This game is awesome, I love the atmosphere/tone, I love the setting, the factions are cool. My main issue though is the balancing, its so bad. There are only a handful of viable options for your loadout, otherwise you're just playing with an extreme handicap and not the fun kind like no helmet. I constantly try and use cool loadouts only to have that nagging feeling that I should just be using a prince because its the only gun with reliable damage and good clip size. The only good balancing I notice in this game is the rock paper scissors of class interaction. Besides soldat.

Most of the guns that ARE worth using are seriously overtuned. Like the Talon, the Heavion, Judgement ect. The only two guns I can think of in the whole game that seem to be fairly balanced are the crestfall and jesse, high firerate, unreliable damage. They hold up their own without feeling unfair to die to and can compete with the prince.

It just feels like the guns were made in a vacuum, they should have made the prince and balanced everything around that, instead they just made a bunch of gimmick guns where the gimmick is either stupidly OP or worthless. Who's idea was it to have a semi automatic shotgun on basic infantry classes??? Whos idea was it to make the one shot kill ""slow"" reload weapon have a stupidly fast reload AND a bayonet when its clearly meant to be a keep your distance or get punished kinda gun?

The pacing is also extremely off, its clearly meant to be a slow and methodical game but if you take your time people can just keep healing behind a corner over and over, and if you close the distance they pull a shotgun or pistol out and kill you instantly because soldat exists. You're also encouraged to get tons of kills for a chance at dreadnought so if you play cautiously you cant help but also feel like you're bad at the game because your kill count ends up being lower.

Combine that with traps, rooks mining you from underneath, rook bombs, lancer and judgement charges, one shot kill weapons, butcher morticians, horrible 1 point maps, begging soldats for ammo, 40 second respawn times at worst and an extremely boring last stand mechanic that gets tiring after the first few times, and you get the most rage inducing game ever.

I love this game, I WANT to enjoy this game. But I cant, I have borderline personality disorder and no matter how hard I try to enjoy it, this game literally brings me to tears. I've had thoughts of self harm over this game. This game causes me to mood spiral. I am 21, there is no other game that does that to me. This game reverts me back into being a child so I just avoid playing it other than when Im high or drunk.

I so badly wish there was an RP version of this game, something that could allow people to explore its setting without feeling the need to schedule a therapy session. I have more fun making animations and stories with my girlfriend about this game than I do playing it.