Recent reviews by To_fu

"Yo, Lunacy"

edit: Home invasion update

TL:DR because i'm lazy, the AI improved, you get less ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ instances it feels like, still can be feeling over-tuned but not outright unenjoyable,

the AI still tends to be triggerfriendly because every action causes generally stress, or funnily they shoot at you before you can do something about it, instead of trying to go into hiding,

so you get less interesting interactions (like hiding AI, AI running to partners to be a group to fight you like in SWAT 4),
but more than at 1.0, it stills generally just ends up being a shooting gallery.

Game is fun itself



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with the current AI, no, theyre again broken, and most situations just end up in firefights and dont make different levels really stand out intressting enough if every ai has aim and vision capabilities of elite soldier

though the swat AI improved and is more reliable even they cant stand up to the redicilous suspect AI

my biggest problem with the game really is the AI being absolutely broken and unreasonable,

but i guess having a normal goon being able to 50meter mozambique drill your ass, WHILE strafing with a bumpfiring tec9, is "realistic"

1.0 wise the game is mostly polished, levels got their proper setdressing, Environment art looks good, and the VO is onpoint finally, mechanically the game is really fun, just being completely underminded by crazy suspect AI that just way too happy to shoot than offer intressting standoffs or more memorably encounters than "oh haha the suspect ai again tried to flank me or push out of a door without body armor"

you cant even willingly play non lethal because instead of trying to avoid swat officers by hiding or getting a drop on them, they just open fire 99/100 times

the game isnt SWAT5 what most people claim to be, and it shouldnt try to be in the shadow of original swat games,

but since people like doing it let me put it this way

this game levels feel barely different from a gameplay perspective (not setdressing)
unlike swat4 difference between Qwik Fuel Convenience Store and St. Michael’s Medical Center

i really want to like this game, but the redilcious stance on their AI and people defending it is beyond me.

id be perfectly fine if the AI is more aggressive, if it wouldnt be for some really weird RNG values of their AIM values.