NEX L1F3

TLDR: buggy mess with combat that is VERY stiff and unintuitive. It's as if they are trying to mix Dark Souls, Left for Dead and Vermintide together except it's not fun, difficulty scales insane and you don't get AI companions. Probably the most annoying thing for me at this point is gameplay feels SO sluggish. Once you start an attack animation, you are LOCKED into it. There is no cancel for situations such as if you see several enemies attacking who hit you one after another. You can get stun locked pretty hard. The AI is VERY dumb. Enemies just spam attacks, no cooldown for haymakers either. And there isn't any pattern you can follow, attacks feel random for large enemies. The trolls have many, high dmg, AoE attacks that have long reach and they will rush forward as they perform them making dodging pointless. Easy difficulty is a joke but higher difficulties make enemies HP sponges. Despite what any description, this is a multiplayer ONLY game. Easy is boring and harder modes are impossible alone unless you start cheesing enemies, which btw you can do. Enemies are tethered to 1 area but will try to follow you and they run back. You can sit there, outside their range and spam ranged attacks or lure them out and backstab as they return. On top of all of that, I get weird lag spikes and some bosses are invisible if you have to reload at a boss checkpoint... I have this installed on an SSD and I am well above spec. A really annoying aspect is if you are solo you still have to wait 5 seconds before respawning. As if the game can just continue. It forces a reload, often resulting in you having to fight or run your way past respawned monsters. Writing this hurts because I love R.A. Salvatore's books. I am a huge fan of Drizzt and Cattie-brie but this game is a complete disservice to the characters. The game feels like it is unfinished and relies HEAVILY on the fan aspect to make sales. This feels like the game is headed towards being abandoned right out of the gate.