I love grindy games, but I hate F2P daily grinders with a passion. The cosmetic progression in the game is atrocious and forces you to either grind for 18 hours a day or log in daily to inch your way towards the end of a cosmetic pack that you'll soon have to pay real money for. It's atrocious design that does nothing but force you to play the game longer than you want to, in order to entice you into spending more money on the game. Especially with confirmed convenience services (once they figure out how to inconvenience you to make those more appealing) coming down the line.

You're pretty much forced into grinding/purchasing cosmetics, as all of the non premium items are absolutely ugly and will always clash with one another as you're intended to grind for best stats. You either look like colorful and mismatched to oblivion trash or cool. Pick your poison. All I want is to look cool while I nail the game's hardest difficulty, not be forced to do a grind for cosmetics on top of grinding for currently pointless loot.

The looting system in the game shows potential, but at the current moment it's pretty underwhelming. It's a very linear system of numbers go up against a currently mediocre difficulty. They haven't reached that "Feel Good" moment of getting your unique build together and doing well against a challenging piece of content. A mediocre build will currently get you through the game more than easily.

It's a shame that the monetization of this game will inevitably be the killer for it, as there's clearly passionate developers pouring their hearts and passion into the game. Just steer clear, your time and money is better spent elsewhere, somewhere that respects your limited time as an adult with a job. Don't make the same mistake I did by supporting these greedy hacks that are holding a potentially good game hostage.