I've been meaning to give this game a negative review for a long time... Guess now it's as good as time as any.
My gripes can be summed up with the proverb 'wide as an ocean, shallow as a puddle'. The game has so many individual systems from the weapons and strategems to the planets and their biomes/planeraty conditions. Too bad these systems rarely interact with each other in a meaningful an engaging way, creating limited build variety that isn't 'just for the fun of it'. Couple theese with the erratic balancing changes, it really creates an image of a game where everything is possible, but in reality thats rarely the case.
Where this shows is the physics interactivity. You can get knocked off balance and ragdoll all over the place; enemies keep their momentum after they die and their remains create obstacles. While novel at first it quickly becomes annoying, and the 'haha that thing was so random xd' turns into 'WHAT? How did I die, thats bvllshit'.
And the bugs, SO MANY bugs. I cant fathom how Arrowhead can sell a warbond for PREMUIM CURRENCY where 2 of the unlockable items staright up unusable because damage over time effects have been bugged since the launch of the game. And after every patch, there is a new one. Am I playing bad or have they changed the AI behavior/spawn rate? Is it me or the specific weakspot dosent take any damage? Wait I reloaded why can't I shoot?
The gameplay sandbox and the aformentioned bugs create a gameplay loop where no matter how good/bad you are, the thing that kills you usually is bvllshit™. Enemies ragdolling you next to an obstacle and killing you in 1 hit... bvllshit™, headshot damage multiplier on the player character wich means there is a random chance you get insta sniped... bvllshit™, enemy hitmasses too big so they instakill you with their bodies (looking at you pre patch shreekers)... bvllshit™. The more you play the game and advance through difficulties, the more prevalent these issues become. For the clown emoji spammers, these interactions are sometimes funny yes, but my point is that the fun factor wears off quickly and after thats gone you are just looking at a janky videogame.
As for the PSN account situiation... no. I'm not gonna create a playstation account. Eat a ♥♥♥♥, Sony.

I've been meaning to give this game a negative review for a long time... Guess now it's as good as time as any. My gripes can be summed up with the proverb 'wide as an ocean, shallow as a puddle'. The game has so many individual systems from the weapons and strategems to the planets and their biomes/planeraty conditions. Too bad these systems rarely interact with each other in a meaningful an engaging way, creating limited build variety that isn't 'just for the fun of it'. Couple theese with the erratic balancing changes, it really creates an image of a game where everything is possible, but in reality thats rarely the case. Where this shows is the physics interactivity. You can get knocked off balance and ragdoll all over the place; enemies keep their momentum after they die and their remains create obstacles. While novel at first it quickly becomes annoying, and the 'haha that thing was so random xd' turns into 'WHAT? How did I die, thats bvllshit'. And the bugs, SO MANY bugs. I cant fathom how Arrowhead can sell a warbond for [b] PREMUIM CURRENCY [/b] where 2 of the unlockable items staright up unusable because damage over time effects have been bugged since the launch of the game. And after every patch, there is a new one. Am I playing bad or have they changed the AI behavior/spawn rate? Is it me or the specific weakspot dosent take any damage? Wait I reloaded why can't I shoot? The gameplay sandbox and the aformentioned bugs create a gameplay loop where no matter how good/bad you are, the thing that kills you usually is bvllshit™. Enemies ragdolling you next to an obstacle and killing you in 1 hit... bvllshit™, headshot damage multiplier on the player character wich means there is a random chance you get insta sniped... bvllshit™, enemy hitmasses too big so they instakill you with their bodies (looking at you pre patch shreekers)... bvllshit™. The more you play the game and advance through difficulties, the more prevalent these issues become. For the clown emoji spammers, these interactions are sometimes funny yes, but my point is that the fun factor wears off quickly and after thats gone you are just looking at a janky videogame. As for the PSN account situiation... no. I'm not gonna create a playstation account. Eat a dick, Sony.