UPDATE:
ShinyRhino, on 30 Jun 2020 - 12:54 AM, said:
The game is currently Free with Gold on Xbox. I played a few hours of it and found it completely uninspired.
Thanks for the heads up, Brother (please <Like> his post below). Inquisitor: Martyr, try for free before committing for a limited time on Xbox Live.
2 years ago I reviewed Inquisitor: Martyr upon its initial release, then 1 year ago I had another look with their Inquisitor: Martyr 2.0 revamp, now I just logged in and noticed they've added a Seasonal Event around this weekend:
The TL;DR is - they're emulating the Seasonal Events from (I guess) Diablo 3, where you create a new Seasonal Character that plays in a Seasonal version of the game that has some gimmick mechanic (in this case, certain enemies explode upon death and hurt their peers, I've been exploding Nurglings all weekend). During the Season, you can unlock all sorts of little benefits like cosmetic items on the bridge of the Rogue Trader's ship or something if you complete certain tasks on a checklist. It's just a little event to freshen things a bit.
But that's NOT the major improvement. Here's the major improvement: they really took the grind away, for those of us that play mainly for the story.
Rather than improve the grind mechanics...they've removed it. I don't know if that change was specifically for this Seasonal Event or it happened sometime in the past year, but it's great that they did. There used to be a complicated gatekeeping mechanic and they streamlined it in the revamp with a "Power Level" thing...and I don't see it now. Instead, you want to do a story mission, they'll just scale that to whatever level you're on I think. You still got to progress the story (i.e. you got to finish Chapter 1 to see Chapter 2), but you no longer have to do the filler content just to grind levels/gear.
In short, if you never finished the Matyr or subsequent storylines because of burnout (I just stopped logging in about halfway through the Drukhari campaign), this might be a good time to log in.
My only nitpick is that it took them 2 years to get to this point. But for those that hadn't bought/played it yet, it might be worth putting on your wishlist in case it goes on the Steam Summer Sale.
(I myself always wanted to test a character build idea I had out, but didn't really have the incentive. The Seasonal Event just nudged me enough to say, "meh, might as well try now." It's a Crusader Heavy Bolter build, and I suspect that gun and a few others got major buffs because I feel quite OP now.)
The game is currently Free with Gold on Xbox. I played a few hours of it and found it completely uninspired.
Edited by N1SB, 30 June 2020 - 12:51 AM.