[h1]This game has good bones.[/h1]
[h3]A very promising start to a fantastic PVE FPS.[/h3]
Operator is hands down the most immersive, terrifying, customizable FPS experience I've had outside of VR.
When you make a gun, you must account for height over bore, laser / barrel offset, sight placement, which optics will work with your NVGs, which flashlights have IR and which don't.
When you are fired upon, you don't get a HUD element to tell you where that fire is coming from, if you're lucky you'll see some tracers, see a muzzle flash, or hear the report in a specific direction, if you're not lucky its: "Oops who turned off the lights?"
I said you don't get a HUD element, I mean you [b]really[/b] don't get a HUD element, you don't get any in fact, unless your weapon jams, your chamber is open, or you die, there is nothing overlaid on the screen besides an interaction prompt for certain objects.
All interactions with environment and weapons systems are done with animations, context clues, on player equipment(Garmin watch for navigation, plate carrier mounted ATAK for well... ATAK).
When you want to clear a building, you can soften it up first with an airburst grenade, blow the hinges off the door with a shotgun, and clear. Or you can shred through the walls with a 200rd box and loot the remains of anything unfortunate enough to be inside.
The best part of all of it, [b]no 100hr long weapon progression tree[/b], everything you need is unlocked from the start, provided you can carry it all in of course.
Healing is a broken mess though, I'm not sure if this is intended realism or just glitched mechanics, but if you get shot in the wrong place, you're dead before you can exfil, no amount of hemostatic or bandage is going to help.
All in all, definitely worth the buy if you like immersive milsims.
