NOTE - if you're going to read the first 3 lines and jump to a reply, please don't, you need to understand my entire argument to avoid embarrassing mistakes others have made.
And it is still the same thing as before:
- The controls are still so clunky, it is impossible for heavy dropsuits to win in close quarters with medium suits strafing from side to side.
- There is nothing to do, I have about 2 million spare SP and I have no desire to try to spend it in something new because it is simply inviable to try anything other than assault or heavy, considering there will be no SP refunds and to spec into something properly costs like 2 million SP anyway.
- Spawning is still absolutely terrible. Three times I spawned within 10 metres of an enemy. Spawned once about 3 feet away from an enemy drop uplink. Spawned once to be killed by the war barrage instantly. I thought CCP said they would fix this ages ago?
- I still have no sense of what I am fighting for... I just jump in a game and shoot people, there is no factional warfare or anything which gives me a roleplay reason to fight since I am not a corp member. The EvE universe isn't present here at all.
- I cannot try any new things as specialising into EG - the forge gun will require weaponary level V which as a casual gamer I cannot expend...
- Matchmaking is still awful, I know CCP are aiming to 'fix' it, but right now I am getting put in games where we lose like 10 deaths to 80 deaths, with the other team having 4 tanks.
- The animations are half-broken, IE - when I press the melee, it has a really clunky robotic 'jump' and feels like only 3 frames were inserted to it.
- AV grenades are still useless against vehicles, and speccing into forge guns and swarm launchers is unviable as I have to dedicate a whole class to it and by the time I change, the vehicle has either gone or I encounter someone with an ordinary weapon and I die.
I know this will probably look like a wall of complaints, but that is what I genuinely think of this game... 1.4 and 1.5 do nothing to address these issues so far, and the lack of content only worsens the issue.
I appreciate that your doing adorable little adjustments like adding a recent updates tab, adjusting the HUD, giving the laser rifle a red dot sight, giving corps the ability to tax... but that is NOT WHAT THE GAME NEEDS RIGHT NOW. Those are little petty things which should only come once the game is finished. CCP, you need to add the rest of the content and then begin balancing and tweaking. There's no point in adding new content 1 by 1 and then balancing them.
All of the problems I listed above give the game the low ratings it has been getting, the low ratings are not because of the lack of the EVE connection, no one really cares about that in an MMOFPS.
I appreciate that this is early days, but you should not have rushed for release so quickly, there was no advantage of doing it before the PS4 came out.
I've played Planetside 2 and despite having like 5 FPS on my PC, it was instantly a better game, I will definitely play on it on the PS4, and it is better simply because it is finished and there is a real factional warfare feel to it, rather than being plopped into a random battle for some random corporation.
Please consider fixing these issues before implementing any more irrelevant updates.