Recent reviews by Lung

The poor-itemization of the DLC in regards to it's lackluster and bad items, or unique and just better items, or nonsensical items like the fact that resurrection is now just a common occurrence would absolutely be forgivable. It could be fixed with time. The DLC brings many maps, and a singular cool new character. No, not the Chef, or Seeker I actually don't quite care for them...

The amount of bugs however, caused by the update in tow that came with this DLC, however...
Only prove that from here on out, you should avoid Gearbox Software as a developer, at all costs. They peaked in the 2010's.

What do I mean by poor update and bugs?
They removed how things were previously handled by the game, and tied them to framerate, this is quite possibly the most dullard decision amongst many, stupid decisions. This issue causes many things to go wrong, and it seems they just ported the console version over to PC.

Don't get this DLC. Do not associate with any Gearbox Software updates. Downgrade your game to before this DLC released, and enjoy an actually optimized, and thought out game / experience.

Like any looter shooter, this game is extremely alienated to new players. You will start the game, try to survive off table scraps, but be un-initiated enough to lose every time to a pro who has put way more hours into it. When you do finally get your meager resources so you could maybe start getting better, you have no idea where the exit is. Inevitably, you die again. This brutal cycle will repeat until you quit. This ironically, does not help the already basically dead player count.

The game has steadily dropped from a staggering 13k, 5k, & 4k players, to always end up in complete decline with the lowest bar being 130. But don't worry, it's gone further, sitting at under 100 players before. It's clear there is a direction, and vision for the game, but unfortunately it's hostility towards newer players like any game of it's genre, and now lack of any active players, leaves it as a curious game on the market place.

The lack of updates, and transparency for the devs, fails to carry the game at any capacity. Players are left hanging by a thread, but why even bother? It's honestly a surprise the servers are still up at this rate.

You know... I could refund this game...
Edit: My refund was rejected. Rats!

While I was also riffing on it at launch, it's probably better than anything Bethesda has released in about the past decade.

There are things I don't like, but the mods for the game redeem it so hard, if I dislike something that I genuinely cannot complain. Modding for this game is so easy, it also puts Bethesda to shame. Overall, Quality game, 9/10. Genuinely give it a shot. I know the Keanu cameo makes it hard to take seriously, but I did, and have, enjoyed it immensely as just, an RPG video game. Also worst parts of this game are the multiple men you can kiss for some strange, awkward reason while only one girl is datable as a male. State of the planet is ridiculous.

I enjoy, however.

The AI in this game are the most hive-mind mentally ill I have ever seen.

I absolutely must positively warn you;

The AI in this game is too unintelligible on both sides. Your own are extra-stupid because they follow you by default, and therefore are too busy following you to properly engage and attack. The enemy AI are stupid, because they don't make decisions per-AI but make decisions as a group. If you have a friend and Johnny attacks one Grasshopper, that Grasshopper, a Hunchback, 2 Spiders, and a Javelin for good measure, will make their way to gangbang him as you watch in horror. If you punch them while they gang bang Jonnny, they MAY turn around and attack you. Maybe! It really depends on how they feel. But they don't make independent attack procedures.

When utilizing friendly AI, you must wrangle them, and command them like an RTS constantly. Spamming the attack button, or move button. Ideally, in most cases- move works the best. As they'll basically "guard" a certain spot. Where as attack will force them to attack someone before they kill them and walk back to you. Don't worry, they won't attack any of the mechs running circles around them shooting them, while they attack the target you commanded. This is annoying. For many reasons. So you can't have them move with you, and engage independently. It's either attack directly, guard a spot, or follow you mindlessly.

The game seems to be just a short-end content of Mech Warrior Online, a PVP game I've never played, but again, much like any game ever, Mech Warriors 5 is better with friends. If you don't have any, steer clear.

Ignoring all of the above, it's a genuinely fun game if you can get a bud to help draw aggro from the brainless hivemind of AI.

Helldivers GOTY?

Price for what you get (15 hours of content for me to beat where I never truly idled.) is fair, and I enjoyed it somewhat.

