Hot take:

Don't release a game with...

1. only two maps
2. horrible AI
3. No real NPC dynamics (faction wars, or even npc presence in game)
4. half the features not flushed out (or don't even exist, like base upgrades)
5. No (or almost no) visual distinction for shields, weapon mods, etc
6. Truly shitty, unimaginative, unfun "scifi" weapons (all the grey and green weapons)
7. Truly shitty weapon visuals.
8. NO RECONNECT FEATURE
9. Dogshit anticheat

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They fucked up bad releasing the game in the condition it was in. They burned the people who came to play it thinking it was a finished game. It still isn't a finished game. It should still be Beta for another year, at least. They have continued to fuck up their feature roadmap.

Their roadmap fuck-ups:

1. Tharis is a great niche map like Labs in Tarkov. Like Labs, most people will never play the map and never want to. It's a fucking sweat fest and completely turns off casuals.
2. There's still nothing to do in game. Nothing is alive. You have monsters with AI that is bad by 2005 standards and no humanoid NPCs.
3. Factions don't matter. It's all just fetch/kill/do tasks to unlock weapons, most of which aren't that fun to use.
4. Weapons still aren't fun. I'm not talking about balance, I'm talking about the look and feel. They are incredibly unimaginative for "sci fi" weapons. They had a mountain of other games to steal from for examples. Hell, they could have straight up stolen Doom Eternal's weapon set and had a huge improvement. Just compare how weapons in that game look and feel compared to the tiny, glowy bullshit most of the guns in this game shoot.
5. Armor and weapons mods aren't done. Many have no visual indication at all. Again COMPLETELY UNIMAGINATIVE. In a sci-fi genre you can make whatever shit up you want. Have armor that defends against energy weapons. Have three classes of weapons and three classes of armor, so you can play "rock paper scissors" with it. ANYTHING. Instead we get this dogshit color system with no cool look on the player, no laser-reflecting barrier, no halo of light slowing down slugs, nothing.
6. Crafting isn't even half way started. You can't craft half the things you should be able to, making most of the stuff you find useless for anything other than the boring missions.