650 hours in and i'm slowly being pushed out
here's why:
>GearScore doesn't matter
ammo not contributing to gear score,granades not contributing to gear score,atachments not contributing to gear-score cause you can have them in your rig (and devs are aware of it since last season) and worn armor having different gear scores-it all renders the very IDEA of gear-score completely useless the moment you learn to circunvent it,lockdown became the new Forbidden with T5 and T6 running everything with HK' and U191/T19*insert your favorite number 1~2 here,other 7 will be available in no time i'm sure* and Normals became the new Lockdown with people running lvl 4 gear with the ocasional lvl 5 ammo and costly atachments making all guns 0 recoil (yea,i'm starting to see people running that in Normals too),this system needs a rework or being down-right removed and replaced with something else
>Weapon Ballancing is dog-water
29% of guns are useless,50% are ok,20% are soo broken they render the other 50% also useless and the remaining 1% is leg-meta,the stats of the good guns are way too over-the-top compared to all other guns,you put the same lvl bullet in all guns of each class,shoot at different distances and the results are soo ridiculous not even lvl 5 ammo can make some weapons work in this game
>Armor Ballancing is dog-water
everything that isn't lvl 6 is useless agaisn't the top dog guns AND EVEN THEN if your reaction time is not good enough (which is a skill issue btw) you still get anihilated that fast,nothing tanks as many bullets as they should at effective range while the moment the bullet gets past its effective range the damage drops soo hard a 5 round-to-kill target becomes your usual high-difficulty setting mob in a Bethesda game a.k.a a dammed bullet-sponge,best part?the chances of your arms doing a better job at tanking shots than your goddamn vest is soo common its borderline hilarious,its soo dumb in fact you realise the reason why no armor covers your arms in this game is that if there was people would only go for head-shots 24/7 otherwise you'd never kill a single operator because of sheer mags you'' be dumping trying to hit a chest just being absorbed into oblivion by arms covered in armor
>Ammo Ballancing is dog-water
cause armor protection and gun damage are soo badly design ammo ends up more stats on top of broken stats,TIER6 and TIER7 bullets being nerfed proved a point cause it got (most) snipers out but also adressed the existence of bullets and their respective stats being badly ballanced just like armor and gun stats are badly ballanced
>Granades are dog-water
gas is still dogshit cause if you don't bring in the item that counters it by turning you down-right immune to it or godforbid bring in a gas mask otherwise have fun staring at fart clouds all day and throw the game but also we're STILL DEALING WITH NADE SPAM 4 SEASONS IN!!!LIMIT THESE ALREADY OR ADD A GRANADE LAUNCHER SO AT LEAST THERE IS A EXCUSE FOR NADE SPAM TO BE A THING (and add some kind of counter to the hearing debuff of nades,that'd be cool)
>Matchmaking is a joke
i love when a game lets you play solo,i love even more when a game lets you play solo with no advantages or whatsoever to add that hardcore experience and make each extraction that more special,now,i R E A L L Y love when you enable auto match and the game throws you solo in a match filled with duos,trios and squads cause FUCK YOU THATS WHY!
we're in season 4,a whole year went by and mfs CAN'T FIGURE A MATCHMAKING SYSTEM OUT!!REMOVE THE OPTION TO AUTO-MATCH THEN,AT LEAST BE HONEST WITH THE PLAYERS AND TELL THEM STRAIGHT UP ''M A Y B E you'll get a teammate...M A Y B E you'll get like 2 or 3 teammates...........and M A Y B E you'll play alone and get f*cked you see-its like our cosmetic gacha but you don't win shit and pay with your time!''
and don't even get me started with cheaters,server issues and questionable monetization decisions (i like some cool dude or hot waifu skins but come on dude-look how many gachas we've got since the season started and how many new things were added to sh*t like the shop,its a wasteland with literally nothing cool in it)
conclusion:
i get that this is a F2P game (a chinese one btw big factor that must be adressed right here) but man-these issues are what makes a game BLEED players and with just 1 year ABI is already showing the symptons and none of them are being adressed fast enough nor properly by the devs,the events giving players tons of Koean is cool and the free cosmetics/bonds are also nice (specially since this is a F2P game) but they only help you to keep playing so you eventually keep running in the same issues time and time again till the game,something that should be fun,stops being fun and thats how me and many others are feeling right now,soo damn sad to see this game like this already man....soo sad.