Recent reviews by dumbzy

apperantely gearbox is now run by ex-ubisoft level designers
im feeling like i'm playing far cry 5, "tackeling the obstacles in my own order"
ngl im bored out of my mind. there's no reckognizable story whatsoever.
how did you manage to worsen the iventory? like seriously??
while gearbox and randy-cringefort are very focused on the front of LGQBT and providing a safe enviorment for all audiences, there's a whole lot of "huh this is a reference to seggx you know" marks EVERYWHERE (quests, dialouge, ...). its cringe and downright bad.

game looks pretty, runs stable and frames are ok-ish (specs below)
gunplay and movement is good.

edit: what in the heck is this auto-generated "we're sorry" answer i got for this review? how absolutely out of touch with your customer do you want to be? Gearbox: YES!

edit: i quit after aprox. 5h into the game. noticed i'm just staring at my screen. maybe its just me or the game, idk but my head is not willing to pay attention to it.

Specs:
Ryzen 5800x3d
Radeon 7900 XT (20gb)
RAM 32gb ddr4

> d-sync
> bloom / hitreg
> RPG's fire THROUGH tanks (crouched, not moving, center mass of tank - miss)
> C4 sometimes does little to no damage (3 attached, tank has 50% left)
> maps are "meh" (empire state is ... just bad)
> medic pedals sometimes dont work (at all)
> dropping a battle-pass after 3 weeks
> "battlefield pro" also after 3 weeks

My biggest issue:
There's not rly squad-work anymore. There's no room to breathe for any form of thinking. Just RUN (and slide) towards OBJ's and out-aim and out-move your enemy. Its throwing bodies at a line of attack/defense until you win or loose. Maps resemble this badly. Rush/Breakthrough is absolutely hopeless if no1 smokes. Only class with access to smokes are supports while the PAX-ARMATA recon has a M18 smoke nade on his model of character. Feels like a plain cash grab and joke. Just another industry product with no thought behind it.

Pro's:
> Drag revive
> mirak valley
> grabbing onto tanks from the outside to tag along

Name says it all.

Pro:
+ Absolutely gorgeous, hand crafted world
+ really great use of visual world-building (tell by show is highly in effect)
+ Good performance w/ noticeable issues
+ Good work on the mastery system so far
+ Character movement is responsive and well done
+ GOOD! bosses with different mechanics and individual visuals; the Pan-fight is gorgeous!
+ great atmosphere, warm feeling of the mediterranean landscape/shores
+ great sound design! hit's sound impactful and enemy special attacks have force!
+ good OST, calm and soothing and firey/epic when it needs to be!

Outstanding:
+ World is full of little details, riddles and interesting side-paths. You go down a little pathway, get side-tracked for 5-10mins and you're told a little story of something that went down or happened in the area recently. Good examples are the "Ajax the magnificant"-bossfight or the riddle of the "7 wanderers". Just lovely!

This combined with carefuly handcrafted level-design makes for a very immersive and beyond-average experience.



Con's:

- indicator's to movement penalties with heavy/ornate armor/plated robes. a little more detail about the downsites in terms of readable numbers is neccessary.

- riddles/secrets like the flames you can ignite in the temple of Kronos need to be more rewarding. I didn't see them at first, walked around the area for 10-12mins looking for them and got rewarded with two grey's and a blue. This NEEDS to be changed because it is frustrating.


Conclusion/ what i wish for:
A VERY solid base foundation to what can become a gem of ARP's just like TQ1 is today. It feels oldschool but not old. It feels slower but not tideous which is a welcome change of pace to PoE. What I wish for are visually very distinct acts in different parts of the world (please bring us back to ancient china, even if only in DLC and give me the first time hit of "Jade Emperor" or "Chang An" one more time.) I still remember the goosebumps from all those years ago.


I hope you manage to achieve the feeling of this epic journey across the globe to save the world, which was perfectly captivated in TQ1. I only wish this game, the dev's and us fans the best so this will have the most desireable outcome for us all.

A loving fan <3

Its stronghold crusader in more modern but just as good.
With a pricetag like this... 10/10

love it! cant wait for the definitv edition.

it has become a rly great game.

Runs well, plays well, looks really good!
Gets exponentially better with friends in voice but MM also works fine. Mostly decent community that works together.

It's okay. 3/5

The best active cooperative game there is on the market.

No matter if you choose to play with 3 of your friends in seamless drop-in and -out coop or if you find strangers online to team up in bascially instantaneous matchmaking. The experience will good 99% of the time. Haven't had a negative encounter in all my time of gameplay.

Great attention to detail and the small bits.
witty humor and a great homage to starship troopers and such.

A true 10/10