The Problem with Space Marine 2 

2 things I noticed playing the campaign on highest difficulty: -Damage from weapons generally feels too low, both melee and primary alike(the heavy bolt pistol legit feels stronger than most of the primary guns) -They need to bring back getting hp from melee executions like in the first game

The Helldivers crowd is unfortunately suffering from people telling them this game will be a "helldivers killer" despite not at all being the same kind of game. That being said, I absolutely love this game.

“Poverty simulator” is actually really fitting for 40k, both in universe and irl.

You're going to poke a hornet nest lol. I agree completely though.

I think the reason why the astronomical glizzy glazing is mainly cause, 40k fans, such as myself, are starved for games and good media content. So when something comes around like this, it’s a massive massive thing. Ppl will come to their senses soon though.

The people saying that you need to grind to max level on a class for it to feel good are crazy man. That's like saying that a terrible TV show gets good after 2 seasons. I'm not wasting my time watching 2 seasons of a trash TV show for it to maybe get good later on, I'm just gonna go do something I can actually enjoy from the get go.

it gets good after 300 hours bruh

I understand OP features to be bound by levels, like an insta kill, a CC immune mode, AoE healing, Insta revives, but baseline ammo and survivability being bound by levels is weird. I see folks going infinite healing per melee kill Bulwarks or Infinite Weapon Specific Ammo Heavy builds and its all locked to being maxed out first, difficult. Imagine if you had to reach max level 50 in helldivers 2 to have access to Eagles, Orbitals and explosive Support Weapons... what fun is there to have between levels 1 and 49? how many would would give up before reaching lvl 50?

The thing a lot of people will miss about OhDough's perspective is that he insists on discussing the specifics of the game. People are happy with their overall impression of the game, so they just throw all analysis out of the window regarding specific elements of the design. They refuse to look at ways to improve the game, as it requires admitting it isn't perfect. His argument isn't that the game is bad, but that there are flaws that concern him based on real experience, and not enough people looking at it from an objective standpoint to help improve it. If they start developing content while maintaining this framework, they'll never be able to change the problems present.

when a game give you less ammo than the incinderator and people still love it

That's the problem with difficulty modes that just increase hp / damage as you go up: shit becomes really immersion breaking really fast. Say what you will about Helldivers in its current state, but a Hulk for instance at rank 5 is the same at rank 10: the only difference is there's just a fuckton more of them.

Attempting to avoid spoilers for folks, but here are my criticisms of the game (as a player who is playing solo, this includes the Operations mode). The issue with Operations (and to some degree single-player) is that the higher up in difficulty you go the more glaring the problems of the game's systems become. The game actually feels better when you're keeping enemies at range and playing more tactically (which makes sense to a degree). Even at Veteran (Angel of Death being the highest) in Operations, enemy Majoris/Extremis health pools are far too large to the point where they become bullet sponges capable of overwhelming players with numbers that can't be culled faster than they call in reinforcements or spawn on "wave" events. Majoris enemies all spamming attacks at different timings and there not being "safe" animations other than executions results in being stun-locked. The chip damage received from lesser enemies is too great for how few tools there are to effectively engage with hordes of enemies. Dodging groups of enemies is a trap; it's not engaging the enemy, it's delaying the inevitable. Extremis/Terminus enemies with heavy ranged attacks have the ability to stun-lock you to death fairly quickly -- as dodging isn't always effective. Staggering Majoris/Extremis enemies is next to impossible unless the game allows it; particularly if they're already in an attack animation (not talking about boss enemies that you expect this).

"We're playing a poverty simulator." Big deal. The table top players have been doing that for decades.

Honestly, I'm glad this game did an early access period because it let everyone make a more informed purchase. I went from really hyped for the game to "I'll wait until it gets a few patches and more content" as I watched more and more content.

Interdimensional glazing lmao

Does the two-ton armor at least stop you from getting launched into space from a single rocket?

Dying while the two other members of your squad are up and failing the operation from that is the most frustrating thing I have experienced in this game.

Yeah this is pretty much what I've seen from paying attention to the reviews. The game looks and plays amazing but the balance needs some serious work and the content is lacking. I'll check into it again after Christmas when they've given it some love.

They’re probably not gonna like this one haha

Wait, as for the ammo the green crates hold ammo and other supplies, no one breaks them to get what is inside, you can dodge into them to break them and release their contents

An artficer lasful 3 shotting medium enemies to the head on substantial diff is pretty disappointing. They shouldnt be making enemies tanker, there should just be more of them and their attack windows shorter

The glaze has clouded peoples judgement. But for real it's crazy how being critical of a game is considered "wanting the game to fail".

