This game is beyond buggy and unintuitive.
There is no point in teamplay, XP is based off of kills and almost nothing else.
Medic/Engineer get practically 0 XP compared to every other class.
The grenade launcher is the best weapon in this game.
Completely outclasses the rest of the game's arsenal.
You have to level up each gun by killing bugs, which sounds fine,
but results in people refusing to do their classes' role in the squad.
Medics won't heal or revive.
Engineers won't place ammo or build defenses.
For example, if you mount a stationary MG, you are getting an insane amount of XP per bug kill,
but if someone is reloading you as you are shooting, they only get 15 XP per reload.
The gunner gets 5 XP MINIMUM per normal bug kill.
This means that there is no point in someone reloading you to keep the gun reloaded,
because they get practically nothing compared to the one shooting.
That's an insane difference in XP.
Not to mention the servers are really laggy.
Sometimes, Your body rubber-bands back down and then up again each time you jump.
Normal rubber-banding is also frequent.
P.s. The ping in the leaderboard is lying. Full on lying. It will say you have 25 ping but it feels as though you are playing on a server in India if you're in the US.
The climbing system is the worst climbing system out of any game I've ever played.
I'd rather them just not have one at all.
Because bug corpses pile up, you can be in the middle of an all out war against bugs and have to turn around to run, but there's a bug corpse in the way.
You jump to get around it and end up climbing it.
The climbing animation is so insanely long compared to the rest of the movement in the game, so you die.
It's so jarring and it will get you killed repeatedly.
It's better to just try not to climb at all.
When I learned that this was made by Offworld I was actually bewildered.
They used to be such a good company but have fallen off drastically and it shows.
I got this game on sale.
Do not buy this for 30 dollars.
If it was like 7-15 dollars then that would make more sense.
I'd still give it a negative review, but it would make so much more sense for the actual quality of the game.
Also, the cosmetics are just color changes.
Each trooper looks the same, and the only cosmetics that actually change anything is the ONE prestige cosmetic for each slot you get.
That and the DLC cosmetics, but all of those look like garbage too.
The only one seemingly worth it is the Sparta one because it changes the color of the helmet and not just the visor.
Oh also, this could be the fault of the IP, but every gun looks like a toy gun made of plastic.
Edit for March 2026 update:
They added a mod for the grenade launcher to give it more reserve ammo for some unknown reason.
Clearing bug corpses gives XP now, which is nice, but doesn't solve the XP related issues for support classes.
They made ambushes even more difficult, which I'm fine with more difficulty, but ARC missions are already brutal as is, and the bugginess of the game really scales up the difficulty of these drastically.
Haven't tried out the mech, so I can't say anything about that.
All in all, the update added a mech.
That's pretty much it.
Sadly, all other changes seem pointless.
