So, I played Silica today for the first time and I have to say, that gameplay is way worse that trailers shows.
- Building placement is just awfull: There's no reasonable way to check if building can be placed on specific place or not; you can spend minutes in trial and error, trying to find out place where to place buildings. This is especially true for refineries.
- Units: Not sure where to start. Whether it's extreme lack of movement and agility of heavier units, especially harvesters (I understand that they're supposed to be big and not very mobile units, but everything has limits), denial of common sense (hitting person unit with 30mm cannon 5 times should kill it, no matter how advanced age is or how modifiers for unit damage works) or terrible unit aim (you're not supposed to kill 3 heavy quads by piloting 1 light quad and survive this 1v3 with >50%HP)
- Optimizations: I understand that this game is in early access and optimizations come just before release (I know it, I'm programmer too), but utilizing 95% of 3060 on lowest details is...weird, especially when recommanded HW is 1080.
- Overall: I like this RTS-FPS mix and I was wery excited when I found this game was in development, but the fact is, the game is not in playable state now. I hope that it'll be better in release date (either in Q4 2024 or later if devs need more time) and in the future, I'll be happy to play it. But in the current state, I'm considering refund.

I'm glad that gamer community won over corporate greed.
This major order was the hardest, and let's hope, it'll be last of this kind.

HELLDIVERS NEVER DIE!

I played Idle Skilling before and I love that Lava didn't stop on first game that make money and decided to make "sequel". Although it's hard to say sequel, because game is so much different. Lava took idle game for android (which you open once a day for 10 minutes to collect things and then close it) and trasformed it into elaborate world full of suprises and new things in which you can spent hours each and every day. Yeah, somebody may hate grind, but flustration is negated by 2 main things: unlimited AFK gain and number of new options that each new resource and map unlocks. Great 9.5/10