I love the game, I have around 13 days played time, maybe a bit more than that(With a 4 day break taken recently. I would’ve probably had around 15.). However I feel like i’m playing a Closed Beta Early Access game.
Here are a few reasons.
Meta’s/Balance/Game-Breaking Bugs.
The game is too dead set on Meta’s, this being a heavily PvP influenced game there cannot be a weapon/armor meta, and if there is it has to be miniscule amounts[Since I know perfect balance, is impossible.]. Tanks will rule this game, go tank or you die, or run away. Even before people learned about faction gear/resilent gem slotting heavy armor was negating so much damage that it isn’t supposed too. It was already clear heavy armor was meta.
And as much as I hate to say it, it may be really hard to balance this game with so much ability to choose your different armor pieces, and weapons. I practically feel like, I have to get faction gear/voidbent gear, and practically have to use heavy armor, and practically have to use a powerful melee weapon.
I feel like a good chunk that’s ruining it is the with faction gear/resilent gems stacking, and double dipping. But I feel like heavy armor was already overtuned, and now it’s just broken completely with the perk bugs.
I was really hoping for a balance patch within the first month, but then the game-breaking bugs, or disabled content was happening. So instead of balancing happening, it has to be fixing stuff, then next patch fixing more stuff. I understand fixing content and bugs should come first. But that’s exactly why, i’m going to set the game down and wait for it to get better. Balance wise and bug wise.
The big thing about an MMORPG is if you want to be primarily an archer, that has a secondary weapon to help keep people away from you. You should be able to do that. No matter if I wanted to be a tanky archer that barely deals damage for the price of not dying in a few hits. Or if I wanted to be a glass cannon that can take peoples heads off.
I feel like with proper tuning, and balancing, even if you need to rework entire weapons because it can’t be balanced if you balance everything else. It could work out.
I’m sure AGS can do it, it might even take a long time to accomplish it, but right now I just feel like i’m doing nothing but wasting my time.[Considering the only real PvE content is gated by farming orbs. And i’m not the type to switch how I wanna play to get involved in endgame PvP, nor take up a PvP slot that could be filled with someone that can help them much more than me.]
I’m hoping that they’ll get their game running in a good way, before they start adding content. But we are almost at a month, and with their current level of content, they’ll have to start adding more stuff, I just hope its not new weapons. Cause any weapons or gear needs to be balanced around an already balanced game.
I’m hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. That way I won’t be disappointed if it falls through.
Tl;DR: I enjoy the game thoroughly, but between the bugs/exploits/improper balance I feel like there is nothing for me to do, unless I wanna just wanna keep playing the next meta, or use the next broken thing. I’ll keep checking out patch notes, and come back in the future.