This is a great game. It really is, but it is now dead and will serve only as a cautionary tale of a game that had everything going for it that was killed by a deadly combination of horrendous monetization, competition from a similar game (Overwatch 2), and a hesitant to communicate developer.

The actual game itself has become a fairly well balanced hero shooter with a Gundam coat of paint. What more could you really ask for? Well, a meaningful sense of progression would be nice. I am still baffled by how the monetization scheme for this got past the design phase (brings back memories of SW Battlefront 2 EA's infamous initial pay to win scheme for that game). When you boil it down, the player just doesn't get much for actually playing the game, win or lose. Your only reward is a very small amount of season pass experience (which is also just not rewarding enough without the paid premium upgrade) and regular EXP which increases your player level (player level has no meaning past level 20 aside from an achievement). Why not give us a small amount of capital currency or something or maybe a loot box here and there? Give us a reward for playing. Right now the f2p and paid customer (myself) just don't have much of anything to look forward to, and that is before we get into the sparse season 2 update (only 1 new suit and 1 new map ... that is it!).

I could go on about how obnoxious it is to have to pay to play certain mobile suits, but it really isn't worth typing. Look at my hours played and you will see I really gave this a fair shake and I desperately wanted to like this as a Gundam fan. Just the setting and suits alone already made it better than Overwatch's lame new Blizzard characters.

As of this review, the game averages less than 1000 players per day. Soon it will be less than half at the rate it is going. I would love to see this get a revival or relaunch or something, or maybe it will live on though its console version, but as of right now I can not tell even a Gundam fan to play this. We all had our fun in Season 1, but now the game is over (rank was dead even in season 1, but now even casual can take time to find matches).

To reiterate, this game failed mostly due to its awful monetization scheme and maybe competition from Overwatch 2 (bad timing to release this so close to that game). The actual game itself is fantastic, fun, and a treat for Gundam fans and non fans alike. Yes, some suits were not balanced well, but that was being fixed. Whoever was in charge of the monetization plan for this game should never work on f2p games again.

Achievements: Only 12 and none of them are challenging, but several are very grindy. It takes a long time to get to level 50 and gold rank can take a lot of time with ranked mode being dead and all outside of Japan servers. I would pass on this game if you want achievements unless you are willing to put in probably double what I put in which was 125 hrs + during season 1 mostly when you could get into a match in under a few minutes and ranked was sort of alive.

Update 7/25/23: I am sad to see the game will be discontinued. I was truly hoping some of the issues would have been fixed. Despite its flaws and awful monetization it was a very enjoyable experience. Hopefully we will get a better attempt at this style of game in the future.