I will confess to my typical M.O. here. 

 

I played through the campaign... until the main plot reveal (

bugs

) and haven't yet had much of an urge to fire it up again since then.  Lacking a core mystery or any characters who I had a reason to care much about, I didn't find the gameplay experience compelling enough to continue. 

 

I do this a lot.  (For example, as memorable as parts of MotB were, my playthrough stalled after the conversation with what's-her-face's mother/clone/whatever, and I really had to force myself to revisit it and play out the ending a couple months later.) 

Edited August 23, 201312 yr by Enoch

You cant get out by yourself. As long as the game thinks you are in combat, you stay in combat. In a hostile area that may mean until you leave, even though there is no enemy around. Probably emant to create suspense.

I suppose it's possible, but I think it is much more probable that they simply didn't bother to define a boundary condition for ending combat while there are still hostiles in the area. I remember instances where there are no enemies for at least 2 turns worth of movement and it is seriously annoying to drag 4 characters around -- more so than even the save system. 

 

I played through the campaign... until the main plot reveal (

bugs

) and haven't yet had much of an urge to fire it up again since then.  Lacking a core mystery or any characters who I had a reason to care much about, I didn't find the gameplay experience compelling enough to continue.

Is that really the big reveal? I thought the game did a good job of piling on the plot; there are revelations up until the last conversation (although this final one you can probably guess).