Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

PREFACE: In its current state of 3 years of support. The base game, even at full price is worth investing time into. This edited dumbs down is to state the community's thoughts, as long as with my own: The devs hear you, but they do not listen! They hardly playtest their own game. As someone who has been playing since launch date on Xbox with at least 200 hundred hours on that console version alone. The ammo economy, balancing choices, and irritating restrictions on class selection, class building, and Saber's perspective on "difficulty" is no doubt the biggest turn off this game has aside from the PTS being an excuse to release a big update early to have us playtest the middling "heroic" weapons that need a month or two to be buffed into usable side grades. 1. Ammo is so scarce that if you do not have a fast TTK ranged weapon then you will burn at least half your primary capacity before finding an ammo cache. Even if you are not playing Absolute regularly. This issue's severity is multiplied when playing as either Sniper or Heavy. The two classes that focus on ranged weapons. Heavy is forced to spam stomp and dodge roll until he gets a gun strike, and then you repeat until you get an execute. Repeat until you get some room to shoot your gun for two seconds, and repeat ad nauseum. Sniper gets a little more leeway since he comes equipped with a melee weapon, but he is forced to play as a discount Vanguard/Tactical. Snipe three majoris, and you are down 10 to 12 shots in your 26 round capacity. Ninety percent of your time as Sniper, from level 1 to maxed out prestige 4, is Pistol and knife. His weakest and less fun traits. 2. Which leads into the balancing choices. Firearms have a respectful ammo pool, but middling damage or horrendous accuracy and spread. Maybe it will have a lot of ammo and accuracy, but garbage damage output. Same goes for melee weapons. You want your combat knife to hit like a thunder hammer? Then prepare for attack animations that are forced into pseudo slow motion. You want your thunder hammer to not hit like a limp noodle, and actually cleave through chaff fodder? Then, prepare to pull off one swing every 5 to 8 seconds before being forced to dodge or parry 20 minoris grouped around 3 to 5 majoris. Also, there is no reacting to Enraged enemies. The moment two or three Majoris die. One will glow red, become stagger immune, regain all its health, and have increased damage and health. You just have your roll slowed, or you ignore it until it is the last one alive. What a gamble. Get ready for sub bosses to become enraged as well. Bullet sponge hell. 3. Now, class restrictions. You are forced to grind and familiarize yourself with at least three classes because only one of each class is allowed on a full squad. That would not be a complete issue if Tactical and Bulwark were not the only well thought out classes. Those are hands down the two classes you will be fighting to play as, and for obvious reasons. The Techmarine and Assault are in the middle, Vanguard slightly lesser, and Sniper and Heavy are in the very bottom. It all revolves around dead perks, or perks that do not synergy with the class itself and the team. Sniper and Heavy have perks that do minor impact like ten percent more headshot damage, or a specific weapon family has less spread, and does twenty percent more damage to sub bosses and bosses when it's equipped. That's underwhelming, but it does something. Yet, there are horrendous perks that involve being a "healer" that only work on reviving teammates, being the last standing, or expanding your entire ult to gain a little shockwave or armor back. Extremely situational and such a hindrance. After three years, Sniper and Heavy still have these dead perks and improper ammo sustainment. Tactical can execute a Majoris and refill an entire mag, but Heavy has to prestige once to execute an Extremis or boss to get a mag back. Tactical has higher economy, a bigger arsenal, and multiple melee weapon