Recent reviews by Roady

Great laid back FPS to play with friends, cool NPC characters, and nice things to loot.

The game of games--a game containing many games. That's really what GTA5 is. It's a flight simulator, a driving simulator, a racing simulator, an FPS shooter, a golf simulator, etc. If you don't cheat money, it's quite challenging and you'll get many hours of gameplay. There is a problem with hackers but that also seems to be the case with any FPS now days.

Just an above average player in Counter Strike. But a star in Warmode, easily going 85 and 8 first game.

[10/10] Would be a star again.

(Honestly, it's an oddly satisfying hybrid of Counter Strike and Call of Duty that's so bad, it's entertaining. It's more primitive than Counter Strike 1.5).

My Background in other FPS games (context): 1,500 hours in CSGO. Thousands of hours in the Battlefield franchise. A few hundred hours in Call of Duty games.

Maps and Game Play: The Warface maps are small--smaller even than Counter Strike, which is criticized for small maps. I'm not impressed with the Warface maps. They don't lend themselves to holding angles like CSGO. They aren't big like Battlefield. They aren't even tactically as good as COD. I struggle to understand the map design. They don't promote skill based play.

So if we're not holding angles and have precision based shooting like CSGO. And we're not dealing with a larger, tactical map like Battlefield. What are we doing in Warface?

You can do these unrealistic, arcade style slides? 9 times out of 10, I easily kill the arcade slider in close combat.

The other terrible game mechanic is toggling rapidly between laying prone and standing up. You can switch so fast that it looks like a supernatural zombie. In medium to close combat, expect the prone toggler but its not that hard to spray them down.

I enjoyed playing the game, but the maps and gameplay options just get old. The prone toggling and arcade sliding, while fun at first, don't lend themselves to long term game play.

Pay to Play or Win: You can pay for better weapons. Some claim you can get these weapons for free by grinding XP. Yes, you can.

But you can't afford to use them afterwards! Try using some of the best weapons, armor, boots, etc in the game. You will pay HUGE repair costs after each mission. You will pay more for the repair costs than you made on the mission. Forget pay to win. It's pay to play.

Think about it. It's a free game. Repair costs are there to force you to pay to use the weapon. The whole game mechanic is designed to force you to spend money (or the game can't exist). Or not be able to use the weapons you either purchased or unlocked through grinding levels and XP.

Hacks: If you have played other FPS games, you know there will always be hacks. Rather than a real anti-cheat that detects when the game's memory has been compromised, they opted for Fair Fight. Fair Fight is a performance based anti-cheat, where if you play substantially better suddenly you can be banned. There's other factors as well.

The problem is hack sites that sell wallhacks and aimbots also provide guides for getting around Fair Fight. A lot of it is common sense about doing better slowly, not following people through walls, not following people who can't see you, etc.

I've seen more wallhacks in Warface than I saw in CSGO, Battlefield, and COD combined. It's infested. There's even people in game advertising hack sites. It's easy (but not always reliable) to scream aimbot in any game. The truth is, any aimbot shot COULD have been made by a skilled player. It's easier for me to spot a wallhacker and in Warface, there's always going people who ALWAYS know where everyone is.

I have seen dozens of people Fair Fight banned. I just think with the guides out there for getting around Fair Fight, many are getting around it.

Develop a real anti-cheat that detects when the game has been hooked.

Summary: If you want a Battlefield type of game, with super small maps, less tactical options, and prone togglers, then play this game.

If you get beat in other FPS games, just spend money on this game. You can buy super fast boots that make you run much faster. You can buy health regenerating vests that will take you from near death to 100%. You dream it--you can buy it. And maybe even win, assuming you find a game without a wall hacker. ;)

The game is fundamentally broken. They disabled access to CSGO, CS2 does not include many of the CSGO game modes, CS2 never replicated the smooth shooting and moving mechanics of CSGO, and nearly every game has rage hackers because the anti-cheat is non-existent.