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I decided to try the game out yesterday. Been watching streams of it all week and it looked like a ton of fun. I have never in my life had such a massive discrepancy between what I watched others doing and what I experienced personally playing a game.

Launched the game and stared at "servers at capacity" for nearly 45 minutes. It finally lets me in and goes to that intro with military-green background and some text, and the game crashes my entire PC. Even the "gathering crash report" or whatever it is Windows does was frozen at 0% and refused to move. Had to hold the power button and hard reboot. Launch the game again and stare at "servers at capacity" for 20 minutes, and it finally lets me in. Go through the tutorial and everything's fine (though I changed like half the keybinds 'cause the defaults made zero sense to me). Named my ship the "Reign of Wrath" (which I'm going to remember for the future, badass ship name) and go to choose my first mission.

I had the same thought as Touch and figured I'd do the Bot faction missions first since there's a bonus for doing 8 of them. I was aware the matchmaking was fucked, so I just picked a random level 1 "Trivial" mission to evacuate civilians and launched solo. Drop in just outside the encampment far enough away that it didn't give me the danger warning on selection, and I'm immediately spotted anyway. Danger warning is apparently completely useless, good to know. -_- Start getting chased and don't have time to call in my machine gun, but I figured fuck it, it's level 1 so my assault rifle should be fine until I can get some space? lol The moment I got spotted, the drop ship warning popped up at the top and never went away because they never stopped arriving. I get swarmed and shredded in seconds. Playing solo means you don't really get to choose your respawn location, it's just automatically near where you died (which is fucking moronic) and I can't move the pod far enough to get out of range of the ever-growing mass of enemies. I die the second time before I've even gotten control of my character. And then again. On the fourth drop I finally get enough distance to not be immediately shot, and start making a WIDE circle around the outpost to try and sneak in from behind. It surprisingly works and I manage to get inside and find one of the pods with the civvies and release them. But opening a damn door apparently alerts every enemy on the map to your exact location and drop ships stop bringing enemies in vaguely on the other side of the outpost and the next 2 drop literally right on top of me. I'm dead in seconds again, and my last respawn is another insta-death before I even get control. Mission failed. Well, that was fucking stupid. >_>

I figure it all went to shit because I alerted the enemies right out of the gate on accident, so I give it another go. This time dropping on the outskirts of the map and everything seems fine for a bit. Do a little exploring and find a couple minor POIs as I work my way towards the outpost. When I get there, there's only a couple of bots patrolling the edges so I just avoid them and sneak inside. I try to locate as many of the civilians as I can before I open any of them. Thinking maybe I can just open them and run before most of the infantry arrives. It works alright at first and I got half the civvies free before it started getting too hot and I had to get out of there. Did another wide circle around, but when I got back to the outpost on the other side there was like a hundred bots swarming around the outpost, so zero chance I could do anything. And the drop ships were still non-stop spawning more. It was that point when I realized the missions had to be glitched, and there was a reason every single mission on the planet was the exact same civilian rescue one that nobody else was playing. So I just abandoned it and went to try one of the Bug missions instead.

Picked a random level 1 Bug planet mission that wanted me to reactivate a radar tower. Dropped on the outskirts again from an abundance of caution. Was in no way necessary this time, because this one was actually "trivial" difficulty and I literally couldn't even find a single enemy for the first 5 minutes. Found several minor POIs along the way to the dish, which brought up yet another issue I hadn't seen anybody on streams have. I found a medal in one of the little caches and when I picked it up, my character completely froze in place. I could spin around and aim my weapon, but that's it. Couldn't shoot, couldn't swap weapons, couldn't reload, couldn't throw grenades, couldn't call stratagems, couldn't even crouch. Just stuck there looking around for almost 20 seconds before my character did this weird vibrating glitch spasm and suddenly I could move again and the game acted like nothing had happened. Continued on to the radar dish, activated it, and aligned it. I still haven't seen a single bug. Objectives complete, head to evac. I find 2 of the smallest bug type randomly patrolling the middle of nowhere on my way to the exit, but at this point I'm just saying screw it and ignoring them. Find another small cache of loot, and when I pick up an Uncommon Sample I get that same stupid frozen character shit again. Sure enough after like 20 seconds my guy spazzes out for a moment and then I can move again. I get to the beacon and activate it, and the game finally decides to send some enemies. Pull out my machine gun and mow down the first wave of half a dozen bugs and then wait like 30 seconds before another wave spawns. Kill them just as easily and then have a full minute wait for the evac ship to land without seeing another enemy. So I climb in and the little cutscene starts of the pelican flying up to my ship...and the game hard crashes my PC again.

Uninstalled. Refunded. I can't remember ever being so disappointed by a game with this much hype. Especially since I'd watched like a dozen hours of people playing it before I even bought it.

</rant> Sorry, I just needed somewhere to vent.