As a new player on PC you will:
- Be greeted by gambling mechanics (it's literally part of the tutorial).
- Barely find anyone in the matchmaker, (both ranked and casual).
- Only find custom games with ¨Win farms¨.
- Realise that there are several better GUNDAM games on roblox made by Gravity Front.
If you do find a good custom match lobby, you will be greated by the most unpolished combat loop imaginable. After struggling against players that know what they are doing, you will have no choice but to go through several tutorial battles, that explain features that make a "team based fighting game" feel very limiting if you play casually. The game features flinching, staggering, and topple mechanics that become a fine way for experienced players to stun lock others.
After trying to go head first into frontline combat, you expect to find better luck if you try to flank and suprise the enemy... little do you know it's a death sentance. The flanking class is the Raider, however. There is no reason to flank the enemy team, since the meta is to stick together. If you decide to flank, 1 out of 2 things will happen:
- You will get pushed by the entire enemy team (because the radar tells them exactly where you are).
- You will cause your own team to scatter, and then the enemy (who is bunched up) will stun lock everyone and eliminate them one by one.
As a support there is no reason to attempt long range attacks, because the effective range is only about 400 meters. It can be effective if your team is working together. Dont expect to stay far away and pick off mobile suits one by one, because:
- Cooldown between firing makes it so that the enemy has enough time to hide.
- Your damage is high but not high enough to be effective alone (plus the damage fall of at range is high).
- You would be better help if you were next to your teamates, slamming, toppling and stunning them.
- Supports are generally slower than the 2 other classes, Raider and General, dont expect to be agile if the enemy finds its way to you.
That makes only 1 out of the 3 classes suitable for a ¨bunched up¨ style of team combat. In a game where being tanky, agile, and powerful (all at once) is the baseline to be a good asset to your team, it essentially eliminates the need for variety playstyles. Which isn't suprising because the most common class is the General (general purpose).
Keep in mind, as of the time I wrote this review, I've spent a total of 8 hours in game. However, most of the time it has been waiting for games in the lobby, playing tutorials, exploring features and at last only playing custom battles. Where I was only able to find ONE lobby where we played normal matches, the rest of the 10 other lobby's I've joined have been WIN FARM lobbys. The normal matches that I played where very one-sided, as soon as a team scatters it is hard to group up again.
From what I have heard: The reason for the qeue time being bad, is because the match maker struggles to match lower ranked players with other low ranked players. You will apparantly have better luck finding games on console such as the PS4.
The overall feeling is just dissapointment, very cool animations, and the mobile suit models are genuinely awesome. However, it doesn't mean anything if the new players are actively getting discouraged by hostile microtransactions, experienced players, custom game win farms, confusing upgrade systems, limited playstyle options and questionable balancing decisions.
Also, it was such a disgrace to have the classic Gundam music locked behind music packs. (You will have to pay in real money to listen to something else than ¨generic combat music playlist 1¨). Expected from a free game, I'm glad I didnt pay money for this game.
P.S.
If you want to find lobby's on PC I would highly recommend finding discord servers with game night events. Otherwise, have fun trying to have fun.