Thanks for the 1k points loser lol

I watched this game for 5 years and lurked in their discord. There are obviously some things I don't agree on from there, but I'll cut to the chase and just single out what I liked and didn't like. Oh also should mention Stuff like this, really should tell you who this game was made for. It's kinda disgusting... Almost 100% that's a minor. If that doesn't tell you who it's for, this will! This is the games discord moderator. It doesn't leave much room to guess why when, most the staff are like this that the game came out so jank. Also Pretty sure this breaks ToS. It just feels like the game was fueled by discord mental illness, and supplemented by cope.

>Minigames were entertaining
>Main Cast (Echo, Dolus, Thea)
>Somewhat unique enemy design
>Some funny moments
>Neat combat aesthetic
>The Gym fight
>Strong demo/start story
>Mostly good OST[knucklesandwichgame.bandcamp.com]
>Lot of unexpected animation for the game

>Limited inventory, especially when key items are needed, you must throw away things in your inventory. Dumb!
>The beginning and end of the story was thought out, everything in the middle didn't feel the same...
>Total lack of shops, I maybe visited them 3-5 times throughout the story.
>You are constantly talked at, and have no choice
> The world map constantly went unused in my game, there was never a reason to backtrack
>Extremely uncompelling story, I never felt motivated to complete this game.
The only reason I completed it was because I was streaming it to a buddy.
>Some attacks are worse than others Crit Bars<Vertical<Circle, Circle is the best.
>Poorly paced debuff notice very early in game (Because debuffs kick in later stages...)
>Acknowledging bad mechanics doesn't make them fun
>The story is thrown at you, you are getting a feel when suddenly Goblin Design Tower???
>Unoriginality, -10 points!

>Lack of a pause menu to reload a save in combat
>Bad minigames (Skeleton Crew Space Game too difficult, turnip UFO too difficult, there are others...)
>Enemies spamming repetitive unavoidable debuffs
>Usage of corruption within the games world is an eyesore, and hard to navigate...
>You kill someone, then get this- You never do it again and it barely matters.
>The Cry & Shame Battle didn't need to exist when there's only 1 valid option. Dumb!
>Multiple soundtracks contain various amounts of strange burping etc. I just don't jive with that.
>The main story is a mess, and hard to follow. It's surmised easily at the end, but still. A trainwreck...
>Strange 3D cutscenes with no expression, why have that at all? It's barely different from talking in 2D...
>A character using "Candy Crush"-like for his special instead of say, Tetris. A more suiting game for this.

I spectated this game for 5 years, a lot of time passed and I feel like a lot of content was just recycled to hastily create a story. There are obvious things I hate about the game, What I dislike the most, is that what is an obvious at the start suddenly becomes this HUGE reveal at the end, when you the player assumed it was just the developer taking an understandably lazy route in the art direction. I feel like, and this bothers me the most. The developer made all these assets, ran out of ideas, and hastily collages them together to make the end story this explains why you only make people unconscious (particularly bosses), while you constantly attack unexplained monsters that just say they love fighting. I feel this game had a lot going for it, and definitely could have been refined into a much better craft, but what I got in the end was a bunch of fanart and mental illness in a discord turning what could have been a grand game into a confusing mess. A wreck, much like the corruption it spews everywhere.

Overall, is it worth $20? Sure. Is it worth $10? Definitely. Is it worth more than either? No. Not at all.

I'd write more here about how it shares blatant similarities to other games say fighting what is essentially a mechanical earthbound enemy, or obvious tropes "Hey lets have everyone gather on Bad Guy island what could go wrong!", but to gist, it isn't a bad game. It isn't a legendary series gone wrong. It's just a disappointment. So much more could have been done with the game I feel and the premise definitely was a good hook, but it quickly just fell off, and rams a bunch of information down your throat at the end. It feels sloppy, like it was just rushed out because he had been sitting on it for so long.

Oh another thing that bugs me. The twist was extremely predictable. It was constantly explained away by a singular party member apparently being into amateur detective work, but who would have guessed they're bad at it?

I want to note that cope, cringe, whatever- I don't usually use these words. But genuinely a lot of the game is just that. "Oh it's good enough.", I expected a lot more out of the game, and I think at one point direction was a lot different than what we got. But what we got leaves me wanting anything else. The game has it's ups and downs, but every time the characters do an animation to represent how you the player feels, doesn't make that sequence suck any less. It just helps affirm "Oh they really, didn't know what they were doing."

