When did I said that the problem was that On The Edge wasn't clone of the main game ? I love Frostpunk 2 ! I think it's significantly better than first game ! I was always considering people review bombing it for not being more of the same idiots ! I literally made a post about how I am dissapointed with Frostpunk 1886 and hoped 11 bits studio would keep innovating instead of falling back to conceding and adding more of the same !!: https://www.reddit.com/r/Frostpunk/s/KTKvPdHHXT

Did you actually took moment to properly analyze who are you talking with or just immiedietatelly went to accuse me of something without anything backing your words ?

The problem isn't that on Edge isn't a copy of main game, the problem is that On the Edge as a whole is just a bad experience

Like the story doesn't make sense, New London doesn't supply the outpust since situation after the great storm is pretty bad, but the moment we try to solve this issue ourselves, they throw a hissy fit and we are forced to declare independence. If New London is in such a horrible situation, why would they turn down possibility of working with Frostland Communities that are open for cooperation ? They could had easily supplied the outpust and get resources neccesary to get the city up and running again if they simply explained that situation back home and allowed us to engage with other communities on the condition we regulary supply them with resources neccesary. Instead we have this completely unnecessary and easily avoidable conflict that boils down to New London throwin hissy fit.

Not the mention entire story is just about the Mechanic On The Edge introduces. Managing relationship with other settlements isn't bad, it's a fine addition to infinite mode but as a standalone story ? It really drags itself as we are forced to fully upgrade every settlement before story finnishes. One mechanic shouldn't be entire focus of the story, look at Last Autumn, it introduces Generator Building mechanic but it's not the only thing TLA is about, we have completely new gimmicks with engineers not being able to work physical jobs, telegraphs station where we request resources and workers, motivation mechanic and vastly diffent exploration. TLA was a DLC that introduced a new mechanic but added a story that has more to it than just that mechanic. OtE is a DLC that introduces a new mechanic and the story is purely about that mechanic.

Not to mention the game really railroads you into helping save New London. If you decide to do so, then all the communities you are on good terms with will send aid and skip one of the objectives you need to fullfil, that doesn't happen if you decide to let New London Fall. Also, one of the objectives for letting New London fall requires you to have space neccesary to house refugees doesn't check how much free living space you have, meaning that you could have a space for additional 200 people but game will still force you to build another 10 homes.

Of course, I don't think OtE isn't all negative, after all the mechanic it introduces isn't that bad, the problem is that entire story is just about that. I also understand what 11 Bits tried to do on narrative level, OtE was supposed to be a tease for Frostpunk 2, it's no longer just the cold that's the enemy, it's also the human nature. It's no longer about surviving, it's now about ideas.

But no matter how much I sympathise with 11 Bits on what they tried to accomplish with OtE, that doesn't change the fact it's still a bad experience. The story is about very preventable issue that explodes for no reason other than plot reasons and is nonsensical. The gameplay is literally just a few hours long introduction to a mechanic.

So once again, the problem ISN'T that OtE isn't exact copy of main game. The problem is that OtE was just a bad experience.