What went soo horribly wrong?

What went soo horribly wrong?
How did the Croteam managed to fuck this up badly?!

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Beside the humor, what's wrong with it?

The game is pretty buggy and visual itself looks way worse than Serious Sam 3 and The Talos Principle.

Unironically stupid fucking Croteam i remember when SS3 was delayed so many times and it was a good call. But SS4, even in this unfinished state, is a solid step up from 3.

>ai "companions"
>hitscan snipers
>attacks that can block your vision completely
>unoptimized as shit and requires a monster to run in 720p30, which is unacceptable for an fps in 2020
>copies nudooms wholesale
>animation quality is worse than DNF
>looks like a 10 year old game
>legion system is a fucking lie
>vehicle sections, the mech in particular
it needs a fuckton of work, recent patch seems to have made it at least somewhat enjoyable
still not gonna pick it up until a sale happens, which means 2 months give or take a week

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Nothing is wrong, the game is extremely fun and incorporates several things from the Serious Sam core in a good way.
The main difference in relation to TFE and TSE is that Croteam is taking seriously that idea of bigger is better, and a battle that would have 25 enemies now has 250. For this to work, Serious Sam had to get a little overpowered when compared to the first two games and this is visible in various parts of the game. This makes some things a little trivial (for example, a bull or kleer alone no longer has the power to significantly change the progress of the battle), but the developers have created battle designs with this in mind and that is why the game continues with the same style.
Level design is the best of all Serious Sam. I know that nostalgic people will deny this until death, but unfortunately TFE and TSE have several of low quality parts, which people forget because they are interspersed with memorable parts.

>Level design is the best of all Serious Sam
this is completely false. there are so many empty corridors, empty areas, empty maps. everything before the final levels of France feels empty

>ai "companions"
They do not affect pace or strategies during battles.

>hitscan snipers
Extremely easy to fight and they're annopying in only a single situation (portal too). And if this is the game's worst enemy, then there's nothing to complain about, because they're still infinitely more fun to fight than the fish and frogs of TFE and TSE.

>attacks that can block your vision completely
In 30 hours of playing I didn't die once because I didn't "see" what was going on.

>>unoptimized as shit and requires a monster to run in 720p30, which is unacceptable for an fps in 2020
True, but I played at 1080p 60fps (with drops) on a GTX 980, but I was lucky because the game ran well on my PC.

>copies nudooms wholesale
The game bears no resemblance to the way nuDoom works. And if you think that copying an animation is problematic, it must be difficult to play the TFE and TSE that practically cloned all Doom weapons.

I'm tired of answering. In my opinion your criticisms do not reflect what is wrong with the game. Some players may complain that sprinting makes some situations too forgivable, for example. Or that the new overpowered arsenal trivializes some things. Or that some levels don't seem to have been finished well (although they are generally good).

>They do not affect pace or strategies during battles.
they kill enemies for you so yes, they do

>they're still infinitely more fun to fight than the fish and frogs of TFE and TSE.
wrong and shit opinion

>The game bears no resemblance to the way nuDoom works
perk system
almost all encounters are literally locked rooms where the gate changes from red to green until you kill everything before moving on

>unable to answer the many other criticisms
yeah that's right, you can't even TRY to deny the rest

>they kill enemies for you so yes, they do
Oh, I see, you're one of those dumb guys who can only think in absolute terms. I'll try to explain: they kill 1 enemy in the time you need to kill 100. So you can't create a strategy with them in mind, except in rare situations like at the end of level 2 where there is a whole team with you ( while 90% of the time you will be alone or with at most one guy).

>wrong and shit opinion
And here I know that you did not play the game, because if you had played you would know that frogs, especially in TFE, are infinitely more irritating.

>perk system
The only difference in gameplay that the perk system will cause is the possibility of holding two weapons, which is a fun addition but too overpowered to be available from the start. The rest is a lot of passive things or the possibility of executing big enemies, which did not seem to me to be useful considering that the battles are too intense when compared to BFE, for example.

>almost all encounters are literally locked rooms where the gate changes from red to green until you kill everything before moving on
Like in the good times of Serious Sam TFE and TSE? Or do you really think that the good part of these games were those Doomlike levels? You're basically saying that a basic feature that gives Serious Sam identity is bad on SS4 because it's just like NuDoom.