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I can't add much here, I like the game read other reviews.

This game is massively overhyped especially by YouTubers and it does not disserve it one bit.

Movement: The run is dumb, I still don't know how to activate it sometimes it runs sometimes walks.
-The crouch is stupid, If I crouch in life the game crouches(10/10) if I stand in life it does not stand all the way back up. why? I have to press a button. The game teaches you to crouch using buttons over real life, makes it less VR game like.
-Jumping is just awkward, don't be in a position like real life your arm will hit a wall and you will bounce back.
-Climbing isn't fun, I want to pull me up a ledge so I grab the ledge and pull up. But now how do I get onto platform? Intuitively you pull yourself in. Nope the legs hit the wall, you don't hit crouch. Instead it decides if legs move up, and it mostly doesn't want to. And when you do have it work, once you let go the legs spring back and you just fall.

Sandbox: There was no tool I could find to spawn anything here. Nothing at all. The map was boring with very limited ability to create inside the game.

"Mass": Multiple People told me the game is great as it simulates mass so big object beats small. As a Person who has studied physics for years this excited me. It is false, the premise BoneLab has is that bigger mass always wins, FALSE, most force wins. If you can get a mechanical advantage you can win and this game doesn't accurately potray that.
-DOORS are the worst part of this game. Doors are big and heavy, thus a lot of mass. So when you push a door it doesn't open it pushes you. No really. This sounds stupid and you would think, well yea Newton's second law ,but no they push you way more than they should. When you open a door in real life it is not fighting your mass(it is, but not alone), it is fighting the friction you have with the ground. In this game you will need to pry open an elevator, even with a lever I was slipping everywhere. Rather than open the door, the door pushed me across the room. This is stupid and a flaw with the fundamentals of their physics engine.

Story: IDK wtf was happening not gonna touch this.

Tutorial: It doesn't teach you anything verbally and a bit written, which imo is a good thing. I like when games make you think to understand a mechanic better. Except When games do it they often focus on 1 mechanic and make it easy then increase the difficulty a bit. Nope, to learn heavy object have to use 2 hands you are put in a very tight space with many heavy blocks all interlocked together. Why? I couldn't get the blocks out as my character couldn;t move, it took me so learn to get technique just because the damn location mad my elbows hit everything. As well as I needed to learn that jank climbing mechanic first to reach the blocks so it tried to teach me 2 things at one time, but in an enviorment very against both things.

Identity: I have complained a lot, but this is the biggest one. What is this game? Sandbox? No not really there are much much much better sandbox games. FPS? Not really there are more advanced and more simple shooter games than this. Mini-games? Sure the arena is cool, and the shooting range, and the parkour, but again there are so many other games that do that, but better. Modding? Yea the game has great modding potential ME and my friends love Modded Minecraft, modded terreria is fun, G-mod is founded on mods and is great. But they all have 1 thing in common, multiplayer. Mods are most fun when you can ♥♥♥♥ around with friends. You can't do that here.

This game wants to be every game which means it sucks at being everything, but can do anything. Want a great story? Half-Life. Want a great modded game? Contrators or Pavlov. Want a great FPS? Pavlov, contractors Half-Life, Onward, Pistol Wip, Superhot all do it more fun. Thrillseeker had 2 massively popular videos on this and he called it "The Halo 3 of VR" No it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ isn't and he is wrong. Halo 3 is not fun because of the shooting. It is fun for the CO-OP campaign and hanging with friends. Halo 3 was so loved and so ingrained in culture because it created friendships and memories for life. This game can't do that so it can't be the Halo 3 of VR. Multiplayer is REQUIRED for that.

I mean it is exactly as you see a small little game from a small dev. It was fun and intuitive, just a good little puzzle game. If you expected more going in then that is on you. The other review is salty he didn't get a free game, like dude it is $3.00.

I don't want to write a super long review.

This is an extremely popular game for a reason, and now it is free, was popular when it wasn't free. The game is not like call of Duty or 90% of games where you get better guns literally making you better purely by rank. You go up in rank because you legitimately play better. It is a competitive FPS and acts like it. Now for new players I am sorry, but it will be at least days of non-stop hackers. I made a new account to play with a lower ranked friend. Pure ♥♥♥♥ every game is at least 1 hacker. EVERY. Not like I suspect, no complete spin bot. The anti cheat is 100% guaranteed to ban a hacker (VAC), but not guaranteed that it will get 100% of hackers. So it is always right, but doesn't take the shot a lot.

tl;dr it is a great game, high skill ceiling and really competitive. Only thing that sucks is almost all new players will go against tons of hackers.

This is a marvel of a game. They somehow manage to say all the right things and fail so horribly. There are 3 things needed in a game and this fails at all 3. It needs to be well explained or intuitive. It needs to have good gameplay. And it needs a nice UI.
This game is bad in 1 and HORRIBLE in 2.

UI: This has to be the worst Ui I have ever used. First off it doesn't change on resolution or aspect ratio, it is just 4:3 and that's it. There are so many things to click on that are completely useless like info or help that can be pushed aside in the settings or something. The boxes that show character and gamemode are not aligned for some unknown reason there is just 1" of gap that could be fixed in 5 seconds. This happens a LOT. The settings are hard to look at and are cluttered tight in a small box instead of using the 16:9 screen I have. The Logo at the top right is just a logo and doesn't bring you to the home screen like any other game. And get this the home icon isn't for the home, it brings you to their website. Currencies are small in font, but take up a long horizontal distance. There are pictures that give no info. I got rewards in the game for challenges. Now in siege you click the challenge tab and click the challenge its self to collect the reward. OHH that is too hard here. Nope go to challenge menu, click challenge, click claim, click accept, and click I accept I accept. NOT EVEN KIDDING. There is stuff like this all over the game.