Hmm, I'm sensing a bit of Deja Vu...

Helldivers 2 on September 17th: "You could not live with your own failure & where did that bring you, back to me."

The big challenge is to find a party without class conflict.

The community is letting frantic s___ the bed and then when I say its disgustingly bad, they say "but its warm in these poopy sheets". -Melee hits like a wet noodle -melee swings cant be interuppted like in sm1 -melee isnt worth getting into at all except for quick time events -you are dodge roll spamming scouring for ammo on any setting above normal -enemies can jump/shoot through walls -enemies tank way more damage and deal out insane amounts to you -heavy is the only viable class and dont even get me started on pvp...

As a hard core fan of this game and the entire 40k franchise. I agree with this vid. I played 40 plus hrs over and over just to min max my class and reach max difficulty in operations. My entire experience was just bored most of the time. Edit: No this is not a Helldivers 2 killer.

You can also just straight up get kicked from a squad before the end of a mission so you earn absolutely nothing. The game has no way of reporting people that do this, an absolutely massive oversight for a multiplayer game. Had it happen to me today, I joined as heavy, parried and killed a licter, then was kicked instantly.

Replayability being non-existent doesn't surprise me. WWZ was the same way.

There is no choice in this game😂 you get gimped weapons, anemic skill trees, and you also can’t play the same class as your friends, so if you ever wanted to make a team of Tactical marines, you’re SOL. Tack on that, only 6 missions that you will repeat ad nauseam. This game will be complete maybe a year or two down the road.

Honestly as soon as I saw this was a souls-like, I was like 'yeah that's a refund'. I bought this game to shoot big guns and whack bugs, not parry and fatroll as a tank. Shame they mislead us with the trailers, showing the marines using their guns a lot when that's kind of an afterthought in this game.

oh no, please not another helldiver 2 balance situation

The "builds" thing is such Deja vu with Warhammer 40k Darktide, they had to remake the perk system multiple times to even make it serviceable.

Thank you so much man, not enough people are willing to talk about glaring issues in the new hit game of the month. And it causes game companies to think they can get away with it

Great video Dough. Most people can’t handle positive criticism of something they like. Their mentality is quite literally “don’t ask questions. Just consume product then get excited for next product.”

You nailed it. This game doesn't respect your time with the amount of grind mechanics they put in it.

As someone that is having a grand time with this game, i was trying to figure out why i wasn't a big fan of this video while agreeing with some of the points being made. I think it boils down to the general feeling of the critique. This video makes it sound like the game is not even worth your time and the topic of refunds is brought up. This game has a sea of positives and a pond of negatives. While yes the pond should not be ignored, to treat it as if its overwhelming is a bit ridiculous. Especially when most game have the analogy the other way around.

On normal difficulty you have to hit a standard small enemy twice with a chainsword to kill it 😂

I you confused "personal preferences" with problems. There's no bosses in L4D2, it's repetitive, and no interesting unlocks. And let's lay all the cards down. No Warhammer fan was there at Helldivers 2's release, exclaiming. "Wow, this game has problems, I can't believe people like this game." If this video and the HD2 fanbase cements anything, it is giving up on HD2.

I swear. Games made by non gamers was a mistake. They always lack the insight and memory to learn from the past so we get the same problems on repeat for decades. Planetside “solved” key rebinds screens. HoMM dark messiah “solved” melee combat in sword n sorcery games. Games like helldivers showed how to make difficult settings without simple stat upgrades (then anti-fun-league undid most of that good design). The lessons are out there, these games have ZERO excuse for such basic errors.

They should've just quadrupled down on a badass 30 hour campaign that you could also play co-op

I'm sorry, but when bro said "poverty simulator" i couldn't stop laughing 😂😂😂

I wouldn't get this game till horde mode comes out. I don't understand how replaying six linear missions over and over is a complete game.

I was playing the campaign for the first time today and what I noticed is that if you are trying to be in the back sniping or laying down suppressing fire, the enemies will gun for you even if you have done nothing. They will run by my other teammates and just jump at me. It makes sense for maybe the chaos space marines because they are smart but when I have hormigaunts weenies just ignore the big enemy in front of them to attack me miles away, it is just really annoying.

We live in an age of complacency. You can like a game and still be critical of it and want it to be better. Both things can be true.

