It's actually a lot of fun, but still buggy, imbalanced, and frustrating enough that I uninstalled because it became a waste of time.
- Same stale mechanics, shrinking circular playing field
- Same stale mechanics except longer load times and lobby wait times than Apex or PubG
- Still getting random disconnects
- Randomness is part of the core game (weapon drops, initial proximity to the eye of the storm and other players)
- Heavily stat based play which makes it really unbalanced and mitigates FPS player skill to a high degree
I got to level 20 in the game mode 'Level 20 Overseer'. I won 2 matches with my team, won another by riding the team win after dying once, and my K/D/R if I am honest was probably around .25
The randomness and stat based mechanics are problematic. I am a middling sniper, pulled off a headshot with my scoped hunting rifle, then hit the guy 3 more times in the torso and legs at around 90 meters running to down him. Yet numerous players have killed me with 3 shots (no headshots) with the same rifle while I was wearing power armor. Has to do with stats like armor penetration. These usually go with the scramble to find the weapon and equipment that you specced your character out with.
Then there is the rampant cheating. I would say one out of 8 matches I would suspect a cheater.
But what takes the cake, the disconnections.
Yesterday I had a good run. I won a match with my whole squad up, in the half dozen matches or so I got at least a few kills every match.
Instead today, nothing different on my end, I died within the first few minutes of the game to a single enemy. One guy who I stumbled across and was about to snipe at my squad, so I shot him in the back. He jumped using his stupid frog legs mutation, probably hit a stimpack while in the air, then killed me before I could empty a 2nd clip into him. Totally uneven and random nonsense. In Planetside 2 those situations can occur due to latency, but in this game it is simply exacerbated by stat heavy game mechanocs. He must have had high damage resist or a high ping, because one magazine of the same rifle has killed a power armor player at close range before.
And then there were more instances of trading shots across a valley, both of us on high ground, he had marine armor and I had power armor. I opened up on him first, same rifle, I hit him twice he killed me in 3 shots with my full power armor. That's just stupid.
The cake though, after I had already decided to delete the character and the game to take a break, the first good match I had the entire day and when we were down to the last 9 people I got a server disconnect.
They use AWS so that means they are giving money to Jeff Slezos too.
Fuck they suck as a company. I can't even complain on their forums because consistently with my Android phone, type is entered backwards into their submission forms.
I hate that they have the best lore and best environments, but the quality of their coding and implementation is clown shoes.
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[–] 19546564? [S] ago
Possibly the guy with the Lever Rifle who was jumping to get my attention after I had already clearly observed him was actually a really good player and headshot me once or twice.
Possibly. Then again, My golden rule is I treat others how they treat others.
Deception has its uses, but you can consider it a baffle AFAIAC.