IĀ“ve played quite a few missions of this, and so far my impression is that while it looks really impressive its kinda just "ok" to play.
IĀ“m playing on XSX, speed mode, and the framerate is dropping constantly. In those encounters where the framerate is 60 fps does feel better and more responsive of course, but for me the problem is the design of the gameplay. It might be that I havent figured out how to play it correclty, but I find it kind of frustrating.
Im playing on normal, my armor regenerates after not taking damage for a while. So you can bash enemies with you melee weapon or shoot them. You can also parry, dodge and do a gun power shot after doing an attack where you hold the melee button. There are also executions on weakend enemies (like in doom) which replenishes your armor.
One problem for me is that its so much stuff going on so weather IĀ“m losing all my armor or not just seem to be a matter of luck. Theres alway so many enemies from all directions so whatever Im doing Im taking loads of damage. Sometimes I manage to get thru an encounter just fine, other times IĀ“m using all my stims and getting revived by my teammates and I dont what it was I did that made the difference. There are small swarm enemies, there are big enemies, there are flooting enemies shoting posion stuff at you, there are snipers. Whenever Im focusing on one, the others drain my health, and thereĀ“s no place to get to cover because they are everywhere.
Another issue is the whole parry dodge system. Blue icon means you can parry, red icon means you must dodge, like in other games. So far so good. Often I found that I dodged an attack and started my own attack, shoting or hitting, and than the enemy made a new attack. Then I was locked in my attack I had started before he had begun his, and there wasnt any way to cancel it to dodge or parry. Other times the whole parry/dodge timing seemed off.
It looks very impressive at times (the image is quite blurry in 60 fps mode and the framerate is all of the place, probably looks amazing on a system that can handle it though), but all those hundreds of enemies doesnt really translate to a better gameplay experience in my oppinion.
I know many people are loving this so maybe Im playing it wrong. I dont know anything about warhammer, I have no idea what they are taking about in the game so I tuned out pretty early. If you like the whole warhammer thing this game is probably way more awesome, I find the warhammer thing kinda "meh".
IĀ“m still glad thereĀ“s an AAA game about shooting stuff in the face. There are no time consuming busy work, no pretiontious artsy crap. Its clear they set out to create an over the top, awesome and fun action game. Thats what we need more of. So even though this game might not suit my tastes Im hoping it sells well and Im glad people are enjoying it.
