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So I got it and enjoy it but I have several issues.

1. Frame rate issue - The frame rate issues are not a problem for me since I have a upper mid lower high tier computer. This only happens in the main city Vermund for me and goes down to 40 but mostly hovers around 40-45 I have a AMD 6950 xt. No amount of enemies are affecting me so far I had one bad case for a drake but otherwise it was fine. These similar issues happened with Monster Hunter Rise on it's port which was baffling. Not an issue for me but still upset for others. The RE engine is amazing for playing games on my steam deck so I hoped but this is the first open world with alot of NPC's so not shocked.

2. MTX- So this is shameful, Both having them and the fact there is no new game in Dragon's Dogma 2 most likely to encourage the MTX for getting a metamorphosis book. But here is the argument you will hear from some people who LOVED the first game. The dlc for fast travel?, DLC for rift crystals, DLC for in game stuff? Most of it was in Dragons dogma when it released on consoles. They removed it when they made the dark arisen version or something like that. This does not make it ok. Capcom does this for EVERYONE of their games as far as I am aware. I have bought Monster Hunter Rise, the Resident evil remakes (3 on sale), street fighter ((on sale, )♥♥♥♥ what they did to Ken English VA), Devil may cry 5, and they all have this pathetic scum sucking issue. Does it affect the game? No it seems the devs do good work but still soured by seemingly Capcom greed.

3. Issues people aren't talking about - The game Itself has issues that are overshadowed. And Yes having played about 200 hours or more of the first game in antipaction of this game I can confirm a lot of these. Pawns are annoying and you don't have a chatter frequency option only a volume option, voices and locked behind strange options, Combat being much much worse such as No spell free aiming, Stagger lock instant deaths, pawns being stuck or pathing issues much worse than the first game, NPC's homing in on you for quests forcing the dialog, PAWNS homing in on you to beg to join your party, Money being so tight because everything costs so much. I'm sure there's more but I have to cover hours at my job and I forget to re enable Steam Cloud after deleting my save file BECAUSE THERE IS NO NEW GAME so I don't have the save on my laptop to test low settings.

4. First RE engine OPEN WORLD - . Not keeping up with Capcom on everything but can't recall a similar issue for frame rate on anything RE engine except Monster Hunter Rise which is the closest we might get but sucks a game the community has been waiting a decade plus for a sequel for is the stress test for this engine doing Open world with NPC's. Seems like setting up a dev team for pain, suffering, and humiliation.

It's more Tekken but the arcade mode is missing lose interactions from the opponents which is foul for me. And I can't really see a reason beyond the new crowd for online or the story to play this. It feels like it's trying to be more over the top and flashy than normal compared to what I remember of the older Tekken and have replayed of 7.

Really enjoy the game. I feel like the Dev or Devs know what a decent dungeon crawler needs and really did a good job with the power ups.

I really enjoyed the base weapon set the sword and throwing knife feel like an amazing fit. I have no idea if it always felt that good but oh my that throwing knight might just be the best feeling throwing I've ever felt in an vr game. Might be because it's tuck to trigger not grab but meh if that's what works. The other weapon set you get The dagger and crossbow feels unique and really good as well complete different feeling play style but I can see how all the powerups work with both sets.
Sadly I can see how that might delay new weapons coming because you need both an ranged option and a Melee for your sets now but the cost of of a unique play style for an VR game with a niche I guess.


I've made it to the fourth biome type and I really enjoy it. the third biome especially is my favorite just amazing. The stages feel really short? Not sure if their is something to make them longer or I get unlucky seeds too many times. The bosses are weak not too notable so far. And while I still think the dungeons are pretty solid do wish for some more variety in traps and secrets. It really isn't bad or anything I'm just wanting more.

I really enjoy this game the Minecraft look kept me from it for awhile but I finally tried and and adored it. If you like Vr dungeon crawlers This game is a must!

IT doesn't really do anything for me sadly. I tried to give it a chance but I just didn't end up enjoying anything. Sure it's flashy and all but nothing really feels like it sticks out or feels good. May just be a bit too doughy for me right now might comeback when it's had more time in the oven.

And to be fair I only had 15 minutes in the game. I just couldn't get into whatever mood I needed to continue.

This game is fine ..... purely as a VR game. As a Warhammer game? No ... at least not from the Warhammer 40K games I've come to know or the little lore I know. It doesn't come off as a game by a team that even cares for Warhammer 40k.

