Aeon Trespass: Odyssey (ATO) by Lawnor

I’ve been hooked on Diablo 4 since it’s release a couple of weeks ago. I’ve had no free time for anything else. Sunday morning I decided I was going to put the game down and do some painting. It turns out it was so hot that paint was drying on the model before I could work with it so I packed up and went back to Diablo. They were having a DDoS attack so I couldn’t play that, so I went back to ATO. Cycle 1 was finished and I’ve been putting off Cycle 2 as I’m going to need the table space in two weeks. I’ll start up again after that. There was one more thing to finish of before I pack up Cycle 1 though: Onwards Odyssey

Onwards Odyssey was an optional extra they sold after the KS ended but before wave 1 arrived. It’s two mini campaigns set between Cycles and 2, and 2 and 3. The physical books and tokens will arrive with Wave 2, but they released a PDF when Wave 1 shipped. Given I already had the world map set up, it only took 2-2.5 hours to learn the new rules and play through the mini campaign. It didn’t add as much as I might have liked to the game, but it was worth doing. It was world exploration without the risk. All the fights have been removed, although I had the opportunity for one, but I preferred the other story path. I suspect there’s a second fight to be found, too. It’s a chance to uncover a few more things before you leave Cycle 1 behind. I gained a pet dog. he acts like a piece of equipment, but doesn’t take up an equipment slot. I also added a few more ticks to the ongoing Choice Matrix.

My ship is now fully restocked and ready for what happens next. The timeline for this was too tight for anything other than strictly efficient navigation. I would have preferred a few more opportunities to interact with the story. It adds two new adventure hubs, and a collection of standalone events on the map, based on your existing Choice Matrix. I found these were outside of my best path and not worth (From what little information I had about the anyway) steering towards, although I would have loved to. It was a shame to miss them. I hope they’ve had a chance to learn from this before writing the versions for between later cycles.