Recent reviews by =][= Alan

stupidly good. Amazing.

The game is fun--but the meta progression is really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up. Progression is tied to RNG drops. I am 44 hours in and cannot craft a blue tier weapon reliably because I do not have the proper weapon component BP. I only have 1 real green blue print, and I am tired of playing with the same gun 30 hours in. All of my workstations are maxed, i have legendary BPs, but no gun part BPs. The quests are pointless, they offer one time gear injections as rewards. They are usually a net negative on loot to time ratio. That is to say, you get more loot ignoring the quests and just searching for items than you get from doing the quests. Money is nearly useless late game. You can only buy some limited equipment once every 24 hours. Leveling your workbecnches to 3 (which requires going out and killing all of the big 'scary' arcs) without BPs gives you pretty much nothing.

The game is fun, it runs well, it's got a cool design, but the devs do not understand the fundametal structure of a extraction shooters meta game economy. These are very, very easy changes to implement. We'll see if they figure it out.

Lots of fun so far, the experimental branch has most of the new toys!

nice

very fun shooter.

Would love a sequel

Love to see new content, excited to come back to the game.

***THIS GAME MAY BRICK YOUR PC***

started out strong and promising. With every update, a missed opportunity. With every good change comes a change that gnaws away at whatever positive thing they added.

I.e. >Increased weapon durable damage to make weapons feel better, and kill bad guys.
>In the same update, increase durable damage resistance of enemies.
>????????????????????????????????????? LIke what the actual ♥♥♥♥ are they doing over there?

Not to mention, the warbond system is deeply flawed. As someone who doesn't want to play several hours of this game a day, I effectively do not have access to any of the new content. I buy the DLC, spend real money on it. I then unlock the chore of having to grind to unlock it. Sure if it was 5-10 missions, but a "full" warbond is more like 20-40 missions, and that is mostly going straight for the weapons and other gameplay items, not cosmetics(Thankfully they're all usually unbalanced and not worth spending the medals on anyways. You mostly use the same 4-5 armor passives the entire time out of like 20-30). Expect to double the grind for them. at 30 minutes a mission on the harder difficulties, you're looking at 10-20 hours of grinding to unlock the thing I paid for. Eat my whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. That is also not considering the fact that most thing you unlock, are unbalanced garbage. Sure they work on the lower difficulties, but when the game scales up forget about most of it. Worse yet still for the people that are say 4-5 warbonds behind. Have fun with your 100 hour grind to get caught up. It's like paying a company to go to work. God forbid an employed person wants to come home and spread democracy.

I think the devs summed up how lost they are themselves, "balance doesn't exist, and you shouldn't even spend 5% of your time on it"

Balance does exist. And Arrowhead, you guys are terrible at it.

good

space cowboys meet ISS
pretty good