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Recommended
19.6 hrs last two weeks / 127.8 hrs on record (84.4 hrs at review time)
Posted: 17 Feb, 2024 @ 2:31am
Updated: 5 Oct, 2024 @ 1:12am

Fun core gameplay, necessary cooperation, accidental team kills, getting overrun, but also plenty of problems that make the game feel like Early Access
TLDR: It's a fun game with friends and sometimes randoms too, but get it early based on your tolerance for the issues below
+Graphics, effects, the game looks nice
+Plenty of weapons and utilities to unlock
+Situations get quickly hectic with swarms of enemies
+Satisfying bombardment support, with large explosions, minigun, napalm, laser and even a nuke
+Death can be quickly countered, with limited revives though
-only 2 enemy factions, with different enemy types yes, but it needs more variety
-shooting is arcady, aiming and response needs some work, especially first person perspective is quite bad
-bugs, glitches: getting stuck on terrain, getting stuck while picking up items, glitching through textures of your own ship and having to quit and join up with friends again, hard crashes of the game, failing to join players through match making, getting stuck on forever loading screen even while solo traveling to your ship
-unfinished features: random selection of leader of the squad, no ability to promote to leader so you have to quit and join together again after match making, missing markers on important upgrades in the ship for starters, unlocks system is very basic and at the start quite grindy, your ship feels empty, on the planets - long distances to run with often nothing to do meanwhile (The Division flashbacks), rescue missions are so far the most annoying as three of you stand next to buttons, sending waves of dumb humans to run through hordes of enemies (they even climb on top of the enemies or run right into them), certain enemies feel almost indestructible with your limited weaponry in the early levels, poor explanation of difficulties and really strange difficulty spike very early on, customization of your character is extremely basic - 2 body types, 4 voice packs and no face/hair etc (strangely, no male / female, it's Brawny / Lean body and then Voice 1-4, plus your female character is just a smaller guy model) - strange for a game with strong comedy and parody themes
-voice chat with open mic, you can mute it - sometimes it's funny, other times not so much

If you have some friends to play with, this game can be a fun experience. Just a bit repetitive, with only two enemy factions and after certain point, there's nothing to spend your resources on. They've added several new paid weapon passes, but majority of the important stuff is unlockable just by playing the game, so you'll be missing out on just some new weapons.

// So the updates seem to focus now on adding more paid warbonds, there's 7 in total, 1 can be unlocked by playing and others have to be purchased ($10 per 1) and contain unique weapons like explosive, electric and chemical ones. In a paid coop game, putting new content behind paywall while nerfing regular weapons constantly, not a fair deal for players. Plus you're forced to accept new EULA on game's startup, that has just unclickable link without text and no explanation on what you've just agreed to, other than it leading to playstation...
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