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got a free beta key for the squenix avengers MMO
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it is not good lol
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issues include
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there's one tutorial mission that gives you zero clue what you're supposed to do and kills you after about 5 seconds if you don't figure it out
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(you have to jump to a different zone, but the game hasn't explained jumping yet, barely gives you time to look for the jump-off, and your attention is likely to be grabbed by the guy flying past you you're vaguely being told to Stop)
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in the home base speed is reduced to the world's slowest walk
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making getting to the one mandatory mission on the ground floor agonisingly slow
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shooting is incredibly frustrating because the aim only sometimes snaps to enemy
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generally it's pretty good at checkpoints but one of the beta missions if to fight through like 8 floors and it checkpoints you at the ground floor.
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and the last room is nasty
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there's a "hold the waypoint" mission that doesn't explain that you have to stay on the waypoint, it just says "near"
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the skill trees are incredibly boring 
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I mean most of this is kinda subjective I'll give you that
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but it's a lot of things that don't, for me, make a very good first impression
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which is surely what you'd want for your brand new, no-one knows how to play yet game
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also accessibility issue, the subtitles for scenes are incredibly tiny and right at the bottom of the screen
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it is impossible to watch the cutscenes and also read the subs at the same time for me
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ugh i hate when they make it impossible to run in the "overworld" type places
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i get that it would be weird to be running everywhere but you set a pace for the game so walking feels really really weird
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it's also just a lot of slow nothing
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like yay, your base is really pretty?
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but man I just wanna get to this mandatory thing and there's a lot of empty space between here and there
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if you want me to look at all the work, let me actually move as at a pace that lets me get places
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I gave up after the first mission. Playing Nat was fun but her aim is borked (for me it keeps snapping to the top of the screen - not helpful) and I can't get the game to stop freezing and stuttering
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I'm cheating and on ps4
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I enjoy jumping around as Hulk but find him too slow for fun in fights
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Tony's flight mechanics do not do it for me
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Nat's invis is cool but her spider bite does not seem to hit half the time
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Ia ctually liked playing as Thor and Steve in the prologue but they are Not In the actual beta
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I also feel like the mission maps are a little too big for fun, especially with mission control constantly jabbing me to go straight to the target
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do you want me to look around, or not?
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it is especially a weird contrast with how linear story missions can be
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also also given the difficulties of aiming on PS4
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fuck the wall guns
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especially with nat who takes about 10 shots to take one down, and you just cannot stay still that long for most fights without three goons running you down
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and they add up to a fair chunk of health if you leave them
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especially on hold the waypoint missions because you cannot leave the tiny waypoint circle
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...playing as Kamala just makes me feel like my character is constantly glitched
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I was hoping to play with controller because these sort of games always have awkward controls on PC but aiming is definitely a problem.