Boring and repetitive.
How did this get Overwhelming reviews is beyond me.
The grinding is too obnoxious with you having to replay the same missions over and over again in order to unlock better (more fun) weapons+vehicles.
Classes are imbalanced, making single player mode frustrating.
AI is garbage, always looking for 1 random missing bug on the map.
Getting randomly oneshotted and have to listen to the same dialoge 10x in a row isnt fun.
Controls are garbage and clunky, I ended up rolling around at 45 degree angles as the Ranger for example as there isn't a sprint or the ability to roll forward.
Playing the Fencer, the heavily-armed tanky unit, was satisfying until I realised that there isn't really much fun when you want to get somewhere, you can thrust forward a bit over and over but nothing more.
It just ends up feeling bothersome.
You'll also end up using weapons strangely too, aiming assault rifles at unusual angles because "it fires that way", it's plain silly...
Accuracy may increase with the "level" but why should a weapon be so bad by default?
It makes some of them It's practically unusable unless you're willing to aim wrong.
UI is garbage.
The interface is strange, there isn't a cursor so you end up clicking to select and using WASD to move around the menus, menus that don't always feel intuitive.
Every time you start the game you'll be notified with a popup "You will use the mouse" etc., it's badly translated and shouldn't even be a message you need to see.
Things like that add up.
Progression is disappointing.
It may have been the dealbreaker.
I suspect it also is to anyone that values upgrade systems and customisation.
There's no real armour upgrades, visual or functional, just an number that goes up that's essentially just health.
Aside from that one health value, you also won't have any kind of progression with your character, no stats, no skills, nothing. What you will get are guns, guns that only level-up when "looted" again, that's it.
I feel like a lot of depth is lost here, it could be so much more.
Oh and sure, you can change two colours on your uniform but that's hardly of much value.
It'd be nice to at least have several armour sets with different stats for each class.
It would nice to have something to feel like you're progressing yourself and not just random weapons.
The gameplay doesn't *feel* perfect - enemies are sometimes bullet-spongy, and there isn't a ton of variety or strategy beyond "kill them all because you're powerful enough" or "kite them all because you're not powerful enough."
The difficult later missions weren't more *interesting* for their difficulty - they were just extra punishing if you accidentally agro'd too much.
Having character experience and armor *can* be good in the right type of game, and it is fun to unlock more weapons, but the armor is just too punishing if you don't have enough.
Basically, you *cannot* switch characters, at least not without far too much time investment.
You just won't have enough armor (weapons isn't as much of an issue because you can get a few good weapon drops on a harder level).
Only playing as one character could be fine if it was interesting enough or had enough variety, or for example it felt earned (like imagine an RPG where you spend time crafting your build), but it didn't for me.
