Recent reviews by BadgerElite

24-03-05:
Bad update, making guns that were good worse, and making guns that were trash better than it, is not going to fix the "META" problem people in the Discord and Reddit keep whining about.
It's not a good update if you are having to nerf weapons in a PvE game.
It was a good balance of Hard but doable on 7-9 but now it's just an unfun slog-fest to complete.

With the Announced/Unannounced patch:
AT is actually useful now, not the Spear, still has lock on problems but is better in the way that the random ammo pickups in the world now give it another shot, flamethrower can kill Chargers in 7-8 seconds of fire instead of 2 canister pre-buff, but the game still feels unsatisfying to play especially with the amount of Elite units that the game spawns and the LONG cooldown times of stratagems on higher difficulties make it so that everyone has to run AT just to deal with the onslaught.

Breaker, Personal Shield, and Railgun getting a nerf was a bad choice on the devs part, I mostly used the Shield for Automatons and Jump-pack for the bugs, which the jump-pack did get a stealth buff in range, and fells better to use but it's still got such a short range unless you are jumping from a high location.

Not even Hyped for the Mechs anymore because of these changes.
If you wanted to make the game better you should have just made other weapons viable from the beginning with testing instead of these arbitrary nerfs that you guys took from the statistics of what people where using, it will only hurt the community in the longrun, just wait till the next "META" build comes out to nerf that too? Sure hope that works out for your live service CO-OP game.
The "META" existed because it was the only thing that was viable, now that they made other AT better I still wonder why they needed to nerf at all now you have to risk death all the time to get any use from a weapon, it's just dumb.

24-03-08: Mechs are in the game, 2 drops per Mech, is very powerful, but i'm sure they will "fix" that when most of the playerbase uses it. Can't let it become the new "META" pick that the Egotists keep talking about.

Also fix the bugs before bringing in new stuff or nerfing and buffing, because that is what actually matters for a Live Service Game to live longer, buffs and nerfs superficially extend the life of the game and usually end up killing it.

24-03-11: Game is "hard" in the sense of upping Enemy spawns, having less tools to deal with it, and making the A.I. better at hitting you at long range, especially the Bots and their Rockets, they can snipe you from 200m away direct headshot while just peeking out of cover.
Game is a Joke, also hiding Buffs and Nerfs is just scummy, why do you have to hide it? Do you think it's going to get negative attention? Because if so, then it will get worse attention when people figure out what you the developers have done.
Starting to get board of playing this game, even friends I play with are starting to make me hate this game, especially saying that they "never use the meta and are not a meta slave" while using the best weapons in the game, I guess what I'm trying to say is, this game is getting worse and those who think it's better can COPE harder. Go back to CoD, Tarkov, Hunt and all those other games where you like to get pounded into the dirt. Some people want to have genuine fun, not AAA slop "fun" or getting a fist up your a$$, this game should have been great, but I got no idea what the Devs are trying to do anymore, make it harder then announce that they are going to make it easier?
Game was fine before, now it's just for tryhards that complain about "METAs" that's all it is now.

24-04-24: Can you please fix the ramp to the Dropship? because I've gotten stuck on the invisible walls on the sides like 7 times, and has lost me COUNTLESS Samples.

Has more stable servers than most AAA games coming out this year.
Very fun game, and I hope to see more in the future.
I'd give it a 9/10 in terms of enjoyability.

By Far the best game to play with friends, especially with friends you introduce to the game without telling them anything and allowing them to figure out how to play by just giving them hints.
10/10 from me.
Also Entities are very fair and balanced ;)
Edit: Having reached the rank of Boss, I still heavily recommend this game.

For Ubisoft games, I'd say that this one is pretty good, then again i'm playing in 2023 when the majority of major bugs have been fixed, but other than that I'm having almost as fun as I had in Wildlands playing with the Realistic mode, never got why they did the Level Grinding with weapons and gear like they did with their AC games...

I would give this game a 9/10 apart from the UI meme with Ubisoft games, this one manages to do it fairly well, I will be honest that I liked the Wildlands UI way more but it is still solid in some regards.

I would Recommend this game when it goes 80% off, and getting the Ultimate Edition, it's worth the price in hours in my opinion.

Fun game to grind out levels and gear with friends and you get to kill the equivalent of New York sized rats (Skaven) and homeless people with knifes (Norscans). The Beastmen are all bs but knocking a armored Beastman out of a charge is hilarious so they get a pass.

Played this game for so long that I have to give it a 8/10 in terms of how much enjoyment to rage I got out of it. It's a fun game and would recommend it to any of my friends, if it goes on sale it is 100% worth it to start the grind towards that good old red loot at the end of the road.

After another 300 Hours and the Necromancer DLC Drop:
Still very much enjoy playing this game with friends, have really no bad words about this game at all.
Necromancer Turns this game into a RTS of sorts, and is super fun to play. Upgrading my score to a 9.5/10.

The game just gets too tedious and takes so long to grind out if you leave it for a few years and come back, it just becomes too hard to get to were everyone else is at in the story. and if you miss out on leveling up any aspect it becomes impossible to do anything and you basically have to start from square 1.

I'm just not seeing a reason to play this game anymore, Railjack was fun for me just coming back a few weeks ago but now it's just a never ending grind to get the rest of my gear up to my Railjacks level in terms of damage... I'm jut not feeling this game.

7/10, love the story and how good they are at world building but the grind is just too obnoxious to go through anymore. Respect to the people who can, but I've made it to the New War quest but the grind for the Necromech and a better Amp (haven't played for about 2 years since Cetus came out) is just a struggle.

Fun game to play with friends, tedious to play alone with the pathfinding AI and having to babysit every party member because one of your three characters can't path the same way as the rest and get you into combat a mile away because you looked away for a second.

I'd give it a 7/10, when it works it works well, when it doesn't it makes you want to throw your monitor against a wall.
+Good with friends.
+Lots of content.
-AI pathing is tedious and unreliable at times.

The Campaign is Very good, One gripe I have is that I have to start a new game to get the Skulls I missed and data pads in Missions that I had missed, other than that the open world is fun.

The Multiplayer is fun with friends, but there has to be an option to pick what you want to play, so that people can get more enjoyment out of the game in general.

I gave it a solid 9/10 So far, as long as at least 25% of the gear can be unlocked without having to pay for it.

Edit: 03-11-23
Came back after about a year, maybe more to check on it, and nothing will load. The only part of the game that loads anything is the Campaign, that is all, nothing else loads even after half an hour, not even worth reinstalling it back onto my PC because I can't even do anything in the base game. Very sad to see since everyone has been praising it's return to being a somewhat playable game.
Give it a solid 2/10 now because of this, since I can only play the DLC Campaign.

Edit: 07-02-24
Still does't work at all.

Edit: 12-02-24
Multiplayer works, however I cannot do anything in the menus besides looking at perpetually loading circles... I don't what is going on with that.

I didn't even know this game died.

I clicked on the Dwarf wedding cake and my game crashed.

10/10 would click that cake again.