Personally speaking, I'm not spending money on the multiplayer (battle pass/cash shop). Progression is a joke and designed to make you spend money, they aren't fixing this until they've milked it for all its worth. They knew what they'd been doing. And given they couldn't be bothered to slap a texture on Jorge's shoulder pad it doesn't even feel worth it.
My thoughts on it playing well? It runs. It runs pretty well which is better than I can say for a lot of releases lately. The weapons aren't very good though and what I mean is a lot of the new additions suck and loose more engagements than the returning weapons. Someone actually thought gutting the sandbox was a good idea and they need to be punched for that. Fiesta isn't nearly as fun when half of the weapons are garbage like the Ravager. Thought the bulldog was fine though I'd prefer the old shot gun. I don't mind clamber and sprint, what I do mind is a lot of the maps don't take advantage of movement options. The gear also shouldn't be crap like a threat sensor when marking enemies like Hunting Grounds for example would work just as well and repulsor is fun but it's not as useful as I'd like. Gear should just be stuff like movement options like thrusters, jetpack, or the grapple.
The lack of being able to choose what mode I want is awful. I got really good at Oddball, I just wanted to play slayer. And because of challenges I've had several teams challenge grind or rubber band controllers for experience leading to us getting wiped. Certain challenge related items refuse to spawn as I haven't seen a Scorpion or Wraith outside Fiesta and I've been on almost every day since multiplayer launched.
It has good bones but this is a poor release like everyone else. Pretty much getting overshadowed by COD sucking as usual, 2042, and the GTA controversies.
