I played this for the first time after the 2.0 update. This game is much better than it seems to have been at launch, however, there are still major issues that bring it down substantially from what I thought was going to be a 4 star rating for my first bit of playing the game.
From watching old reviews and comparing it to my time on the game, AI is much smarter and more aggressive than they were at launch. Also, there seems to be more enemy clusters you encounter, and it seems you can fight more enemies at once than you could before.
Besides the technical issues this game has (which I will get into) a big problem I have with this game is how it actively works against completionists. There is a moment in the game where you go to a new map about halfway though the game, and you can not return at that point to get any collectibles you missed or do other side missions. Not only this, but there are two collectible that is must be obtained during very specific missions, which can only be redone if you do it on NG+.
I also really like the first map more (both has their positive elements though), but you will notice that the same buildings are reused a couple of times across multiple missions. For example, the movie theater has 2 missions where you go to it. One as a side mission, then one in the main story. The maps are pretty small for "open world" (The devs said the map is 27k square meters), but I don't mind it. The map is interesting, if only there was a little more to do in the map.
As far as technical issues, small bugs litter this game along with a lot of pop in, and A/T poses. I personally can look past stuff like this that doesn't affect the gameplay if the game is good outside of that. That's just how I am. However, there are issues with multiplayer where on two play sessions with my cousin (out of 6 to beat the game), my player stats did not save. So I lost my level, loot, and metric progression. It is important to note that story progression is only saved for the host. This is not what I am talking about.
Last thing I will say is that this game is much more fun with someone else (I only ever played 2 player or solo, not 3 or 4 player sessions). I actually never encountered a single network issue during the game at all. Everything worked flawlessly during the game with online play. The exception is the save progression that was lost with my character as the non host that I already mentioned.
All in all, the game is getting better. It is not a situation where the game can never be good, but it still has a way to go before it gets there. I would assume that the game is wrapping up any updates with how few people are still playing it. So this is probably about as good as it will get, but maybe I'm wrong.
From watching old reviews and comparing it to my time on the game, AI is much smarter and more aggressive than they were at launch. Also, there seems to be more enemy clusters you encounter, and it seems you can fight more enemies at once than you could before.
Besides the technical issues this game has (which I will get into) a big problem I have with this game is how it actively works against completionists. There is a moment in the game where you go to a new map about halfway though the game, and you can not return at that point to get any collectibles you missed or do other side missions. Not only this, but there are two collectible that is must be obtained during very specific missions, which can only be redone if you do it on NG+.
I also really like the first map more (both has their positive elements though), but you will notice that the same buildings are reused a couple of times across multiple missions. For example, the movie theater has 2 missions where you go to it. One as a side mission, then one in the main story. The maps are pretty small for "open world" (The devs said the map is 27k square meters), but I don't mind it. The map is interesting, if only there was a little more to do in the map.
As far as technical issues, small bugs litter this game along with a lot of pop in, and A/T poses. I personally can look past stuff like this that doesn't affect the gameplay if the game is good outside of that. That's just how I am. However, there are issues with multiplayer where on two play sessions with my cousin (out of 6 to beat the game), my player stats did not save. So I lost my level, loot, and metric progression. It is important to note that story progression is only saved for the host. This is not what I am talking about.
Last thing I will say is that this game is much more fun with someone else (I only ever played 2 player or solo, not 3 or 4 player sessions). I actually never encountered a single network issue during the game at all. Everything worked flawlessly during the game with online play. The exception is the save progression that was lost with my character as the non host that I already mentioned.
All in all, the game is getting better. It is not a situation where the game can never be good, but it still has a way to go before it gets there. I would assume that the game is wrapping up any updates with how few people are still playing it. So this is probably about as good as it will get, but maybe I'm wrong.