preface by saying that I got A or A+ I don't remember, played with people who are good at other games and knew this one but I did solo que a good portion as well and played all but 2 of my games in ground mode.
games rock, paper, scissor, system works great at anything below 600 (600 is pushing it but it's still there), when you understand stun timings, know what recovery I frames you have and know what recovery frames your opponent has, and know what items to choose, the system becomes very fun and the game is at it's peak, that said, everyone wants to play the higher ratings because, big flashy ahh unicorn and banshee, the fundamentals of the game fall apart and turn into who hit who first, roll bonus damage and resistance becomes irrelevant as most units at 650+ have some kind of one-shot or near combo even into there disadvantage, most MC units have some kind of inescapable cheese, roll identity also falls off really hard, the game becomes far more about uninhibited power fantasy then actual fun and engaging game play, what I'm saying in short is the footies disappears and turns into a gimmicky ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. game is best played on controller btw.
the pilot system is kind of fun, I wish it didn't have the same turning speed cap of the mobile suites but I guess that it was a engine limitation, repairing suits and 3 dimensional movement is very fun, and the rocket launcher is very funny to use against unsuspecting opponents.
player skill disparity is extremally high, good for players who play inconsistently, players have a lot of agency or win games, that's nice, team play is more focused around positioning and rotations, this means your probably playing off one other person usually, staggering is extremally punishing, which feels good.
with the gameplay portion said, onto everything else, horridly exploitative gacha system ( if you save credits for the bi-yearly discount events account prog get a little better, but your still waiting a whole half to full year), server stability is atrocious, idk how the playtest servers where more stable then live, game performance is not the greatest, I get that it's a port but we're talking about a 10+ year old game and I'm still seeing frame drops on potato graphics, netcode if fine when it's not unstable, but when it becomes unstable, and it usually dose quite often, no regs become beyond frustrating, especially when dealing with such a delicate footies system, cheating is not a problem, i have encountered maybe 2-3 at most in my time and only 1 was blatant.
with a majority of the player base focused on only playing high tier units because I'M ChAr AzNaBlE, the horrid gacha system, the performance issues both client and server side, and the extremely long que times due to most of the legacy playerbase leaving to go back to console, I cannot recommend this game, GEVO died to support this release and it flopped hard. Don't play
