I sincerely hope Microsoft pumps a lot of funds into this franchise since its 1st party now. Me and my wife who were massive SoD fans were excited at the thought of coop but its a huge fucking mess that is simply not enjoyable. I feel like the devs had a lot of good ideas but no infrastructure and execution is terrible. Everything feels so clunky and is an endless series of menus and terrible QoL choices.
The lag in coop makes doing anything a chore since zombies will randomly spawn out of thin air potentially killing you or putting you near death state. Just tried to do a plague heart mission and when the wave of zombies spawned in everything slowed to a crawl and almost caused us to die due to how clunky everything feels. Super frustrating since this game could be a real gem but the lack of polish and terrible servers just ruins any hope of a fun coop experience.
They also built this huge world to explore but it feels like the game actively makes you regret venturing out to do any actual exploring. Survivors are constantly bitching every 5 minutes about supplies being destroyed, they're hungry, they need meds, blah blah blah. But nobody actually does shit, they just complain and drain my resources faster then I can actually obtain new ones. Better build outpost that gives me a whopping ONE material per day, cool. Its the ultimate babysitting simulator of 2018. I want to just get in the car, drive around and discover new areas and gather supplies but its constantly interrupted by current community members bitching or random npcs begging for help and then complaining cause I didnt get there within a minute or two.
This is one of my favorite Xbox franchises and its obvious people enjoy it to an extent cause its doing really well sales wise but hopefully they can have proper development time and funds to really knock 3 out of the park. As it stands I just cant play this one anymore, causes more headaches and stress then I care to fight through.
