Dreadshore is a missed opportunity

This should've been an event. There should be developer-designed areas that lead to the discovery of Dreadshore. There should be in-game lore that players learn organically through exploration (so not just a bit of text, and especially not text hidden in the buried codex). MYM is world building without any actual world building, and it certainly doesn't take advantage of the interactive world-building and storytelling that the video game medium allows.

Like Dead by Daylight, the content is just dropped into the game. But MYM isn't DBD, it's not only a new game with much less visibility in need of something to pull players in but it's also sci-fi. This game is all about the world and the environment but it never bothers to attempt immersion. The backstory and history are presented as afterthoughts to shallowly explain the purchasables and the Sanctuary's appearance.

Is there any new dialogue from the advisors? Does the Chimera have at least one new evolutionary stage? From what I've seen, there are a few new toys to play and that's it. The burial sites are a new background with the same old Red Sands names. The onus of new content to interact with is on the players and there's no story or world building to get players truly interested.

Dreadshore doesn't even get a new page for burial sites, the purchase area remains a single page with Dreadshore and Red Sands mixed together. Getting desired burial sites was already an issue when it was a single Sector.

I'm not asking for the game to have a single player mode or a full story, but there's not a lot of content and despite the codex suggesting there's an interesting backstory players are given nothing more than a sandbox and some weapons.

BHVR, you're doing a bunch of things half-way. You held back on the level design and raiding aspects, so gameplay gets repetitive quickly, and you didn't take advantage of the lore to add any depth to the player's actions. This isn't a full game, it's part of a game. It's the window dressing without any depth to the gameplay. You didn't focus on one thing and do an amazing job of it, and you didn't use the pieces to strengthen each other and make a larger whole, so all you have is a bunch of unrealized ideas. That's not a game, that's potential, and potential without follow-through has no longevity.

The Builder Elements

The new blocks are boring. Their design has little to no distinction from the other blocks already in the game. However, when placed next to those other blocks, the colors are wrong. The new blocks are slightly rustier than the red blocks but redder than the rusty DBD blocks. They clash. Blue blocks with new textural designs and rust decals, that's what the Dreadshore aesthetic hinted at. These blocks provide no new design options for the artistically inclined.

The game started with bold red blocks, Hellscape was added with new red blocks, the DBD blocks were changed from unique grey to brown rust, and now the Dreadshore blocks are dull red with rust. We've had very little new content and it already feels uncreative and same-y. Worse, a lot of the blocks don't look good next to each other, so it's not like the packs were done this way to allow for visually pleasing mix-and-match designs.

There's still no basic option to change the color of blocks, nor the ability to select an existing block and rotate it or change its block type.

The Gameplay

Some new QoL features were added, but I wouldn't say they were all done well. Players being able to fill all five slots with P10+ Outposts infinitely allows for the death of fresh content. Without tags, Raiders still have no way to recognize bases they're more likely to enjoy. Builders can't re-roll the bedrock of a burial site if they get frustrated trying to build on it.

The rainstorm is worse than the sandstorm for visibility, but shots can still get lost in the outskirts. Finding the ammo out there is already time consuming, but it's really difficult to find your way back to the Outpost area when visibility is damn near zero. Wandering around searching for lost ammo and then wandering around looking for the actual gameplay area is not fun, there's nothing positive about that. Ammo should either not be able to go into the distance, or it should always be highlighted outside the Outpost, and there should be something small and unobtrusive on the HUD to guide a player back to the Outpost from the outskirts. I complained about this when it was just Red Sands, but Dreadshore is even worse.

AFAIK, the Chimera and Advisors are still capped at level 100, and materials are still capped at 100k. I wouldn't necessarily know because I capped everything out during Sector 0, so I had to stop pressing the "Evolve" button or I'd just be throwing materials away with nothing to show for it.

The Suits

The suits are all-or-nothing. There are only a few options, even with the paid DLC, and helmets can't be matched to different bodies. The lack of visual customization for Raiders leaves the important raiding aspect of MYM feeling like an afterthought.