I was expecting the worst from this new event, but it’s actually a decently fun loop
I think like a lot of other people, when I read the premise, I wasn’t impressed, all that work for a gun seemed silly.
But actually getting into the mix and playing it. Pretty nice!
Almost all UESC units being rewarding to kill has been a lot of fun, even recruits no longer being fodder but part of the accumulation of loot is pretty nice. Let’s you play suuuper aggressively and not feel like a waste of ammo.
Then there’s the templates, most of them are much more reasonable than expected. Kill some stuff, loot some stuff, it’s nice being able to balance doing its requirements with both your teammates contracts and your own as it’s always a passive sidequest.
So it kinda becomes kill, loot uesc, loot template, do objective whilst looting more UESC, and you end up with a cool gun in the foreground that can killl and loot even more uesc, meanwhile you have picked up so many UESC-bucks that you can fasttrack cradle or cryo prep.
Is it a gamechanger? No. But it’s a nice little flourish that I wouldn’t mind getting similar versions of every once in a while during quiet parts of a given season