You can see what the developers were going for, but it didn't work for me. Much of the game involves moving around the environments in an, IMO, slow and clunky fashion. The game is more Mutant:Year Zero and less XCOM2. But as for the HDD question? Definitely put it on an SSD - the game takes forever to save and load for some reason. The actual strategic combat is great and really tightly designed, and the world is really colorful and full of personality - all the heroes are distinct, and there's a great variety of map and enemy types. I think these can be fixed post-launch by just reducing the number of enemies, making stealth more feasible and combat less of a grind. The best hope is to try and rush one or two takedowns so you only have to deal with 10 enemies rather than 15. This compounds with the quick ramp-up in enemy numbers - some encounter areas can have more than a dozen enemies on intertwining patrol paths that make taking them out covertly basically impossible. Combat will eventually become an inevitability.

most of the sneaky characters can only knock out three enemies per map at the beginning), but the enemies are very quick to find bodies and seek out your characters. In Lamplighter's League, not only are the stealth abilities limited per mission (e.g. In my head, ideally in a stealth game, you should be able to move most (if not all) of the way through a mission without needing to directly engage in combat. So far, I have two criticisms that are related: the 'stealth' elements are not very good and there are too many enemies. I love adventure pulps and tactical strategy games, so it was like the game was meant for me. Just picked up The Lamplighter's League from Harebrained Schemes, and so far it's pretty fun.

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