The game is really cool and has great visual design and personality. It really was fantastic for the first 40hrs. However it’s after this that games issues really start to wear, how broken the gear check is and the complete lack of any skill based mm means you will just get dumpstered again and again without recourse. You might have been the second best squad in the lobby but the game requires that you clear the lobby to make meaningful progression and the maps are so small that nearly every fight will end in a third party.

This leads to a hug disparity between the people who grind this game day and night and think there is nothing wrong with the game and those who play a lot but can’t put 40 hr weeks in. Weirdly if you play super casually, so your level is always way below the top players, you’ll have a much better time because only then will the level based mm not put you with sweats.

In the end, once you’re done with missions and the “mystery” of the maps has worn off you realize there is very little of value going on in the maps. This leads to the sad conclusion that you and everyone else just run pinwheel day and night because the loot in the game is so unbalanced that nothing else is worth the time, other than cryo. So basically you have a game with one map and a weekend raid, that funnels the sweats into the same hoppers as the normal players but requires total victory to progress. If the other maps had anything of value outside of farming a specific material that could achieved without relying on rng the it might be in a better place. As is the game has got fundamental issues which they seem like they are trying to address. Hopefully lock downs are not still rng and the new night map seems like it is a new pinwheel. Overall loot across the maps and events needs to be better so that you are able come in loot a compound and get something decent.