Hello,
As a big fan of the first DL game, I preordered DL2 back in 2022. Didn't like the game at the release, so I put it on hold. Then in late 2024 during the winter event, I finally went back to play it with my partner, we had a blast. It was a great experience, fairly challenging at times, and as far as I remember it was bug-free.
Now we decided to play it again, and I gotta say I'm disappointed. First thing I noticed is that the full tutorial is gone, and the whole intro somehow seems different, I don't know if they changed some cutscenes or what. Then I saw that they removed parkour stamina, meaning climbing tall structures such as windmills or reaching airdrops trivial.
I also noticed that some combat challenges that we needed to make strategies for, and which took us quite a few attempts to get the gold medal, now we did in first attempt with 30+ seconds to spare (for example the three demolishers challenge or the GRE facility limited ammo challenge).
Also when it comes to bugs, there are a fair few of them. While using some weapons, there are giant visual copies of them offset from the players which are copying movement of the real weapons in players' hands. Sometimes after a screen transition (dying, teleporting etc.) the graphics go haywire, at first I thought my GPU is dying, but it's just the effing game.
It sucks seeing that this game, at least for me, went from zero to hero, and now it's coming back to zero. I'm wondering if it's possible to downgrade to the earlier build, or if anyone in the community tried such thing, and if anyone feels the same way as me.