Recent reviews by Fabricator Theddius

I have been playing this game on and off for years, a few matches at a time and then logging off for 2 years. Now in my recent return the game has really improved on the pay 2 win angle, the amount of free mechs that are given out, on top of earning a good amount of cash per match and the monthly event that also gives you premium currency are just very good things in a sea of mobile ♥♥♥♥ games that demand a lung and a kidney to be even close to a competetive level.

This is on top of already solid gameplay mechanics, although some parts and combinations are nerfed due to multiplayer balancing. You wouldn't want to have a match full with mechs that instakill you now, do you?

I haven't realized it but I put 100 hours into this game. Its a very fun sandbox :)

The console wars are over.

play with friends, or else you'll be bored to tears

As with every generation of Armored Core. This one spices things up a bit with the dark souls lock on, unusually less interesting music, new and fun story alongside fantastic characters.
Alongside many smaller changes that I wont fret over

At its heart its an armored core game. Arcadey mech game with gimmicks and every level feeling fresh. HOWEVER the bosses are a staple of whats good and wrong with modern fromsoft. While the bossfights are nice and flashy to look at. Their insistance on making cheap shot bossfights is getting rediculous. Thankfully unlike in dark souls we have our own easily accessible cheap shots to rely on. But when they strike that balance between flashy and difficult, its an absolutely fantastic experience. Armored Core vs Armored Core fights were the perfect examples of this.

Lastly. Bandai and Fromsoft at their "finest" is in multiplayer netcoding. While incredibly fun. If you try to play with somebody from Asia or South America you are gonna be teleporting more than a DBZ character in a fight.

Good work out there!

FOR 70 YEARS WE'VE LIVED IN THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT WAR. FIGHTING OVER THE SCRAPS LEFT ON OUR TABLE. WELL NO MORE. WE COME FROM THE DARKNESS. WE HIT FAST. WE HIT HARD. WE ARE MARAUDERS

This game is great. Artistically inspired by Jin-Roh/Cowboy Bepop's concept art. Mechanically inspired by tarkov (without as much gear fear and grind).

A simple Loot, Shoot and Extract. Devs are pumping out major updates at a fantastic pace to finish this game. However for now space combat isn't as interesting as the regular combat. Its a cheesy meta of rocketspam.

Also to the hacker issue. Its really a small chance you'll ever encounter one. I've only really encountered a ship hacker and even then its just the rocket turret he had having an insane reload speed. However your luck may vary.

The hammer is the mightiest piece of construction equipment.

Did anyone really expect frontier to figure out walking inside a ship when Star Citizen hasn't made it to run stably for the past 10 years?

DLC is fine but very overpriced for what it is, Performance in some areas is now very low like stations and very crowded on foot areas. Planets look more boring and some flat out look worse. Although the updated visuals for everything else up in space are better. Especially the explosions, they feel better now.

The on foot combat is very mediocre the AI is about as intelligent as Borderlands 2 AI and about as powerful as well. Blame yourself for jumping straight into high difficulty cz's unprepared and then dying constantly not the game. As if the space combat didn't teach you that already. Speaking of they balanced damage the same way they did with space combat.

This DLC also does fix missions a lot. Never before have i seen so many 50 mil paying missions to kill 20 ships. Like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

More on performance. On average i get around 30-50fps when there are 24 people fighting it out on a medium cz. So good job on frontier for hiring the planetside 2 devs. Hell they even got the Gauss SAW in which is the best kinetic "LMG" there is. They only renamed it to the Karma AR-50 and call it an assault rifle.
As to everyone getting headaches from the fps. Please for the love of god do something else except playing video games. After a while you'll stop noticing.

After a tedious process of getting the game onto my library. As a good friend of mine got it so we can play it at launch. I have dumped nearly 50 hours in the past two weeks.

Game is great. The great rune bosses have knocked it out of the park. The open world can get a bit repetetive with overly easy bosses and very similar layout for dungeons sometimes. Though they did add the best feature from the best souls game. Powerstancing.

Summoning is great, when YOU are getting summoned. Because its nearly instant with 800k playing on PC. Problem is when you yourself want to summon someone you have to act like a medieval ages peasant when a nobleman drops a single penny onto the streets. Sometimes you might get a summon instantly if you are fast enough. Or you spend 10 minutes trying to get one.

One of the negatives of the game for me would be deciding to put the bloodborne enemy designers in. Specifically the ones that think its funny to have an enemy move at light speed while also having a slotting machine of ranged attacks to kill you with.

Miyazaki pulled his traditional PC port on this one. As usual day 1 launch performance sucks.


Game should also be rated as 18+ for it contains handholding and hugging.