is the last part really bad?

[Etagloc]

Been looking at this game for some time now, trying to find time etc.

But what puts me of, is that many rewievs says it starts of strong, but becomes a half finished product towards the last half.

is this true?

[SmegAu]

I do agree it becomes a bit odd the more you get into it. The quests are pretty nebulous as well....the log book does not really tell you what you need to do or have completed in many of the later please the faction style quests. In my case it became an annoying wander everywhere and follow guides quest to check things were done 1 by 1. The ending while not terrible just seems poorly written and thought out...no real tension....no real clear goals...and some final screen that reminds me of landfill mixed with bent metal everywhere which then ends in more swirliness with a bit of dialogue.

[lobstermadness]

Originally posted by SmegAu:

and some final screen that reminds me of landfill mixed with bent metal everywhere which then ends in more swirliness with a bit of dialogue.

major props for that sentence

[Zaris]

It is heavily unfinished. Just a quick overview to understand the bad reviews:
- EA phase had act 1 in it
- act 1 consists of a ~7 level mega city with 20+ quests in an around and a ~4-5 level "dungeon" right at the start which had many ways to go through (stealth / combat) which was all in all quite nice and had about ~15hrs playtime.
- act 2 & 3 were hidden for full release with no more infos
- last year of development was very chaotic, developer went radio silent, strange news of new publisher / investor and so on
- game got released without further notice but promised features were cut like the mobile base (which got added later on per patch)
- act 2 consisted of 4 more "cities" which were really big nice maps but sadly empty, only 1-2 main quests in each city, zero side quests in comparison to the 7 level mega city with 20 sidequests from above a total let down
- act 3 is a single 1 level dungeon, (other games like Solasta or Cyberpunk also treated the last small tiny part as its own act which is just a lie)
- act2&3 offers together maybe 10 more hrs playtime so in total you spent more time in act 1 as in act 2&3 together

What happened is most likely that the developers ran out of money and had to cut the content down, the city maps for example were finished but not the quests for it. I guess the game needed about 1-2 more years for content creation.

Something similiar happened also to Breathedge, first half quite good survival base building in space, developers got canned, new developers took over, made a linear second half of the game and pumped it out.

[MangorushZ]

I wonder if mods will able to add some more new quests for those two final acts if that's possible if the devs have no plans to do anything with this game anymore, still thinking about purchasing it now that's it on sale.