In general the game is really fun, I absolutely love(!) the possibilities of customizing my gear and weapons. Also the general Armory-Shopping approach, being able to test and play around, awesome, really really fun! There are a few really annoying things though, fortunately most of them can be adapted/configured in the settings/difficulty settings.
But on top of that, my major pain points:
* Travelling. It feels like I'm spending half of the time travelling, obviously mostly in the late game. But travelling is super boring, takes a lot of time and resources and just isn't fun if you run back to the base from the third zone the fith time, it's really driving me turning the game off. It would probably already enough if the last zone had a direct connection to the base, just like the rest. Having a classical "fast travel" thing for the shelters (so you need to activate them first by travelling there) would probably be awesome. Or maybe a "home portal", Diablo style, I don't know
* Outside of my base/shelter I should not easily lose equipment. I cannot stress this enough. I had a find artifact mission in the last zone. Somewhere on the way I lost my artifact detector and only noticed until at the spot. I takes ~20 minutes to run back to base and come back (see first point).
* Weapons wear down too fast, even set to the lowest, I cannot use the 7 mags for G36 I carry with me without the gun going down into red state. Yes, weapons do need a lot of maintenance in the real world, but it's just not fun to cancel a ~6 mission run on the half to seek for a shelter to repair the gun. I should be able to make "one run" (so like this 6 to 8 mission set) without major breakdowns, imo
* Having played Half Life Alyx, general handling feels really awkward, I'd say. The body looks off, *always*. Imo I should see my hands and my gear, no body, specifically no arms. Get rid of it.
* The night is too long, should be more of northern summer day: dusk at 23, dark at 24, dawn at 04, all visible at 05, you get the idea
Anyways, that's just what I'd change. Really a fun game, can recommend. Although I'd not spent more than 25€ on it. But below, get it!
