'Cover-based' third person looter shooter. I like the setting here more than Division 2 but that's just my opinion. I picked it up on here on a very steep sale. When I signed on, it apparently ported over my old character from Uplay and gave me a bunch of achieves at once, lol.
Now for the gameplay... it's a very mixed bag.
Levelling 1-30 was fun, discovering the story, all of the instances for the first time, etc. Getting started in gear was fun. Doing endgame content is... not fun. There's quite a few issues that plague things:
- For pvp at this point, most players are decked out in the very best gear optimized to perfection. So you're starting from very far behind and will just be fodder for the grinder.
- Dark zone, same complaint as above.
- Missions, you have to do the same small handful of missions over and over hoping to get some semblence of an upgrade (typically nothing), and the pool of them is very small.
- Instances are the same things that you've ran while you were levelling, just with bigger bullet sponges. You can find and build gear solo decently quick enough to handle Challenging/World tier 5 stuff but by then you're sick as hell of running the same content over and over.
- Incursions, most are artificially gated to require two people to progress. For the ones that can be soloed, they're also extrodinarily difficult to do so and require gear that's better than the stuff that drops in it.
- Underground, you have to grind a tedious experience bar to play the more difficult stages (which drops loot in the range that would actually help you out) and with the modifiers, just feels more frustrating than a fun addition. And if you die at the very end, whoops, time to start it all over again!
- Who thought it was a good idea to make the game UI itself 'glitch out' on you?
- Survival and last stand requires groups and noone's playing them.
- Benitez doesn't know how to shut the ♥♥♥♥ up. Every time you even mouse over the terminal, he starts shouting in the mic about content that requires groups that noone's running. And you can't mute this.
- Classified sets are endgame pieces, and help a little with item RNG since you can reroll two stats on them but you get drip fed SOME of these if you're a solo player. There is only 3 'loot chest' style reward sets up at any one time during a week out of a month. If you happen to be playing on a different week than the ones currently up on the global event, they become either impossible to find or gated behind group content.
- I've also run into stagger/control issues where enemies will for example, throw a grenade at me. Then the damage hits immediately, then the explosion happens. This has been an unresolved complaint for years. Since it knocks you out of cover, with enemies that swarm like the LMB, this is usually a death sentence if you're not very overgeared for the content or wearing gear that gives you a ton of survivability (and usually uses up your options).
So, for this game, I would snag it on a very steep sale, enjoy the levelling 1-30 and maybe dabble in the endgame. But once you've done that, the game gets very stale, very fast. I would rate this mixed if I could, but since I had a lot of fun levelling and running the missions for the first few times, I got my moneys worth. This also goes on for like 90% off sales and at that point, definately worth it. So I'll rate this up.
