Recent reviews by Em

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Trash and trash company that shuts down the first to push everyone to play this trash. CyGames you are trash.

Good foundation plagued by an incrompehensible amount of bugs that makes you instead of enjoying the game wanting to rip it apart burn it and throw the ashes into the wind.

Like, exploration is fun really. The issue here is that like every third main quest is bugged straight up.
Just 2 example quests, here you get an invisible Wall that doesn't let you talk to NPC's https://youtu.be/Eo28cmTmHlk https://youtu.be/_Pt_-M2IOM4
Then here i tried so far for a bit over 2 hours to get this damn orb off but it just doesn't work. I tried restarting the mission i restarted the game i load different save etc. it doesn't work.
https://youtu.be/k-nyUPfUJQg

The Controls so far definetly got better but they are still far from good. Especially QoL stuff need to be done like looting / picking up items. It's still bad and just atrocious like just make picking up an item press once E instead of holding. It's that simple it's just mindboggling to me that someone in general sat there thinking "Yeh i should definetly make the Controls like they where 30 years ago" i love some old stuff it has it's charme but that ain't it grandpa.

Like the game could be so so good but it's marred with issues.

Well it's D2R why are you looking at reviews.

So tbf i played the "Original" version of this game and tbh it was just a better game than it is now.

I like the core game, i like the Arcs and how you need to adjust in certain moments,
BUT the real gripe for me is their switch from PvE to PvP. I played this game extensively in the past when it was still a PvE game and was planned as f2p. I don't care that they switched their plans from f2p to b2p BUT the switch from PvE to PvPvE makes the experience just worse in my opinnion tbh. I had quite alot of fun when i playtested it with a friend in the past then it released and we where like "let's give it a go" But the added PvP just made the game ♥♥♥♥ in our experience. Now the Devs can say "but it was boring" sure tastes differ but i don't like that excusae. Let's be frank, they added the PvP probably to just sell you more ♥♥♥♥ in the ingame store. I don't buy the "it's more fun" excuse at all having experienced the original game.

It's a mixed bag, core game fun but the moment you get into PvP situation it's just frustrating. I'm at the point that i just let the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shoot me and not fighting back and just pull out the moment i get shot tbh.

I had my doubts about this game because of Kingsoft aka the parent Company and quite a bit was justified tbh.
The Monetization is kinda awful, People that play Mech games love Customization and options but there is so much Overprized stuff that i went "huh"
The Mechs from a design perspective are actually Amazing like they are really cool and give off the actual Fantasy of piloting but what honestly really got me was when i wanted to take a look at the shop because i heard quite a bit about it.
And it was actually the first awful experience and i don't mean the shop itself but that i'm required yes required and not optional to play basically a "tutorial match" of the Extraction gamemode is horrible. I personally just don't like Extraction shooters, i wanted to try this game because of my love for Mechs. Heck i even do render and modeling in Blender of Mechs for my own Wallpapers where i sit hundreds of hours just for the modeling. I tried extraction shooter mainly because of friends but i just don't like them even Arc Raiders. I think it's an awful mandatory way to make people unlock something. I just wanted to play the normal PvP aspect nothing more because it seems they don't have a real PvE mission story mode btw which could be really cool and think bring alot of people to this game. Like, make a couple cool story missions and bundle them slap 20$ on it and sell it as DLC where you can also unlock some cool customizable stuff for Mechs. Beside that it seems this game can be more considered like a "hero shooter" because Mechs have specialitys so why are Mechs behind a currency unlock? It's an awful method to stretch an unneeded progression system which even other games learned the hard way like Overwatch and needed to step away from their awful way of unlocking characters. This game could be so much more and could have so many more players if it wasn't for all the bad stuff like yes you can earn lootboxes but come on are they really needed? Is it really needed to sell a skin bundle for 50$ and even though 20 would be also alot but it would atleast make me wanna buy stuff instead of 50. For 50 i could buy another copy of Armored Core think about that....

But well i guess that's it from me and there will probably people thinking "Ah let her say stuff lalala" but i honestly really think this game needs alot of changes in it's presentation which honestly saddens me because it has such an amazing base, like i said the Mechs are Amazing from a Design perspective. Whoever made them good job.

Feels like they fed an AI "What's popular in recent years" Then proceeded to put Souls Elements inside the game took the map from Ghost of Sushi, made convoluted Menus and Mechanics while the Combat feels like watered down Blade and Soul Combat which kinda nailed wuxia and it sucks with all the stuff in BnS. And the slapping in a Monetization that's far from good and evil ontop of capped stuff.

Bad, gooner bait aside it's just not fun. Felt like a cheap Destiny 1 vanilla knockoff with lots of gooner bait to make atleast some money. I understand that goon skins sell but opening the game and just see the City full of NSFW stuff ain't gonna make the gameplay loop good.

Fun

Too stupid to do a global launch