both "dance" in each other and after that they just start running and both are injured but nothing really happened.
Why mods you ask? Cause they are out and most of them are great but frontier do not like to see them. No problem for me personal but thinking of the poor console players who'll never get them.
My conclusion:
I really enjoy the game and it looks so so amazing, but there is so much to work on. At this point some early acces games feels more finish than this game.
The main story is done in about 2h and feels unfinished. We all know this is cause of Dominion isn't out yet and there is not much space for story telling between FK and Dominion. Maybe it will go on when the film is released.
Chaos Theorie mode wasted so much potential. In most cases it was just build a park. No decisions or something that freshes up the game. Most disapointing in my opinion was JP3. No spoilers but this was not what I expected.
Sadly the challenge modes are all kind of districted. There is no map where you can unlock all avaliable species at the same time.
Sandbox needs more options for instant incubating and such things.
The biggest problem is the AI and pathfinding.
MVU and Ranger Vehicles have big problems to find they're way. Often the units drive in circles to find a way even if the target is 30 metres away and there is nothing in they're way. I really don't know why these vehicles are needed. Frontier had choose the easy way and let everything do by the helicopters. That would clear up so much problems.
The territory system is a joke. The Dinosaurs are even more stupid then they were in the first game. Every try to let them free roaming, cause I want a real Side-B, end up in complete disapointement (tested even over night while I'm sleeping letting them do their things). Most species had made the whole map they're terrritory and no herding. They all spilt up everywhere, somites there were two near ech other cause they made they're social animation. Told of social animations, they are now like the hunting/fighting animations in JWE1. Dinosaur 1 get at that point, dinosaur 2 walks in position and animations plays (often glitchy).
Last but not least, Hunting. In wide exibits or in the Side-B tests it doesn't really work. The pathfinding is so wired. I gave them so much complete flat open space and the carnivores are moving like crazy chickes, turns 20x around themselves or stops every 2 second for a moment. It just feels complete broken when there is to much space. In small exibits it works relativily well but there are more clipping issues cause of the lost space. Also some animations can play through the fences so the dinos are in some cases free after an animation is finished.
I love the game but no AI improvements makes me so so sad and I don't think it ever will happen that we become some day a real immersive feeling.
So far, Thank you Frontier for houndrets of houres fun!
If someone read till this point, let me know if I'm alone with my points
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