u/MagpieTower

I'm very excited, but also cautiously optimistic for this game. I've always loved Xcom 2 and hope this game can surpass it. My only worries is that the game might be too short due to the story-based missions. My hope for this game is to have high replayability of over +1,000 hours, even hopefully being able to play for years plus having high customization options. I don't mean a cheap replay of starting the same missions and story over and over again. It needs huge variety of different plays. Something just like Xcom 2. If there is a confirmation for such high replay value, then I will pre-order and buy the game as soon as possible. I wish it would let us play villains, like Darth Vadar and Kylo Ren. Maybe if the game succeeds in sales, then I hope they will add those in a future DLC for playing on the Dark Side, but that's just me.

I've not run a table with players yet, but I went ahead and played Solo to test out the game, especially the Blood Library. I love how quick character creation is and how simple it is to play. However, I am unsure how I feel about the Dice mechanics of using 2d10 in place of d20. I get that 2d10 has the bell curve plus modifiers where it can get to the mid numbers rather than the swinginess of d20. For some reason, 2d10 feels wonky to me. It's the physical act of reading two separate dice and assembling the number in my head. With a d20, the entire number is read on one face and it's ready to go, which is much faster. Figuring out 2d10 slows down the game for me somewhat, but that's just me. How about you guys?

I recently returned to AoW4 after centuries to find that all the animation of combat units move absurdly fast and there's no actual option to slow them down. There's only Default, Fast, and Very Fast. I'm baffled that they removed the Slow one. I missed the old way of doing things in AoW4. I get it that people want to speed up the game, but I absolutely love how some units even enemies that walk slowly, marching closely rather than running. It's relaxing to watch for me. If this option doesn't exist, please add the option in the Setting. Thank you!

EDIT: My bad, it seems I must have pressed something on the Xbox Controller and it seemed to have sped up combat animation way too fast. I got it back to normal. However, I still would very much like to have Slow Animation Option for soldiers to walk slowly rather than run. Please, please add this! Thank you!

I'm just mainly curious if anyone have completely restarted the game without using the +NG feature. I'm having a dilemma on whether to start over or not. I made a build and regret playing it and want to start over with a different build.

EDIT: The same goes for not using Chrysalis Rebirth too. What I mean is, a completely restart back to Level 0 all the way back to the beginning.

EDIT 2: Thanks, guys! Going to restart the game to enjoy the pain and torture!