Recent reviews by RAF802

Fun shooter

Really fun, quick paced game. Both challanging and rewarding.

The option to have variable resolution to prioritse fps or resolution is a god send! This allows you to admire the game in it's beauty and still be able to play the game when everything happens at once.

There are no issues if you're playing offline for the story, only heard about the issues here.
Knowing Capcom, they'll probably give players items as an apology for the inconvenience.

A survival game with the most important feature. A story.
The story compels the player to explore the environment while providing hints on what to do next.
Experience a diverse ecosystem. There are numerous biomes each with different fauna and flora.
Delivers the atmosphere you'd expect from the scenario. Alone in an alien ocean, you will be cautious when exploring and terrified on what lurks in the deep. If you are foolhardy, you will be rewarded appropriatly by (possibly) swimming into a dangerous beast. Or drown.

Very fun action based RPG.
You have various options to handle situations and the modded community just adds more!

12/6/20 (UK)

Wow, this game has changed drastically! The core gameplay is the same but it is much more dynamic. There is a larger variety of paths to take to progress. I would recommend giving this game a look on people's playthroughs as the initial start of the game (~30 mins) can be tad hard and frustrating for a new player.
9/10 would recommend now and is definitely worth the price.



Keeping review from initial release for your reference:
Edit: Found many more bugs including another game breaking bug. Seems like a Public Beta if you ask me...

1 hour into the game, found a game breaking bug where the multi tool wouldn't show or work (permanently "holstered").
Also, severe performance issues, and see too many "repeated textures" patterns.
Quest markers needed to work, especially tutorial.

Already has hackers... GG, GG.

Smooth gameplay.
Finding players to fill the lobby sometimes take a while
Noticed that most interactions between survivor/killer is laggy for the killer. - When a survivor is picked up or grabbed it looks like just the player's model is rendered at around 10 FPS (surrounding game fine). For the third party, another survivor, this looks fine. It is just the killer that gets this,
There are some places where the player can jump through windows, run around, and repeat and so the killer cannot catch up and so the survivor lives.

Story: Very complex and thorough. If you have played the other MGS games then you will understand what is going on. If not, you will have no idea but that does not hamper gameplay at all. You will find cassette tapes in the game which tell you the story and background. Listening to these is a must!

A lot of features in this game are not mentioned in it's description unfortunately. :/

Enemies adapt to your play style: If you go for headshots, enemies wear helmets; If you infiltrate at night, expect floodlights.

Full customisation of gear loadouts, accessories, who you take, vehicle you take, camo you wear and also customise your deployment and support chopper.

Import your own music and you can set your helicopter to play it on loudspeaker when you deploy or extract.
Customize your Cardboard box! You can put posters you find throughout the game on your box, each causing a different reaction from the guards!

This game allows you to play how you want, go in guns blazing? Sure, get a machine gun and a rocket launcher, radio in a bombardment or your support chopper to rain hell. Oh, and you can also sneak around and stuff... >.<

Mother Base: This is your base of operations, level it up with
better staff, construct expansions to provide more services. MB is what you level up throughout the game.

FOB: An Online, PVP MB. (OPTIONAL!!!!) You do not need one to play the game if you don't want to. FOB allows you to infiltrate another player's FOB to extract resources or guards. If you get attacked you will be notified. You can deploy as Snake or a guard already stationed there which you customised. As defender, you need to prevent these enemy extractions and eliminate the invader. These conflicts are 1v1 (excluding NPC guards)

Also, there will be multiplayer in 2016 (for PC). Trailer on official website. This is in teams with other players, unlike FOB.

Verdict: 9.5/10
I am sure some things can be better. Noticed some terrain textures very far away are low quality. I am looking through the monocular at max distance; but as it can focus on it it should render full textures. - Console port people.
Controls fidelity sometimes while on horse - again, console port >.<
But very fun, frustrating when failing to sneak, but it doesn't punish you with a "GAME OVER". You could run away and hide until the guards give up. Or detonate all that c-4 you have been planting and call your support heli ;)
To counter my first complaint: it runs so well. No stuttering, no screen tearing, no fps drop, pc doesn't melt, also... NO LOADING! Loading either does not exist or as been very cleverly hidden.

I love this nemesis system, it adds personality and individuality to the game and that playthrough.
I did experience, what I will calss as a "bug" where one Captain, after beating me and letting me live, teleported away (as they are meant to) but his path was always to the entrance to this dead end (the first mission with Gollum ). So after about 1 hour into the game, I had a max level Warchief who had defeated me 5 times until a normal Uruk killed me in that encounter. :P

This is my main nemesis and I cannot WAIT to kill him! :D

Note: I have only played a short time in the story campaign

Very similar to Civ V but much more combat orientated - with actual battles.

But currently is not fully newbie-friendly. Some (even basic) game mechanics were not explained. Research options were not explained - i.e. rank, prerequisites and also things like what effected unit healing on the world map. Luckily, I know a fir bit about other 4x games to fill in the blanks. But research is still a mystery to me.

Also, in the tutorial/campaign some of the starting research options were different when I restarted (Yes, I died in 2 turns - damn auto-combat)

But does look very promising and I am enjoying it so far. I particularly like how the map changes to a drawn map when fully zoomed out.
It is a solid game and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes strategy games. Plus, it has a lot of information in its in-game "wiki" book about lore ans units for those who are interested.