Well, I've played the Alpha and now the Beta quite a bit and I'm not too impressed with this game. It's hard to judge certain things based on the level cap presented in the demo, but I don't feel like this game contains much depth.
- The only world you can explore is small and exploring seems mostly pointless but sometimes I am lucky enough to find level 20 enemies near starter zones, which I appreciate greatly. The only interact-able thing you will find are chests rarely and the loot is pretty mediocre. Otherwise, the game feels completely empty.
- The random missions scattered throughout Earth are akin to those pointless side-quests in Skyrim that never end. They are all basically the same over and over and constantly repeat themselves. The events that randomly happen are cool but they were pretty rare and usually there was no one to help. I don't know if there are solo-able events, but the 3 I was a part of were not, at least not for my level at the time. I'm guessing there is no world PVP which is a bummer for me, although I did manage to get someone killed by dragging an event mob near him, that was pretty hilarious.
- Skills are lacking. All the core skills are basically just passives so you really just have the 1 skill bound to R1+L1 with some passives that modify some things, just a really boring skill tree for me. Leveling doesn't really feel rewarding.
- Leveling capped to 20 just feels lazy like they want to sell you 10 more levels every year. It doesn't take much time to hit level 8 already. I enjoy leveling in MMO's and although I know they don't want to call this an MMO, it's basically one.
- The strike mission that recommends you to be level 6 was ridiculously hard, dying almost instantly constantly to anything that wasn't the weakling enemies. The tank boss ended up being me soloing it while my teammates hid behind the beginning area so they wouldn't die instantly. The mechanics of the 2 bosses are soooooo boring, they're like typical cliche mmo boss fights and they take forever to kill.
- The story missions were all right. They weren't really bad but I wouldn't say they were great either.
- Game looks pretty but not outstanding. One thing that bothers me about the UI, though, is when you press down on the touch-pad to look for the next objective or mission, the marker is a bit hard to see and blends to easily with the environment.
- I really like the Fusion gun. That thing is awesome. Would have liked more variety in the guns department because everything feels too CODish.
Can't say anything about the PVP because I honestly don't care for it. I still kinda enjoyed the game for what it was, but I'm certain now I won't be purchasing it. I can tell this game would get boring for me really quickly, it just feels very basic to me. Overall, the most fun I had was getting someone killed by an event mob.
- The only world you can explore is small and exploring seems mostly pointless but sometimes I am lucky enough to find level 20 enemies near starter zones, which I appreciate greatly. The only interact-able thing you will find are chests rarely and the loot is pretty mediocre. Otherwise, the game feels completely empty.
- The random missions scattered throughout Earth are akin to those pointless side-quests in Skyrim that never end. They are all basically the same over and over and constantly repeat themselves. The events that randomly happen are cool but they were pretty rare and usually there was no one to help. I don't know if there are solo-able events, but the 3 I was a part of were not, at least not for my level at the time. I'm guessing there is no world PVP which is a bummer for me, although I did manage to get someone killed by dragging an event mob near him, that was pretty hilarious.
- Skills are lacking. All the core skills are basically just passives so you really just have the 1 skill bound to R1+L1 with some passives that modify some things, just a really boring skill tree for me. Leveling doesn't really feel rewarding.
- Leveling capped to 20 just feels lazy like they want to sell you 10 more levels every year. It doesn't take much time to hit level 8 already. I enjoy leveling in MMO's and although I know they don't want to call this an MMO, it's basically one.
- The strike mission that recommends you to be level 6 was ridiculously hard, dying almost instantly constantly to anything that wasn't the weakling enemies. The tank boss ended up being me soloing it while my teammates hid behind the beginning area so they wouldn't die instantly. The mechanics of the 2 bosses are soooooo boring, they're like typical cliche mmo boss fights and they take forever to kill.
- The story missions were all right. They weren't really bad but I wouldn't say they were great either.
- Game looks pretty but not outstanding. One thing that bothers me about the UI, though, is when you press down on the touch-pad to look for the next objective or mission, the marker is a bit hard to see and blends to easily with the environment.
- I really like the Fusion gun. That thing is awesome. Would have liked more variety in the guns department because everything feels too CODish.
Can't say anything about the PVP because I honestly don't care for it. I still kinda enjoyed the game for what it was, but I'm certain now I won't be purchasing it. I can tell this game would get boring for me really quickly, it just feels very basic to me. Overall, the most fun I had was getting someone killed by an event mob.
