StarRupture

StarRupture really has the potential of being a great game. My wife and I picked this up when it went on summer sale and just recently decided to try it out. We both have spent hundreds of hours in Satisfactory, so this game really piqued our interest. Overall, it's a solid game! Here are our pro's and con's. Pros: - Beautiful, MASSIVE map - Cool systems and objectives, just like Satisfactory. You can get crazy with your builds or just go crazy with the spaghetti - Guns and enemies that all feel good to work with or against - Lore and prisoner theme can be funny and gives just enough info to keep you interested. Nothing crazy but, it's fun - You can sprint to a slide, so big win there - Tons of recipes to unlock, secret things to find on the map and rewards for exploring the map - LEMs to upgrade character are cool and offer some custom options for a sort of "build" - Smooth transition for the most part for start to end game content Cons: (Keeping in mind this game is in EA) - Blueprints. Lots to say here but I'll condense. Hunting down blueprints with no vehicles or personal mods to make you move faster is rough. Then, finding the blueprints is even worse. But, the worst of the worst is finding a point of interest, open the blue chest and find a DUPLICATE BLUEPRINT?!?!? This sucked the life out of me. This has got to be fixed because the time spent to find these things is thrown out the window when you have the chance of finding a duplicate. - Base defense. On the cover, looking at the game from the outside, it appears that there will be some tower defence-ish events. Turns out, it's only when you upgrade a major item that takes hours to farm for. In my opinion, blueprints should happen when you trigger a wave and successfully defend your base. Not sure why that's not a thing, would be super fun and make the base building way more interesting. - Ziplines and teleports sound like a great thing, but they are locked behind a lot of blueprints and corporation requirements to obtain. If this wasn't the only way to "quickly" travel, things might not feel so slow. The map is enormous, which is awesome, but we needs vehicles or gliders or something, please. Excited to see where the game goes and if they add some more travel options. I say a solid 6.5/10 for now but could be a 10 with some game tweaks. Thanks guys!