Let me say that I am a huge Gundam fan. My father introduced this Mecha series when I was a kid. I collected their figures and owned some of their series.
Now, I’m just going to be blunt about this game. It is a very pay to win type of game. Don’t listen to those who say “work hard, get rewarded.” This game barely rewards you with DP (currency), and EXP. Unless someone activates a boosterLet me say that I am a huge Gundam fan. My father introduced this Mecha series when I was a kid. I collected their figures and owned some of their series.
Now, I’m just going to be blunt about this game. It is a very pay to win type of game. Don’t listen to those who say “work hard, get rewarded.” This game barely rewards you with DP (currency), and EXP. Unless someone activates a booster or you come out on top, you will barely get anything. Also, the Gacha in here is extremely poor. 30 coins for a 10 pull that may or may not give you a rare Gundam. You may have to spend money in order to get what you want, and even then that’s still a slim chance. You’ll usually get low or mid tier mobile suits, parts, or weapons. 8 out of 10 you might get duplicates. You can purchase some of them in the shop, but they are expensive as hell. For example, a three tier mobile suit is between 60k to 100k. If they are going to lock high tier product behind level caps, they should at least make them less expensive.
Mobile suits are based off of cost. 100-500, where higher tiers are in the 400’s and above. If you do matches that have specific level cost, make sure you have a good mobile suit. Otherwise, you will be stuck with a weak tier mobile suit, and get demolished. My advice is to do either 100 or 200 cost matches with 300-400 being a maybe. The controls in here are atrocious. I understand they are trying to make it “realistic”. But with no sensitivity option, you are not going to land your shots or react in time. You need to be extremely patient, guess their direction, or lucky if your opponent is dumb enough to let themselves get hit. A module that enhances your movement speed for your mobile suit and aiming does exist. But that requires for you to reach a rank called corporal have 50k DP points to purchase it. I find that really unacceptable.
In order to get Gundams of higher level, you need to be a certain rank. Not competitive rank, I’m talking about level rank. So, if you want that Gundam Thunderbolt or Gundam Alex, you need to be higher than a Corporal. Like I said, exp is scarce, so you need to play everyday, longer than just an hour, and pray you win.
Now, this game relies heavily on team cooperation. Just like Siege and Overwatch, you need teamwork to win. Unfortunately, with no mic enable, you will be stuck with brain dead teammates. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been jumped by two or three enemy players while my teammates are rushing in to die or ignoring me. It is essential to stick together at all time, even if your teammates are terrible. But my advice is to play with friends. I learned my lesson when it comes to solo queuing.
The servers are terrible. Sometimes you might lag, disconnect, or won’t be able to connect. There will be times you have to close the application and restart it when it starts acting up. Hardwire or not, you will have problems. Namco is notorious when it comes to poor servers. JoJo Bizzare adventure games suffer this same thing with their servers. Hopefully they fix it. Oh, also, if someone is the host of said room leaves after losing, you and everyone else playing in that match will be kicked out. You won’t lose points, but if you won and they pull that rage quit on you, you won’t gain any of the points. Namco needs to reward those who didn’t quit the match. Those who lost and some idiot leaves before the match ends shouldn’t lose their points.
The penalty in this game sucks. Let’s say it’s raining where you live. Your net is acting up. If you get disconnected twice, you will be penalize for five hours. That means, you can’t play at all. After that penalty is gone, you need to play matches in order to remove the other penalty. The second penalty cuts your rewards in half and will not be remove until you complete a set of matches.
Now, matchmaking is somewhat unfair. There is times where you will be matched with low tier players on your team while your opponent have higher tier players. It says it matches you with those of your level. Very rarely you will get good players. Also, unless you pay money to get better mobile suits, you will be matched with those who do. You will get demolish. Keep that in mind if you play. Another thing to keep in mind, the Japanese and USA servers are connected. So you will meet Japanese players.
Overall, this game needs extreme help in many of the stuff I mention. If it wasn’t for my friends, I wouldn’t be playing this game.… Expand
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