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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 25.6 hrs on record
Posted: 19 Sep, 2020 @ 1:25pm
Updated: 19 Sep, 2020 @ 1:38pm

Warning - it will take you several hours before you can have wild fun like they've presented the game in the gameplay trailers
Game was overall fun, but you have to realize something in order to stomach the rough start. Enemies are tough to kill at the beginning and they can deal tons of damage to you. The idea is that you have to get better guns, upgrade them and get more abilities, in order to have more creative ways to get close to your enemies and deal damage. If you can't deal with that, you'll have a bad time with the game, as enemies are bullet sponges and your guns feel like pee shooters. Once you get better guns and few abilities, it changes the game and actually matches the Trailer gameplay mad fun.
At the start, your map has marks of several Arks, those contain new abilities and guns, but after you finish them, they don't show up anymore, you have to progress through the story, without idea when they're gonna show up again and then you have to either randomly look at every Question mark ? location, to see if it's an Ark or not
Tip 1 ! I highly suggest that you look up gun and ability locations, or you can literally finish the game without ever finding large portion of them
, when I was one mission away from the end of the game, I had still 3 guns missing and for abilities I went through half of the game without most of them, simply because Arks are stupidly hidden in world map clustered with nonsense of ??? icons
Tip 2 ! In the upgrades menu for weapons, you have to unlock BOTH upgrades for your gun, in order to get the next upgrade available to purchase
...I literally finished the whole game, all NPCs were lvl 15,16,15 as I spent ton of time doing all side missions, I had 32 gun upgrade tokens and 20k feltrite and the nonsense upgrade system made it so that I had only lvl 2 guns, the entire game, on hard difficulty, so most of the tougher enemies felt like bullet sponges !
Tip 3 ! Change the keybinding for the Nanotrite focus to SHIFT and move the sprint to left Alt
, this way you can actually use it, unlike the original terrible keybinding. By pressing Shift once, you'll warp into direction of the key that you hold (for example you hold A and press Shift, you warp to left), by holding Shift, you'll see enemies, your car and with later upgrades, chests, Ark chests and PDAs
+plethora of weapons, shotguns, pistols, rocket launcher and more
+interesting abilities like warping forward, powerful ground slam, little black hole
+variety of vehicles to drive and upgrades for your main car, weapons and armor
+the Overdrive mode basically allows you one shot kills, great for horde clearing
+the gunplay is solid and taking down huge monsters, especially at the start, is a blast
-Overall big minus is, that after 26 hours, finished all main missions, all three main NPCs leveled to lvl 15,16 & 15, all arks found, all abilities maxed out, tons of side activities cleared, the game gives you only 24 / 64 achievements and I literally 100% most of the side activities...it's heavily padded out with pointless stuff, and once you finish main mission, there's no reason to play anymore
-once you clear tough enemy base, you then spend twice the time on searching for the boxes and ark chests and especially the PDAs are often in terrible spots, you have to unlock the mad scientist NPC in order to be able to see the chests and PDAs with your ability
-pointless NPCs in cities, that you can talk with and they give you quests, for which they often don't give you anything
-story is very straight forward Revenge type, with not many twists, often it felt like a chore
-map is littered with icons for millions of things to do and it doesn't feel like you have real impact on the world
-the Authority turrets are annoying bullet sponges that don't fit this game, you have to take cover and basically spam assault rifle shots at the blue part, then hide behind metal crate when it fires, do this for literally few minutes...
-only your car can be upgraded, no other vehicles can get upgrades
-the racing minigames on the track are quite bad, as the cars handle poorly
-there's no real payoff for killing the spy drones, just another wasted chance
-after you finish the game and credits roll, there's bit of cutscenes where all the major characters tell you how This isn't the end, and how you're needed very much in this world...this is sadly nonsense, there's nothing new once you finish, so no point in playing more
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