A Casual-Friendly Extraction Shooter That’ll Hook You for Hours

First ContactI started this game to play in Duo, but after 60 hours, most of them I went solo. I have more or less the same hours as in-game levels.The start can be a little overwhelming, and there are some quests that blocks you going to more difficult maps, but I understand this strategy. The first map, Dam Battlegrounds, can be challenging sometimes so it's a good start for newcomers.I play on European servers, and it's mostly fun during day, but frustrating at night, where there are a lot of Russian players that ganks and kills you in sight, or after a vile betrayal.You can use your mic to talk with others, or use the image emote system that allows to talk with your rider voice asking no being shot, or suggesting going together.Crafting and QuestingThe crafting is less painful than other games, like Escape From Tarkov, but requires it doses of grinding and farming. Also, the RNG will enrage you, forcing you to do the same map 10 times in a row for getting an item (for crafting, upgrading or quests).The good blueprints will appear from looting in maps, and if you join a map with a temporal modification, drop rates are increased, but with a several difficulty increase.About the quests, it will require you to go to certain places for doing special actions, looting certain quest items... The RNG can be also painful here.Trials (leaderboards)Once your rider reaches level 15, you unlock the Trials. A weekly series of tasks that will give you better rewards, depending on the amount you do.Each week you will be grouped with other 99 raiders, and the capablest will be promoted, and the slackers will be demoted to lower divisions.Item categories and inventoryThe in-game items have different levels of rarity, like in other similar games, in order.Grey items - Common: Mostly for selling or basic crafting (ammo, light shields...)Green - Uncommon: The first crafting tier. Blue - Rare: The second crafting tier.Purple - Epic: The third crafting tier. Those items will be thrown by most difficult enemies, sometimes inside loot.Yellow - Legendary: The most expensive and better equipment.The stash will be your first blocker once you start playing, because you will tend to try to save every item you find, but you will soon encounter that's not possible. The stash can be expanded paying Coins (in-game free currency) until 280 slots.The items can be also recycled to get other materials and items. LoadoutThere are some items called "Augment". Those are like your base equipment, and they offer different capabilities, slots, maximum loadout weights... Also shares the same item levels as others. The higher, the better (more slots, passives, effects...)Raider level progressionEach enemy you kill, each time you loot or each time you finish a quest, you get experience, leveling up your raider. The maximum current level is 75 (you can do something called Expedition that will reset your raider level, gaining some perks at the same time).You have three different skill branches, focused on different capabilities or play style.And can be reset anytime, paying Coins.Final conclusionThere are a lot of more features. From my perspective, it's a game with a great future if they don't repeat others failures (yes, I'm looking to you Tarkov). In 60 hours I didn't find any cheater or hacker, but I cannot also confirm it's free of them.I also expect more maps in the future, or at least more game modes. At the time of writing this review, I did 61 quests (one on going, other is completely bugged, and I cannot do it).The majority of other players I've found were friendly and cooperative for killing tougher ARCs, but I've been also betrayed and angry so... the perfect mix of emotions for me.I totally recommend this, if you want to go full Solo like me, or play with friends.