Recent reviews by Airyona

You nerds need to stop neglecting this game, you have one of the most dedicated fanbases and yet refuse to give them the keys to be self-sufficient and also refuse to support them.

I like both men and women and there is alot more women than men in my party and you take one of the few men and make them only a NPC out of spite and petty drama because you cant handle actually appealing to more kinks than your own.

Brass Beast? Fun, makes playing Beastmen a bloody blast.

Oxyotl? Shafted. Straight ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The travel mechanic? great, should have given it to Nakai as well. The free dwarven faction got more love than this bastard.

Dwarves are great fun.

2/3 is fun, so I guess recommend. Stop ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the lizards for ONCE.

(Spoilers) Outriders. There is only one way I can describe this game overall, from gameplay to lore. "And then it got worse." If you want a tl;dr, Its a good loot and shoot em for people who haven't played other loot and shoot ems that I see listed in other reviews for comparison. (Destiny and whatnot) If you want to have a good time, don't bother going beyond world tier 8. Everything beyond that hits too hard, you hit too soft. Reward for higher difficulty barely pays off.

My current progress is 2 player co-op with a Trickster and a Devastator. Im currently lvl 25 and stuck on World Tier 9 (downscaled to World Tier 6 when you get stuck fighting the same boss 30 times.)

Lets start off with the Story, I am nearing the endgame and this story is a depressing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, nothing good ever happens and if it does "it gets worse". I've become near tonedeaf to it's themes of how all humans are pieces of ♥♥♥♥ cus god forbid we have something good happen. Old crippled man trying to get you to contact a smuggler so you can deliver a letter to his daughter on the other side of the war? THE DAUGHTER IS DEAD FOR UNSPECIFIED TIME, THE SMUGGLER HAS BEEN TAKING HIS LETTERS AND MAKING FAKE ONES.
Scientist has made a cure for a alien disease that has killing off people because no one else had discovered a cure? WELL THATS NICE. THE CURE IS MADE WITH HUMAN BONE MARROW SO GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR MORALS USING THAT DESPITE NEEDING IT TO SURVIVE IN THE AREA. The Main Character is also an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. You have no control over your own dialogue, more so suited to the Playstation on the rails story.

Bosses have no prior buildup to their presence, barely at all for some. The first boss has some buildup but he's generic as hell, doesn't even talk to us. The second boss, was a spider worm thing that was just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around with cable cars. Third boss, Moloch; the only boss with buildup and we PUT HIM DOWN. fourth boss, literally appears out of nowhere to wreck your truck and you just kill them on a whim. fifth boss, god I hate this woman's wallhacks, If I could eat the veggie, I would. sixth boss, literally teleports and melees cannot be dodge like Lord of Cinder's combos but ROLLING DOES NOTHING.

Next, Customization. In the Outriders Demo, perhaps I was under the assumption that there would be more character customization options, perhaps some locked behind the awards progression. But NOPE, no extra hairstyles, color, tattoos/scars, anything. It feels so limited in your combination.

Your Truck that only appears in Cutscenes and your Banner that only appears in Camps/Towns HAVE MORE CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS THAN YOUR BLOODY CHARACTER AND MOST OF IT IS LOCKED BEHIND PLAYING THE GAME. There are also emotes but who the ♥♥♥♥ actually cares about Emotes.

Oh boy, Crafting. While this mechanic was not really present in the Demo, it has huge flaws. Crafting is primarily used to keep your guns up to level and upgrade their attributes, change out their spell slots, upgrade their rarity if you want to, and the option of modding it to the different firing mode.

So, lets say this; You get the Legendary Sniper; The Iceberg. Its lvl 25. Your max gun level is 27. You want to upgrade it cus the Iceberg makes good stunlock headshots on beefy enemies. To upgrade the gun to those levels, you would need roughly 30 titanium. Not to mention all the effort you went into maxing out it's attributes. Well, you find that you dont have enough titanium to keep up with the scaling and decide its better to just scrap the Iceberg to get some of that effort back to invest in a better gun. You know how many titanium you get back? TWO. YOU GET ONLY TWO TITANIUM BACK FROM SCRAPPING A LEGENDARY WEAPON THAT YOU POURED 30 TITANIUM INTO. Keeping Weapons that require Titanium Upgrades up to level is a BURDEN.

Vendors, while it may seem early on like a good idea to buy gear from a vendor to keep up to date, it is woefully more costly at higher levels to buy a SINGLE piece of gear that is green or blue, going for around 20,000 scrap. That item will be on par with the same loot drops from elite mobs at the same level. I had barely spent my money while leveling this char and only had 7,000 scrap. Not to mention, the cost difference between buying and selling is TERRIBLE. Buying 25x Iron costs 563 Scrap but Selling 25x Iron is 31 Scrap, despite how damn common Iron is that I dont see how its damn possible you would need to buy iron.

World Tiers. On paper, these are double edged. Its great to able to change the scale of the enemies and whatnot mid game session, however if you want to just suffer. Going beyond Tier 8 is a pain, I find myself having to constantly backpedal off Tier 9 because of how spongy and how hard the enemies hit at that tier. What I did find however is that if you set a world tier low before entering a boss battle, and then put the tier back up, the boss battle will still be scaled to the lower level but rewards seem to scale up.

Connection Issues. I mean it's the first month, I expect connection issues for co-op but, sometimes when you use your abilities and you get stuck in an animation for a second longer while enemies are still able to whack you down and repeat for the next 6 hours, you get irritated as hell. So hopefully you can ATLEAST fix that.

So much bloody potential, I want to like it but please give me something worth liking, instead of a depressing mess.

Edit (Spoilers): Just finished the main story. YOU WANNA EXPLAIN TO ME HOW THE BOSSES ASS I JUST KICKED IS SOMEHOW ALIVE? THAT THE MAN WHO COMMITED ALLAH ACKBAR ON ME AND THEY HAD TO DIG ME OUT IS SOMEHOW ALIVE? My frames for whatever reason in the final fight dropped to 10 fps making me essentially useless outside my abilities making the boss weaker/vulnerable so my teammate can do the work. There was no life to this boss, it wasn't something personal until very recent, he was literally the 6th boss before but actually has some mechanics.

Great Campaign, IF YOU'RE PLAYING SPACE MARINE CUS THATS THE ONE THATS CANON.
EVERY OTHER FACTION'S CAMPAIGN IS THE EXACT SAME MISSIONS WITH RACE SWAPPED OUT AND DIFFERENT DIALOG. ABSOLUTE DISAPPOINTMENT. It has co-op which makes this so much more bearable but still.

I don't know if this is a Windows 10 issue but the fact the game's volume will just break at random and then eventually crash with NO report. The lack of a windowed mode is irritating.

Last Stand is good but only two maps? I do like that you have to fight your own team as these chaos clones but holy ♥♥♥♥ are Necron players OP with all that armor.

Go play Ultimate Apocalypse.

This game; as the name applies is Brutal overall. With the Dev's lack of updating for the game; the bugs and all else make the game that much harder to beat; today. I have beat the game; only 9 levels of hell to get through. However, I cannot recommend this game to the casual player due to it's price tag and the silence of the devs. Its art-style, lore, and gameplay are all fun factors but when you leave your game to rot then you left something good behind cus it probably didnt make the return in profits you expected.

Co-op is alot more brutal than singleplayer I find. The enemies are alot more beefier and you can teamkill your ally. Besides this; a fun challenge for the most part. What may have doomed this game was Paradox as it's publisher. But who really knows what happens behind the scene.