Recent reviews by Hojosky

Finally beat the Campaign doing all King path and I have to say, the difficulty settings need adjustments. Feels weird to have 5 options and the top 2 easy options are really hard to pull off for a lot of people. For example, the other faction will have the ability to spawn 40 guys (top tier) ever 50 seconds on the final king path missions and have to cheese the fight to win. This is not good design at all.

To expand, it feels like they did a great job of your units for defense but fail to make your units good for Offense which you need on a lot of missions.

I will still recommend the game for the sandbox and other stuff but the campaign is a bit crazy and hard to enjoy if you pick the easier options. Feels like they wanted to make a dark souls RTS base defense story which does not work well.

They also need to make enjoying all paths easier. Currently you should save or load auto saves at each choice path. Not a great way to enjoy all the effort and work the team put into missions and cut-scenes.

Game still plays and feels like EA a year ago and that when the game cost $25. Hard to recommend the game at the 50 price point and $10 skin DLCs.

Currently you need to join whatever company you can and hope the Company leader start an ops on the Ice planet because it the only way you can play on the new planet. (Dev have claim quick play will try to fill up this missions but never works if not in a company or a company leader ) From their own posting, they plan to lock the new planets for 90 days + behind this feature which sadly is buggy as hell. Company system disconnects non stop. If you have friends that made Company, can't even search and join them. Can't even invite people to your company.

If you are diehard starship trooper game and fine with a buggy cash grab the game is currently built as, then go ahead and buy it. There are just better games right now killing bugs than this.

TLDR: Can tell the devs are force to release this game now before it is ready. Wait to see if more patches or game goes on sale.

Fun little game. Be aware it is currently short and no idea if there will be more to the game or even updates to the game. My playtime is a bit padded because I had to walk away but it is accurate in terms of length if you are good at getting resources.

Official Playstation twitter announced they will not be moving fwd with the force PSN account linkage. Moving review back to positive. I don't know if countries that can't make a PSN account are still prevented from getting the game on Steam now. AH has made an awesome game, with updates nonstop ( a true live service ) and currently deserves to have their positive review back.

-- Below is when Playstation wanted to force linking 5/4/2024

AH has done a great job but Sony allowing the game to be sold in places that can't get PSN, not enforcing PSN, and now trying to enforcing it is just scummy and bad. Basically blocking people from playing the game and stealing their money and time put into the game.


-- Below is before 5/4/2024
The game is a great sequel to the first one. Same crazy Friendly Fire, same crazy clips, etc etc. The Devs have been working really hard from day 1 to keep the servers running and updating the Concurrent User limit to allow everyone play without a full system crash. If they stick to their original plan, expect new Warbounds ( their version of a battle pass) every second Thursday of the Month.

The gameplay is solid and even after getting all currently unlocks, I still play because the gameplay is solid. Currently Req cap at 50k, Common samples 500, rare samples at 100, super samples at 50, and medals (used for warbounds) at 250. The prem currency, Super Credits, can be found in game and have collected enough for the next Prem Warbound when it comes out. I also have used a lot of Super Credits for items from the Super Store.

Edit
Currently there is very little movement to fix the game and player count is very low. Can't recommend.

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Game Servers are coming back and are a lot more stable now.

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Unless things change, if you are a person that only gets a few hours a day during prime time because of other obligations, the game is currently in an unplayable state. When there was less people during the 3 Day early lunch, game was at least playable almost all the time. As it stands now, game can not be recommended. Once the servers actually stable for 1 day( me being nice ) I would recommended for anyone that is on the fence. Honestly at the rate it is going, wait for the bugs to be worked out and buy on sale later.

Currently level 78.

Leveling up is also more tied to going loud and using weapons to get x amount of kills. Also, don't bother doing overkill for leveling up since those Challenges are locked until you finish the Very Hard. Really bad design for people who know how to play Payday 2.

Weapon Mods / xp is tied to just doing a level. Getting Kills don't matter. Think they stealth nerf the Dirty Ice farming method for weapon xp but hard to verify because the servers keep crashing all the time.

Disclaimer. Most of my time was during the early access and believe around 8 to 10 during server issues ( in game but not playing ).

Simple short game. Takes about 5-8 hours for avg user to beat the game. Not sure if more content is coming or not. 2 Achievements related to milestones could be adjusted to make more sense. It is a bit of a shame you can beat the game WAY before finishing milestones. Not really any post beat game content.

Negatives:
Few crashes
FPS can tank in later levels
Had issues with clicking on items and adjusting the sell, spend, bars.

I have enjoyed this game and hoping for a lot more content going forward. I still have a lot more to unlock but I know I will get my money worth unlike a lot of AAA games these days.

Edit 2 time: See edits section

The game is currently on track to be abandon like Anthem was. A lot of the playerbase is gone on all platforms, no solid timeframe on the dlc content, and each patch has introduced more bugs then fixes. The game is very cpu heavy despite having less feature compare to previous Battlefield games. For example the destruction, map details, and animations are less. A lot of the maps suffer from cover and poor lane movements. I do not have top of the line PC and this game performs poorly to the point lowering settings has no effect on Frames per second. Also the one saving grace of the game, Portal, has progression nerf and a lot of your favorite maps don't behave the same as they used to. ( destruction levels are less and less foliage and cover ) Overall, the game is very buggy, not optimize, and dying off.

If you had EAC problems in the past, this game amplifies it. Currently have a few friends that can not launch the game because of poor EAC integration.

I am not even sure if you got this game for 10 or 5 bucks later if you will have players to play against. Last I heard, some zones are having bots in matches because there are no players to fill both sides.

If they can somehow recover the game in 2022, I will be updating the review. Best bet is to buy Battlefield V, Battlefield 1, or even Battlefield 4 which are reporting higher playerbase.

EDIT 1:
First DLC is now "Summer" and the Legacy Feature scoreboard v1 has been pushed back to March.

EDIT 2: Came back just before the big 3.2.0 patch ( Class System, rework of a lot of gameplay mechanics )

I still have the same setup as before. Currently the performance is a lot better for me and frames are keeping in the 80 range. A lot of the stuttering and skipping I had at launch is gone for me. The game is playing very well and the maps that have been rework flow a lot better. Switching to recommend game because it is in a solid place at the moment. Not having issues finding matches and not having empty matches so it still has a population. If you worry about unlocking guns from past seasons, you can start a bot match and farm that way, got all the missing season guns in 3 matches.

I will update review again after the 3.2.0 patch

Good game but if you are tight on money, wait for a sale. There are 4 episodes and you can easily get through each of them in about a hour or so. I originally got the game from humble bundle and gifted it to a friend but after starting to watch the anime, I decided to pick up the game and give it a shot. I enjoyed the story a lot but be aware of the follow:

1) Game plays like RPG maker so expect weird controls
2) Game did lose me at 1 moment for a few minutes on what I needed to do.
3) You can get a failure because of weird number 1 so saving often is good. The game does give you save moments when you can die to reduce this issue.

I am not sure if I will ever play Angels of Death again so. 5.5 hours of play for 9.99

I install this game from time to time and use to run it a lot offline without steam. Solid game that you can enjoy a long time like FTL.