As someone who has about 1k hours of this game on Playstation before transferring to PC I can easily say this game is impossible to recommend to new players. If it's not the terrible matchmaking system that pairs new players up with veterans that will just bully them, it's definitely going to be the terrible gacha system that is required to keep up with the power creep of this game.

Alongside that the developers have added region lock and, as absurd this is going to sound, they've also added in coast lock as well. So now people in the US cannot interact with other players outside of their coast at all anymore.

Ranked mode is another reason to just flat out avoid this game, unlike other games where ranked is optional, the devs decided to just force it upon us. And with that comes with the toxic play styles of raiders body camping and taking games hostage. However on the other hand you have play styles from survivors teaming up and running nothing but meta skills which make the game insufferable to play as a raider. Terrible balancing on both ends.

Overall, this game is fun when it can be and I've tried so hard to get people to give this game a chance, but with how the developers are flat out ignoring us I cannot recommend this game anymore. Please, avoid this game at all costs, I cannot even say until the devs fix any of the issues because they won't.