Played a lot more and there is serious problems the farther you get into it.
The city is a total clusterfuck of a maze. I entered it, got turned around so many times, with deadends, and pools of tentacles, that it took me 3 whole hours to escape the city. I entered from one entrance, couldn't figure out how to get back to it, and ended up going out the main entrance. The place is dark as an abyss, and even with composite or structural flashlights, it is too dark and too mazelike. I had night vision implants, but for reasons, they didn't work when I hit 4, so I was clawing my way through darkness, tentacle rape, a gazillion raiders, and angry corporates, who I accidentally stumbled upon and fired at, thinking they were more raiders. There isn't enough good indicators where exits are... or even how to get to them. Since it is so dark, your map is useless, not that it would help anyway as there is too many above and below areas for it to be useful. Nearly died multiple times in there, as enemies can be within 3 meters of you and you won't notice them until they jumpscare you with bullets. Silencers are basically useless in there, and enemies will go "what was that" and you'll hear them moving in the darkness, but who knows where they are. The only time you'll see them is when you stand out in the open and get shot by them.
Then when I finally escaped the city, did I know how to get back to the highway? Nah. Falling into crevices, trying to ascertain my position relative to landmarks on the map and me, and meandered around until I found the exit. Game demands I sleep, but of course I can't use any of the beds in the field, so I can barely run and apparently I can't drink any more energy drinks or coffee, so I'm exhausted and unable to do shit about it. Then when I finally make it back to base, I find out I'm riddled with tentacles, despite pushing out like 60 eggs, 15 loads of cum, paying the services of the doctor 5 times (found like 2 or 3 doctors in there) and so now I will have to hike back to the city to cure them, because for whatever reason, there isn't a pill for terminating a late pregnancy, a doctor in the hideout, or a damn birthing animation for removing tentacles, and I gave up on this release there.
A few other annoyances:
1) Its not clear what upgrading the limb vs upgrading the individual parts does. Does upgrading the limb replace all the parts with possibly better ones or what? The buttons lack tooltips and seeing a MK 1 (enhanced) twice, and its telling me to grab the other MK 1 (enhanced) and its not clear what is the upgrade, if anything. Or its saying grab the augmented instead of the structural. I was so confused on this point.
2) It is so hard to find food and water in the field, and so expensive at the traders. And with the few times I used cyberware, it eats up those things super fast and its not like I can just eat a killed tentacle for its meat, or drinking any old puddle of dirty water.
3) I couldn't really tell the difference between Composite and Structural gear parts. I think structural is supposed to be better, but my close-range smg, made with mostly composite and modern, seemed to outperform my composite and structure sniper rifle. Or that could be because of the ammo I was using, but who really knows with the lack of numbers in the UI to provide that information.
4) Its really irritating trying to hit these damn raiders. They run like speedy gonzalez being chased by a transvestite trying to convince them they are a "real woman". They are so fast, that I miss most of my shots that I fire at them, which makes me wonder too if the framerate is as it says, as I often even lead my shots too. Otherwise, the damn guys blend in with the terrain so well, that I sometimes mistake them for a bush when they are standing still. But me? I stand out like a purple texture bug, in the middle of a vast green forest, and no matter how much cover or foliage I'm using, enemies can absolutely destroy me from distances that I cannot see them from. But what is really irritating is when you down them, they stay down for 5 seconds, then you get distracted by someone else and go check on the body and they are gone, with no trace of where they might have gone.
5) The amount of horniness you get over time is too overdone. Even with the horniness cyberware maxxed out in tier, and set the slider to its lowest setting, I'm still needing to masturbate once every 10 minutes. Without it, I was masturabing every 2 minutes. And the masturbation doesn't drain it fast enough and has a limit on how much can be reduced in a masturbation session. Worst still, you can't exit the session prematurely, so if you hit X by accident, mid-combat, you'll go into masturbation and they'll come and fuck you and steal your shit. And even when you aren't in combat, you find a secluded spot and your moans attract every fucking male from like 300 meters away, to come find you and rape you. Its so frustrating.
6) Even with mostly composite guns, most cyberware upgraded to level 3 or higher, and a lot of APN or SUB rounds, I really didn't feel like a gun-toting badass, but rather just baseline power with a solo corporate. When dealing with multiple corporates I often get overwhelmed. Even large crowds of raiders can overwhelm me, because my damn gun keeps jamming or misfiring with composite/structural magazines, receivers, and bolts. Whether I'm single shotting or burst firing my guns. Its just so unfair that a single misfire or jam forces me to reload and the enemies never suffer thing.
I could go on, but I think you guys get the idea. The game could be good. Right now it fucking sucks, even with cheats on. There needs to be some major balancing passes done and as Devolution stopped coming here, its unlikely it will ever happen. Oh well.
