In about a year this will easily be a 4 star game. Unfortunately, it just isn't complete enough for me to give it higher than 3 right now. Because while the core of the game is excellent, there is just not enough content, and it has some bafflingly dumb design decisions.
On the positive side, the combat is crunchy and satisfying, the environments are gorgeous, Jesper Kyd's score is incredible, and the higher levels offer an insanely intense horde experience.
But on the negative side, the game is literally just missing content at launch, and the whole crafting system has yet to be fully implemented. The game also has too much of an early grind to get to level 30, but once you get there you'll find that there's currently no real endgame content, just more of the same missions you've already been doing only now they have more enemies. It also doesn't help that the game is not structured in a linear campaign like Vermintide 2 was, and instead the missions are cycled out randomly on an online mission-select screen. But since its always changing what's available, you may end up never playing a certain mission for 20 hours simply because it was never offered when you were online. I understand that this decision was made to make it easier to match make, but uhhhhh I do not give a fuck about playing online with idiot randoms. I have enough friends playing to fill a group and if I don't, the bots are better than most of these idiots online anyway. So I would have much preferred the linear campaign structure that they had in vermintide 2, that way the game has a better sense of progression, and I don't have to repeat the same missions over and over. And don't even get me started on how braindead the current RNG weapon shop is.
In the end, the fundamentals are there, they just need another year to rework their stupid ass decisions (Please just yeet the current weapon shop and make a new one) and add more content into the game.
On the positive side, the combat is crunchy and satisfying, the environments are gorgeous, Jesper Kyd's score is incredible, and the higher levels offer an insanely intense horde experience.
But on the negative side, the game is literally just missing content at launch, and the whole crafting system has yet to be fully implemented. The game also has too much of an early grind to get to level 30, but once you get there you'll find that there's currently no real endgame content, just more of the same missions you've already been doing only now they have more enemies. It also doesn't help that the game is not structured in a linear campaign like Vermintide 2 was, and instead the missions are cycled out randomly on an online mission-select screen. But since its always changing what's available, you may end up never playing a certain mission for 20 hours simply because it was never offered when you were online. I understand that this decision was made to make it easier to match make, but uhhhhh I do not give a fuck about playing online with idiot randoms. I have enough friends playing to fill a group and if I don't, the bots are better than most of these idiots online anyway. So I would have much preferred the linear campaign structure that they had in vermintide 2, that way the game has a better sense of progression, and I don't have to repeat the same missions over and over. And don't even get me started on how braindead the current RNG weapon shop is.
In the end, the fundamentals are there, they just need another year to rework their stupid ass decisions (Please just yeet the current weapon shop and make a new one) and add more content into the game.