My Negatives are: - Most Perks useless - Melta OP or bugged I don't know either - Progression a bit too slow - Enemies too bullet spongy - EAC and EOS stuff - No private lobbies Funnily enough every weapon is viable at the highest level, getting them to that level is just pure CBT in most cases. You cannot take a 1 Damage weapon into a diff 4 mission, you'd need 120 head shots for a normal Majoris level enemy, so you have to grind the boring missions first. Making enemies less spongy and changing some perks would go a LONG way! I'd love to see even more enemies once they are less spongy just 15% less HP would be nice. They can keep the Melta bugged imo, the Tactical and Vanguard have one too ;) At least every gun in this game can kill everything, even the melees.

My main issue with the game is that you don't recover health when you execute enemies like in the first game. The ammo isn't really an issue on anything but the highest difficulty unless you're just spraying and praying constantly and not switching guns to balance your reserves. Headshots matter in terms of ammo efficiency. I've never run out of ammo on any class that wasn't the Heavy. IMO, on executions, you should recover 30% of your HP on Easy, 25% on Normal, 20% on Veteran, and 15% on the hardest difficulty in addition to the current system of adding one bar of armor. It would go a long way to making your Space Marine feel tankier and award more aggressive, close-quarters play on all difficulties. OR add out-of-combat health regeneration, even if it's really slow (such as 1% every 3 seconds or something). As it is, I feel like the Vanguard and Heavy tend to be kind of bad classes because of how glaring their weaknesses are (Heavy is completely overwhelmed in melee and Vanguard is too squishy for the aggressive play it wants to engage in). I've been loving the Sniper, though. I have good aim with the Las Fusil, so if I see an elite enemy, it's already dead, it just doesn't know it yet. And I can carry my team if I have to because I can stealth-revive people if I need to.

I can already hear the Salt Marines There is a difference between just trying to find stuff to hate and pointing out where things can be better I think we all should be hyper-critical of our media so we can push devs to make their product the best it can be.

Appreciate the honesty and as someone who wanted to play this for the co-op this is rather disappointing but somewhat expected of Saber interactive...

It’s funny that you say that the progression takes forever because on the thicfila live they said playing over 100 games to level up a gun is good progression.😂 Eravin was gobbling the most Glizzy on that live.

The biggest issue is any progress you make offline is deleted for you’re classes and noon talks about it

I think companies have looked at elden rings success and are just adding difficulty because they think thats what the people want but they always go about it arbitrarily by just making enemies tankier or giving you less ammo and forcing you into a specific playstyle with barely any variety Theres never anything tough but fair its either one or the other

Spacemarines in Lore: Ricocheting half the shit thrown at them Space Marines In SM2: OMG MY ARMOUR WAIT WAIT WAIT CULTIST SNIPER WATCH OUT

I forget the term but the reason people "glaze" or ignore flaws is that they associate an idea, or product, with their identity. Its a well documented psychological phenomenon, and here's the kicker: when you point out something that you can demonstrate that proves their view incorrect they'll just double down because you're attacking their sense of self which causes the logic part of their brain to turn off as they're now fighting for their life. This comes down to humans evolving to be aggressively social creatures and the threat of "being wrong" or "not part of the crowd" is an evolutionary trigger for "going to die VERY soon." They're quite literally fighting for their very lives.

Thicc, Pips and Eravin are glazing the game like crazy on their podcast.

space marine 1 makes you feel far more like a spacemarine

Here's a possible explanation: people really like the game. People not agreeing with you doesn't equal people glazing the game. Edit: I do agree with some of your points, and don't, by any means, think the game is perfect. The way they handle difficulty in this game is definitely not ideal.

1. On operations instead of getting hordes of enemies on harder difficulty, the enemy just becomes a bullet sponge... 2. Most weapons also are useless bolters 3. Customisations are class locked and not too much, mostly colors and tabards 4. Chaos space marines feel unfinished, and don't have customisation 5. You will not see different enemies on replaying missions, it is the same enemies on the same map, in the same position 6. Similar classes can't enter the same game session... Why are there even classes? Give people the opportunity to play as they want (not like this character somehow was bound to the story with they classes)

Listen, the perks help a lot but there’s still a large skill gap. You have to have a team synergy where your perks work together to keep you all alive. You also have to be methodical with your melee engagements. There’s a lot of thought and timing in each encounter

