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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 47.0 hrs on record (15.0 hrs at review time)
Posted: 22 Feb, 2023 @ 12:47pm

Been waiting for this game since it was announced like 3-4 years ago. Maybe even more, I don't remember. It's been so long. When I saw that trailer I knew this was going to be a good game. It isn't right now, but it's going to be. I truly believe this game can be great.
But as it currently stands there are kinks that need to be worked out, many bugs. Oh, so many bugs. If I had a dollar for everytime I got softlocked I could afford the Atomic Pass. Fr. The detection of the scanner as well as other things like fall damage or triggers for events are so bugged it's insane. The stealth in this game is very poor. There is very little stealth opportunity. It is either run past everything or kill everything. Also killing everything is a terrible experience because they get resurrected in seconds. There seriously has to be a better game mechanic than repair bots showing up every 10 seconds. They aren't even worth farming because it has diminishing returns. If you got to loot resurrected robots that would be a more acceptable trade but you can't.
Also it's just so annoying walking around and being forced to ignore enemies. Because it's like if you engage they'll call reinforcements and that isn't very fun.
There's a lot of different melee weapons, so it's very strange the combat isn't very hand to hand oriented and rather fire arm oriented because you have to fight projectile enemies at the same time as melee ones and you can't ignore the melee ones to b-line for the long ranged guys because the melee enemies are tanky and by the time you finish one off they'll have resurrected the long ranged enemy.
The movement needs some work. The clipping is the main issue why movement needs more work. You can grab onto ledges that aren't there, as well as scale walls you really shouldn't be able to scale. Enemies cornering you means you get stunlocked and can't escape because your jump is pitiful and your dash won;t allow you to traverse a background prop also blocking you in. The amount of times I get stuck in a wall or the floor is so annoying. Add loot respawns, fix enemy spam, add more stealth options. You move at the same speed as robots when crouched sometimes. It's almost impossible to sneak up on enemies. And some enemies have no silent take down approaches even though they're supposed to so there's that.
A lot of bugs.
But they'll fix those at some point.
No, as it currently stands it isn't worth 60-110 dollars.
Wait a year or two for it to go on sale and the DLCs get released. Then we'll have some 60 dollar quality here. Plays like a 45 dollar game tbh.
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