Played a few hours this with a friend, given it was free on Epic the other week and we were both morbidly curious, it’s not bad but boy does it have some rough edges versus 2, you can really feel the turnover in the team and the technology between it and its predecessors.
Little papercuts like the game dropping items (class mods) nobody in the party can actually use for hours on end, despite the unlock seemingly not being possible at those items’ level requirement.
At vendors, you can’t push the “sell junk” button from the buy screen like in BL2, you have to enter the sell screen to do so, despite it not doing anything at all on the buy screen.
The inventory UI is more complicated, harder to read, and just overall harder to use, but the loot drops seem even more numerous than prior games.
Audio log placement is the sloppiest it’s ever been, placing audio logs right in the middle of “follow the npc” sequences, resulting in the choice between picking them up (and having them immediately and repeatedly interrupted by dialogue from the NPC you’re following) or ignoring them and backtracking. Not that you care about them, but they’re there and the X button needs pushing. Grr!
For some reason a significant portion of audio logs have absolutely no subtitles, and the subtitles also sometimes just display the some stale or incorrect line repeatedly. In the second level of the game all the dialogue was captioned as some line from Torgue, a character who hadn’t even appeared yet.
UPDATE: what a mess of a game, real slog to the end here. I'm glad I got it for free because I think I'd have been very disappointed for full retail price. Cackled at the absurdity of the choice as the ending theme started playing.
Little papercuts like the game dropping items (class mods) nobody in the party can actually use for hours on end, despite the unlock seemingly not being possible at those items’ level requirement.
At vendors, you can’t push the “sell junk” button from the buy screen like in BL2, you have to enter the sell screen to do so, despite it not doing anything at all on the buy screen.
The inventory UI is more complicated, harder to read, and just overall harder to use, but the loot drops seem even more numerous than prior games.
Audio log placement is the sloppiest it’s ever been, placing audio logs right in the middle of “follow the npc” sequences, resulting in the choice between picking them up (and having them immediately and repeatedly interrupted by dialogue from the NPC you’re following) or ignoring them and backtracking. Not that you care about them, but they’re there and the X button needs pushing. Grr!
For some reason a significant portion of audio logs have absolutely no subtitles, and the subtitles also sometimes just display the some stale or incorrect line repeatedly. In the second level of the game all the dialogue was captioned as some line from Torgue, a character who hadn’t even appeared yet.
UPDATE: what a mess of a game, real slog to the end here. I'm glad I got it for free because I think I'd have been very disappointed for full retail price. Cackled at the absurdity of the choice as the ending theme started playing.