The Brew Barons

01/14/25

At the moment, a good tech demo. But there is no balance, the plot is purely nominal, and there are catastrophically few control settings. Let me explain: I brought basic piloting skills from the same tundra and I don’t understand at all how flight assistance works here. Unresponsive controls, inability to change the speed and altitude measurement system (speed in knots and altitude in meters). Now balance. I personally collected 2 builds. Heavy for transporting anything (although it is sometimes unnecessary) and light for battles. That's it, other spare parts except for these 2 builds are simply not needed. And in general, pumping up the plane doesn’t really do anything. The fastest plane I assembled flew somewhere around 160-170 knots. The basic one flies 130. And why swing? Especially if the boss of the fight crashes and you have to crash the plane and repair it. Plus, if you need to fly somewhere to get ingredients (especially to distant islands), then you can simply set the plane on course and run to make some tea. All you can miss is a couple of recipes for alcohol, which you will find later. No, to give the opportunity to send other pilots for ingredients? But there are already 12 “playable” characters. Minus the administration (mechanics, brewers, etc.) you get 3 full crews. One is yours + 2 free. And you can also have airplanes on 1 and not 2. The lack of instruments is also annoying. All you have is a speedometer, altimeter and compass. A banal elevation angle indicator is sorely lacking. Well, and the booze part. It really pisses me off that you can’t make small batches. I may only need 20 bottles of beer, why the hell should I make 80 of them? But the candy wrapper is beautiful. The graphic is not bad, the style is attractive. Although I myself noticed how the world loaded around the field of view. Thanks to the habit of moving the camera further away, because I want to see not the tail of the plane, but the place where I am flying. Because of all these flaws and rough edges, playing after 7-8 hours is simply boring and even annoying. So I will wait for further development, because the concept is really cool