Game is great. Feels like Halo 2 days. The portal mechanic is amazing competitively when you get the hang of using it too. I imagine the skill ceiling will be extremely high with that mechanic.
Yes the test started in like 2019 or something but the game only had a couple thousand players at a time then and there is a lot more content now than there was then. It went from like 5k players at a time to hundreds of thousands between the different platforms because they brought it to console too. Also streamers quitting WZ and looking for something new helped. A lot of randoms told me that’s where they came from.
Also yes it is a Halo clone. Obviously. Even the devs will tell you it’s a Halo clone. From the maps. To the game modes. To the weapons to the movement to the characters. It’s a blatant Halo inspired game. The devs will tell you themselves they thought Halo would be cool with the portal mechanic so they made the game.