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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II - the same old soup, just thicker?

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In spring, the long-awaited sequel to the tactical roguelike Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus, which was released 8 years ago and captured the hearts of players, has finally arrived. In the new game, we are offered a campaign not only for the mechanics but also for the Necrons. I dove right into it.

According to the plot, humans land on a sleeping planet, start digging, burrowing, drilling – in short, trespassing where they shouldn’t. The Necrons awaken and decide to repel the invaders.

As the game progresses, we awaken 5

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I forgot to mention: a significant part of the battles in nekros is "brother against brother," and it gets very confusing: allies, enemies, neutral allies... Especially at the start when everyone is fighting with a ± starting set of units.
Another useful (not) innovation that didn't immediately register in my mind is that units with the same name can have fundamentally different weapons! You get an "immortal," you go through a couple of missions with him, getting used to him shooting "chain lightning," and then you unlock the general's "immortal" and can't understand - why is there no "bounce"? The box just opens: he has a different gun that only shoots at one target but with higher damage, and you have no clue about it! Later, of course, with the description of the weapon's effects and the pictogram, I started to distinguish between them, but somehow it feels wrong! The same situation applies to the locust destroyer - everyone shoots AOE, but one acts as a sniper, and during deployment, it's quite hard to tell: who is who!

Can we bring back the formatting buttons?)

Can you make it so that all narrow images are centered?

Yes, there is such a bug, we will fix it soon.

Words are not enough to express my admiration for the local AI!

I wanted to write about how bad the game turned out to be, but some built-in satirical nature blocked my three comments. Don't do that.

Oh man, and I'm also thinking - what's up with the slash in the signature? I removed one. And it turns out - it appeared everywhere.

GAMER.ru is having issues. I noticed a bug — after editing a post, backslashes "\" appear in the captions for images.

The only boss fight that stood out was the one that was completely illogical: the beastmaster immobilized almost the entire team across the arena and prevented the use of skills related to movement (like sprinting or teleportation). I was just filled with rage. It was only on the fourth attempt that I got lucky because he was so stupid and rushed into the thick of my fighters, where he was quickly taken down!

Yep, I was looking for those standard formatting buttons (it's been about 40 years!) and couldn't find them. I thought I was going crazy.

It annoys me that the tag — [CENTER] is missing. Therefore, I use a PNG background extension up to 800 pixels.

They say the mechanics made it even worse - you can't even choose specific squads for missions - they are randomly recruited from the number of explored ones!
During the campaign, we encounter "dwarves" as opponents, but they are represented by only 3-4 fighters who are not particularly memorable, and they disappear from the game just as quickly as they appeared. There are only 5 missions at most. And in the campaign, I got tired of fighting; the game just exhausted me with its monotony after going through about 2/3 of the plot.