I truly, truly love the Sniper Elite series. I have something close to 400 hours logged on SE5. It is one of my favorite games ever made. I knew this was basically going to be DLC for it, with the same engine, and I was fine with that, even for the kind of ludicrously high price. But this...this is not it.

SE Resistance is a rushed, perfunctory mess. The maps are, with a few exceptions, small, stale and repetitive. Reusing the engine is one thing - cutting and pasting obvious areas I've already played in SE5 is entirely too lazy for a $50-80 pre-release. Movement is incredibly buggy - I've repeatedly gotten stuck on staircases, yeeted into a lake on a zipline, unable to interact with large portions of clearly climbable/vaultable walls, gotten stuck on ladders where sniped enemies magically soldered themselves to them, etc. Despite using the exact same engine, unlike SE5 which runs great on my 4070ti/i9 computer, this stutters and aliases like mad, especially during Xray kills. The kill challenge on mission 7 is currently fatally bugged, therefore making it impossible for me to unlock one of the guns I was most excited about. It's really, really tiresome to pay a premium for the privilege of beta testing.

The loadout balancing is equally a mess. M1 Garand, for example, in the little snippet description is "extremely high damage" in exchange for high recoil. Yet in the stats has the lowest putative damage stats on any rifle. But it still kicks like a mule. It is worse in every regard than the MAS44. Conversely, the putative "all rounder" starter rifle, off rip, hits some 50% harder. Unless you paid to have the 1911 back, there's no real intermediate range stealth pistol options. It's Welrod or bust. The cardinal sin for me though is, less maybe the return of the Mosin, which you can't even get until you've already beaten the campaign because of the gimmicky propaganda mission filler, there's no true sniper rifle in terms of range and muzzle velocity. In a game whose primary appeal is sniping and ballistics mechanics. This is stupid. The obvious play that's coming of them reselling us all the German weapons that you know they already have models for, because they existed in SE5, and you can still pick them up from dead soldiers, is equally gross, lazy cash grab BS.

And last but not least, while SE as a whole has never really been the most story-centric series, this one is SO bare bones, and so slapdash as to be laughable. You essentially get to know zero new characters. The plot is threadbare. The voice acting for Harry is cringe inducingly awful. There's no real antagonist development. You feel connected to nothing.

I was counting the days till this was released when it was announced. I have never felt so let down. I hope they can at least fix some of the balancing and glitches enough to make this playable. But as it stands, save your money and stick with SE4 or 5.

If you haven't played SE5, go play SE5. Same price for more content and less bugs. If you have played SE5 and you are interested in Resistance, Wait for a while. The game is really buggy right now and is quite frankly in its current state, a cash grab. Reused assets to a ridiculous point. Same skills, same UI, same animations, same in game sound track. This is literally SE5 0.9. Needs work.

Edit: I would like to mention that I do like the game to a degree. If SE5 didn't exist this would be fun.
I will provide the list of bugs that I have encountered.

List of bugs I have found:

- Top step of stairs occasionally prevents character from moving forward when crouching.
- On mission 4 character can be spotted through one of the buildings on the eastern portion of the map.
- On mission 5, the intel in building near default spawn is blank and does not show anything additional on the map.
- When whistling, occasionally enemy A at 8 meters will not hear you but enemy B at 15 will. Sometimes search the wrong locations.
-Lightened and Blued and Precision Rifling attachments for the UD-42 have the exact same stats despite different descriptions.
-Enemies will occasionally walk into fires when investigating.
-Cover system is quite buggy. Works as intended about 50% of the time.
-On mission 5 there is a rock texture that is glaringly clipping into the stairs near the quarry entrance.
-Sound detection from gunshots is inaccurate. Fired a weapon with ~30m sound range. Enemy at ~40m heard the shot.
-Mission 6 Kill list objective does not work. Target does not interact with kill item. Also, target does not react to running sound, or bottles.
-Mission 7 Kill list is bugged. When moving towards the cup it indicates missing kill item. After obtaining the kill item the interaction area cannot be interacted with.

Great shoot game better and better :-)