I've been playing CIT2/mta 1.1 yesterday and did a light test.
To say: It's a great attempt to an outstanding mod, yet it fell short", would be quite cruel considering the amount of time I'm sure Arran has put into this mod, which he releases for free (even server costs)
Yet I must say that all these months I was expecting to get my hands on the long advertised CIT2 that was going to be revolutionary compared to its predecessor. But honestly, the only new job I found is firefighter which while it looks well planned and nicely located in the map, doesn't inspire me to spend much time working as a firefighter in a game in which fires don't really matter.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not flaming, I'm giving my honest input about this beta.
in case somebody didn't get it I'll say it again:
THE MOD IS GREAT! IT JUST DIDN'T GET ME (YET)I was surprised that two pearls of this mod such as car delivery mission (criminal job) and the mystery van are missing, two things that made this mod a lot of fun now they're gone.
(Hopefully not for long? those are a MUST HAVE)
The briefcase is fun as long as it isn't the only thing to do as a crim, its more of an alternative to it such as bank rob (other than opening fire on cops or robbing the houses).
I totally loved the slot machines, but the payout is a little humble, why not raise the payout table a few hundreds up? it won't hurt anybody, in fact, it'll be a nice way to make money!
Bottom line:
I was expecting more jobs, at least 3, 4 or even 5 new jobs and things to *DO* in-game. Specially jobs that have nothing to do with neither crim or law so that the game isn't so much geared towards cops & robbers but rather a free roam with a lot of things going on and a strong in-game economy based in several different ways to make money.
The new layouts look slick, but some are not very intuitive as in CIT1 such as the dialog window to sell vehicles, there's no way you can quickly select a vehicle and sell it, now a 'pick' button has to be pressed in order to activate that vehicle or aircraft on which you are about to perform a sale.
The game doesn't seem to feature any bugs that would trigger a massive world gamer strike. The bicycle seems to be a little bugged but it doesn't take my sleep away (hopefully it doesn't take arran's either!)
So the game is more than playable.
I'd like to see more jobs to do, and jobs to pay more! it seems that only criminal jobs paid the best while the non-crim jobs pay crappy outputs and it often (if not always) discourages people from engaging in law-abiding activities.
And last but not least: Arran, congratulations for this outstanding work of yours. I truly love this mod, I love it enough to write a sincere review about it and expecting to see more of your cool stuff coming up next
Regards,
Paul Whitelocke. (username: magito / in-game nick: Mage)
