Game isnt awfull or anything but their spyware anticheat is really annoying.
It has really satisfying gunplay, meaty and fast. I almost prefer it to CSGO in that regard, the guns feel like they are packing power. Also everything is a bit more accurate than in CSGO while the time to kill is about the same.
The tradeoff for the satisfying guns is that there are less guns than in csgo. Very often I wish I had a very specific weapon for a round like the PP Bizon. You might say 99% of those fringe weapons were never used but the options was there.
The abilities work just like grenades in CSGO, they are abilties which you buy and consume. So
luj1 concern is wrong here, its no moba shooter in the vein of Overwatch.
The exception is that every hero has a signature ability where he either gets 1 free use per turn or it is on a long (40 seconds) cooldown instead.
The abilities are of medium impact, and in fact those abilties which directly mimic CSGO grenades are the strongest atm. Most competetive heroes are those that have smoke grenades or flashbangs.
I miss being able to access every grenade on every character, but it is an interesting tradeoff to gaining more weird abilties. You can set tripwires, walls and traps which would be impossible when everyone had access to them.
I dont care much for artstyle, it is clean and easily readable. Thats enough for me.
Sound is superb, especially the weapons have a good bang. Music is not really my taste.
I would absolutely make it my second shooter next to CSGO which I play casually if it werent for two factors:
1. Only unranked and fast game. CSGO gains a lot from having a ton of queues like Flying Scout and Gungame for me.
2. Their anticheat is cancer. It needs to be always running to launch the game. You can disable it after closing the game easily from the hotbar, but when you launch the game you need to have their anticheat running since the boot, or you need to relaunch the game.
I dont think rito is collecting any data, even if they belong to the Chinese now, that would be a legal death sentence and with a game this big you cant hide mass data gathering forever. But I dont want any other systems on autostart except the absolutely required ones. I like my rig nice, clean and fast and tons of autostart software is the fastest way to slow your PC to a crawl.
Still for me it is already the second best shooter on the market. Now if they would only row back on that Vanguard bullshit, people cheating in games is always talked about but its such an extremely low % of games it affects. Most of the time people cry cheater they have just been killed by someone who is better than them. I get called cheater constantly in all kinds of games and I am merely mediocre at them. Sometimes the matchmaking just spergs out, you steamroll a few noobs and they cry wolf.