Got home, installed and spent a couple of hours on this last night. Finished up at level 6 as I spent far too much time wandering around Brooklyn looking for stuff (Didn't find much...).
So far the game feels pretty much the same as the beta (not surprising given the demo like feel it gave) which I feel has both positive and negative points. Nothing major and I am reserving my thoughts until I have explored the rest of the map and played more of the missions.
In regard to the missions I decided to give the Hospital mission a quick go last night on "Hard Mode" via quick matchmaking...... at level 5....
THAT was an experience!
Waves upon waves of level 8/9 shielded enemies which could down me far too quickly (I was one hit by the baseball bat charging enemies). I was able to do decent damage (at least at range with a M44) but I ended up mostly playing a support/medic role for the rest of the team.
Great bit of fun and lots of good loot.
I note a couple of bugs / visual glitches while playing which were a tad annoying:
- My character covered the tutorial / tool tip screen instead of being overlayed;
- Character appearing as a silhouette on the menu screens;
- After downing enemies and entering the menu to see what the loot was the body would be flashing behind the overlay;
- A couple random bouts of slowdown followed by super speed (lagging controls followed by oversensitive movement). I put this more down to the game trying to synchronise everything as for 99.9999999% of the time it was super smooth.
The only major annoyance I have had so far was the lacklustre character create. It isn't a massive
ERMG end of the world! problem but in a online RPG (MMO lite / whatever this is being called now) I want to be able to create a unique character. I wasn't expecting Elder Scrolls online levels of customisation but I also wasn't expecting less options than the already limited Destiny character create either.
I settled on Female face 4 with hair style *whatever number a pony tail was* (sounds like I am ordering a take away).
TL DR:
- Enjoyed first couple of hours despite minor bugs;
- Got my ass kicked in first mission when massively under levelled;
- Annoyed I can't re-create Pigtails (but I'll get over it... maybe)
