{"id":2642,"date":"2013-08-21T04:03:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T09:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.beniesbuilds.com\/benie\/games\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2013-08-21T04:03:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T09:03:49","slug":"miner-wars-2081-completed-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2013\/08\/21\/miner-wars-2081-completed-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Miner Wars 2081 “completed??” – Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Campaign Completed!<\/strong>” was flashed in blue letters on my screen when I finally found what we were looking for. To not give spoilers, I won’t say what it was until I get to the Spoilers Section. Let’s just say I’m sure a DLC will come to extend it. Well, I hope anyway. I want to see more.<\/p>\n

I do want to say, that “ending” was possibly the most confusing ending I’ve ever seen in a video game. No credits. No ‘heroic salute music’. It was all “wow.. this is it. We did it! So I’m being told by the GPS to go back to the Mothership, ok. Wait.. why is there no other missions? .. Is this freeplay after the main campaign?”
\nSeriously, I thought the end of Dead Space 2 was sub-par. This, is worse. Why end it so, abruptly?<\/p>\n

I do want to say one thing before going to the Spoilers Section. This thing about “fully destructible environments” is a lie. Not everything can be destroyed. For example, station walls can’t be. Only certain panels and fans can.
\nAsteroids, yes, they can. But since the Intergalactic Highway,, of having asteroids that can’t be destroyed…<\/p>\n

Seeing how there’s nothing else to talk about that I haven’t discussed in the previous post, I’ll get right to the Spoilers Section. Do remember that these are spoilers so don’t whine to me if I spoil it for you, you have been warned.. yadda yadda yadda.. let’s just get to it.<\/p>\n

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\n..Spoilers Section..
\nSo it seems the ending is betrayal. The scientist from OmriCorp is working with the Russians. You still don’t know what they wanted with the info of the aliens, but I’m sure it was for the wrong reasons.
\nYou do get your revenge by destroying these two Russian motherships, then kill him. Then you discover what appears to be a wormhole that isn’t powered. Your team thinks that if it was powered, it could possibly lead to another universe. And then… then everything to advance the plot dies! They never mention anything like “well how do we get this thing operational?”; nothing to extend the plot. It just… dies. I expected at least<\/strong> a Solar Flare that’s stronger than it ever was (like the sun exploding a final time) that finished off what it did to the system.. and they had to get the fuck in there and warp to wherever before the entire solar system is voided of everything. I waited for something<\/em>.. anything<\/strong> to happen… yet, that was it. And I’m standing there with my mouth wide open, about ready to say “what the FUCK?!”
\nBut anyway, even though the ending is… hell, I don’t even think there even was an ending. But that there is perfect DLC material. It has to be. Surly there will be a sequel or something, but I don’t think this indie group is going to make one.
\nThe main dev in his blog, does<\/em> mention a sequel (Miner Wars 2 maybe?). But his latest post was just under two weeks ago.
\n\/..Spoilers Section..<\/p>\n

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\nSo what is there to do now? Besides still thinking of that bad ending.. resource mining for the most part, maybe killing a few raiders, making a home inside of an asteroid, seeing how far you can go in the game universe. There’s also a “Zombie level” between the old orbits of Mars and Jupiter, where the enemy ships don’t shoot at you; they get in your face like flies, and can be hard to aim at due to their erratic behavior. But I find it funny seeing things like “Anti-Zombie Repellent” and “Holy Bullets”.
\nYou can also try to find all the secret rooms of the campaign. Hell, you could possibly re-play the campaign even after you complete it. Sure there’s even mini-missions. Believe I saw one called “Convoy”. Maybe you have to protect a convoy of Motherships from raiders.<\/p>\n

I do know this. Doing the last missions before the final… I don’t see how in the hell I would be able to do them legit without screaming at my monitor, dying possibly 20+ times the same way. There’s a part where I had to assault an even more well-armored ship, where the fighter ships would. not. fucking. STOP. RESPAWNING!! ARGH! It was like they were sending infinite enemy ships after me. Not to mention I also needed to take out the Anti-Ship guns (Gatling and Rocket) on the vessel to even get close enough to get in.
\nAnd why this was happening, I had to destroy 75% of these solar panels, THEN get to a place in under 20 seconds (I fucking hate time limits in games, they cause me to panic and fuck up).
\nSo I had enemy ships spraying me with bullets, while trying to destroy a set number of solar panels, then getting the fuck in the base while being shot at! There is no fucking way in hell I would had done that legit! And this was on Easy difficulty too.<\/p>\n

I bet if I had a joystick with a hat switch (like my old Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro), I’ll own their asses… Descent-style. I kept on doing my Descent-style “sidestep maneuver” which is flying around the enemy in a circle while aiming at him and firing. Very useful against enemies that have homing missiles. Thank god they’re nothing like the homing missiles in Descent; those were a pain in the ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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