I don't dislike the gunplay, it feels meaty and satisfying, some weapons feel less powerful than they look/feel like the Firebug revolver but that's nothing that can't be tweaked. The ZED animations are fine and I saw nothing wrong with them, much to the contrary I fucking love the new Husk attacks which have made them so extremely dangerous and prone to ambushing you.

But man, every single change of core game features and design philosophy is worse. Limited healing feels like shit, no universal multi-tool, no universal door welding, fucking D44M dashing what the absolute fuck man it feels like every ZED now has a ranged attack solely to justify this being a thing which only serves to make them less distinct from each other in the end.

Then the weapons. I never expected 480 frames of mocapped animation for every real life gun like KF2 did, but these OC weapon designs look so bad compared to the classics even if their animations are actually quite good and satisfying. This is not going to attract anyone to want to use them because looks are the first impression you get and the first impression looks extremely bland and uninteresting. Quite simply, these weapons have no style, and thus no appeal.

But all of this could be fixed, all of this could have actually been the best thing to ever happen to the franchise, and the game still wouldn't perform well for the simple fact that these characters are HIGHLY mediocre at best and utterly untolerable at worst, and they are fucking perk locked. Unless you want to only ever play 1/8 of the game's content, you're going to suffer the bad, the cringe, and the unappealing, and fucking nobody wants that shit.

This shit pains me because I can see myself having fun with the gameplay and shooting satisfying guns at targets that are satisfying to shoot, but everything else is inexcusable and the game will be stillborn because of it.

>boss heals a large chunk of its HP after I had a hard ass time doing significant damage