I like it a lot, 4 year wait and the final boss is still the same is a bit of a let down, but it's still coming together. All the negative reviews complaining about the new menu system is totally justified, it's way too clunky, so many things that don't need to be locked are locked, although I disagree with complaints about the graphics, The game is beautiful, my only issue is some of the animations look wonky, like the movement while holding shotguns or launchers.

I think my big complaint is that I hate a majority of the guns, they just feel like they lack a good punch unlike some of the top tier weaponry - I understand that there might need to be some dumpsters to even out the RNG aspect but it feels like there's such a rough divide, it's either good or it's a total waste and most of the pistols would fair better, either that or certain enemies need to be addressed in terms of just how much HP they have, the stupid flying drones with the reflect shield might be the biggest offender, they're un-necessarily tanky.

Items and abilities are fine, you can directly buff their damage and most of them are really good out of the gate, but with guns, you're at the mercy of the random attachment selections and you can't even apply spare kits to your favourite gun to up the stats like in the first game - like, why??

I loved spending time in Synth1 but new UI in 2 is a trash. Sorry, but It looks very bad, but gameplay still good.
*I will change my rating if something improves.

Join the discord. That's the first part of my review.
For the second part i'd like to address that the game does get semi regular updates on the experimental branch with big features added alot more than little bug fixes. It does suck that normal content updates outside of the experimental branch are often spaced out by the better half of a year. But again, the discord is active with constant feedback being taken in and even some bugs fixed within hours of being made aware of them.
Now for the third and biggest part. The game is fun, addicting, highly replayable and a total power fantasy at times. If you liked synthetik 1 you'll love synthetik 2. I've seen people say "what happened" but in my opinion its a total upgrade, graphically, mechanically, (its netcode is better).
Buy the game, play the game, love the game, positively review the game

gud

Beta-branch for U16 got patched with a fix, 2 hours after i reported a progress ruining bug on the discord. 20/10 that's insane and for me actually completely unheard of, in a very positive way

Not many games in my library are as consistently fun as this. Actually liked the HQ update, dunno what the complaints were about.

Engineer when?