Played most of the weekend and it was a lot of fun. I do feel like leveling up is pretty fast compared to what I thought it would be. I am already a 27 and still have several main missions to go plus encounters. It is definitely funny to look back and remember when we were talking **** how I had this awesome sniper that did 4k damage per shot! Now I have a sub-machine gun that does that per shot haha.
Thoughts so far:
-The AI is actually much better than I thought it would be. You have guys that will rush you, flank you, and suppress you. Feels like a pretty solid fight and it takes good team work to win a lot of it, not just individuals fighting together.
-The missions are fun and a lot of the videos are pretty intense and help paint a fairly grim picture of these people you are fighting. I really enjoy those touches and hope they continue to add more of them.
-The encounters are a bit repetitive but only so much programmers can do to keep those fresh.
-The game has been really glitch free which is a nice surprise for how much appears to be in it and it is pretty seamless to join in and out of groups which is awesome compared to how Siege is/was with trying to get into matches. The only negative here is most of any quick matchmaking I did put me with lower level guys that made it tough to do anything with.
-The headshot sound is very satisfying.
- It kind of sucks though that if you are a high level player, you typically can't play with a much lower level player without making their lives very difficult. Hopped on with Texag and Seth last night and the napalm missions became super easy for me, and next to impossible for them. They were around 12-16 while I was a 27. The enemies averaged to a 22. I could kill them quickly while they mostly had to hide as they could get one shot killed very quickly. Not sure the solution for this, but it is a way to help someone level quickly if they want. However, do the mission on hard, and all the enemies are the level of the top level player, ouch.
- The dark zone was awesome. Not very many people go rogue, wander if that will change at the higher levels. Favorite moment was up in DZ3 and thinking, oh let's extract here. As soon as I launched the flare, it was all gold enemies around us it felt like just standing there in the mists. We ran and ran and ran and ran.