So as far as technically is the games sound? Eh mostly Some movement issues because of weird hit boxes on terrain and such. Some things like a yellow box with a button you know to press can be a lie when your supposed to shoot the fuse box and pull out a fuse. Which by the me keeping hints on wanting to see if it would help never got told there would be fuse boxes let alone I need to shoot it. It looked so ... normal not like something I needed to mess with...... Also don't you love how pulling out a fuse opens doors? WHY EVEN HAVE DOORS!

Had a part right before you can get the 3 Meltabombs (Hmm wonder why I made sure you knew how many.) Mess up a lot because the Ai of everything is so stupid that two chaos marines came into a room then ran back out of the room the door closed and I was stuck .... I decided to get a small amount of joy out of this by shooting a grenade to kill myself.

So once I killed both chaos marines and managed to get open the doors to the ammo room with the Meltabombs I got the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ flamer (The flames are worse than some 64 games I've played.) and got told by the Inquisitor Space Marin guy that you'll have to carry the Meltabombs.... because they are too heavy for your armor ..... 3..... so you better learn to juggle those bombs and get thru the shooting gallery I think.... Then I get to the first one arm it no problem. Happy to no longer juggle bombs I make my way to the second target for bomb.... then invisable wall.... astartes says to me " You need to arm the second bomb here." (Something like that.) And pulls out a fourth bomb....... what ... sighing I figure out I was most likely meant to take only one bomb and fight with one hand. So I go to grab the bomb and walk to the bomb site ....eh? invis wall still there ? ..... Ah Grenade my beloved. BOOM

No meltabombs when i respawn by the emperors blessing.I take the meltabomb from astartes and now the invis wall is gone. By the gold daddy's blessing I can play again! Third one nothing funny happens it just works.


And that's as far as Pure technical issues I felt I needed to mention. Sure sometimes my guns just disappear when I thought I put them up and again the Ai is awful I honestly can only pray that they at least pull agro because as far as killing goes i can only rely on myself and the emperors will.


But one of the weirdest things that mess with my exprience even more than technical issues is the damn story and characters. Now I don't know about VR players or even Warhammer fans as a whole but I went into this game expecting a certain attitude and behavior from most of the characters. I really dislike my character. So damn snippy.

Is this lore accurate? That sisters of battle make fun of lasguns (Which in this game are about as good as the bolters aside from ammo capacity as far as I can tell.) The sisters aloud to use enemy weapons and ammo? Or even wanting too? I thought they would see this as major heresy! OH LETS TALK ABOUT USING ENEMY WEAPONS!

You acted like I super duper loved viola or whatever her name was. You gave me her weapon for the second level with my church ship was being attacked. I got hints expecting me to use it. So I go thru that whole level using it and being stacked on ammo for V's Bolt pistol. Then in the transition to the next level you make it fade out so I'm forced to use a cultist axe? I LOST THE SWORD OF MY TEN YEAR BELOVED COMRADE! And really? a Cultist axe that mostly likely is super duper bad in the eyes of the faithful like I don't know a BATTLE SISTER?

Then you deny me ammo until I come across lasguns so that other battle sister with the weird haircut I do not expect on a religious zealot type character can say it's ♥♥♥♥ and will not protect me.... only for it to be pretty amazing and what do you know it protects me! Oh then what happens when you meet up with your fellow battle sister.... OH HEY SIS YOU FORGOT THIS ON THE CATHEDRAL! Holds hand out with my no V's sword... WHAT! NO! I DID NOT FORGET IT ON THE CATHEDRAL.

That whole second or was it 3rd level? annoyed me. It was weird to see Rose boss around the astartes. Not even me the ten year vet and 5 year whatever rank I was battle sis. But the newbie little sis! So strange and your character even responds to him saying " She reminds me of when I was younger and more foolish.". She replays " Then you better do what she says." WEIRD just weird! I've no clue why they wrote it this way but I thought Astartes were more respected than they act like. And even how your character talkes about the inquister. Very strange.

Do I have issues with other things? Sure the intro to V was strange and rushed and the classic. " OH WE ARE FRIENDS I LOVE BEING FRIENDS" Exposition dump. Wish my battle sister didn't talk. Wish you didn't tease me with a space marine right there so early.

Honestly as far as the battle sisters seem to act? I kinda just wish I was an Imperial guard or something. If they wanted to have a female MC I don't feel like who we play as has any business being a Battle Sister so far.

As far as do I recommend this game? Sadly no it feels too generic to say even give a chance sadly. Honestly wait for a sale if your curios It's a meh on rails shooter I'm frowning or sighing through because the game play or world isn't doing it for me. At this point I'll probably try and finish it to get my worth out of it but thats it.


