I've gotten off the ship.
It was a grind, the enemy soldiers are so dull and strawberry floated up.
It's clear that gear box have the same idea across all their games for higher difficulties, just like Duke and borderlands, the higher the diff, the more shots it takes to bring a guy down (second highest diff on this garbage takes half a pulse rifle mag to put down anything, regardless of where you hit them, head, knee, hand, butt, doesn't matter) but if they give you a stern look you'll loose all your armour.
To be fair, it throws armour at you continuely, even on the harder settings, and ammo, kinda destroys the whole survival horror, but honestly I never really got my hopes up.
Fairly early into it, but the game seems to punish me for wanting to use the pulse rifle, it's so weak, I've increased the mag size because it shoots strawberry float all, half a mag to bring down these clowns, so I'm forced to use the assult rifle bullpup thing and tactical shotgun, which I don't want to strawberry floating use, I want to use a pulse rifle god damnit! Oh and the shotguns, the hicks shottie or the tactical one, so overpowered, they make a joke of the Aliens, it's like, "oh, the wayland guys are off for a coffee, time to roll out the aliens again for a few minutes, time to bring out the shottie that kills them in one shot everytime from pretty much any distance".
I'm not going to go over the stuff thats already been seen or said, the AI really is a disgrace, your own guys are the worst, and it looks so bland, but at times it does look good, I mean, the first 7 minutes of the game, when you're on your own and you're using the motion tracker and everythings strawberry floated up, some nice lighting and the original nods to the locker rooms of the original marines, finding half of bishop is really nice, then you meet a marine buddy, you quickly realise the motion tracker is redundant and the AI strawberry floats everything up, the aliens, your guys and the Wayland fucknuts.
My mate bought this too, so i'll probably go through it with him co-op, it might be more fun, highly doubt it though, it's just really sad to play, they had such an opportunity and they wasted it
I really only bought it for the gubbins, the powerloader model is really nice, a great little model, and some of the extras are great to own too, the ships blue prints, the patches for a jacket etc, I love all that tat.