Ask for the shape of the challenge.

Building is a second game bolted to the first, played at a speed that looks like a bug, and the mode that removes it is where most people should start.

A parry game wearing a Souls coat: dodging alone will carry you for two hours and then stop working entirely.

Aim matters less than knowing what the other team can do to you, and the roster is large enough that this takes a very long time to learn.

The hardest thing here is unlearning defence — you cannot outlast anything, and the deflect window is the entire game.

Counter-Strike’s stand-still-to-shoot rule with abilities layered on top, so a duel can be lost to a wall you did not know that agent could place.

A directional parry replaces the roll as the answer to almost everything, and the game is markedly better once it clicks and markedly worse until it does.

The world is kinder than Dark Souls and the bosses are considerably meaner — almost all of the difficulty has moved into the fog gates.

A hero shooter that lets you fly and climb walls, so the sightlines are three-dimensional in a way that punishes shooter habits learned on flat maps.

Bullet-hell reflexes bolted to roguelike stakes — the two hardest things to hold simultaneously for two uninterrupted hours.

Slow, heavy and unforgiving — one bullet from someone you never saw ends thirty minutes, and the correct play is usually to not take the fight.