The fight between 2 blatant women against you and Dolus was probably my favorite part of the game. It did have some things I didn't like (how you can't do any variety beyond spamming a fight and specials) but I loved it. I loved the commentators commenting, I loved that it wasn't about damage but spectator appeal, I loved it so much. It really struck a chord with me with how great it was. It was fun to do especially when I realized it wasn't about winning the fight, but more so about surviving and making the crowd cheer you on.

Everything not made by 343, spare the graphical retextures, is actually pretty good and enjoyable. Also a competent port despite the companies garbage reputation. Very few hiccups and bugs.

*You must create a Nebula account to play the game.
*There is no offline mode
*You must matchmake, to play alone [servers are currently dead :)))]
*Severe lack of masks etc to add a reason to play
*Always online
*Stupidly bad controller deadzoning
*Chat censorship


New unique mechanics sound fun on paper, such as using a blacklight to find the keycode on the door- or safecracking, and trading hostages / using bullet shields is unique, but with everything listed above this game will probably go down in history as one of their worst releases ever.

I assume the servers are online because of cheaters, but I recall the lead dev being completely okay with them in 2, and eventually the game out-lived the cheat developers. so what happened here? Why am I having to play online, just to play alone?

Overall; The game doesn't feel rushed, it feels like the devs just made extremely poor decisions, a lot of gameplay is salvageable, they just need to make the game more accessible / player friendly, and update it. I think I speak for all that, this is definitely a step in the right direction, with all the wrong QoL in that direction.

Lets quickly run down why this game sucks and blows
1: Super boring surveying system, No Mans Sky does better.
2: Super boring RNG Dungeons when landing, they all repeat and there's only 1 variant. Have fun!
3: The fact you constantly just fast travel because the game is set in space, but you do this constantly. No video calls or anything.
4: The 2 human factions mean nothing, they're both good guys and there is no war. The war is mentioned in logs and lore and you're supposed to just know, but there's no active wars going on. Nothing cool or unique to see.
5: Horrific bugs in which your space ship will be slowly deleted, or New Atlantis won't generate the floor.
6: Story is easily forgettable and relies on NG+, this makes the entire product feel rushed. Why do we keep enabling Bethesda to just churn out garbage? You could probably beat the game in 5-10 hours if you tried, but I suspect even faster.
7: There are laser guns, no plasma guns for some reason, magical buffs like your gun igniting someone for no reason, or being better at bashing, and ballistic firearms still reign supreme. Also there's a caseless shotgun. Why? Caseless ammunition is bad!
8: Most characters are now essential, and cannot be killed. They are also annoying and beg to be shot.
*I will not list more, but consider things like daring to pick up an object is now considered a crime! Random gen NPC's also look god awful!

Now lets dig into what was good
1: When the game wasn't random gen, things like Kryxx's Legacy were genuinely well made, and cool.
2: The spaceship designer is neat, and upgrading your ship is fun, but I hate the fact the camera is inverted in the designer.
3: Gun modifications when allowed, is neat, but limiting. But still requires random resources.
4: A much more sleek and unique character creation system.

I don't even care about the price, to be entirely honest- however, the developers are the most technically incapable I have seen and this DLC & It's power creep have only reminded me of that,.

The game is so unoptimized I witness my GPU go to 100% not because it's utilizing the resources properly but because the game fails to actually process them. It's honestly insulting how pathetically optimized this game is.

Anyways DLC content surmised in a simple sentence.
Everyone now gets very few new units (+2), and a couple new heros, and the units are so broken they now fix the prior issues with these factions.

I can't review all the lords, I really never care for Kislev etc, I only cared for the Changeling, and he's just a horde faction that is forced to pretend it's doing anything- this isn't to suggest he isn't fun but tbh I'd rather have him be a $5 DLC than this.

This means immortal empires campaigns are not immortal but on a doom timer before the game can be played in full. I am anything but happy with the technical capabilities of CA staff but more primarily when the only big changes promised to 3 as compared to 2 were lighting and engine overhauls that seemingly resulted in a buggy, shaking pile of garbage.