As far as I play Space Marine 1, I still found ammo quite frequently. But in Space Marine 2, you're running out of ammo constantly

Having dumped about 20 hours in this game over the weekend, I do love the game, but there are several glaring flaws in Operations: - Guns definitely need more ammo. - Ranged enemies are too overwhelming, in particular Zoanthrope pairs. - The "Massive Enemy Waves" are extremely frustrating to deal with, even moreso Chaos waves, mainly because of the large number of Major enemies that spawn that honestly take too long to kill because you can't "duel" them when there are 10 of them swarming you alongside the 50 trash mobs who for some reason are annoyingly tanky. - As a mainly solo Operations player, the AI teammates are underwhelming, to say the least. - Skills feel like they need buffs, even after getting perks for them. - Armor is absolute paper but it's absolutely critical to stay alive. Taking any health damage does not feel good at all. I'm playing as a Space Marine, I want to wade into a horde killing with reckless abandon murdering everything with the occasional big enemy to focus down. I want to execute because it *feels* good to do so. Instead I have to constantly back away and wait for any opportunity to execute as I have to keep replenishing my armor. The few times I played with other people I found myself getting upset that I wasn't able to get an execute on an enemy because someone else has, because I needed to replenish my armor, and that is an *absolutely horrible* way to make a player feel about a mechanic. - The player knockback in the game is definitely excessive. This is everything that immediately came to my mind. I'm sure I'm missing some things but I really hope the devs actually work on Operations to make it fun to play.

Low key the devs knew this was an issue. I feel like that’s why they cancelled the open beta

Honestly this level of critically realistic criticism is why I came to your channel during HD2. It was no bullshit, well thought out, and no glazing. It was straight forward thinking that wasn't delusional glazing or tunnel visioned negativity. It baffles me just how many people display a lack of critical thought processes about games. From the beginning of the tutorial, I immediately recognized and felt how bad the combat was for what they were trying to sell. It was a terrible mishash of God of War 4 QTE fighters and horde games like darktide/deep rock. I refunded. A buddy talked me into trying it out with him, it was more enjoyable. We hit the last 2 difficulties last night and combat just falls apart at the seams sometimes due to the mechanics being made for curated paced encounters, and having very little checks and balances for the enemy spam and starvation players feel, The best way to describe the last 2 difficulty for operations is not making meaningful progression, it's playing catch up disguised as progression. Many perks and classes are just bandaids for the starvation and bloated enemy economy. Some classes don't even feel properly balanced period given specific enemy types and encounter scenarios. Some maps are absolutely much easier then others as well. I've never really played a horde shooter, outside of HD2, where the gameplay loop became constant frustration and annoyance vs moments of dopamine and moments of "Oh fuck" like you get in DRG and Darktide. Victory doesn't feel good, it feels like an annoying task of chores that become arbitrarily more and more difficult. At the end of the day I don't go "Man that was fun next mission lets go" I go "Glad that's over, gonna go do literally anything else because I do not feel rewarded"

MAN helldivers made you a salty salty boi. I agree with you, the game was released unfinished.

The first patch will be the moment of truth for the future of SM2. Will the devs actually listen to feedback, or will they go into a diabetic coma from spending all day at Krispy Kreme? Hopefully, the former.

40 k games on this scale and polish are rare. This is the fans dream come true so of course they're gonna be overhyped

Every other RU-vidr seems to love it. I watched someone play it for 5-6 hours the other day and knew it wasn’t for me. No hate none at all and hope it does well.

I can’t begin to describe how deflated I was when I got to end game

"you're just feinding for ammunition the entire time" you say as you waste like a 4th of your ammo by shooting a single tyranid thats barely in range of your multi melta and doing jack shit damage because of it... If you're gonna complain about having shit for ammo at least show yourself properly using it, it makes you argument look weak and it gets a lot more difficult to take the rest of the video seriously

