Recent reviews by Hapsburglar

Direct improvement on the formula of the first game, just a shame the multiplayer pvp died immediately. Thunder hammer and heavy melta hit like and eviction notice from god 10/10.

Idira, shut up. Argenta, say more. Abelard, announce me.

If you can suffer through the hypersweat battlefield fans and their meta builds long enough to learn the mechanics, the gunplay is quite interesting and fun. If you don't have a controller, you won't be able to fly and you're going to have to cope with the aim assist of people that do, but everything else more or less works as intended.

Worth the asking price even in it's current state and plays very tightly. Only encountered a couple of bugs involving clipping through terrain and only one of which was game breaking, damaged walls and floors seem to occasionally have collision problems that let you walk through the map, but unless you respawn outside of an active boss room and can't get back in, it isn't much of a problem.

Great little game, more of a spiritual successor to subnautica than below zero was. 10/10 would drunk drive the mars rover again.

Let me preface this by saying there's substance to all the negative reviews. Iceborne has some of the worst hitboxes & movement animations I've ever seen in a game and some of the cheapest attack combos and instakill status/alt attacks you'll ever see in any game, and some of the creatures are just straight out broken (like black Diablos spending it's entire hunt underground to time you out).
However, The base game really draws you in, and even the majority of iceborne was pretty brainless to steamroll through as a solo insect glaive, even as someone who was new to the franchise. Even the really painful and cheap creatures can be cheesed with a solid team or an sos flare, and if you enjoy the base game, you'll probably appreciate most of the content in iceborne that isn't covid dragon, hammer monkey, or the exact same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ enemy reskinned 3 times with 0 hitbox corrections

Doesn't work because its badly optimised and can't be refunded with a fat 0 hours of play, nice work guys, 0/10 actual robbery.

Anaemic compared to the first and the story kinda sucks. After the halfway mark, there is pretty much nothing new to see (no new environments or creatures) and you've hit the depth cap of the game and its just a bunch of fetch quests to push the button to keep the story going.
Just play the first one, it's still a masterpiece and it's charming and engaging unlike sub zero.

highly recommended, I shot a man with a nova cannon

A bit grindy in some places and not without balance problems, but generally very charming and great with a friend or two.