This isn’t undercooked… It’s not even raw, it’s still moving!
The sound of the guns are from 90’s quake
The gameplay loop is VERY boring
The NPC’s look like either SpaceX astronauts or red Chappie’s
The crafting system is beyond pointless, clunky and things like different ammo doesn’t help
The gun mechanics are severely lacking, you can take the default into any match and win any fight
The level design is basic, as in 2000s gameplay basic
There’s no meaningful/ tangible link to EVE in game apart from names and a couple of ship assets in the sky
I’ve now played about 8-9 hours as I wanted the Gila skin in EVE, but only managed to get about 1050 points in game ( EVE events track) as I just couldn’t bare to play Vanguard anymore. It felt like a waste of my time and wasn’t even close to being fun. I was just going through the motions to complete assignments. Any real person I came up to I would jump in the air to give the universal ‘am not a threat’ sign and move on. Anyone that wanted PVP I took the fight, it was quick and over and meant nothing! Never bothered looting their pile of goop and I never bothered about loosing my stuff, it felt meaningless.
Yes it’s an pre-alpha but the head dev guy said ‘it’s the closest representation of the game’.
As a 15 year EVE player, I’m not angry about the waste in money/time as I’d like to see MORE games based around EVE lore as it’s really deep but I’m really disappointed that this is what they’ve spent their time on!
They could have dusted off the mechanics and gameplay of DUST, spruced up the graphics and released that, at least that gameplay felt like it had meaning (the life support system was much better). Vanguard has no soul, has nothing new to add to the already saturated extraction looter crowd and is frankly shite.
I will add that I also play Escape from Tarkov and will also play Fortnite (when my daughter wants to play and team up with someone).
Just thinking and now adding this afterwards…. Who is this game aimed at? EVE players, I don’t think so. Are you trying to bring in new people, if so I don’t see anything ground breaking or new to entice people as there are other games in that genre that do it much much better.
You know what would have been received better to the EVE playerbase and beyond, would be some sort of 4x strat game for planetary interaction, EVE players could still do PI passive but it’ll be say 25% less output. But getting out of the POD and into a captains quarters (see what I did there) to play a PI mini game (am over simplifying) would most likely would have been money better spent!