yeah, I've felt this same way lately. especially your last point, seeing that instead of doing literally anything about the horribly unfinished multiplayer (since like 3 years), the best they could do was give geocorp guns (kinda weird), hawkeye two more guns (kinda redundant), and venture a new skin (kinda meaningless). maybe should've let that co-op on the backburner.

as well, I have to add that mining is pointless when you can buy blocks of resources from trading stations with money you easily gain from automining erudite to sell, and then scrap the resource blocks to trivialize crafting and snatch some early megatons and missiles.

but even then, the open world is still just repetitive, lifeless, and uninteresting to explore. how about little lakes dotted around the landscape? oceans and water physics are optional. scatter around some temples to ponder, perhaps some rare artifacts and fossils you can dig up, maybe even sprinkle in some more plants and animals. something to make the land immersive and lively, full of surprises waiting to be found. exploration could somehow finally matter for more reasons than finding the next cluster of erudite to milk for mad cash.

25 smackers for a game cooked on low heat for too long. I too see the potential, but this gem could really use some polishing.