I played at launch and had a fair amount of fun. Shooting feels good, movement feels good, writing is pretty good, all around pretty good. But when I got to what the 'endgame' was at the time, it became a confusing slog. You had to get your special number up but it stopped giving you items that made your special number go up unless you did specific things but it wasn't very good at actually telling you what specific things you needed to do. So I spent something nearly two weeks making next to no progress. Granted, it made for a good podcast game but I still burnt out on that eventually. Then Curse of Osiris came out a few weeks later and when I came back I felt so out of it that I wasn't sure how to get my special number up so I just did the new story stuff and it wasn't very good. Not particularly interesting writing or mechanics but the infinite forest had kind of an interesting look to it.

Then I came back and tried again when the game transitioned from Battlenet to Steam and was thoroughly confused. I had never finished Osiris so I wanted to wrap that up and do the other DLCs but that had all been buried away somewhere because they don't want people to play it? And there was zero explanation about what I should be doing? It just gave me a bunch of quests and told me to use some new mechanics and was an absolute mess. I cannot imagine what that must've been like for anyone coming to the game for the first time. I didn't take long for me to just give up on the game after that. What a weird experience.