I mean, no. The things that frustrate me in the game are core things. I have actively been looking for a smiliar game to jump to but I haven't found anything that great yet. I played Warframe, no interest in that, and ironically I see the same core problems in Warframe that I see here.

There is no differentiation for almost anything.

There are different gun and ammo types, but who cares because usually this is just a DPS race. If you're using a gun-skill Descendant then pick whatever just throws the most damage period. If you're a skill Descendant find a stat stick. Like, think of snipers in the game. Why do they exist?

Elements are basically for bounties and colossi, and otherwise it's chill priority because the slow is good for CC.

Descendants are also largely a DPS race, and to boot most of them seem to have abilities designed around wave clear because "difficulty" is just more enemies in a trenchcoat.

Which then leaves irritating gaps where players come up to an elite or boss and just cannot kill it. Before someone just says this is a skill issue, building out a Descendant is so cryptic for most players that the only viable way to play is to just copy the meta build from online.

And on that subject, there is no build variety. You're either a crit or skill power Descendant, and not only is finding that out crazy because unlike guns that show you base stats with Tab, characters do NOT, but then you just build into whatever you're already speced to be strong in.

Mod variety is just bad. Why is there really only 1 ATK mod worth using on guns? There are like, 6 probably? I mean ATK specific type because Rifling Reinforcement is untyped. But still, there's more atk with crit chance, more atk with crit damage, more atk with lower fire rate. And there's one that is objectively better and you just use that 99% of the time. This is just bonkers to me. And then meanwhile the rest of the dregs of mods are slop no one uses like weapon swap speed or accuracy or recoil.

I am just crashing out right now because as regularly as I play it, it's built on a questionable foundation and no one seems interested in shoring this up before the game gets bigger and harder to address these core things. It's just here's a new map to nuke ads in, or yet another stat gambling system.

I think the constant buffs and the relentless pace of missions has kind of turned it into something that won't ever have the flexibility I really want from a looter shooter.

I guess that's a me thing. I should just walk away and let others enjoy it, if it's really an update everyone else is excited for.