The game is borderline unplayable on a mid-range PC.
It is an unoptimised hell. The developers dropped this peace of junk in December 2023 in an unplayable state. mayor issues like literally John Wick NPCs, Stuttering and low FPS, then they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ off for a month and came back with a hotfix that addressed none of the player's concerns.
Now over a year later, it did not get better. They even got worse with each DLC:
I have a 3060 Ti (not the best mid-ranged GPU there is I know) and I need to crank all the settings to the lowest there is and DLSS all the way up to the performance of ultra-performance so that my FPS can unstably hover around 60 FPS. And why is that? Because this game has 30% GPU Utilisation!!! The only time it jumps up to 80% is when in a loading screen!
As I already mentioned, the performance got worse with each DLC. They seemingly got lazier and lazier with each iteration. While I was able to get an unstable 70 FPS on the most busy map of the base game I now reach a whopping unstable 40 FPS on every map of the newest DLC. Not to mention that it is a dice roll on every map load if your expected FPS are magically halved, in which case you gotta tab out and back in or reload the map entirely. Also, the game has some unpretty light flickering on lower settings.


It is a very repetitive game. Go in apprehend or kill the bad guys and google the location of all the hidden objectives so you can S rank all the missions. They somehow removed the different game modes, that were present in the Earls Access version. They actually removed a lot of stuff they proudly paraded in trailers and devlogs. Here is a short overview of what I remember from the top of my head, together with some more insight:

No Advanced and Varied AI Behaviour; Now the PMC to the Crackhead just mag dumps, takes cover and sometimes hides. They are stationary for 90% of the time, stuck in the same "I am a dude with a gun"- animation.

Multiplayer: the PvP mode which was one of the first things people could do in earlier builds, was promised and then seemingly cut entirely. Now there only is the Coop mode.

Varied Game modes like Bomb defuse, hostage situations and active shooter, were present in the EA build and offered immense replayability but are now completely missing

.etc

All this in combination with extremely clunky menus as Equipment and mission selection are all handled in Hub World where I physically have to walk from A to B to just change the scope. If I am on a mission and decide to change my entry point I have to completely exit the mission, go back to the hub world walk over to the mission board, change my entry point and start the mission from new. 20% of your time will be spent walking around the hub world in slow motion.


Yep, 90% of portraits, posters, and a lot of the graphites basically all of the unlockable tattoos are AI-generated . As an artist, it is especially painful walking through Twisted Nerve or Carriers of the Vine and seeing all the images being AI. They went out of their way to paint the image of an anime-obsessed streamer and plaster his walls with AI art. They went out of their way to make a cult commune and build an atelier of a supposed artist and will it with 5m generated junk. You play through the missions, give it your all to S-rank them and get an AI-generated tattoo as a reward.
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idk but that ain't it fam.


A lot of the achievements will take you a lot of time. not because they are particularly hard, but more so because in the beginning, you were not able to do them in Multiplayer (idk how that currently is), a lot of the ♥♥♥♥ would bugg out and 70% of the work you put into it is luck based. So you can easily spend 30 minutes on a map and have it be all for nothing because a Bot decides to give you a headshot through the wall. Or the mission needs you to apprehend 5 suspects and only spawns 4.


I only remain out of spite. Don't be like me. Spend your time better. Play a better game that does not have developers who abandon all player feedback, who are too lazy to properly optimise their game and rely on upscaling to make their game playable and who have no respect for the visual craft and think hastily put together AI-slop is worth your time.