I played GMDX AE and I didn't like it that much
Granted, it is mostly my fault, because I decided to both play it with untrained hacking and with limited saving. And with the alternative start enabled, so no early game freebies.
But I still left with this vague impression that everyting became scarcer, more limited and less effective.
Which for me kind of resulted in less fun overall.
LAMs are fun, right? Can only carry two now.
Stuffing my pockets full of grenades after disarming a booby trapped dungeon was fun. Gone too, all grenades are permanently stuck to walls forever.
Dragon Tooth Sword was cool. Not anymore, it now requires bioelectric energy for a swing.
Healing bots and charging bots only heal a limited amount. Probably adds to balance, but I also feel less happy about finding one.
And I remember picking a lot of pistol ammo early in the game, but as soon as I started actually using it, I ran out very quickly. Heavily capped ammo? Reduced drops?
Rarely I had more than one lockpick, or more than two multitools. Exposives were super scarce. And it just... never got better.
I spent most of my time in situations where the main path is locked, and I don't have anything to open it.
And there are cameras everywhere, and I don't have anything to disable or break them.
And there are enemies and bots out there that I don't have nearly enough ammo for.
And also my augs are useless because I have no electric charge left.
Now, I don't think there is something wrong with the mod specifically, or that my experience is representative even. The folks behind the mod clearly have a direction in mind that they want to pursue. But you know... there's joy in abundance. Sometimes there is.
I remember having a lot of fun with v9/v10 back in the day. So I am wondering what changed since. I probably need to go back and figure out what was different.