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Would have loved to get a bit more story into the logs, like how did the mission go and what happened, could have been a totally awesome way to drive the narrative. Hope that you'll keep working on this as it could become a really nice game. ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":766222,"author_name":"Maximus","author_uid":"maximus","epoch":1634486354,"text":"Fun game! It was interesting how you included a mental stability and health meter. Great game overall!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":767059,"author_name":"kpded","author_uid":"kpded","epoch":1634571711,"text":"This is pretty neat concept: where jagged alliance meets football manager :smile: \n\nIf you don't mind there would be nice to have a clock in the room, to see whether time is going, current status of missions and stats of each mercenary right near to his face\n\nOverall, very interesting concept well done","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":767214,"author_name":"Alvan Arulandu","author_uid":"alvan-arulandu","epoch":1634583984,"text":"Very interesting gameplay. The entire system was well designed and easy to understand. 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