Delta Force Boosting has since become my go-to shooting game on PC and, even to my surprise, on mobile. But before I get ahead of myself, I’m going to go over each of the game’s modes and the hub itself, which ties Delta Force’s various game types all together. This game is not without its clumsiness, but in this free-to-play package there is a strong, well-optimised shooter that’s really fun to play and features an insane amount of customisation.

When players first boot up Delta Force, they’ll be greeted to the Hub. It’s here where you’ll choose what game mode to jump in, manage your playable Operators, check your loadouts and stashes, look through and complete time-gated events, manage your unlockables and purchase cosmetics and the like. And some of the descriptors I give here aren’t enough to describe everything because Delta Force features an enormous amount of functionality across its game modes.

I’m going to be frank with you lovely people this is the worst part of Delta Force. The game does not do a good job of going over the available functionality in its menus. Matter of fact, I’d argue a significant portion of the player base doesn’t even know what to touch. Thankfully the “play” button is easy enough to get to, but if you want to change your player cards, badges, avatars, or whatever, it’s not immediately obvious where to go to change those.

What compounds the bloated user interface are these little notification blips that appear just about everywhere on the Hub. The Armoury tab, the player icon, the operators screen, the events page, the store gosh, you will be gobsmacked at every bit of corner of buy Delta Force Boost vying for your attention. It took me months to figure out what I was clicking on, the resources I was picking up, the various currencies that come and go as events change. I played for a whole two seasons of the game before I realised that these blue armoury tickets I was collecting were actually meant to be used in the game’s seasonal weapon skin gacha, for example.