EDIT: I finished the game.... I hate this game now. I really really do. It let me down in ways I should have expected. The big robot fights .... a chaos knight.... the scorpion thing .... ugh it's almost painful how little they tried! The guns on the chaos knight fight were so buggy! ONLY ONE LEVEL WITH NECRONS! WHY! Then the end ..... just such a lame reveal and the worst exterminatus.

Just wait for a good sale or don't bother. I more than willing to bet you'd have a better vr experience modding a game to be vr than playing this game.

And if a dev sees this I don't get why it was vr. There was no manual reloading( Sure you can manuelly but there is no reason too). the lockers don't really matter. Even the doors mostly are shoot and they open and the fuses and levels could easily be an press E or A button to operate. Hell from what most say the rosary would have at least worked on a button press since so many seem to be having issues making it work. If anything you could have been a meh 40k game and gotten more customers on regular (or flatscreen) and maybe added VR later. Then at least some people would have been it's a meh VR port can given some leeway.


If your making another VR game I just hope you took lessons from this and some of the other Vr games out there so your next product the next one is better. I'm unsure if you had issues in devolpment or something else but whatever happened I hope for better.

See's an old movie where the CEO is playing office mini golf.
*LAUGHS IN VR*



There buy it. Enjoy. Your Welcome.

For the price and the content it's worth it for sure honestly I'd buy it for a bit more now that I know what I got. Liked most of the Family and all of the story was nice. Feel like they could of done more story wise but it was nice game and I'm not sure how the average player would get thru it. Compare to some games (wizards of legends,Enter the gungeon, Nuclear Throne) I play this one was kinda easy so I might have breezed thru at bit of a faster pace. But you will have at least a few charecters you like to play and the game didn't manage to force me from playing my 2 chosen mains. Play it solo and have fun I'm sure you can enjoy it more with friends but it holds up solo.

Kinda boring compared to the last 2 and yes before you go look at my play time for all of them I beat 1 and 2 way before I did a full switch over to PC. So why did I not recommend this game ? Well its dull boring and meh with only a few bright moments. Most may not agree with me because how flashy it can be and how good it feels to shoot the gun. Yes it does feel good to pew pew all the bandits soliders and creatures ......at first I noticed issues with gameplay around the prometheus intro. I can't quite put my finger on it but it felt easy no matter what I did no challenge was felt. Keep in mind I always try to do every side quest I see due to better story usaully fun weapons and just a nice change of pace in most games. And in this game yes the side missions kept me going for a bit. Then I returned to pandora and I didn't care anymore. no challenge at any point i was blazing thru this and I did avoid co op for the most part and before you try to make the excuse 'co-op improves all of borderlands' your wrong idk why I hear this but playing things with your friends makes any ♥♥♥♥ game good that is not a good reason for something to soak my time and be boring. So keeping mind I did most side quests and challenges I felt no challenge who was I playing ? Moze with Full orange tree because pet builds are dumb and amara should be dead in this game due to the ♥♥♥♥ story(ill get there) and I like Moze less goofy lines at times. I tested her blue and green trees and I am almost sure she is easy mode which I hate. but to many zanes and the other 2 are awful for me so I was locked in. Why did I explain all this and kinda lose track of myself ? This game at the start and at the end were so stupidly easy compared to 1 and 2. And I don't know if it's because of the lacking of challenge but this game also felt so much shorter like I finished it so fast and beat it on amara ( I got over how awful she is storywise and charecter wise because I love melee. ) the guns ? Theres alot but little changes for the most part. WAY to many legendaries and you get one good one late game thats it mayham 4 is worthless and the game is pointless to continue playing. ( unless you make a new charecter.) All of that most people don't care about I mean look at destiny and its shallow gameplay. So what else might ruin it for you ? OH GAWD THE STORY IS SO AWFUL. THANK GOD FOR SOME SIDE QUESTS. I feel like they let new people make the main story and kept fans or oringal writers for some of the side missions. That said alot of the dialog and charecters are ........off .Idk what happened but its almost like so much of borderlands 3 saw people liked handsome jack and heard him talk about butt stallion and stopped there for the level of humor in this one. ♥♥♥♥ ava ( nothing else needs to be said if you buy this YOU KNOW) yeah most of everything story wise or charecter wise is awful or meh with a few shining moments in between. And again the rush of the game's story and how much it rushes you around without leading to explore more of the planet forces you (well me in this case) to deal with it more and more and suffer thru it. Even with the side quest there wasn't enough breathing room to ignore this without quiting. Now why am i saying this and have 60+ hours. i REALLY REALLY wanted to give it a chance. But it was a flop for me and I have a really strict idea of what i would and wouldn't recommend. If you disagree feel free to comment I always like to see what people think but most of it for games like this is 'It plays well' which it to me a low bar.

