I enjoyed this game a lot in previous updates. Came back after the shooting range update only to find it was an overhaul update. All the dialogue and interaction is really not good, the game feels so vastly different for it and I could not care less about the characters. What once felt so eerie and offputting to be in such a clean base with no one around is now a weird annoying corporate web-page feeling experience. I enjoyed the look and feel of the mission UI before, felt very abandon-ware which suited the empty feeling of the base and world, like you could be the only one left. Now it just feels like some half-assed webdev project with how we get a Microsoft Teams looking voice call all the time. The in-between of travelling really is so awkward, feels like such a weird space that baits me into looking at a bunch of non-valued items while and deal with the most awkward "friend" npc that has to spoon-feed me how I should feel about the story elements. The artifacts that were really charming and unique became retextured random models which really just makes me have to pick up every single interactable in order to tell what I can and cannot sell for value.
The tutorial was gutted and lost several things that really need to be explained. For some reason the PDA slot was switched sides and wasnt given an option to be modified separately? And wow, using the PM again starting a new save, it took forever to put the magazine in. The motion required to do so is fully sliding it in, which is extremely awkward as my controllers seem to be too big for that to work without flipping them around or smacking them together.
Glad to see that steadying your aim was added, which was sorely needed, and the shooting range is neat. Also very glad that you can put ammo directly into ammo boxes within your backpack.
Anomalies were already obnoxious and super finicky, and now they are worse and harder to see. The performance is no better, I'd say it is worse but its really hard to tell. Stashes are rather lackluster, and it feels far more worthwhile to just focus on money and buy things. Enemies werent improved either, and while I love shootouts with mimics, all the non mimic enemies are so tedious to fight and just infuriating and continue to be the worst part of the combat.
