This is easily the best first person shooter ever made for me.
The atmosphere is incredible. Graphics, design, sound. Everything is 100% on point. Looks absolutely stunning, sound design is INCREDIBLE. Runs flawlessly. ~300 FPS at 3440 x 1440 everything maxed, with framegen and DLSS quality on a 5080 + 3XD 9850. Had a couple of crashes, but the game is still in "early access".
Gameplay is tense and really really strong. The progression system is very well designed. Each map becomes harder, as you level up the "Gnosis" difficulty level. Meanwhile Gnosis also adds new mechanics. There are a TON of mechanics, but not overwhelming, as each new mechanic gets introduced once at a time. Each map has a certain overall difficulty level, so it is always possible to jump back to an earlier map to farm Witchfire, to level the character.
The risk/reward system works very well. You start a map, take a look at the setup, decide what to do in which order and while you progress, you constantly decide, if you have enough resources to push further or if you should go for a way to extract.
There are several things to keep an eye on, like the escalation level, which at some point will start a stressful, dangerous event, ammo, health, healing items and so on.
Guns! Guns are insanely well designed. Each gun has traits, that unlock by using it. Traits make the guns very unique! They all play differently and they all are balanced and have their situations, where they come in handy. Flat, big maps, with ranged enemies, require guns that focuse on precision, smaller, tighter maps require guns with focus on close combat.
The guns and weapon traits remind me of Titanfall, because Titanfall only had a good selection of guns, but each was very different and had its on playstyle.
And they all sound and feel incredible. Punchy bolt action rifle, powerful sniper, blasting shotguns, rattling machineguns. Just perfect!
The spells and the buffs/debuffs are also great. Freeze enemies to blast at them, burn them to increase damage, shock them to do damage to multiple foes. Just perfect.
Character builds are very versatile. Lots of options, lots of possible playstyles. As you progess a map, you become stronger and stronger, until you are a rolling death-machine.
I absoluelty 100% recommend this game to anyone, who likes atmosphere-rich first person shooters, with a certain seriousness in regards to difficulty. This game is a pure joy to play and I hope this game succeeds just as hard as Dark Souls, Doom or anything alike.
Hats of to the devs for creation a 10/10 masterpiece!
