Recent reviews by Sedated'n'Awake

Game is using a poorly trained Ai to pick up on any curse words and ban players for toxicity, reguardless of context and any attempt to appeal is met with an ai / same copy paste response, my example "GOOD ♥♥♥♥ TEAM" "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ YOUR AWESOME" "KEEP UP THE GOOD ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WORK GUYS" was flagged and iv been com banned for 3 days now, the bans are stacking as well, so when one ends another begins, unable to communicate with my team and this has actively made me hate the game, the current system actually creates toxicity instead of defeating it, awful system, awful corporation auto moderation, genuinely awful implementation and consequences for non toxic players

decent concept, poorly implemented, doesnt work on linux, tbh gundam evolution was better, but that was also plagued with awful design decisions and lack of balance and care from the developers, i suppose it will be up to me to make the best mech game of all time

The base game itself is good, the dlc is actually cancer, someone sat down and pitched this to a room
the pitch "lets put alot of time consuming ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ into the dlc, make them have to aim at stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ antenas that are dumb af time wasters, decent bosses but they are honestly just really tanky, just take the builds we gave them pre dlc and make the old bosses have that, then lets add time trials and force them to jump over ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bridges, you know how they can barely get 5 feet out of the water with all the speed upgrades? well they will love trying the same time trial 30 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ times only to fail at the one or 2 parts that you need to jump over a bridge, maybe someone will ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cheat to get past this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, idk ♥♥♥♥ em!"
AND AFTER THEY PITCHED THIS, THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ROOM AGREED AND THIS IS YOUR DLC, TRUTH QUEST: GET ♥♥♥♥♥♥ STANDARD EDITION,

While i avoided the game when it came out because of all the absolute awful decisions they made about the game, my girlfriend gifted it to me after they walked back some of the decisions, here is everything i noticed, if you want to skip the review : I still cannot recommend the game, if you play for 30 minutes you have played for 2 hours, there is a massive lack of anything in the game, but my girlfriend likes it because its alot like cod zombies in some ways and that helps her as she isnt very good at games at the start

Things that dont get points:
Gunplay ( find me one shooter that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up gunplay so hard people quit it, i cant give points for it, especially when literally everyone would get the point for it, its a useless metric as a positive, but if someone ♥♥♥♥♥ it up, it would be useful than)
Graphics ( i don't care what games look like, if its in 4k or if its low-poly, im impressed by both at times and marginally left not caring for the most part )
If its fun with friends ( while i do enjoy games meant for friends to play together, RV there yet, Peak, Lethal Company, Repo, etc, i don't give points for it, because everything is better with your friends )

things that do get points:
Is it fun alone? ( if you can enjoy it solo for an hour or not, and will you lose enjoyment in hour 2 and beyond )
amount of content ( it doesnt need alot of content, but it cant have to little, and if applicable, the grind to get to certain content locked behind something )
lessons learned from previous games ( if applicable )
the rule of cool ( if a game lets you do something not because its realistic but because its cool af, are the weapons following reality or do we get a plasma cannon and vice versa, i don't want a plasma cannon in my ww2 game but i do want it in my zombie game )
the dialog isn't CRINGE ( really hard for people to get this sometimes, we know the types that make it cringe, for the most part we don't want a whiney kid / teenager / somehow adult with blue hair inserting themselves into games, or if your playing as a character in their respective world and the fellow residents treat you like a visitor explaining things that your character should know to " build the world ", how many times do you need to remind someone " big bad event happened ",
that's why we "x, y, z", i prefer it when games treat your character like a part of the world, like clair obscure: Expedition 33, they don't outright tell you about the festival or what its for since your character has been living in the world and thus knows, but you get enough context clues to figure it out on your own. if you couldn't figure it out though, the game down right shows you instead of just telling you, there is a difference between showing and telling )
Politics in games ( i don't want real world politics in any game, not from either side, now its fine for the games to have their own political factions, and portraying both sides in their own way, and to not preach it to you, i like to make decisions based on my faction, i don't like my faction making me reconsider my decision when they try to talk to me about real world politics, and its usually really easy to see because they are blatant about it )

PROS:
Gameplay feels pretty good with some exceptions from the changes they made. ( support still cant repair doors, removed the welding tool and made it the "multi-tool" with 3 uses and you need to pay for those uses, it only does 4 things, turn turret on, make zipline, open door, turn on trap, it takes up a slot for other things, but i prefer walking up to the traps and flipping a lever not aiming at it and holding 4, that way anybody can use them, personally a better system would be to cost DOSH to turn turrets on, spend time fixing the door to open it or something, pay DOSH for the armor restock to open the little crate, pay DOSH to activate zipline, there is a better system out there than what we were given, but its decent)
They walked back some of their bad decisions, the ones that were Anti-Player / Anti-Customization (step in the right direction, PERKS are no longer tied to Specialists (characters), that was a big one for me)

