I've been following the dev blog for this game for years, and it's sad to say I had an unpleasant experience. Terrible performance, lots of connecting issues. It's a mess. You'd think with all the performance issues; it must mean the game is running complicated effects, but everything just feels like a placeholder. The fonts, the UI design, how everything moves. It's really disappointing. I can run Chrome + Red Dead 2 but not this game? How does that make any sense? As for the online and connectivity, this is probably better with local games. But I bought it with the assumption that I can play it in and out casually. And another thing, the non-default announcers sound awful. It just takes you out of the experience hearing "the developer made me say this" several times, and they also sound so unenergetic. It's so bad. I was excited to see some of my favorite people in there, just to find out they phoned it in. Much like my overall experience with the game. I was excited, then I was heavily disappointed. But hey, these are just first impressions. Still, you'd think after a couple years of this game being active on Steam, that these issues would have been fixed by now. Actually heartbroken