I suggest wait for a sale, else get only if you're a fan of and enjoyed the 1st game. It improves on the 1st game in some areas(like mixing and matching your build through specialist class by using parts of the other kits, swapping off weapon traits you think would work well on other weapons, ai ally synth orders to GTF OUT OF MY FACE for 5 seconds so I don't rocket us, up to 4 challenge cards can be selected per mission as opposed to RNG selecting 1 between all player suggested cards).
It also takes alot of steps back in other areas(NPC dialogue/lines makes most including myself wanna mute the game entirely or gouge my eyeballs out, unskippable cutscenes unless you use mods to swap them out for 1second/1frame cutscenes on nexusmods, lack of information on various things like what does more armor pen do aside from letting you hit armored things, we're fighting bugs and we're fighting BUGS like not being able to pickup unless we're fully reloaded among other BUGS, some weapons doing 0 damage depending on your loadout and attachment/augment selections, some perks and attachments not properly working, some parts of the map are actually pathable so you can fall off a cliff edge somehow somewhere, ai synth allies STILL WALKING INTO MY LINE OF FIRE EVEN THOUGH I TOLD YOU TO GTFO, ai synth orders to interact with mission objective results with "I cannot comply" despite them STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CONSOLE, GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH)
*Takes deep breath*
*Continues on negatives*
Most public games I'm matchmaking into are just queens fight because it's the shortest games to play(ending in roughly 2min or under depending on team's build compositions and challenge card selections focusing on deleting the queen in record time) and helps powerlevel up people's gear and such. It's also extremely boring when it's the ONLY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ THING people play on casual difficulties, so I have to jump into intense+, and YMMV with who joins you. Like people who yoink medicals and heal 4% health, and then proceed to yoink another medkit. Or people who run off ahead to aggro future spawns and die in front, leading the team to wipe cuz of all the ♥♥♥♥ that has spawned. Or people who stand in front of you to shoot and engage threats that you're currently dealing with and have no issues, but leave a flank open. Which you then turn around to address, and they rinse and repeat that over and over again. Meanwhile what they could have done is press 'c' to CROUCH SO I'M NOT CONSTANTLY BLUEBALLED FROM SHOOTING YOUR FACE OFF AS YOU'RE BLOCKING MY LINE OF FIRE, FFS.
And let's not forget you can get stuck in matchmaking, stuck in loading screen, stuck in Idk where else that shouldn't happen(like being yeeted behind a door by alien elites, that happens to be the next mission objective that can only be opened when the entire team is standing in front of it normally, but can't now because YOU'RE STANDING BEHIND IT, WTFWHYISTHISEVENAPROBLEMDEVS?!?!?!).
*Takes another deep breath*
*Posts review*
