I enjoyed the first one very much, but the second installation is not a top-down shooter anymore.
Does anyone have thoughts on this game?
I enjoyed the first one very much, but the second installation is not a top-down shooter anymore.
Does anyone have thoughts on this game?
no but it looked pretty fun! Some of the reviews mentioned "obscene monetization" though so i figured i'd wait for more opinions.
The monetization isn't that bad (yet, they could change it to be very abusive), it has the usual premium currency and items at different, inconvenient totals. Most scummy thing is that the premium shop has timers on everything (gotta cause that fomo), also premium only items which have stats
Premium currency can be earned through in game, so far the rate seems reasonable, the free battle pass has some and there are some on every map
Edit: two similar games for reference:
Darktide : premium currency, odd rates, timer on premium shop, no way to earn premium currency
PlanetSide 2 (originally made by Sony Online) : premium currency, odd rates, premium can buy any item in the game which normally has a very slow grind, also xp & resource boosts
Yeah, it did seem that the desciption felt a little exaggerated, so I wasn't gonna count the game off at all, but I've been burned before so I figured I could wait a couple weeks. I really want to pick this up so I almost definitely will within the next month.
I wish darktide didn’t have such shit monetization, it could've easily been the best 40k game otherwise
The monetization seems to be entirely for cosmetics, that are all just black with different trims.
If its entirely cosmetics, whatever, that's just how things work these days. The reviews i saw seemed to imply they'd give an advantage even as far as saying they're "pay to win" but that seemed like it was pretty much made for the youtube algorithm so i didn't take it to heart.
OK, turns out I was wrong, there's a set of weapons that can only be unlocked with premium currency too.
Yeah but you get the premium curreny by playing the game and doing missions. At least at the moment the requirements are pretty doable. I have played a bit over 4h and I have 250 of the 1000 required to unlock the premium warbond (which is also not time gated so you can take your time). Plus at least at the moment the weapons in the premium section are sidegrades at best and not straight upgrades over the weapons you get in the "free" warbond. Like even after I unlocked the premium warbonds im gonna invest in the "free" warbond first since the free weapons are more interesting.