I signed up and played 76 after the first release—you know, the one with only like 3 humans.
It was my favorite experience. Empty, beautiful, peaceful and very exciting. The ambient music is my favorite of the whole series and it really set the tone.
I liked the feeling that you and a few other people online were the only real human survivors and the bots and mutants were the only things left in the world.
That changed after people complained… I quit after some changes were made. I logged in recently and now it’s full of generic NPCs and bullet sponge enemies. Not for me anymore.
I guess I’ll never be able to go back to that feeling right after release. It really was something else.
Anybody else play the game right after it was released?
The world space, the environment, and the look of the whole map is, in my opinion, one of the best in the series. But everything else just feels pretty forgettable. One of my main gripes would probably be the whole, this a multiplayer game but it honestly does not feel like one. You could hop on for an afternoon and still miss others.