Contains spoilers
Meet Roy. He's a young architect with a talent for piloting mecha and made it all the way through four episodes and froze on episode five.
By that I mean I entered the dust cloud outside of Marques Spinner after clearing the distressed trucker event, tracking her down, finding the location of the second downed warship, clearing that and returning to that location just incase something had changed.
Seemed that it had - Whenever Roy tries to leave the area, he is "under attacked" and placed back in the now very empty dust cloud. Hopefully this can be fixed and if you want, I can send the save.
Some general thoughts about GH2: The story missions are unfortunately rather counter-intuitive. While I now know that investing XP in Awareness to give me a better chance of spotting mechs outside the station is a very good idea, quite alot of the missions don't actually specify whether you should be in the station exterior or even how to find them. While the first
few episodes tend to follow the predictable formula of "Go outside. Wander around alot", later on I found myself pretty much lost as to where to go - So I drifted around the station until I found suspicious person events (savescumming until I passed the conversation roll was the only way I could really find the enemy base) and when those gave way to the less clear cut "The enemy of my enemy was an ex-lover of that enemy" event (or something like that), about the only way I could find more clues was to phone up the NPC's mentioned by my lancemate.
Said lancemate signed up to me so that I could train her. While I know that the lancemate generator is based off how powerful your character is, the fact that said person was easily twice as powerful as the player character really doesn't seem to fit the reason of why she joined. Perhaps this event should be more of an early game one?
Don't get me wrong. I love Gearhead and despite it's flaws I'm enjoying Gearhead II as well, but I feel that the missions really need a bit of adjustment to make what to do clearer.
Looking forward to the next release and hoping to get a postcard!
