u/_probablyryan

Just got AC7 on Steam after having not played these games since the PS2 and am mostly having a blast, but good lord are your allies useless. And every explanation I see for this revolves around "oh, well it's set that way because otherwise the score based missions would be too hard" as if that's not just poor game design? Meanwhile I'm pulling my hair out every time I have to go on a mission that revolves around shooting at things on the ground or providing fire support (which is like half of the missions in this game), because my allies are wholly incapable of keeping things off my tail for even a few seconds while I do the objective, and I only get 4 flares per mission.

This is part suggestion part rant. Before I start, just to get all of this out of the way:

- Yes, I know not to buy the first research desk and how to do all the research desk juggling to get all four desks quickly

- Yes, I know about seeds and which ones are good layouts

- Yes, I do like this game ... most of the time

*However,* the shitty RNG in this game coupled with the fact that failing to reach day 15 on a franchise kills your whole franchise really just turns me sour on this game sometimes.

This just happened to my girlfriend and I:

We're on the second round of a coffee franchise with great cards. We have the one where customers yell out their orders. We have the one that starts us off with 50 coins. We have the one that lowers group size, which gives us a max group size of 1. We have the thing that makes blueprint desks give you two copies of whatever you get from it. We're in great shape, this is both the first time we're gotten to day 15+ three times in a row on one franchise and the first time we've gotten to a franchise round with no objectively terrible cards, and we go into this super excited about lining up a bunch of bar tables next to each other and getting a whole self sustaining coffee automation going that requires no input from us. It's going to be great. Except:

- We get zero coffee table, prep station or conveyor blueprints for 14 straight days, and only a single extra blueprint cabinet

- Our first decor day had zero 3 diamond decor items on the first roll, and our second decor day had zero any diamond items on the first roll (oops, all plants)

- Our dining table research somehow cycled through every table option, including fancy cloth twice (which I didn't know was possible?), before we got the bar table blueprint

- By day 15 we had the cards that slowed us down when in view of customers, made customers slowed by messes, and made customers spread mess in a wider area

Despite all of this, we make it to day 15, only to loose at essentially the last possible moment because we just couldnt get people in and out fast enough. And now we have to start entirely over from scratch.

I know this isn't the norm for this game. Most of the time you get a mix of good and bad with your cards and rolls and whatever. But shit like this happens often enough that I regularly have to take hiatuses from it (a game which the two of us mostly love playing together), because we'll get fucked so hard one run that I just want to turn off the Switch, do literally anything else with my time and not touch this game for a few weeks.

This is a silly couch coop game, there's nothing competitive about it. Why isn't there an option to like enable/disable certain cards from popping up? Why can't failing a franchise run just reset you back to the beginning of that franchise instead of wiping your whole save?