We Who Are About To Die

Edit: My main concern, gamepad issues, have been resolved during the recent updates. I smashed some heads and got my head smashed in. Was fun. Would be alot more fun if it didn't have the worst controller interface I've ever seen. Pulling up 3 menus at once and your controller is always controlling the menu behind all the mess. Whatever recent update they did made it so that the combat has been seeing issues with taking on the mouse and keyboard display while using a controller. The auto-hide does not auto-hide whatever is broken with the weapon movement display showing mouse movement. The menus themselves are also just funky. The middle equipment screen has the worst time moving stuff from inventory to equipped. If you can somehow manage the controller cursor to go down to the extra inventory and switch. There's a lot of stuff in the left menu that should be rearranged to make it more clear to new players what the hell is happening over there. The bet interface in the right menu is another place that does not enjoy the touch of a controller. Smaller issue. The game does not take advantage of the opportunity bets provide to really distinct-ify fights. Bets can be straight up impossible or close as. 8 pairs of 2 pit fight including my team and the bet is to kill 16 people. Or do 280 damage to your teammates 300 health pool mid-fight. Others can feel out of your control. While the pool of bets is also limited. Would otherwise be fun. I enjoy the physics of "beefy" ragdoll style combat. Controller combat was about the same as Kingdom Come and kind of like Mordhau. I felt like in most cases it felt like the character was responding to my movement and it felt great to get a charging whirlwind slice off on someone. It felt like you could play about any style you wanted but it would go better if you matched your character's story. The balance between managing your stamina and fending off the horde is great With more character backgrounds or other ways to create unique characters (unique mid-life events) it would have more replay-ability. It is only the patron events that you can find at the end of a long run and while cool, it's not much. Branching the different types of fights even further into their own Champion Lines like for Pit Fighter and going for speed or style could help this. Altogether this game could go a lot further but as it stands... No, I wouldn't bother messing with this game if you are a controller player. Otherwise fun, the game lacks the infinite replay-ability you'd want with this type of funny and heavy, smack em physics game. If you don't mind or care about controller problems a playthrough can net you a few hours of bloody gladiator fun.