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Drop: System breach is a very fun arcade hacking game for the first 3/4ths and then immediately turns into a nightmare slog
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I gave up
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On the level I gave up, I had the goal of "remove all evil AI corruption"
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The system I was working in had a system that constantly adds more evil AI corruption
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I could shut that down
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It also had a system that would reactivate any system I shut down
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I can't shut that down
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So it was just going to be a nightmare of checking back and forth across the system for constantly popping up corruption
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while being hammered by like 8 other security systems that ALSO periodically reboot if I shut them down
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Including a Noise Inducer, which creates constant visual distortions on the screen that make it harder to see what's going on and also physically give me a headache
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Like I was having fun up to this point!
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But now it's just the physical manifestation of a migraine caused by a panic attack
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thanks for discovering this before I bought it
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The worst thing about the noise inducer is that normally you have a button you can tap to zoom to a hostile program so you can shut it down
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but you can't do that while the noise inducer program is active
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you have to physically hunt it around
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down*
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while four other programs are attacking you and you can't fucking SEE anything
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They just need to make it so you can shut down the rebooter
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That ONE change would make the game manageable
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Because then it becomes a challenge of searching for the rebooter while everything is going crazy because you can't shut down any of the other defense programs
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But then you find it and you're like "AHA GOT YOU FUCKER" and suddenly everything else is vulnerable
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That would be a satisfying gameplay experience
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This?
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