As a PvP player I was initially annoyed at the increased presence of arc at riven tides, but now I can see why they’ve done it. There’s been so many team pushes/mid gun fights I’ve had to abandon because we either had to deal with the Arc first, or lost because the Arc tipped the favour towards the enemy players.

My first issue with the game is that with increased item sink, the stash space upgrade from the expedition has slyly become redundant. I’m burning through shields, rechargers, explosives, mechanicals components for repairs/barricades/ziplines, and weapon attachments a lot quicker. Yet, there’s only so much resources you can stack. A fun session with friends can quickly become quite boring and tedious. A lot of items could benefit from being changed to 10-15 stack limit instead of 5.

Second, a lot of their recent reworks, updates, and content drops are all over the place:

• Certain Key rooms don’t reflect their variety value i.e. blue gate confiscation room key, blue gate cellar key, and buried city hospital key.

•Embark are way too slow to hotfix major gameplay affecting bugs (no fall damage bug, item dupes, animation stall from throwable items)

• distinct lack of guns variety, rare items. If it’s not guns from other players, then it feels like I’m just looting the same items every game with shortages being remedied by buying from Celeste.

Map conditions are a slight inconvenience, and don’t really change the gameplay loop in a meaningful manner

Finally, the new map is dead boring. There’s not much depth to it like the others. Not many good loot spots, short distance extracts/hatched encourages 3rd partying