Man, this game is rough. The moment to moment gunplay is gloriuos, but the rest? I have so much feedback for the devs and have a feeling, nothing would cut through the hype and memeification. Already tried the game's subreddit, but it's drowned in weapon jokes and memes and any criticism seems to be dismissed in ways I've rarely seen ("Chill, it's just been released for a week").
I love this franchise, we wanted to love this game but it tries it best to be hated. This game has to be the least polished AAA game in the last decade. We've aborted so many sessions out of rage cause of all the glitches, bugs and crashes. We've played over 30 h online co-op so far on PS4 Pro (same flat) and we've encountered, several times and sometimes simultaneously:
- Hard crashes to console OS
- Kicked from co-op to menu
- Minimap glitches
- Echo communication glitches
- UI glitches
- No sound effects at all
- No weapon sounds
- No dialogue sound
- No music
- No sound AT ALL
- Quest glitches (not finishing, no respawnable quest car etc.)
- NPCs talking over one another without us being the cause
- Map glitches
- Travel glitches
- cutscene glitches
Aside from a general lack of polish:
- Splitscreen barely playable in any graphics mode due to: Slowdown, menu lags, UI size and arrangement
- Poor texture loading akin to early UE3 games, only slightly less worse in single player
- Laggy menus, need to wait 5-9 seconds before my skill menu with Moze is finished loading so I can pick stuff (Counted it). Only slightly less worse in singleplayer
- 4k/30 Mode in Singleplayer still plagued by a quite unstable framerate
- Slow ass NPCs you have to follow around and wait for ultra long door opening animations etc.
- NPCs and quest givers constantly talking and giving background while you're busy doing completely unrelated stuff (moreso than in 2)
- Several menus, options etc. not explained (weapon decorations being one thing, half of Sanctuary, still no idea what's the use of the weapon parts menu?!)
- Too few and badly placed travel points (come on, it's 2019). They're always at the beginning of a zone and there's rarely more than one in a zone.
- A generally bad use of space UI- wise
It's selling like hotcakes and feedback seems to be buried because not everyone seems to have the same experience of technical flaws we have, but this game could use a lot more polish so everyone can enjoy the fun. I think it's a shame a big AAA game can release in such a state and we're still waiting for a fix for the most glaring, technical issues. I understand there have been some hotfixes lootwise. But we're here crashing and glitching and thinkink priorities should be rethought. There are points on our list that shouldn't be acceptabel at all. Even if the game is just released.
It's just a grating experience at times when it could be so so much more.