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Wait, which developer are you talking about here?
Streum On Studio, E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy is basically Chinese bootleg 40k. But that previous post was perhaps a bit too harsh, I did like some aspects of Deathwing although it suffered a lot of jank.
It's unfortunate that Necromunda: Hired Gun didn't turn out to be good, especially when it wasn't that far off from being decent. Technical issues and copying Doom 2016 (when clearly the E.Y.E formula would've worked) are to blame.
I think it will be a solid 40k weapons simulator once the patches roll in.
Hired Gun has the germ of a good game in it, but is laid low by all kinds of design issues. There are parts of it that would be brilliant with more refinement, better level design, and better enemy design. A lot of the individual elements like the dope grappling hook and the fact that you move like you're playing a 2x speed Doom Eternal mod with no dash cooldown are both good, but unfortunately the other game elements just do not mesh well with it.
The other issue is that the levels look awesome and very 40K, but they are not generally fun video game environments. It's like a stew with good ingredients that's ruined by accidentally dumping half the spice rack in it by mistake. The other issue is that by the end of the game, you are just spamming your mega cooldown abilities with no semblance of game balance.
Unfortunately the game also shows why Doom Eternal benefits from being a pretty slow game even though it 'seems' fast compared to most other FPS. Your dash is limited so you have to think about using it in Doom. In Hired Gun you just spam dash forever and go infinity miles an hour with your effectively infinite use grappling hook. You have effectively infinite ammo for all your guns and only some of them are useful, with most of them being just bad. The dog would be a cool mechanic if you were not a rocket ship character constantly flying in the air and the levels were not all wide open spaces. But I guess this is off topic. Hopefully this game will be good.