+ Good performance
- 42,000 to 700 players in 2.5 months says everything,
- Massive downgrade from the first game, and not because it is a roguelike shooter, I've played a lot of them, Roboquest is amazing, RC though is just terrible, & they still haven't fixed the issues in DRG 1 and want to keep making more games with the same issues.
- THEY REALLY SKIPPED THE FLAME THROWER FROM DRG 1, "LETS INCLUDE ALL GUNS FROM DRG 1 EXCEPT THE FLAMER.". Following in the footsteps of Helldivers 2 & Arrowhead where they nerfed the flamer along with everything else to make it all completely useless and unfun to use, GS games has taken it to the next level & straight up didn't include it at all because it is overpowered. SO WHERE IS THE FUN? FUN IS TOO OP? And following suit, just like HD2, they're letting the Community Managers take over with mass censorship
- GAME'S PREVIOUS CHARM & SOUL? GONE. RC is so bland
- MASSIVE BUGS IGNORED 2 MONTHS ON, simple bugs too, DRG & Ghost Ship Games really has gone straight down the drain, devs know and claim they will get around to it someday. Running Blades(run fast perk) doesn't add bonus movespeed and vids are on YT showing it does nothing, people are stacking up multiples this of perk since going fast is what this game is about, not knowing it does nothing. Not to mention Technical Reload actually gives Born Ready(auto reload perk) which fails to state it in description so many people would've skipped it. I'm sure they'll bring a tonne of nerfs before fixing bugs.
- The game isn't going to improve, they are just mass banning & censoring all feedback about the game while constantly asking for feedback in game. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE COMMUNITY MANAGERS SHOW UP TO RUN THE STUDIO. I would refund this game if I could, it clearly has no future GS Games neither. A lot of money to waste on slop being sold on the reputation of the original DRG.
- Other Roguelike shooters feature interesting perks or upgrades, in RC they are moslty just stat slop(eg. increase dmg by 10%), not many unique or interesting effects like headshots ricochet. What happened to the fun, creativity & quality that went into the Overclocks in DRG 1? The perks & upgrades could've been great, why not take some inspiration from your own game? Take some inspiration from what your IP, DRG used to be.
- Lack of chances to get new guns or equipment, so boring. Only modifier that really makes the game fun is Jumble, you can roll perks or equipment from anywhere giving plenty of chances but is only available to play randomly, missions only cycle every 30 mins. Other Roguelikes feature lots of guns and also a lot of chances at getting random guns, enemies might even drop one, this one has not only very few chances at guns & equipment but also no rerolls? Most entire runs will barely even get over 5 guns to choose from(3 at the start & once chance per level at either a weapon or equipment, runs are only 4-6 levels).
With lack of chances to get guns, if you pick a sniper, you hardly have any chances to get a second gun for horde clear. But if against all odds you manage to roll AoE effects that work with the sniper great, if not it is underpowered.
- Weapons are mostly awful, rubbish balancing, like the Hammercaster 58mm is the ultimate sniper, had me excited, shooting massive rocket propelled AP Tungsten rounds , game description: "shoots bullets the size of your fist", but the bullets travel so damn slow, can barely hit the fast flying elite enemies, the perfect job for a sniper. And it needs to hit precise weakpoints to deal its massive damage. Oh and you can roll this heavy sniper with extremely limited ammo pool with burst fire, so now you can hit your first shot on the weak point and miss all the rest, draining limited ammo so fast, making it useless.
M1 Garand? Still awful, bad accuracy unless standing completely still, needs to charge up the shot to deal more dmg but still makes it consume double ammo, 8 round mag only can shoot 4 shots. Who has time to stand still & charge up shots for pathetic dps, when you have to run & gun with hardly enough time to even check your map.
Just like DRG 1 the best snipers are still full auto but accurate, low recoil guns, like in DRG 1 the Deepcore GK2 AR with 100% accuracy & 100% recoil reduction overclock was the ultimate sniper far out performing the M1 Garand. The only good sniperlike semi auto weapon is the Bulldog Revolver just like the 1st game.
- THE GRIND, a massive slog, not a fun grind like some other games, without the perks you are very slow and it takes forever to interact without the nimble perk. Being so slow in a game that you were expected to finish yesterday with extremely limited time isn't fun, and it will take ages of suffering before you unlock all the best perks.
- Hardly anytime for anything, even just to check the damn map, just on the normal difficulty, with normal timer, sometimes the time is enough but usually not. Rubbish map generation, the exit elevator can spawn near the start of the map, and you have to keep going all the way down to the back of the map for the loot and then come all the way back to the beginning to leave. Claustraphobic mazes can spawn, extremely dangerous to go through during a wave, it wastes so much time to navigate and if a wave is about to start it is safer to wait to clear it before going through the maze.
You kill 1 wave, but you barely cleared the wave and in 1 min the next wave is already coming. The suicide explosive spiders instantly explode with MASSIVE damage, no delay like in DRG 1 & also always flank you as well while clipping through edges of terrain. They also can walk VERY FAR from the spawner & I was spamming my scanner in every direction to find the spawner, couldn't find it, they really expect us to go so far to look for the spawner, then come back? When we needed to have completed our tasks by yesterday already? It is ridiculous that the scanner has a massive 35m range and the spiders are still coming from a spawner further than that.
- No way to keep map zoomed out by default, have to use the scroll wheel everytime I open the map, EVERY SINGLE TIME, No settings for this, why, we have no time for anything and I have to scroll out countless times every time I check the damn map in a single level. Shows that the devs really don't play their own game or care anymore.
- Bad OST, they copy pasted most of the game from the first game, why not copy paste the OST too? They only copied a few tracks, not all. Compare the trailer music for DRG 1 and RC, RCs new music doesn't come close to the original tracks.
- They replaced mission control with 'Omega', a ball robot that is EXTREMELY ANNOYING to constantly listen to, every 10 seconds, his voice has a robotic voice filter, made even worse with the constant glitching & stuttering sound effects, it is like audio sandpaper, the original DRG mission control's voice was pleasant to listen to, even after over 350 hrs in DRG 1 I didn't get annoyed with his voice, and he had soul and character. Luckily the devs are aware of how sh*t Omega is, they added his very own volume slider.
- Bartender has been replaced with 'Omega' as well, no charm or soul like the bartender from the 1st game, why is Mission Control & the Bartender the same guy?
- Base/lobby is bland compared to the 1st DRG
- You can see how woke this game is going, icing on the cake to top it all off. The 'female' dwarves look like trans men, these 'women' now feature prominently as the main characters, the main picture on Steam & main menu in-game, the pic is centered on the "women" even though most players are guys, and in any media, not just DRG, like Lord of the Rings, dwarves they show are usually guys too, so why are these 'women' becoming the center focus? No problem with women in games, but this is just straight up woke.
