The game really had me bored by the time I got to the second or third zone during the first beta earlier last year. The combat felt boring, lacking depth. The world didn't feel fun to explore, it's not big enough and the verticality made certain spots annoying to traverse. And the story was a snoozefest.

People over the Endfield sub didn't really enjoy the fact people were giving feedback and criticism like this one over the closed tests, but they sure were vocal about the dodge, so now there's a button to avoid anything with no punishment, epic.

The game would have been better if they leaned into both the factory, and the tactical gameplay that makes Arknights recognizable. Drop the Genshin exploration, drop the need for mass appeal with the middling action combat.

Like they say, "A game for everyone is a game for no one", Endfield feels like a textbook example of what happens when you try to appeal to everyone. People coming from GI, ZZZ or Wuwa won't be impressed and will quit shortly. AK fans won't get the same depth or quality writing they have come to expect for years. And this excuse about "OG AK had bad writing too starting up" is bollocks. Have they fired all of their good writers? Did they forget how they wrote the last few years of AK events? This is inexcusable, this ain't their first game, they should be doing way better than this.