Also, the weapon firing really lacks impact at this point. This includes the physical weaponry. It really just felt like an FPS, not a giant robot. I think you could see that by looking at the video though. I think I played as the “assault type”. It had a bazooka or something. But I remember mainly using my gun and my fist attack (nail attack? I can’t remember what they call it in FM).

There is a gauge for each of your body parts, but I don’t remember needing to pay attention to it very much. It also regenerates on its own but enemies also drop health packs that you absorb too. The demo had the health regeneration bumped up, so it didn’t seem to matter if you took a ton of hits. I guess this was so people didn’t die playing the demo. I do remember blowing enemy wanzer’s arms off, but it seemed to be there just to be there.

The best way to defeat everyone was just to run up and do a physical attack over and over again. You’re a bullet sponge, so it doesn’t really matter if they shoot you a bunch. The game tries to turn you towards your nearest target, but if you’re dashing it frequently misses. Again, I don’t know if this is for the demo or if it will change. I think you saw the enemy AI from the video, but they don’t really do much, just kind of stand there and shoot. A few of them do try to manoeuvre around the environment. Your buddy likes to get in the way, and there was no way to order him around that I could find.

Another thing that really felt “un-mecha like” was the total lack of environmental destruction. The environments were largely static, and although the explosions of the enemies and the sense of scale was OK, it was disappointing that everything stayed pretty pristine around me. No building destruction. Very little environmental destruction. Not even scuffs on walls. So it was just like I was trapped in little corridors, not even in a large environment or anything.

On foot stuff is really really unpolished, so I’m not sure if it’s a fair assessment to talk about it right now, but I remember clipping, a really laughable grenade that looked like it was clipping through walls and flew forward with no physics like it was 10 years ago. Also soldiers animations were floaty and buggy. So I think out of craft stuff is too unfinished to judge, honestly. But the aiming and shooting felt really third rate.