Please fix the matchmaking. There is no reason to continue to pump updates when nobody can reliably queue up for a game.

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A bad server can ruin a good game

yes, much Gundam, much clunky. 10/10 for hardcore fans. get ready to get clapped tho

good fun. lotsa variety in mechs and weapons. hub area runs kinda bad for me. not the prettiest game, and i miss gundam evolution, but this is one of the better MSG games out there.

opposite of Gundam Evolution, this is a mid-slow game and for me that mean less stressful, I don't need to be John Wick and more like a tank driver strategizing most benefit next move.

Not a full review of the game, just some of my grievances with the game. There are things I do like about this game but I think the cons need to be addressed. Unless you are a Gundam fan who likes playing Gundam games because you cannot get enough of Gundam, just play a different game.

Lets get it out of the way: As someone who has played both the Playstation and PC versions of this game, the problems with matchmaking is the same for both. This game has TERRIBLE matchmaking. Problems I think that possibly extended past P2P connections, like this game doesn't even try sometimes. The game also has a group sortie feature that flat out doesn't even work.

As for the game itself, it's team-based arena shooter. Your mechs walk slow, they shoot slow, they swing their melees slow. It's kind of immersive to me to play as a 50-ton mech that feels like it has that weight. One thing about this whole heavy-movement system that bogs down the experience though is how the game's combat is centered entirely around staggering and knocking over your opponent. There's alot in this game that can straight up knock you over and having the controls taken from you over and over gets very frustrating very fast. Especially when you factor long respawn times and how long it takes to find a match, you do a lot of waiting in this game.

It has a lot of U.C suits but there is a growing power creep issue from top tier suits that can be pulled from the gacha shop. I wouldn't say at any point that some suits are straight up unfair on their own (although it does feel that way when you factor in this game's rock paper scissors mechanic where you get bonus damage against certain types of suits) but there is a noticeable increase in strength for high tier gacha suits. I get they need to make money and they have to make buying gachas enticing but I can see it becoming a problem.

Lastly, I wanna touch on the presentation. I think the suits themselves look GREAT. They knocked it out with the suits although the customization a little bare and the threshold to unlock painting your suit is kinda stupid. But the hub world, the characters, the...everything else really, looks like a PS3 game and not in a good Uncharted 2 type of way. Its so gray and lifeless and just full of empty space filled with NPCs that don't do anything. I dont even understand why there's a hub world because ultimately, it adds nothing besides giving some sort of visual representation of the PMU.

Honorable mention: this game's communication features suck. Communicating mid-game is literally useless. There's no pinging system. For private lobbies, there's an ULTRA heavy filter on that prevents you from saying a lot.

this game is good bro, idk what yall on

I cannot recommend this game.

At present time I'm thoroughly pissed off at being base camped and stunlocked to death nonstop so writing this will help calm me down. What is objectively ♥♥♥♥♥♥ with this game is the viewpoint. Being locked to 3/4's horizontal and 1/3'd's vertical third person viewport was novel back in early 2000's with the likes of Resident Evil 4, but even Mechwarrior 3 did that first by offering it as an alternative view. Here it is mandatory and it serves it's point in that you can never know how much of your MS is actually poking out from behind a building/debris or not and you should never - you know it in your mind - ever take a left turn because you won't see anything while the enemy will see you. Yet you are forced to at times in order to get an advantage or because you're funneled that way from the start.

I have played a lot of Gundam games in my days and very few come close to topping Climax UC on PS2. This game does not even come close, but you can have some fun with it. Maybe but more likely not. A few days you'll have a great load of fun, but mostly you'll be screaming the question why you can't find any game. There's reasons such as your Rank is too low. Good Luck ranking up when you're most likely going to lose more often than win. Even when you should have the advantage, you'll still lose because of one thing and the second most objectively ♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing about this game:

Chain-stuns.

High skilled players will talk about weapon switching and stuns but all you need to know is; Chain-stunning is there to prevent you from doing anything while they mercilessly destroy you. And at " high level play " i.e. it's not really high level play AT ALL it's just the META that people decide to do because it's the path of least resistance.. Well let me tell you - you're not going to have a fun time.

You can forget about Code Fairy as well. That single player campaign isn't in this.
The suits are but no the campaign, and they absolutely want you to pay for music DLC.
Not worth it.

If I can say anything positive it's this;
The game will flood you with Mobile Suits. Chances are you'll get all you want and then realize the others you want. But then you'll come to understand the point system and discover that you rarely get to use those suits you wanted because the point system determines what suits can be chosen. The game is generous with it's coin system as well, but that's how games like this gets you.

I miss UCGO and SDGO..
To quote the meme that my friend made for us,

" Back in my day, we used to sortie on a 1:1 scale of Australia. "

7 hrs and i played like 10 games i total.... i love gundam i hate i cant play...wait time is so bad