I'm done with this bullshit mess of a game for a long while.
Loaded up the game and decided to knock out a bunch of the order to get them out of the way. Cleaned up the left vertical column, the revealed big one after that, then the three available on the right vertical column. After those, I started on the left side, fast traveled and my game crashed. Loaded it back up and I'm concerned because it loaded me into Essexe. I recognize the area from the last region quest line I already completed. I'm equipped with different weapons and sure enough, I check the quest log, and it is one of the first quests for that region.
No problem, I'll load the right save manually because clearly the game just chose the wrong one. What's this? The last two autosaves recorded right there, time stamped today? Ok, I'll just scrap my progress from the order kills I did this play session. What's this? The only autosaves available now are from that point in Essexe and earlier? What...the...fuck...
The game overwrote all the progress I had made today, and the last several hours of progress from the last play session. The save I loaded successfully this morning is gone and the only available saves are from 3+ hours of gametime ago. And lets just say the Essexe's arch is not exactly this games finest hour (several hours)...
And to top it off, these Order assassin missions are pure trash. Go here and pick up a "clue", go here for another, mark target on map, walk up to them and click a button. That is not gameplay. No stealth needed. No approach. Nothing clever or requiring any thought. Literally walk up to what is essentially a random NPC and click the kill button. So much of this game is just wasting time. And from what I hear on this forum, you need to do all these assassinations to get the full ending or something? Fuck that.
And this game has high-mid 80s on opencritic? Not only do I not believe 90%+ of reviewers played through enough to see the ending(s), the majority of reviews are simply not critical of the game, and if something is criticized, it is a bullet point at best. The sound mix is the worst I've heard in a 'AAA' game. The cutscene direction is at best C tier. The bloat with regards to content is comical. The generic order assassination missions are lazy at best and an insult to the franchise.
The save loss is the straw for me. I want to finish the game because I bought the damn thing and hear some cool stuff happens in modern day, but this is the first purchase in a long time I truly am regretting. /rant
