Been looking forward to this game for over half a year. I literally start the game and IN THE FIRST ROOM the first error occurs requiring a restart of the game (the first wall you break to escape the room you start in simply disappeared and wouldn't let me pass).
Now I'm in the mines after about an hour of gameplay, having finally found my first upgrade terminal at the end of the last level.
ALL OF MY WEAPON UPGRADES ARE GONE.
3D Realms is more like Mediocre Nightmare Realms. Either games like Wrath of Aeon and Graven take forever (pun not intended, that has been done to death) or... this.
At absolute best this is early access with what must surely be a ton of cut content. I mean, they talk about "interaction with the environment", and it would be nice... except they simply redo what Half Life did. And leave out the microwave interactivity, too!
The initial pistol (which is your ONLY long range option for quite a while) is like the Half Life 2 9mm, minus easy headshots AND accurate shot placement. I swear it is like tickling enemies, and 2 to 3 headshots in a row to kill someone with a helmet (which are 40% of enemies), and apparently hitting them in the face sometimes counts as a "miss".
There are nice features, I am sure. But some enemies are downright annoying. Drones swarm you from the start, IN CLOSE QUARTERS. That wouldn't be so bad, except you move like you're drunk, have no armor, sometimes-can-and-sometimes-can't jump over waist-high objects, and... the drones fly fast, shoot you, then explode.
And why do all of my homing grenades reset to ZERO held at every mission start???
There is probably a lot to like about this game somewhere, and I still regularly play games for the 90s/00s.
But it has all the BAD features of games from the past 28 years, including outsourced beta testing. No wonder it is getting its tail whooped on Steam reviews, too.
Simply inexcusable. Will wait a bit for a patch, then may refund if nothing happens. Will see.