Played a bit earlier and this is certainly something.
Y'know how we dunked on the Warrior for being slow? Well it is, but basically by the time we first encountered one we had a bot, a potato, and myself and I'm the last one standing. You'd think the health bar depleting would kill it but it keeps going for the bottom dotted health bar and because I ran with a potato and an A.I we naturally lost as soon as we encountered it. Because apparently a damage sponge is supposed to be fun. And thing is that it wasn't even what did damage, it's the copious amounts of runners who can deal damage before the attack animation even ends. So I'm basically carrying the team and because the runners did all the work it could run up to me and instant kill me.
There's also no introduction to enemy types which I think is a mistake.
We got introduced to a bursting enemy out of nowhere with no comment on it until after it died but by that point we already took damage. We then encountered the red xeno (I think it's the spitter) which pounced on me with no warning or comment by "not Zeus". We encountered a Drone whom showed up out of nowhere which is fine, I was expecting it to show, but if you wait a moment and run around corners the A.I doesn't know how to track you. So we basically baited the A,I into charging so we could gun it down. The warrior was the only one that got commented on before it showed up but it's comments like "big signal" which doesn't tell me anything.
I contrast this to Hunting Grounds which while loadouts can vary, because both sides can play as the other you have an idea of what all default classes do. And because all Predators fight the same with tweaks you have to learn as you go, but generally know how the Predator works. Here if you go around the corner I'm half expecting the Queen to show up with wings for all the warning it gives.
Well we tried again and the game crashed. I don't know why but we had a drop in framerate, audio cut in places, was garbled, xeno animations sometimes never played, and sometimes they'd fall through the floor. We dealt with the red xeno again and before it even reached us it fell through the door opening never to be seen again. The Xeno whom you see at the start of the level can be killed btw, but he to fell through the floor before we finished pumping rounds into it. We had a few during the horde segment as well.
Also for the love of god, if you have nothing to say on mic in party chat, turn it off. Mic audio just aint working so if you're making call outs you just sound like a Deathtrooper, I can hear you, I cannot understand you.
Like I just want to get through the first f**king level and I cannot do that.