I do agree with some of your points; namely the replay-ability of the game but the part with the number of bombs you place in the second mission is tied to the difficulty you pick when doing the game. Additionally, the second difficulty is kind of null unless you're just doing it for the SLIGHTLY higher exp. You play T1 until green, then go to T3 for the Artificer Armory Date, then T4 once you have a set of purple gear. Another point I don't agree with you on is the ammo. If you're ONLY using the gun and not landing head shots for the extra damage, yes you're going to struggle. If you're using the Melta Rifles, they do struggle. but the game is not meant to be played in a gun only style. You're meant to weave through packs with melee and guns. The Vanguard dashing is fun, the Assault's jet pack is fun (both of which have impactful reasons to have in the team play compositions). I do think the Bulwark survivability and the Heavy's damage output are higher than the other classes but it doesn't mean you HAVE to play them - the Ruthless difficulty is 110% doable without either of those classes in your group. Respect the opinion but don't agree with the way you've made it sound worse than it really is. the few people actually reads this, if you're on the fence about, definitely wait for the Season 2 content update that's supposed to happen before the end of the year. Edit; I do agree though, while the game is fun for me, there are glaring issues with it as well. Like with your sniper class comments: the las fusil is just nuts compared to any other choices you have; but on the other hand, for its ammo reserves, you get the ammo charges back on one shot kills (which it can do to warriors with a charged headshot), and as I stated above, I really don't believe the game is meant for you to ONLY use the guns - the knife is one of the highest DPS weapons available.

🤣 there's literally ammo everywhere , melee is a big factor also so it's balance. I don't have any issues with this game only the terrible pricing for the game which is disgusting but I'm a dirty mf in bought Gold edition " $107 at checkout 🤣

1. While the las fusil is generally a better pick if you're the only heavy source of damage, saying the stalker bolter is bad is absolutely braindead. It is perfectly usable in 3 and 4 diff missions 2. The assault class is absolutely busted. You don't know what you're talking about, you're clearly not a melee player, so that's okay. Just take a fencing weapon, it's busted. It not clicking with you doesn't mean it's bad. 3. Vanguard is also amazing, you restore 15% cooldown with executions, making a Vanguard+Bulwark frontline EXTREMELY strong as the Bulwark will be able to raise the banner pretty much whenever. 4. Tactical pretty much turns the game to easy mode, you can delete anything. You can be a horde clearer, or you can DELETE terminus enemies such as the hive tyrant. Just pop auspex scan and stick some krak grenades on ANY boss and it will disintegrate on the spot. Are there things to fix? Absolutely, but mate, you are lvl 25 heavy, and the other classes you've shown you're not even lvl 10, in your other video, you were talking about perks you yourself hadn't unlocked. Mate, just because the other classes don't click with you, doesn't mean they're bad. As for the ammo, yes, I believe there should be a bit more ammo in higher difficulties, but you do have melee weapons, I suggest you use them.

3:10 So helldivers 2 release all over again where you were not allowed to criticize the game

What they need to do us add so many more weapons power flails, power mauls, storm bolter, vengeance launcher, spear of caliban, power spears, power axes, auto cannons, power maul, flame swords, heavy flamers, two handed relic swords there are so many weapons from in this list that are in the first space marine and in space hulk that they could have added to this game i hate that they rush games like this it has the possibility to be extremely great but its rushed and so much stuff is left out like the apothecary class and even a librarian class

bro said you cant play the game if you pick a melee oriented character. brother that is a skill issue. chain sword combos and damage resistance perks make bullwark a literal wall of muscle that hoards break against

I can’t even play this game for more than an hour before it crashes my PlayStation 5 entirely (It’s not over heating by the way)😢

Its just WWZ in a space marine skin. Cant expect much from Saber

So glad to hear someone say this instead of just the hyperbolic standard, "GeT GoOd"

lol bruh you get more and more off base every time. even at the hardest difficulties, you can still crush the missions-i did it all on stream even. at no point did i shoot at an enemy, see my bullet bounce off, and realize it was invincible. yea, your armor is weak-because the enemies you fight are strong enough to crush tanks by themselves. and this is all from early access-we havent even begun the roadmap for the extra content yet. this game has 100k people playing it before it even launched. give it more than 5(?) days.

ONLY one problem? Ranged mobs are way too powerful. Pick your poison you either shoot back at the ranged bugs or deal with the melee bugs up close, you can't do both.

Hey my dude, I remember commenting on one of your vids a while back saying you should wait to play Space Marine 2 since Helldivers wasnt working out for you. Now this seems like this isnt working out for you lol. Are you gonna give some time to see what happens or take a break? Do you need any recommendation on what games to try or cover?

Unfortunately we live in a world where a game that launches as a complete game, doesn’t have major performance issues and doesn’t have egregious microtransactions will automatically qualify as a great game.

Love the game a lot, but you're right. The health regen skills are also lame as heck. The Vanguard skill where you get health back from a finisher is actually insulting considering how late in the game you get it and the damage done to you on the difficulty you'll be on at that level.

