I've been playing it solo, so I haven't had any issues with lack of stuff to do. Just clearing the Mercury map was a Herculean task, and I've started making short forays out into Saturn and Venus. Just enough to scavenge enough materials to build the Paris compound bow I wanted.
The pay material is mostly not bad, although it's nice to see that most of that can be obtained in-game if you're just a little patient and persistent. It doesn't unbalance the game, it just offers you a chance to get your cool toys sooner. The power cell boost to the weapons and armor is almost a necessity to get the most out of it, but even in that case, it's cheap enough to put $5 to upgrade a handful of weapons and an armor or two, and then farm the mission that awards you power cell recipes later on.
So far I'm pleasant surprised. I built up a "Mag" armor, which gives some magnetic power-related abilities. Although I found that if you're playing solo, you fiddle less with the superpowers, and concentrate more on the Halo-style combat. But that's fine. I tinkered with the color scheme so that it looks vaguely Quarian. If a Quarian had an armor based on Unit Guyver, that is...
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
The pay material is mostly not bad, although it's nice to see that most of that can be obtained in-game if you're just a little patient and persistent. It doesn't unbalance the game, it just offers you a chance to get your cool toys sooner. The power cell boost to the weapons and armor is almost a necessity to get the most out of it, but even in that case, it's cheap enough to put $5 to upgrade a handful of weapons and an armor or two, and then farm the mission that awards you power cell recipes later on.
So far I'm pleasant surprised. I built up a "Mag" armor, which gives some magnetic power-related abilities. Although I found that if you're playing solo, you fiddle less with the superpowers, and concentrate more on the Halo-style combat. But that's fine. I tinkered with the color scheme so that it looks vaguely Quarian. If a Quarian had an armor based on Unit Guyver, that is...
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.