John Merchant

Honestly i was one of those people that couldnt stop playing the OG game, but my rating isnt because of that at all. I was about 20 hours into my playthrough and my friend ask that i hop in his game and play with him, so after a few hours of co-op i got off for the night. The next day i get on to find my character there with all his skills, but NONE of my inventory. To top it off i also had NONE OF THE BLUEPRINTS. ZERO. ZIP. NONE, and yes that does include ones like medkits and lockpicks which you get as quest rewards and literally need to progress the story in a few spots like getting RD's character her shoes. I had to wait an hour and a half for my friend to get online and open the door for me, only then to find out lockpicks arent even droppable items. After multiple attempts to get techland to fix this minor bug (make lockpicks a droppable item) with no response i just gave up on the game. I have to rely on my friends who have their own lives to give me supplies i need to complete my playthrough and that wasnt fair to them or me. Nor did i feel like starting a new character and going through 20 more hours and playing solo in case another co-op bug deleted that characters inventory. So i waited for weeks and they never fixed it, and with the growing size of games it got deleted and i havent really looked back. Maybe in a year when its in a more polished state ill give it a try. But comparing it to the OG game where i never had any kind of a game breaking issue im just irritated and disappointed even months later. 'Years of development and delays for this' ya know? that and the other countless pop in textures and characters.