Did Synthetik 2 end up being total crap?
I really liked the first one and saw that people were shitting on the second one back when it was released, but now the reviews are very positive with the recent ones being mixed however..
Anyone know if it's worth getting as a fan of the first game since it's on sale now?

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>>714296869 (OP)
As a big Synth 1 autist who shilled it (for free) before it blew up in popularity
I would say to avoid 2 until the devs get their shit together. It's essentially a total "1 step forward 3 steps back" downgrade and they're still fumbling with what they even want the game to be.
>adds weird unnecessary basebuilding and voice overs to talk in your ear during runs
>still messing with the core gameplay balance and it's still nowhere near 1's quality
>levels are oversized and a linear slog
>ammo is always an issue due to drops being based on your damage output
>difficulty and modifiers reworked into an inferior version
>classes are cool but lack the customization of perks 1 had, starter weapons are all ass
>weapon accuracy, quantity, balance and quality is worse across the board
>does almost nothing to stand out from 1 and devs keep retooling it to be more like 1 because all the "new" systems were a downgrade
They really should have done something truly new like a Synthetik FPS. As it stands it's just a soulless UE5 remake and I don't think they even knew what made 1 so good.
It's the Dragon's Dogma 2 of indies, would be an apt comparison to me. It's not total shit but has little reason to exist.

>>714296869 (OP)
Wen the arly access released it was fairly bad.
Over the course of the updates it managed to get closer to waht Synthetik 1 was.

The bad reviews are mainly because the devs are releaseing updates at a glacial pace which makes it look like abandonware.

>>714299840
Damn, I thought it might have had something going for it considering the reviews being very positive, but frankly that sounds like shit.
Synthetik FPS would have been a cool take on the formula and setting.
>>714300151
According to the other anons post, seems like it's nowhere near close to Synthetik 1 yet, and if the update pace is as slow as you're saying I guess it would be better to wait until and if it actually gets there.

>>714300652
Most of the positive reviews are from the discord circlejerk, unironically. As soon as the negative reviews started rolling in because there was mostly only communication with the discord and updates were only being pushed to the beta branch (in this early access game) so people were rightfully mad.
>>714300151
It's closer but still far from it, but that also means as it gets closer to 1 it has less of a purpose because there is far less content and it just feels worse overall lacking a lot of the great things of the first game. The updates are still glacial and the devs keep adding weird unnecessary shit instead of focusing on the core gameplay and levels/items/weapons.
A DLC expansion for 1 would have been a far better use of their resources, gamemaker jank be damned. AND it would have been far cheaper to produce too.

>>714298561
When he ragequit after dying on Stage 3 and claimed the game was "RNG bullshit." Bro can't dodge a Moai beam to save his life and still talks like he's a shmup vet. That was the moment I knew he was all bark, no aim.

>>714299840
That's sad to read, I came across the game recently after enjoying the first one back in the day, it looked like more of the same, but sounds like it's a mess when you get into it

Unreal Engine sucks the soul out of yet another indie dev team, you hate to see it

>>714305604
It's made in unity, the problem isn't the lack of soul but the lack of direction and content.

>>714305769
feels like legion rising blowing up made them get too big headed or something
synthetik 2 feels way too scattered and yet somehow does nothing new either