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1. Suzu :miku_happy: (suzu@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 12:05:19 JST Suzu :miku_happy:

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   Them we are introduced to our diverse cast of characters: Fat nigger who's the boss, white nerd cripple, and Strong Woman Who Needs no Man and has Red Hair and a Strong Genius™. Unfortunately I didn't screenshot the actual introduction, this is how you see them in the "game hub".
   Just after meeting them, you are sucked by some dimensional thing, then you go to to an island and a crazy AI takes you back in time, then you meet a guy, then 3 other people who don't really talk appear, and then you kill a bunch of dinosaurs for a "test" the AI is doing.
   And that's the story of the game. There is an AI in an island, the AI picks people from different dimensions and throw them at different time periods, and then the AI summons a bunch of dinosaurs to kill those people. So you're supposed to blast away the dinosaurs. I can't really complain about this story, desu. I just need an excuse to pit robots agains dinosaurs.
   
   And the gameplay feels good. I played just a couple matches, but the gunplay is nice, and playing with melee characters feels as good. There are 3 default "classes", the Offensive, the Tank and the Support, but they all feel OK to play (playing as a tank and having a big fucking shield to hold back the dinosaurs, and them punching them right on the face is neat, and you don't feel like you're missing anything for not playing as the DPS). You can also change suits mid battle, so you don't need to feel like you're stuck with your choice.
   There are only 10 exosuits, though. 4 DPS, 3 tank and 3 support, and one of each class is locked and you need to either buy them as DLCs, or reach player level 20, 30 and 40 and then buy them using the in-game money.
   
   Exosuit customizations is... eh.
   Each exosuit has it's default weapon and a couple different attacks. These can't be changed. You also can pick an "implement", which is a secondary weapon, that can also be changed when you change your suit mid battle. There are... 6 implements to choose. And 3 of them are locked behind DLCs or player level + in game currency.
   You also have 3 slots for "Modules", which are passive abilities that improve the suit. All of them are locked behind player level + in game currency (well, at least they are not selling character power in DLCs or locked behind the paid battlepass track. For now). Each suit has 6 modules specific for them, that you need to unlock with suit level (each "module slot" has 2 suit-specific modules that can go in them), and then there are a bunch of generic modules that are unlocked with player level.
   So, remember when I said that the character customization was very lackluster, but I was mostly nitpicking because you'll barely see the character in game? Well, you see the exosuits all the time, and the suit aesthetic customization is very, very barebones. You can't even change the suit colors by default, like you can do in Warframe. You need to get a premade "skin", and those skins are locked behind either DLCs, lootboxes or the premium battlebass track. Skins (specially the premium ones locked behind DLCs or premium tracks) also have some very stupid customizations, because fuck "immersion", amirite? We are playing a game about robots shooting dinosaurs, there is no problem in my character being dressed as a card king, or as a quarterback, or as whatever le funny meme Capcom decides to introduce in the next patches, amirite?
   Weapons are the same, BTW. You have a couple colors to pick for each, but those are all "skins" locked either behind lootboxes or battlepass.
   Besides that, you can also place some "decals" in 3 specific locations, and all of them are, you guessed it, locked behind lootboxes, DLC or premium battlepass.
   And you can also add a keychain to your character, and I won't repeat myself, you already got the hang about what's it locked behind.
   So, yeah, exosuit customization is very "meh".
   
   
   And that's it. It's a game that at a glance looks very cool and the run and gun gameplay is good, despite it probably getting very boring after a while. But it's completely held back by a sum of very stupid and predatory monetization schemes coupled with a very stupid choice of aesthetics and probably pandering on the part of Capcom. It might have been worth it as a F2P game, but you'd be hard pressed to pay 60 bucks on this piece of crap.
   I predict it will die in a short time and then Capcom will release it as a F2P game where you only get 1 suit from each class and have to unlock everything else with microtransactions, and that's how they'll keep it going on life support from them on.