This review isnt for everyone this is for the DOOM 2016 players.

I in my hype for eternal play through all of DOOM 2016 ULTRA VIOLENCE Campaign before doing the same for DOOM Eternal. This is based off what i exprienced within that Playthrough

This game isnt a better doom game. It plays very close but far to DOOM 2016. So why is that ?
You move slower than the Hell knight and melee enemies you would see the hell knight as motivation to keep moving till its dead making sure to not get caught up in killing everything else around you. Here the hell knight is something to dash away from unless you went the movement speed after glory kill rune. Then its so slow you can ignore it kill everything else ranged that has laser tracking or will stun lock you into instant death due to kinda buggy knockback mechanics. F#%^ THE SNAKES AND THE MARAUDER and not because they take so long to kill or the Marauder reducing THE DOOM SLAYER to footies where he breaks the rules and fires off a snipe when your mid range or dashes twice into you to shot gun you when your following the rules this game FORCES you to follow. No the problem i have with these two is the DAMN BUGGY KNOCKBACK. I have had full health and armor only to be gibbed by getting stuck in the Marauder because his axe attack bugged me into him or the snakes ground wave would trapped me into a wallwhere i would be stuck in a chain of whip attacks trapping me there no matter how i tried to dash. This combined with so much little snippets and ledges snagging my movement and messing up my flow of movement something that NEVER happened in DOOM 2016 tho I'm im willing to admit this could be due to luck on my part. However JESUS IT HAPPENS SO MUCH IN THIS GAME. THAT AND WHO IN THE HELL THAT SLAYER HASN'T SLAIN THOUGHT THAT PURPLE GOO WAS A GOOD IDEA ? I mean okay reduce base movement speed then add dashes then add something that reduces the movement even more and then cancel out the new mobilty that already has a cooldown. FIX THE STUPID PUNCH MECHANICS the armored Mancubus is the worst for this because it bugs out so often and gets me killed.

Those are the biggest things that ruined my playtime the most the rest im about to talk about just annoys me alot. Jesus so many cut scenes and moments im locked in my movement. Why take away my pistol and reduce my ammo pool by what seems like nearly half. And before you BUT CHAINSAW ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ try that yeah i know how to get ammo back but I don't want to be forced to use other weapons when i only enjoy the 3 weapons and playstyles so much more and have to panic run around looking for an imp or zombie losing health and armor or get insta gibbed from previously mention buggy knockback mechanics. Why make my punch have cooldown and do no damage unless for blood punch. Is that why we have that pointless arm blade ? But i still think oh i can rip them in half or pull organs out with both Blade and Fist but i have a useless melee ? WHY REMOVE MY DOUBLE SHOT SUPER SHOTGUN WHY!!!!! TUTORIALS FOR ENIEMES WHY THIS IS DOOM THATS SO DUMB. You made THE DOOM SLAYER Kneel to a king ? ♥♥♥♥ you whichever writer thought that made sense. Doom guy swimming ........weird Doom guy climbing ......weird . Why did Doom guy ever leave his sword in the First place ? not jsut snap it and reforge it sense all the stuff is right there on the planet anyway? Auto shotgun is fun but not enough ammo to enjoy it. SO MANY UNFAIR DEMON SPAWNS IN HALLWAYS. Only fun Kinda fun boss fights was the gladiator and Makyr both of which you never seem a copy of again UNLIKE THE STUPID ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MARAUDER.

Thats all I could recall of after finishing with plenty of breaks in between because unlike DOOM 2016 this game is a headache at times and okay at others. Too generic feeling for me I'm sure plenty of you are still blind to the problems or couldn't put your finger on it or you enjoyed the change with no heed to the last game or didn't mind. IT ISN'T A BAD GAME really as far as i can tell it isnt bad its like another reveiwer said somewhere here on steam its like DOOM 3 still DOOM just a different Flavor (or something like that) Personally id wait for a sale unless you liked the multiplayer which i don't care for in the first or second. maybe this game is more multiplayer focused then the last idk.


EDIT: Also bugs me that when i chainsaw something it looks like skittles aka a rainbow pops out.

MOD IT JESUS CHRIST MOD IT base game gets boring quick and the seem a bit expensive for the song packs (don't know because don't play many rythm games). does it work and play well ? yes just hate how i have to mod it for custom songs to get community made stuff with how costly the song packs are. If that doesn't bug you and you can still can recommend a game you need to mod to someone then please buy it play it and review despite me. Stand alone ? meh 6/10 (Which for me just means i like it enough but can't honestly suggest without going into a deep explanation.)