For people who think this guy does not glaze helldivers too and is being critical of this game. Check out his next video and how he's over the hype in the game. He's been bashing for months now Is why I can't hate this guy seriously. There's no way he can talk about glazing in his next video is literally him glazing

10:00 "It's challenging I can't do anything" lmfaoooo love your content dough

The major problem I have is I'm PVE, anything above the lowest difficulty, the other players I get into a lobby with BAIL half way through the mission leaving me the bots that do NOTHING. And I am at a level where the lowest difficulty is top easy. It is so frustrating to be literally on the last part of a mission with an NPC player barely hanging on the whole mission then leaves and I can't complete the mission alone because of my class. Straight garbage.

Yeah. Camping near ammo box are actually fun, you actually get to shoot stuff.

Well... I guess I'm glad you didn't give this game a free pass. I think so many people are glazing it simply because many of them came from HD2 and are absolutely desperate to latch onto a new game.

I mean you're allowed to have your opinion my guy. But telling folk their opinions are invalid cause you dont like the way things are at current is like beyond vain lol.

My Nerf branded heavy bolter fails to take down a warrior with over 80% head shots and multiple mags. The bolter rounds are supposed to be gyojet explosives that decimate. The "parry" mechanic does not actually keep you from getting staggered by warriors with the blue green "prompt"... they definatly made the bolters too soft. I love the ripper swarm mechanic and the horde swarm mechanic but the warriors spawing four+ deep and being exxintally invulnerable. Untell you stagger them enough for an execute.

The man speaks the truth and no one ever listens to what this man has to say.

I agree, I'm enjoying the story and all the badass space marine stuff but I'm feeling sick and tired of having to fight on my 2 bars of armour.

There is replayability in it though? saying doing the same mission with slight variation is not enough content is pretty bold yet Helldivers and Darktide both just play the same mission over and over again...with slight (or significant in the latter) variation in each mission. The melee is fun and satisfying, it's hard and punishing if you make mistakes but I've seen Bulwarks just stand their ground in a horde and demolish it. Alot of the praise for this game also comes from the fact that it has few, if any, game breaking bugs and the gameplay is genuinely fun for the average gamer. In this day and age of game releases it is the unfortunate truth for it to be classified as an "amazing" game. Yea there are some issues with it, assault is either useless or unstoppable in pvp, assault's jumppack is kinda broken and not good in operations but all the other classes are pretty fun. Talking about ammo scarcity is pretty hilarious when you're main clip you've got playing is of a Heavy and vanguard which are both incredibly ammo hungry (especially if both are using the melta guns) and a tactical which can either be incredibly ammo hungry or incredibly efficient if they're good. Edit - p.s. forgot to mention, This game won't kill HD2, it's not supposed to and it's not trying to, people claiming it's the HD2 killer are not actually playing the game.

Some of these comments man. I never usually comment but holy moly. I've noticed the people who have nothing constructive to say, and just can't take criticism just attack your character and others. While the people who agree with you, also like the game and share their feedback on what could be improved. One side attacks people's characters because they like the game, while the other genuinely loves the game and wants it to be better. Space Marine 2 isn't perfect. But it's quality can improve with the right constructive feedback as shown in this video. Everyone gets a better game so whats to hate exactly?

only having 6 ops and 3 pvp maps for a 60+ dollar game is wild

the game will just come out today for most people. It will take a lot of time for people to consume it and starting realize how bad some aspects are. We can only hope that devs will listen and make changes before people start to complain en masse.

never saw this post coming

Wait till you realize you have to buy every class of gun and master each class with them to move to the Artifcer perk tree and so forth.

I understand your concerns. But I’ve been with this franchise since the golden days of Emperor’s TTSD. I think Saber got a lot done right. There is a lot of teething issues, but considering they decided to issue a stability patch to servers over the early release window is showing to me they care. They made a game that works, respects its origin IP, and they already have a pipeline set up for feedback, which they’ve already started answering and giving definitive answers to boot. No offense mate, I think you got so burnt out by HD2’s lackluster PR that you’re taking a pessimistic approach to this game. Every other creator I’ve watched also sees the teething issues, but they’re more than willing to not fault the game. I’d just go and take a break for a bit and decompress.

The only issue ive got is the damage dealt by ranged enemies when playing a melee class. Getting swarmed and watching your armour vanish in less than a second because of a few little twats sat on a ledge is beyond annoying, you just dont seem to be able to hold your own on higher difficulties