CONS
lack of content / customization ( not just lack of cosmetic customization, each match is only about 6 waves, maybe 7, but you cant increase or decrease it, you are stuck with 6 or 7, and with the cost of the last weapons you only get them for about one round and then the boss, so you dont get to use them for long, the characters, the only one from the line up that i know is Mr. Foster, the rest are cringe, there is almost no customization for them to boot )
the weapon upgrade system ( its cringe, its like the dead space 3 weapon customization system but someone realized they shouldnt add the microtransactions at launch, no weapons have WEIGHT anymore and you can pick what you want, as long as its 2 primaries and 2 pistols, or melees, i dont know to much about melee because i thought ninja was cringe and didnt play the perk, im waiting for berserker, you can upgrade your weapons not in match but in hub, you click customize and you can give it bonuses depending on the weapon, like +90% DMG for the grenade launcher but also has - 3 clip size and you can upgrade it 3 times, each costing more and more resources you get from in game shooting certain objects, it kind of feels like busy work and takes away from what your focus should be, to kill ZEDS, not shoot a camera get some scrap )
IM WILLING TO BET THE CHARACTERS ARE SO CRINGE THEY REMOVED 90% OF THE DIALOG ( in the previous titles the characters had so much banter going on, now it feels like they dont even moan in pain when they are getting stabbed or slammed, if your lucky you might hear a voice line after the start of the game, excludes asking for DOSH)
this is a 50/50 ( DOSH no longer gets sucked up by the player, in the previous games if you threw DOSH at someone they would absorb it, if you throw it in this game, it goes through them and they have to pick it up, but they also added the ability to give them dosh through a menu instead )
Jumping has a cooldown ( personally i like to jump like an autistic kid, and i could in the previous games, run and jump around non stop while waiting for things, here you cant, you have to wait for like 2 seconds after you jump to jump again, not a big deal to others but it bugs me )
there are 5 weapons per PERK ( literally it )
The setting is CRINGE ( for those that dont know, they decided to move the setting 70+ years into the future, its like 2090 or something, we no longer work for HORZINE but for the Patriarchs "third kid? i thought he only had 2 but ♥♥♥♥ it we ball or something" they took Nightfall from the first game but now it feels like a cringe version of overwatch with less budget tbh, i dont like the setting, its all futuristic cyberpunk distopian, the thing i liked about the old maps is that we were basically exploring our current day or previous however many year world and just walking through a awful whole world went to ♥♥♥♥ version, now its all boring, i dont care about any of the maps, they have very limited visuals anyways, before you could look around the cities and see beyond the edge of the map, so far there is only 2 maps that let you do this and they did a bad job at it, as in its very limited, i know they said they "wanted to move the setting so far up so they arent restrained by the games established setting", but it really feels like this game is an example of why some people should color between the lines instead )

all in all, it really felt like someone said "thats it, stop working" after they showed the reveal trailer and then they all sat on their asses until release, this was such an easy win because the fans love the original formula and they changed the recipe

i wouldnt recommend this game for a couple of years, definetly not a couple of months, they really need to dial in, lock in and add a ton of content

love the game so far, only 2 issues though and its not a anything that cant be fixed, SPOILERS
1st: in the first arena, i beat it, but im unable to tell who i am in the chaos, there are too many red things and to much dashing on the screen, i am unsure if the lady warrior showing up to help me actually helped me because it just made it alot harder to tell whats happening on my screen, i do appreciate the assist but im 50/50 on me doing that fight because of how much i was unable to identify my character, probably a me issue as i do have color issues

2nd: the downward jump i think its my controller but even when im holding it straight down and doing nothing but jumping and down attack it doesnt do the jump attack 1/4th of the time, its a 25% chance for me to fail, my solution? please allow us to map the downward attack to the right joystick down, but only while in the air

other than that, i dont have any issues, alot of the fights are frustrating until you figure out how your supposed to deal with it, the only fight i would argue is unfair is the fight where you actually have help, and its not that fighting them is hard, its just hard to identify who you are in the chaos, maybe give us a gold outline option? like a toggle so if we are having this issue i can find my character better. anyways love the game yall are great, keep up the good work, im going back to dying on the down attack jumps now because i cant confirm or deny it is my controller

Thought this would be like sea of thieves in space, its just an extraction shooter

If your a real game dev, you'll find a way to not put a kernel level malware onto a customers computer and you also wouldn't steal our information, banking information, personal photos, usernames and passwords, Eula does not give companies these kinds of rights, your going to make a second luigi

Air units are so cringe, they are blatently over powered, with no real answer to them, if someone builds air units first then your already playing from behind, you can fix it if you give storm callers anti air or a better designated anti air unit than the mustangs, dont get me wrong, i love the mustangs, but they die to easily and dont deal enough damage to air even with the upgrades for damage and anti air specilization, honestly im going to remake this entire game but without the cringe air or ill make better anti air units in the game, such a cool concept dropped hard on its head, if you want to have fun and play your stuck on ranked, and we already know those types of players that when you introduce ranked into whatever game, they only play the meta and never have fun, my only 2 complaints are as follows

1) fix air or give us better anti air options

2) seperate the ranked from norms, its not fun when every other player is sweating so hard to win and build any or all air units

Aight, love the monster hunter games, but every single time you guys manage to drop the ball so hard when it comes to playing with friends, im tired of me and the boys trying to play the game from start to finish only for us to have to launch the mission seperately, find the cutscene, watch the cutscene, then wait through another loading screen to join the mission, yes the link system is the best you have made so far, but that doesnt make it good, it makes it less of a pain than your previous games, this is 2025, we have had the technology to share a cutscene and then not load the players into one players instance, we can be in the same instance, have the same cutscene, only display the individuals player character for every player in the cutscene so you dont even have to add any extra characters to it, and then when the cutscene ends all players are THERE, TOGETHER, NO LOADING SCREEN ♥♥♥♥, every time with this ♥♥♥♥ i swear

im so thankful for the ability to sit in cutscenes alone in my world alone so i can wait for the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ internet connection to play with the boys, id like to FRONTLOAD my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ connection this time please, you can do this its a simple fix

game is freaking great, some things need to get ironed out, but i for the most part believe this game is off to a great start, i have high hopes for this game and im sure everything will be ironed out in time