I've been playing this game for a while now on and off.
let me start off by saying that I don't live in a country that generally has firearms, and right off the bat I can say without a doubt that this game's guns feel incredible.
I get that it's mainly a gun simulator - so from there on out most of my criticisms are probably not worth considering because for 20 bucks you can't really complain with something that achieves this much in terms of gunplay. I used to be big on Arma 3 for reference so I've always liked sim stuff.
My problem is - well, it really feels like H3 is literally just the guns. Everything surrounding the game besides this is absolutely borderline mediocre. For one, I get that people online like the sausage guys but I hate them. Ruins most of the game-modes and takes me out of it for almost every encounter. I'd think there would be at least a mod or to to change them out but I haven't had any luck with that. It would be significantly cooler to shoot something that at-least resembles a person in terms of geometry - but well the community for this game seems to think otherwise.
Second, most of the physics outside of the guns feels clunky. Throwing stuff, grabbing stuff - and the likes. I've tweaked the controls to no end and it never stops feeling clunky. Not to mention the amount of times I've had stuff straight up fall through the ground - especially in rotweiners. If you drop something in this game, in the majority of situations you just cannot pick it back up. There's no fall damage. The movement feels robotic the majority of the time.
The maps look childish and un-interesting. It's all rough geometry and too large and big for anything remotely fun to happen in them. You just walk for 80% of the time and then you spend the rest of the time hiding behind big squares or big poorly textured walls.
The majority of the game is just shooting ranges. I mean, I don't really have a problem with those, they're fine. But what's the point of having like 10 of them and no actual maps?
Take and hold is the closest thing to an actual game here and you, as I said prior - spend most of it just walking around. The institute is the nicest map but it is way too big! I want smaller, closer quaters, fun encounters. Genuinely every other game-mode I've tried has disappointed me. It feels ultra barebones - like a tech demo.
I've tried some of the mods for the game but the mod scene is a total mess of mods that are either too old to work, not on the same source (they moved from wherever to thunderstore? so I don't even know where to download the mods I want most of the time. I really don't like overwolf either or the thunderstore mod manager whatever that crap is called. I don't want other software running to get mods in my game). though I did get a bunch of them to try to fix my complaints. Even with smaller TnH maps though, I just couldn't have the experiences I wanted to have because the physics genuinely feels so clunky and bad outside of the guns.
I feel like I'm missing something here perhaps because I've never been to an in-real life gun-range so the activity this game tries to replicate is entirely lost on me in the first place. I'm not trying to knock on people who seem to get a lot out of it. I feel like I should be one of those people but I just don't get it. This whole experience really just feels like incredible guns, and everything else outside of it is frustrating, poorly thought through or outright bad.