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Originally Posted by mpipes
For the record, I do plan to get the Aliens game at some point, but I STRONGLY doubt I will use the Year Zero mechanics for character generation, general play, or even combat. I am buying the background in effect, and that is why I believe that FL's success or failure with this game is directly intertwined with the background and world it creates. Now. if FL wants to continue with its unique and strange views of how NATO works and how a NATO-Russian war might develop, then be my guests. There is ample feedback here as to opinions on what has so far been written. As can be seen, none of it is particularity complimentative. That in and of itself is feedback; and constructive feedback if you are willing to listen to what is being said.
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Alas the people at FL are not listening to what is said. I have seen multiple versions of the timeline and have complained about them.
In V2 we never knew who the US president was when the war went hot. Milgov had some very good constitutional reasons not to obey Civgov. Mostly because some of Civgov was not legitimately elected. Once there was a legitimate Civilian Government again then they would have stood down.
West has so far been portrayed as a warmongering idiot with the worst aspects of Strawmen Bush and Trump. He's a petty little would be dictator who orders troops to do idiotic things that gets them killed. Milgov is being portrayed as a group of power hungry people ignoring their legit government.
Lets just not get into NATO being idiots and doing things that a Boot private POG should know better. As for the Soviets the bias in their favor is so thick that you need a chainsaw to cut it.
Frankly I'm tired of looking at a plot that makes no sense and is actively insulting to me. The replies of those who work for FL makes things worse.
As far as the rules goes I have not seen them all but so far they look bad. The foraging rules are garbage as a PC would never get enough supplies to avoid starvation using them. The ammunition expenditure rules are horrible as they seem to assume that the PCs are just spraying and praying that they will hit something. All in all the game is coming across as a very bad game.