I really want to like this game, but it really makes that difficult to do. i will try to keep my issues somewhat brief and to the point.
1. the "mission" structures are obnoxious. spend 10 mins going here to take out 3 guys, then spend 15 minutes looking for whatever obscure piece of paper or whatever it is, or dead body amongst a world of everything being dead (more on that in a minute) to press E on and either finish that mission or now progress to the next 5 minute away obj where you need to go spend 10 more mins to find the thing to press E on.
2. the world looks great, but its empty and dead. everything is dead, the only living things are the people you need to make dead. it makes the time spent "exploring" so boring and uneventful. 75% of the time i think about wanting to play i remember the 10-20 minutes im going to spend walking through this empty world with a char that cant jog more than 100m and never seems to get any better at it to get to issue #1 and i just dont feel like dealing with it.
3. enemies can be way too tanky. theres so many times i can put 3-4 5.56s into a unarmored targets upper chest for them to lean over, then lean back up and continue to fire back, sure, they bleed out in 20-30 seconds but man...thats alot of damage to just eating up. even using ammo like SP or HP, doesnt really seem to matter.
4. some of the weapon details and customization hurts my brain as someone who has spend decades working with firearms. delta ring retained handguards that are carbine length on rifle length gas system guns...how? theres no forward retaining ring to hold the front of the handguard in? in a game with so much focus on 'detail' it seems stuff like this is a massive oversight. the early game for guns is kinda terrible too. for example the MOA difference between a 20" barrel and a 14.5" barrel, IRL longer barrels are not more accurate than shorter ones - in fact it tends to be the reverse because shorter barrels "whip" less during firing. longer barrels have more velocity so can do more damage in effect, but are not more accurate.
5. there is too much junk in the world to pick up...whats the point of 85% of the items that sell for basically nothing? it just takes up RAM that could be used for better stuff.
6. There really needs to be more enemies in the world. my friend and i were playing the other night running through a dense section of forest and though 'man, this would be a terrible but great place for an ambush" but there isint anything, its all just lifeless empty forest. which leads to just a boring experience of a game with over half the time spent traveling and a large portion of the remaining time just trying to figure out the obj.
theres a few other things like the characters poor stamina that doesnt seem to increase with his level for some reason...why wouldnt it? the longer you operate, the more you run, the more you condition yourself thus the better you can perform in the field but in this game that never matters it seems.
lastly id like to say to people wanting to counter this with "well it gets better in the end game, once you unlock all the stuff". thats great if you're someone who wants to slog through to get to that point, however you shouldnt need to invest 100+ hours before you find fun.
