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If you lose 2 games in a row, it fills the enemy team with Bots. Wild.

My review is based on Day 1 playing of Path of Exile 2 for 15 hours.

This is the best damn ARPG since Torchlight II and Diablo 2. The story is just as amazing as Diablo 4's main campaign was with Lilith. I can't wait for more story and content from PoE 2 for the next decade and more.

Gameplay is good but the skins are extremely pricey. For example, you pay $20 for the skin and then it's another $20 to unlock the variants, and then ANOTHER $18 to "unlock" the final variant of the skin.

Addictive and fun. Could use more floor templates so the rooms don't feel same-y though.

They deserve the support. I strongly encourage buying this, if you had at least 2 hours of fun in Wayfinder already.

It's Sins 1 with all the DLC but with lots of quality of life changes, HD graphics, new mechanics like planet orbits and more. If you liked Sins 1, you'll love Sins 2. I'm looking forward to another 10 years of great co-op with friends and family. The DLC for this, is going to be great. I know it.

My only complaint, is there's no built-in setting to disable superweapons. Maybe the devs will add that in this go around.

I have about 6 months play time in total on the game through the Crap Ubisoft Launcher. So, my Steam time being .1 hours is specifically to add my review to this game; because reviews anywhere else by consumers, literally do not matter.

Rocksmith+ compared to Rocksmith 2014, is a severe downgrade on everything except guitar sound and, certain, features. For example, the song selection list, has over 9,000 songs available. Less than 3,000 songs, for Lead Guitar and at the time of my review, are even tabbed by either the community or Ubisoft themselves. The largest issue though, is the setlist. It's mostly a bunch of random C and B songs from artists you don't know or artists that you do like. There's also no mini-games like 2014. These mini-games were entertaining and a nice break from the usual of just playing songs.

On the positive side, this learning platform, compared to other platforms of similar levels, is the best one yet. I truly believe nothing comes close to the standard that Rocksmith 2014 and Rocksmith+ set for the intuitiveness and fun it provides. The covers by the Ubisoft team, are SO GOOD. Like, the covers are absolutely bangers!

I can't recommend the game though. As someone who owns Rocksmith 2014 and uses Ultimate Guitar, $20 per month for songs that you have to try to find something you want to play, it's not that fun. I really don't like having to work trying to find things I want to play. Which, this is a crucial step in learning a new instrument. It has to be fun and you have to have songs / tunes that you want to play, while having plenty of things you don't want to learn but should learn. There's not enough songs that are "I want to play these songs". When I learned how to play my Banjo from my instructor, he kept me learning fun songs that were fun and obviously just as many that were not fun to play but necessary.

They need to fix the setlist to have more bangers from artists I know and not go for quantity. They've definitely gone for quantity over quality at this point but the covers are soooooo good.

Shame really. It's a shame. I don't recommend it at its current price point, when Ultimate Guitar exists at the same price point that has plenty of pro tabs that include many songs you want to learn.

Rootkit DRM that has a really bad history.

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EDIT 8: Here we go again. Pay-to-Win monetization has hit Helldivers 2. Worse part about it, it's on the Superstore rotation. You may not see it for weeks at a time.

Add on top of that, they have chosen to go with DOUBLING the cost of the prices for a "collaboration" that's owned by the same parent company, SONY. There is likely no additional cost, or at the bare minimum, not a 100% additional cost. This is worsened by the fact that they've split this monetization "collaboration" into 2 parts. It will cost roughly $38 USD to get the complete collaboration. That's 3.9 Warbonds that at the current time of this review. I can't tell if this is Arrowhead pushing this or SONY; because the timing of this is absolutely disgusting. Every time this damn game gets some positive news, it's ALWAYS ruined days - 2 weeks later with some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

EDIT 7: Its been one week later and SNOY has not reversed the Region Locking. In fact, they ADDED 3 COUNTRIES TO THE LIST. They have also not removed their PSN requirement from the Store page. SNOY over here trying to break into the PC market by treating it like a console community.

My review will stay negative until SNOY removes the region locking and removes the PSN requirement from the store page.

EDIT 6: A miracle has happened today. Sony has reversed their decision to enforce PSN account linking. Hopefully this includes removing the region locks on the game now too. We all dive together again. Onwards to spreading Managed Democracy!

EDIT 5: They're forcing SNOY account linking for a garbage reason. If it was working fine before without it, it doesn't need to be forced now. Arbitrary mandate to mine for user data. I don't support this.

EDIT 4: Back and forth the review goes. The recent balance decision was done; however, they patched some things in the backend to not spawn as many Armored units now making it harder to deal with them. Now, it feels more like, if you don't kill the armor units asap, then it will steamroll to being out of control. This is manageable and I'm fine with that. So, back to positive review but I am concerned about the direction of the game, considering this first balance patch was QUITE rough.

EDIT 3: Controversial balancing decision. It looks like they're taking the game back to Helldivers 1 play style of never fighting, always retreat from combat on harder difficulties. I didn't like that that was the method to play Helldivers 1 above difficulty 10. So, I never played there. I actually enjoyed that Helldivers 2 stopped that before this current patch. Up to difficulty 9, you could stand your ground, shoot the enemy and fallback at the same time. As of today, they nerfed the only consistent anti-armor gun and tell us to use stratagems instead. Bro, strategems normally are DEBUFFED by increased call-in time and recharge time. Why not buff the other anti-armor guns to be competitive. The Rail gun was not thee problem. The other options not being good enough is the problem. I never ran the shield, as I always bring extra ammo for the team.

Insane balancing decision here.

EDIT 2: The AFK timer, while annoying, they increased the server pop to 700k as of the time of this review. I will rate positive because they're doing a great job with the game so far with the emergency fixes.

HOWEVER, I STILL DO NOT SUPPORT THIS INVASIVE AND BAD REP ANTICHEAT.

EDIT 1: They added a 15m AFK timer. Imagine waiting hours to login to the game, just to get kicked when you wanted to take a restroom, see your significant other, and / or smoke break / make a sandwich in one go. Then you come back to the logged out screen and you're back to waiting hours to get in.

AFK timer is complete ass.

Couldn't get crossplay between Steam <-> Xbox to work. So, couldn't play multiplayer with SO. Do not recommend at all if your intentions are playing with people on different platforms.

I backed this game for its original artwork and fan service a decade ago. Erasing the past due to BS allegations and a hostile takeover, is despicable. Do NOT support the current developers. Search up on YouTube " Mariel Cartwright & The Decomposition Of Skullgirls" to be educated on how low down and evil these people are.