Grounded 2

game runs worse then cyberpunk on release on the ps4. and the fact theyre still selling a founders DLC despite being available to buy for a year should tell you everything you need to know. Stay away till its finished...in prolly 4 years.

Has the same great gameplay as the first, but the amount of issues currently present makes the experience more frustrating. There is frequent frame stuttering in combat alongside the occasional frame drops in online sessions. When it does work, the flow of combat is very well thought out and has great weapon/enemy variety. However, there are currently very disjointed attacks by the tier 2/3 enemies. My favorite of which being a wolfspider leaping through an undamaged base then phasing out afterwards. Of course, this wouldn't be a Microslop official title without their signature awful cross-play combined with their genius decision of always-online single player. Given that this is still in early access, I do expect many of these issues to be fixed over time. For now, wait for this to go on sale or for a later update.

my partner and i love playing this game together with friends. At first, i thought the art was a little goofy but it has really grown on me. I was scared of the bugs at first but now I know to just run away!!!!

i feel like it has a weird pacing problem and like the omni tool could use some work like instead it could have a tool wheel to select which tool you want and make it toggleable

Over a year in and the game still has the same massive issues. There is huge amount of desync between host and client. Water droplets that don't exist, items that don't exist. They have the same menu bug from the first game (that they had fixed in the first game) where when the host is navigating menus, it resets the menus of the clients. Arrows still fall through the world frequently. Buggies set to stay will instead wander off and get themselves killed. Game randomly sets you to 3rd person and you can't swap back to first without reloading. The game runs terribly regardless of settings being changed. Game uses way too many shaders and requires multi minute shader compilation on every launch. There's a lot to like here but until the devs get their priorities straight, I would recommend you pass on this.

alot of bugs on pc

2 biggest reasons im downvoting this game the really poor optimization and the omnitool, even on low settings fps drops to the single digits its common and can easily kill you the second is the omnitool, rather then having multiple tools you have one for everything that you have to upgrade, normally this would be good, but rather then traditionally where you pull it out and wack away at resources instead you go up to them and hold e, this massively slows down resource collecting while being very annoying anytime you need to pick up something next to a resource, i hate this system so much rather then just having us pull the tool out and choose what head we want then mine. its genuinely awful. otherwise its very much grounded one but with more stuff even has most of the stuff (besides tools) from the first game. if they fix the optimization issues i may change this but how slow it is to gather resources in this game because of the tool change idk may leave it.