Recent reviews by anunc8

There's a diamond in the rough here, but it is unfortunately buried under a lot of rough.

Its got the all the typical over-polluted and overcrowded maze of menus we've all come to hate from gocha games.

The game is overloaded with meaningless jargon. They seem to have written all descriptions for the characters to read, not the players, forgetting that none of us actually went to imaginary giant robot school. Even the item descriptions read like post-graduate engineering tomes from colleges that don't exist. For example, this was my first loot box drop: "Rare I Corixium Cascade Engine Mod - Combat readiness: 160 - Increases dispatchable energy limit, but raises the safety restart threshold. - Max Energy UP 7% - Energy Reactivation Threshold (Depleted) UP - 2.9%."

You know those types of Chinese horror or fantasy gochas where instead of just saying "stamina" it has to be "Wachowsky impervium field cinders" and instead of saying "money" it has to be "ever-dream void-meld wishes,"? Well, this is that but with technobabble. Literally the whole game is like this.

The disembodied voice in-game gives you meaningless instructions like "activate the blah-de-blah to resurrect allies" and never tells you if that's an inventory item, or an action, or a place on the map you have to go, or what. I'm having to google literally everything.

The 8th tutorial mission is so damned hard that I nearly quit the game there. I bet it took me upwards of thirty attempts to finish this "basic" challenge.

Overall, this game feels like it's being intentionally hostile to my understanding how to interact with it. I could have written more, but I was able to finish precisely one round of the PVE section with the usual cryptic name before I was booted for a six hour long maintenance. So, no, I don't recommend this. The creators seem to be under the impression that incomprehensibility is the same thing as depth. And it isn't.

This game is Bethesda at their worst.

The story is nonexistent. The premise seems to be that if you collect enough magic rocks that make you feel funny, you might eventually get a story, you know, someday. Well, I'm bored to tears with that.

Every planet is empty. Literally. Gone are the days of rich and populated maps, and all the delicious chaos of random factions encountering and battling one another in the field. And yet, Bethesda claims this is some sort of philosophical point about the vast emptiness of space. This is nonsense. That is a point you make once, in the story, not constantly, over and over and over, everywhere you go.

Bethesda has included -- for god knows why -- to incorporate the worst of MMO design with pointless scanning and cataloging of planetary resources. Nothing could be more dull.

Plus, there is no mini-map! Again, Bethesda claims this is some sort of philosophical choice to encourage exploration. This is nonsense. They cut corners, full stop. Mini-maps do not discourage exploration, but rather, act as a reference for spaces already explored. And now, I am forced to turn to google or youtube any time I wish to find this shop or that. What the hell do they expect? For us to keep a paper journal on where everything is? What year is this?

I want to like this game. I really do. But, I can't. There is nothing in it. The characters are dull and lifeless. The space battles are clunky and awkward and you can't do anything or go anywhere without traversing a thousand confusing menus.

Despite the praise, the character creator is awful. 90% of the options appear to exist on a plane between a normal looking person and some sort of mutated swamp monster.

And why the hell did they waste time and resources recreating the most pointless and obnoxious feature of Fallout 4, namely, NPCs making constant awkward remarks while I'm making my dialog choices, like "um, are we still talking?" or "well, this is weird". Seriously, who the HELL came up with this??? When I'm making my dialog choice, time is FROZEN! What the HELL are you doing, wasting time and effort intentionally building clunky awkwardness into the game?

I really don't want to uninstall. I keep hoping the game will click, that I will realize I have missed something. And yet, despite countless sessions, all I find is disappointment and mediocrity. Sorry Bethesda, I've been there since Morrowind, but I find too much Microsoft and too little Bethesda in this shadow of a game.

The most unintuitive and confusing AAA mess of a game that I have ever had the poor misfortune of wasting my life on. This is the worst UI I have ever had the sad luck to try to decode. Nothing is explained, and it appears that most of the game mechanics have been designed by someone who had a bout of brain surgery that went horribly. horribly wrong. I spent three times as much time on google as I did playing just desperately hunting for someone to explain this rotten mess at literally every turn. And as I give up and walk way from this dumpster fire, I still mostly don't understand what was just done to me. Avoid.

I was expecting X-Com with spies. What I got was a disjointed jigsaw puzzle that expected me to understand it by process of elimination. Thanks, but no thanks.

And why bother with character creation if none of your models even match the passport photos?