Black Skylands Review (Dekrosna)
... I really wish that there was a middle ground for the recommend function... Alright While my review is going to be saying Recommended ( ^ ) I'm going to say it's more of a middle ground really ( ~ )
The game play... combat is actually pretty solid and pleasant with a decent difficulty increase as you progress, which prompts you to upgrade your gear to something better... which in turn kinda nullifies parts of the difficulty increase. By far the only thing that makes certain aspects of this game 'difficult' is the fact that your actual good weapons have limited ammo while the crap pistol class guns have infinite ammo (this is reasonable.)
the number one irritating aspect for me is the grotesque resource grind when you reach late game (or possibly end game) when going for all that wonderful end game gear that you are SO desperately going to want to get so that you can FINALLY do some proper damage to literally EVERYTHING. And let's not get started on unlocking various weapon mods... the mod boxes are literal RNG for giving you something good or something worthless.
The game is in early access, which is fine and understandable why some aspects of the game are not very refined and smooth.
So yeah... game needs more refining and work done on it... one thing I would like to see added in is a 3 tiered ability that gives a chance of gathering double the resources (resources as in the ones that are gathering nodes).
Tier 1: 10% double resources - mid early game
Tier 2: 30% double resources - mid mid game
Tier 3: 50% double resources - somewhere late game
This is mostly because the resource gathering, despite only needing a couple pieces of them, ends up becoming rather tedious at the late game since islands in Swarm territory don't show up on the map at all.