Opinions

I feel the crafting system is needlessly laborious, there's a shortage of scrap metal in the game for making better weapons, the upgrade system is too littered with circuits that have unnacceptable tradeoffs, and the stock blueprints are indicative of how much weaker most of the weapons are compared to DS2. I imagine many have spent hours on experimental crafting only to find they still can't make better weapons than DS2 had, just different ones.

Why they wanted to implement ridiculous combo upgrade circuits and make you deploy and wait for scavenger bots to maximize your resources is beyond me. Many, maybe HALF of the upgrade circuits come with downgrades, and if it weren't for th elack of scrap metal in th egame, I wouldn't have to be waiting for those bots that somehow find scraps that I've already picked clean.

Worse yet, the weapon stats are rather misleading. When I FINALLY got the Heavy SCAF frame, I built it with the most powerful upper and lower attributes in the weapons chart, and fully upgraded each, only to find it was weaker than my Bolas X or Shotgun. Granted I went through similar annoyances buying and trying weapons in DS2, but at least it didn't mislead you into thinking endless possiblities meant better weapons.