after playing a decent amount of grounded 2 here are the pros and cons
Pros:
1.more types of enemies with a few reused versions ect
2.a new way for tools which dose make it easier for co op as your upgrades are others upgrades instead of a tool each to grind for.
3.a much larger map , which is always good for survival games giving you the fun of exploring
4.the updates add a huge amount of content which is always a good sign
Cons:
1.a heavy weight behind everything needing to be jump puzzles when the game is derpy at the best of times for object detection , sometimes the leaves are real sometimes not , sometimes you get push by a random shape more then the thing it is making you either fall to your death or have to retry the climb all over again
2.they really want to use the buggy system and for some very small stuff thats fine but their main objective is to be able to switch out which ever you use which is a good concept ( spiders for moving around on webs , ants for opening routes ect which is fine but the awful pathing when calling them if it even works at all most of the time its "cant call a buggy here" bs even tho they put a block in the way that needs you to say use an ant to get through so you have to find a spot where it might let you spawn it in.
3.had to unbind the key to huck as for some reason it would huck my weapon when i power attack? in a game where you have to break the enemies defence with a power attack
4.the auto save system for some reason triggers the game to freeze at random in ofc the most helpful places , mid jump , in a fight ect ect
5.changing the builds so its more dungeon an dragons related (Rouge/mage/fighter/ranger) which on the one hand helps with looking for stuff for your build by the name but also takes away alot of the fun from grounded 1 where you could mix and match different things for builds
6. sometimes the magic attacks auto track , sometimes not which can make it difficult in combat,
TLDR :
if you havnt tried grounded 1 play that its far more polished and overall just more fun to play , alot of the combat in this game seems like busy work to slow you down making the fun part of grounded where you get new parts almost only worth fighting things once maybe twice to unlock recipes
if you have played grounded 1 i would recommend waiting for this game to fully release so everything gets optimised ect
