Recent reviews by johndrinkwater

This game is great if you can find positive friends to play with, less so if your friends like to rage, or you rely on strangers to not fill your allchat with slurs.
Recent changes have put some more randomness into the game, not too fond of that so far. Outposts are a neat idea, though.
As a hard support, the cost removal from observers have meant players that don’t typically ward are more prone to making them easily dewardable, so that is disappointing.

An enjoyable multiplayer heisting game, when you can find community members that are awesome.
Before then, success is limited to how much you can carry fellow players (or the bots if you’re a shy boy) if they prefer ‘different’ builds.
Overkill constantly iterate on the skills, weapons and stats behind the game - which shows commitment - if only they could work on making patch sets smaller because this game needs 1GB downloads for a new mask, and needs 30GB free space when that patch installs. Weekly.
New heists have been added over time, either free with the core game, or inside DLC which keeps players coming back.

Game tackles subject matter like suicide, kidnapping, and sexual predators (not even sure, apparently they are a friend but they talk to you like they’re a viewer on chaturbate) with as much deft as Jeremy Clarkson does when writing about immigration.

An original story at least! Though narrative text will appear along the way to prod you along to the next thing to do which removes most of the intrigue, and that is about it.

It isn’t something I can recommend playing, but it might be for you. Have a look at it.

<2015 me> This is not fun nor great. Avoid. </2015 me>

Things have changed since I wrote the previous review, it is now two years later, zombies no longer drop loot, you don’t need to queue stone axes building in your portable crafting to level up your production skills, and the max level for all tools and armour is just 6!

Vehicles still glitch out when parked (rather than vanishing, they tend to return to previous location which if anything over a km is a massive pain in the ass), hitboxes for entities are too small (am forever axeing ground rather than spikes), finding tools from loot seems much harder, and horde night still turns an otherwise reasonable framerate into a slideshow.

The game is more enjoyable, you’re no longer punished as much from death (rather than health pool, your XP progression is nerfed), but it still could do with some love for low spec machines - trees are hideously large billboard textures, distant buildings use stand-ins that aren’t low poly at draw distances i’d prefer were closer, and objects LODs need some reworking.

<2020 me>
They’ve worked hard over the years to make the experience better and improve the framerate on the same crappy hardware I had back then.
</2020 me>

👍👓💉💻🔓💪👽

It’s what I imagine The Witness is going to be, without the Myst environment.
By that I mean, it’s brill!

Buy this game.

Great game, would be epic with achievements. wink.

Episode 0 is brilliant, hasn’t aged more than a day.

Wow, this mod surprised me in a great way… why aren’t you charging for it?!