I've tried to like it countless times, everything about the game appeals to me, it comes so close to being such a great game and just falls down on lots of little annoying points. I really wish things could be different because I love playing the game in small bursts, but then more and more things piss me off about it and I just end up playing for a couple days and quitting for a few months... rinse repeat.
My main problem is you feel weak as an Alien and you feel weak as a Marine, I want to feel powerful as both, a good game does this, sadly NS2 doesn't. It isn't a problem with how quickly you die, I play RO2, I really love Insurgency as well and you die in one shot on those games. However the guns on those games feel powerful, when I kill someone, it feels satisfying, in NS2 this doesn't happen.
The Marine weapons are really floaty and horrible, there is no kickback, no screen shake, nothing to suggest I'm shooting a powerful gun, they just feel like Pea Shooters. I should feel weighty with all the gear on, yet I feel all floaty and all the time combat with Marines ends up them jumping around in circles while they shoot...... it looks stupid and isn't any fun to play that.
The Aliens have a problem of not knowing when you're taking damage. You can get shot, but like Max Payne 3, you'll suddenly be dead and it is like WTF? What happened? As an Alien it feels like you take a single shot and you die, yet when you're playing as a Marine, you know it takes a lot more than that. There needs to be a sound as you get hit, slow you down as well so you know you've taken a hit, lots of FPS games do this to let you know, NS2 does not and it is frustrating.
Then I have another big problem of it being very rare to find a good game. Any game you join, you will be joining the losing team and usually it is too far gone, you wont come back from it and then everyone quits at the end. It's really annoying and always happens, so you have to wait 5/10 mins into another game before the players come on again, by which point the game has gone to whoever had the better start. Half the time your commander will leave as well, then it is game over right there, sometimes you'll wait for ages to even get a commander as no one wants to play as one... yet servers still insist on them for public games... I'd rather have an alternative to the commander, some better mode for public servers. Most of the time games are so one sided though and it isn't fun, I know it is a team based game, but there are lots of team based games which get it right, you don't feel pissed off about never having fair teams all the time.
I hate transversal in the game as well, you should be able to flow around up walls and stuff as seamlessly as Ass Creed or something. Instead you get stuck on all the little bits that stick out of the wall or if you're trying to run up a little overhang to get to a vent, you cannot and end up falling off all the time. The camera not rotating just makes things harder, especially when running on ceilings, you expect the keys to do one thing and you end up just falling off. I just wish I could have a rotate mode for it, would make it 100 times easier. I like Unreal Engine 3 because all these bits aren't polygonal, they're built into the texture, when you see pop in you see how square everything is without them. So when you're running around the map, you don't keep getting stuck on little bits sticking out all the time, half the shit in this game shouldn't have collision, it makes things not smooth for the speed of the game.
Brings me onto Alien vision and the map..... why do we have to keep pressing c as Aliens? A mini map would make things so much more fun, instead I'm constantly hitting C to check the map and that is not fun gameplay. Also the Alien vision just ruins the graphics, it is like that stupid Bat Vision thing, I wanna see the graphics in all their glory, but because that vision is so superior, I just end up looking through that all the time. If Aliens have it, then why don't Marines have Night Vision or Thermals? That makes no sense since we haven't gone back in time...
The performance and finding a server.. no one wants to join an empty server, all the 24 person servers are usually full, why can't I just have a server queue so I can wait instead of having to be pissed off before I've even got in the game? I've tried 16 players, I've tried 30 players and I just think 24 players is the sweet spot, they always tend to be the full ones too.
The performance is just terrible, none of my friends play for this reason, constantly either got lag from the servers (which is really common) or they had like 20fps in the base with constant stuttering. I suffer from this a bit, I have a beefy PC and still have bad performance, most people don't though and sadly turning down the graphical settings doesn't help all that much. Why I don't get why they made their own engine, wasting so much time making something bad, they could have just licensed one out and had the game running much better from the get go.
Finally I know I've mentioned this before, but I just don't find the combat all that fun. The guns are floaty, you feel weak on either side, and they always end up in Marines circle strafing and jumping up and down constantly... it is ridiculous! Marines should be slower, they shouldn't be able to jump all the time in that gear, they should have jump stamina. Aliens need a better system of letting you know when you're getting hit, that is their big reason to why they aren't as fun as they should be, I also think leap takes too long to unlock, it is such a fun skill, really annoying I barely ever get to use it.
Another thing we barely get to use is the Onos/Mechs, they're really fun and yet games barely go that far, when you finally get them and upgrade them, the match is almost over... especially if you die, you wont be getting another one again tbh. Where is the fun? Just balance everything so we can use it all much sooner, that or make games more balanced so they last longer. Only a handful of games ever last long enough and are balanced enough to be fun, I just get sick of wasting so much time with the game on lows, like for every good game, you have about 5 crap ones.
