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Played this last night, my playgroup is in the fortunate situation where we can keep playing without being tethered to four hours, so this scenario was quite fun and I'm rating it based on my enjoyment. Completely understand the "too much," complaint if you have to run it in four hours though.

We had lots of deception checks, stealth, a rare chance to ambush enemies, some diplomacy, three combats, a research section and plenty of discussion on the best way to proceed. The story was very cool, portended some exciting events and amusingly enough, our bard accidentally guessed the purpose of the warshard when making a "deception" check. So we had a lot of fun!

This is a great scenario to play if you a gm who is well prepared and if
You have a lot of time to play it. As indicated in prior reviews though, If you're on a tight schedule, skip this one.

Freaking "backtracked too far" error ate my original and much more detailed review, but here's the cliffnotes. Played on 7-8 tier. Has combats you can bypass through cleverness/paying attention, it's a dungeon crawl with some creative obstacles and a memorable NPC. Play it.

I played a Shock and Awe Soldier in this nightmare of a scenario. If you read any prior reviews, you can probably guess how that went.

Not only are there lethal traps and overclocked monsters almost everywhere you go, the scenarios takes it one step further by FORCING you to surrender your weapons before the thing starts. Practically every fight was on the edge of a TPK.

If we didn't have a biohacker with 14(!) health serums and a witchwarper who had some good rolls with Electric jolt, we would've been toast on the first encounter. As it was, we burned through nearly all those serums and still each had about 1 resolve left.

If you designed a character to play Metal Gear Solid and get a like-minded party, you might like this scenario. But for everyone else, this is way too lethal for a 1-4 tier. I gave it two stars because the core idea is cool, but I might be too generous. I still had some fun, but it was mostly in spite of the scenario.

This review is written from the perspective of a player, GM's mileage may vary. Full disclosure: 1-2 tier, My character is a member of the sovereign court, but an early diplomacy roll and a lack of stealth in the party cost me a prestige and the boon.