The Stick and the Trigger
Right when you start running through the tutorial ruins, you get a clean sense of how the inputs settle. The movement has weight. You aim down sights, and your crosshair tracks cleanly without float, while your basic dodge roll carries a solid pop at the start. Gunfire Games got the basic gun handling right on PC, and swapping between sidearm snaps and long gun blasts feels quick.
Melee strikes are where that sharpness starts to drag. When you commit to a standard swing, your character locks into place for too long. The recovery animation takes extra beats before you can buffer a roll out of danger. If an elite enemy clips you during that lag, you eat the entire hit. It turns close-quarters combat into an awkward gamble instead of a snappy dance.
Unforgiving Hitboxes in the Chaos
The boss fights are huge set pieces built around pattern memorization. You face god-like monsters that fling tracking projectiles and sweep across whole arenas with wide arms. In co-op with two other friends, aggro constantly bounces around the room. Tracking attack tells is fun when the visual hitboxes align with the actual damage zones.
Too many wide sweeps hit outside their visual models. You can execute a clean neutral dodge or roll straight through a claw, yet your health bar chunks down because an active hitbox lingers after the limb passes. Combined with occasional stutter when heavy particle effects burst during boss phases, input timing gets eaten. That is infuriating when you are down to your last relic charge on higher difficulties.
Build Variety and Archetype Synergy
Character progression is where this game makes its strongest case. The expanded Archetype setup lets you slot dedicated classes with unique active skills, passives, and perks. Mixing primary and secondary archetypes gives you real room to experiment with crafting augments, rings, and weapon mods. Upgrading your weapons back at the hub feels immediately noticeable out in the field.
The branching quest lines and dynamically generated areas give zones distinct flavors across rerolls. You run through strange biomes populated by stone constructs, twisted roots, and fungal beasts. For fifty bucks on Steam, the sheer amount of gear to uncover keeps you pushing forward. English voice work and interface text are fully supported and clean throughout every spoken dialogue tree, giving the campaign clear direction even when the lore gets chaotic.
Three-Player Co-op and Solo Struggles
Playing with two friends cuts out a lot of the frustration. One player draws aggro with a heavy shield setup while the other two pick apart weak spots from a safe distance. Revives are tense. You have to clear the room with crowd control before rushing over to pick up a downed buddy.
Solo play is a much harsher grind. Without teammates to split enemy attention, mob density in narrow corridors can pin you in corners. When three fast melee creeps swarm you while a ranged sniper shoots from a catwalk, the long recovery on your own melee swings becomes a death sentence. You are forced to abandon close-range weapons and play like a pure cover shooter, which sidelines half of the game's combat kit.
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ur not wrong bout hitboxes tho. got clipped through a wall by that spider boss grab rn. gunplay feels crisp at least and $50 aint bad for what u get. still recommend bc co op carries the rough parts
gave it a go with my grandsoonn on co op last night. the archetype thing is clever reminds me of builds we used to theorycrafft back in the day. dont worry about the melee recovery frames young ones we all get stuck in animatiion hell sometimes. arthur
ur not wrong abt hitboxes lol. got yeeted by ravager tail through geometry rn. melee recovery frames feel like input lag city. but gunplay crisp af and archetype combos wild fun in co op. $50 aint terrible for 3 player chaos. still recommend bc the boss designs carry hard. ur missing the point rn but it makes sense why u feel that way
Remnant? more like re-mourned after those hitboxes got me twice in the same boss fight. no spoilers but that root earth encounter really took a toll on my emotional bandwidth
@ola_ollieur not wrong bout hitboxes tho. got clipped through a wall by that spider boss grab rn. gunplay feels crisp at least and $50 aint bad for what u get. still recommend bc co op carries the rough parts
does the ravager have knees or just vibes. why does the corruptor scream like my ex mother in law. who approved the hitbox on that tail swipe. am i bad at this or is the RNG personally offended by me
gave it a go with my grandsoonn on co op last night. the archetype thing is clever reminds me of builds we used to theorycrafft back in the day. dont worry about the melee recovery frames young ones we all get stuck in animatiion hell sometimes. arthur
proper reminded me of those late nineties pc mags where youd read about a game for months before release. manual was proper thick back then. this one you get a pdf and a shrug. archetype system is the only thing with depth here. melee feels like swinging a wet sock through treacle. particle stutters on my 3080 during the labyrinth fight too. gunfire used to ship tighter than this
@peter griffins kneetbh the manual thing is rose tinted glasses lol. most old manuals were just control diagrams and copyright pages. hitboxes are messed up tho lol. melee recovery gets you killed more than bosses. $50 for this state is pushing it tbh
@crumpetThe hitboxes have more drag than a semi with locked brakes on black ice. Melee recovery? That's not animation locking that's just the game putting you in park while the boss merges into your lane. I'd give you my two cents but interest rates are down and the collision detection's upside down on its loan.
@prost_pauldodge cancel out of melee cuts recovery in half. hte timing is hit the beat on the upbeat not the downbeat. saved my hunter run
y'all i tried co-op with my brother and his two toddlers runnin round the living room and honestly the toddlers had better hitbox detection than the ravager tail swipe. fixin to throw my controller through the drywall when that corruptor scream hit. but the archetype thing? chef's kiss. me and my buddy ran hunter medic and the weapon mod combos kept us laughin through the particle stutters. fifty bucks feels right when the gunplay clicks like that. y'all are fixin to make me lose my mind here with the melee recovery frames tho. just my two cents.
hitboxes feel off (especially that spider grab through walls) but gunplay smooth (on my 3070 at least). archetype system deep enough to keep me tinkering, though melee still feels like swinging a wet noodle. just my two cents.
ur not wrong abt hitboxes lol. got yeeted by ravager tail through geometry rn. melee recovery frames feel like input lag city. but gunplay crisp af and archetype combos wild fun in co op. $50 aint terrible for 3 player chaos. still recommend bc the boss designs carry hard. ur missing the point rn but it makes sense why u feel that way
the review is spot on about the corruptor fight. that tail swipe has active frames way after the animation ends. melee recovery locks inputs for way too long. archetype system is the only thing saving this from a refund. particle stutters on my 3080 too so dont @ me with optimization excuses.
Anyone else get bad stuttering when the boss fights start throwing out heavy particle effects? Visual spectacle looks cool as hell, but my PC frames tank right during the biggest attacks. Sound design hits different in headphones though, or maybe that's just my setup.