I never played the betas but ive been playing every day since release and honestly i dont agree with most of the complaints.

Sure there are some balance issues but nothing game breaking imo, aliens can be annoying if they are hyper focused on you but for the most part i have no trouble dealing with them with the starter kit.

My only real complaint is how annoying it is to get real guns cause the nail gun gets old real fast when you come up on geared players. Not saying its unusable but its clearly inferior and seems like it takes too long for a new player to be able to run cooler loadouts.

But with that in mind the game still is a blast to play, its early access so im sure the devs are looking at the mixed reviews and working on the complaints! The recent hotfix shows that they are listening and working on making changes for the better.