I really enjoyed the game. The graphics are really nice and the weather effects were very cool (the creepy fog and thunderstorm in particular).
The gameplay feels much more fluid and the amount of things to do is incredible.
I also really liked how you can modify the size of the fonts for the subtitles.
I found it hard to know which mod I should craft for the weapons I prefer to use. Maybe add a mention or the possibility of sorting through them so that I can select those for rifles, sub-machineguns, etc.
A few issues I encountered:
- Subtitles would not completely appear or disappear because of barks.
- Subtitles were present for only 1 character during the playback in the nodes.
- In the White House, the recording of the conversation between POTUS and the Mexican president did not play completely through. It stopped mid-conversation.
- Some of the melee women who take the green thing and run at you were moving strangely, in some cases they were coming at me sideways.
- In the first main mission where we save a woman on the rooftop, I had trouble entering the room where the woman was held at the end. It felt as if the doorway did not align properly with the walls.
- I had another problem in a parking garage between the 14th, 15th, F and G streets NW. There are stairs at the back with a resources box on the landing and a backpack at the top. I was able to get to the landing but an invisible wall was preventing me from getting to the top.
- There was an issue with the territory control on the corners of G and 10th streets NW. I called for backup with the flare gun and killed a few enemies but no one else came. The backup characters left and the territory control was still there, empty. It seems to have been corrected during one of the updates or one of the reloads because when I went back later, things worked properly.
For the Dark Zone:
I really liked the overview and tutorial by going in and doing the scans and small missions. I went but did not stay long. There was a group of 4 or 5 players with very high armor who stayed near one of the entry points, shooting everyone trying to go out of the section with the turrets. I think that some of the fences should be taken out or modified so that the turrets have better line of sight. This would enable people to slip by more easily.
For the end game:
I found the mission very challenging. I ended up with a group of four people and even then, we had a hard time. I selected the survivalist but could not find a crossbow in his equipment list. Only guns you find elsewhere. In addition, I was expecting him to have more stuff like fire or electricity as in the description.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the beta and cannot wait for the full game.