I love the concept of the game, the core mechanics are all there, I just wish'd it was a bit different. Sadly it isn't like a crazy popular genre where I can just go and play another version, this really is unique, there is nothing else out there that I can replace it with, why it makes it even more annoying.
My main problem is you feel weak as an Alien and you feel weak as a Marine, I want to feel powerful as both, a good game does this, sadly NS2 doesn't. It isn't a problem with how quickly you die, I play RO2, I really love Insurgency as well and you die in one shot on those games. However the guns on those games feel powerful, when I kill someone, it feels satisfying, in NS2 this doesn't happen.
The Marine weapons are really floaty and horrible, there is no kickback, no screen shake, nothing to suggest I'm shooting a powerful gun, they just feel like Pea Shooters. I should feel weighty with all the gear on, yet I feel all floaty and all the time combat with Marines ends up them jumping around in circles while they shoot...... it looks stupid and isn't any fun to play that.
The Aliens have a problem of not knowing when you're taking damage. You can get shot, but like Max Payne 3, you'll suddenly be dead and it is like WTF? What happened? As an Alien it feels like you take a single shot and you die, yet when you're playing as a Marine, you know it takes a lot more than that. There needs to be a sound as you get hit, slow you down as well so you know you've taken a hit, lots of FPS games do this to let you know, NS2 does not and it is frustrating.
Then I have another big problem of it being very rare to find a good game. Any game you join, you will be joining the losing team and usually it is too far gone, you wont come back from it and then everyone quits at the end. It's really annoying and always happens, so you have to wait 5/10 mins into another game before the players come on again, by which point the game has gone to whoever had the better start. Half the time your commander will leave as well, then it is game over right there, sometimes you'll wait for ages to even get a commander as no one wants to play as one... yet servers still insist on them for public games... I'd rather have an alternative to the commander, some better mode for public servers. Most of the time games are so one sided though and it isn't fun, I know it is a team based game, but there are lots of team based games which get it right, you don't feel pissed off about never having fair teams all the time.
I hate transversal in the game as well, you should be able to flow around up walls and stuff as seamlessly as Ass Creed or something. Instead you get stuck on all the little bits that stick out of the wall or if you're trying to run up a little overhang to get to a vent, you cannot and end up falling off all the time. The camera not rotating just makes things harder, especially when running on ceilings, you expect the keys to do one thing and you end up just falling off. I just wish I could have a rotate mode for it, would make it 100 times easier. I like Unreal Engine 3 because all these bits aren't polygonal, they're built into the texture, when you see pop in you see how square everything is without them. So when you're running around the map, you don't keep getting stuck on little bits sticking out all the time, half the shit in this game shouldn't have collision, it makes things not smooth for the speed of the game.
Brings me onto Alien vision and the map..... why do we have to keep pressing c as Aliens? A mini map would make things so much more fun, instead I'm constantly hitting C to check the map and that is not fun gameplay. Also the Alien vision just ruins the graphics, it is like that stupid Bat Vision thing, I wanna see the graphics in all their glory, but because that vision is so superior, I just end up looking through that all the time. If Aliens have it, then why don't Marines have Night Vision or Thermals? That makes no sense since we haven't gone back in time...
The performance and finding a server.. no one wants to join an empty server, all the 24 person servers are usually full, why can't I just have a server queue so I can wait instead of having to be pissed off before I've even got in the game? I've tried 16 players, I've tried 30 players and I just think 24 players is the sweet spot, they always tend to be the full ones too.
The performance is just terrible, none of my friends play for this reason, constantly either got lag from the servers (which is really common) or they had like 20fps in the base with constant stuttering. I suffer from this a bit, I have a beefy PC and still have bad performance, most people don't though and sadly turning down the graphical settings doesn't help all that much. Why I don't get why they made their own engine, wasting so much time making something bad, they could have just licensed one out and had the game running much better from the get go.
Finally I know I've mentioned this before, but I just don't find the combat all that fun. The guns are floaty, you feel weak on either side, and they always end up in Marines circle strafing and jumping up and down constantly... it is ridiculous! Marines should be slower, they shouldn't be able to jump all the time in that gear, they should have jump stamina. Aliens need a better system of letting you know when you're getting hit, that is their big reason to why they aren't as fun as they should be, I also think leap takes too long to unlock, it is such a fun skill, really annoying I barely ever get to use it.
Another thing we barely get to use is the Onos/Mechs, they're really fun and yet games barely go that far, when you finally get them and upgrade them, the match is almost over... especially if you die, you wont be getting another one again tbh. Where is the fun? Just balance everything so we can use it all much sooner, that or make games more balanced so they last longer. Only a handful of games ever last long enough and are balanced enough to be fun, I just get sick of wasting so much time with the game on lows, like for every good game, you have about 5 crap ones.
I love the concept of the game, the core mechanics are all there, I just wish'd it was a bit different. Sadly it isn't like a crazy popular genre where I can just go and play another version, this really is unique, there is nothing else out there that I can replace it with, why it makes it even more annoying.