When was the last time a Bamco game DIDN'T release on PC in an abysmal state? I only preordered because it's the cheapest way to get a legal copy of Zero, fully expecting it to take a few months of patches for them to actually get their shit together (as is literally ALWAYS the case with Bamco)
Won't lie, it lowered my expectations for the game a bit.
It kinda reminded me of AC5 cutscenes, but what I've seen so far lacks any kind of pathos. Felt pretty aseptic and stiff.
Music did some real heavy lifting in the trailers, the complete lack of any kind of BGM for the majority of the opening doesn't really help.
Never doompost. Game was great.
I'll maintain though that most cutscenes have a weird pacing to them. And the story while fine could've had a bit more going on.
Beat it, gameplay is probably the best its been but I felt like they could have done way more to connect it to AC3 (especially since this game was brow beating corpo takeovers).
The massive lack of Neucom and Dision were a pretty massive letdown. Around this time is when Dision is a war hero for GR's conflict in old Belka, you'd think there would be calls for GR to get involved. They tease this with the satellites being a global threat, but never pulled the trigger.
Neucom are also meant to be getting motion in 2030, its about when EASA gets privatised and Erusea becomes a corpo hellhole. The Expo City mission spells out how GR wormed its way into occupying it (probably under the guise of revitalising the city), but yeah not as much as I hoped would be there. They had a real easy bridge to tie in Dision and GR to Expo but I guess they might be going another direction with it or just wanting to keep up the vague tie-ins.
They were a lot more direct with the AC3 references in 7 though, so it surprised me how distant they were this time around.
Tasha was surprising, they should have done more to hammer in how miserable everything was for her after deciding to ditch her way off the boat to keep flying. It was nice she at least had a semblance of a character arc though. Everyone else was pretty meh. Feels like they've lost touch with what made guys like Dision, Simon, Pixy and the AC5 crew more likable.
FWIW I actually liked Sotoa as an enemy nation. I got more Mongol vibes from them than sand niggas. The stuff about their homeland collapsing from industrialisation overtaking nomad tradition is probably a throwback to how leaders post-Genghis tried to turn Mongolia into a cultural and trade hub (and failed). The Land Tank missions were pretty kino too, especially watching one do burnouts at the base of the Lighthouse trying to collapse it lmao.
Shame it crashes like crazy too.
Overall really loved the missions and flight engine, but just kinda let down with the story as a whole. The POV was a total mistake too, go back to narrative cutscenes next time please.
I got it too, in the joker pack, but at least for the usa we're missing the game code. I heard that there might be another package with the game code, but idk when that'll arrive (unless they do it digitally). I did open up a case with Bamco's online support to try and figure it out.