Intuitiveness: This game is not too hard to learn, but it kills itself right out the gate. To me a good way to learn a game is to allow a player to do anything in the game, but hint to them how and teach them about what they are doing. NOT HERE.

-You jump right into a tutorial, that you can't change weapon, sprint, throw nades, basically jump and shoot only. Then it teaches you very slowly and without explaining anything with bad habits. What does that mean? 1/4 the way through it says to pick a class I do, and that is it nothing happens and it doesn't teach me the class. What is the point of picking it then?

-Before then it tells me to switch weapon. In this game you can scroll, press 123, or F1F2F3. Take a guess on what they force you to use through the tutorial. Yup F1,F2F3. Pros will tell you to use 123, I agree, but it is standard to use scroll, so pick one of them.

-Then there is a whole kill people with nube tube part and it tells you too, but it just mark 1 spot and not the enemies so I shot there for a while and nothing happened. I had to kill everything with it. There is no progress bar or anything so you have to guess. I spent a while using an AR because I was sick of the nube tube and it got me no where.

Gameplay: This is how I describe how this was made. A 10 year old kid who likes cs:go, but was a big Dice fan described the game to make to Call of Duty devs, but only devs who love anime.

-The aiming is a mix of cs:go sprays and R6 crosshair movement. So the bullets always go where the crosshair is, but there is a pattern. There is not nearly as much crosshair customization as cs:go and every gun changes it anyways even on static so size changes are useless.

-Movement is like cs:go where knife is faster, but for some reason bomb slows you down in hand. This is good except the bomb thing.

- You know in cs:go how you get to buy, HAHA throw that great mechanic away, not here you have classes. Like cod you create 3 classes and use those each round. This is already bad, but it gets MUCH worse. You know in cod how you unlock weapons, same here. Except in cod you get 1 in every class right off the bat, so you can be a sniper, shotgun guy, smg, ar, lgm exotic, etc... In this game you start with a pistol and an SMG/AR thing you earn money by ranking up to afford new guns. So new players even in bomb defuse cs:go game mode are immediately all put to a disadvantage.

-You know how I said anime fans. This is because this game has a very clear military aesthetic through the entire game for guns and map assets. Until it makes them money. Because you can buy a school girl who is in a battle field with no armor, all the women are wearing belly button T shirts, some guys have business suits. Yet default dude is an American soldier at modern times. I have no problem with the woman thing, it is just the fact that for money they clearly will destroy aesthetic for guy boners.

-Defusing in this game is horrible. cs:go and this have the same time for how long the bomb is active till it explodes. Except defusing and planting are 7 seconds. Almost twice as long. It just doesn't work well with the game. Especially with the next point.

-sound: I am not against a headshot sound, or hit sounds. Although for them alone I had to put the game to 30 volume out of 100. Headshots are sooooooooooo loud. Look at cs:go it is a quick higher pitched dink sound for a short while. This game makes it into a Doom shotgun blast no matter the distance.

-Blood: There is too much blood. (I know I keep comparing to cs:go, but it is most like it) In cs:go I will admit knowing if you hit the shot or not can be hard and is something you just learn after a long time of playing. This game addresses this by loud noises and LOTS of blood. Like too much, in fact too many times I thought I killed a guy because of the amount of blood or I literally could not see him because the blood was like a smoke grenade.

-map design: These maps are horrific. So large and confusing. The mini map isn't detailed to walls enough and the maps them selves are too big with too many nothing hallways. I played on a map where there was a whole bunch of halls below A. But it is bellow A so they are not on mini map. Also why is there a below A? Just put it on the same level. It is hard for Valve a master at map design to get its 1 vertical map "Vertigo" right and these guys are not fixing or addressing the issues that Valve has and is.

-servers. I was playing every game with such a mix of players. I found matches 4X faster than CS:GO or COD, but a few of my games everyone spoke Russian and had insane ping. Other games everyone was English, but everyone had high ping. Just don't find me a game above 150ping and other languages. Make times to find a match longer, but the matches better matched.

Honestly I can keep going on small things. But this game is just a mess. It wants to be competitive, but wants to do so many Casual things. It wants to be military aesthetic, but fun. It wants to be modern, but it has the UI of a 2010 game with the options off a modern game. The Dev team to me just doesn't know what there game is and what it to be everything creating this horrible beast. I do not recommend it, but it is free. I think the UI is enough to not give this game a try.

I don't like League of Legends or Dota 2. TBH I think Dota 2 is better purely because friends don't hound me to play it. But because of the existence of League of Legends version of auto chess I can not recommend this. I have played both and new to both with no allegiance, but It is clear to me League's version is better and I have clear reasons why.

-UI: The UI is a mess in this game it is about 300% bigger than League's but show so much less information. Literally everything in League you need to know is constantly displayed no menus unless you want deeper info. Not here, to see shop(which you frequent a lot) you need to hit a button. To see power ups you need to hit a button. The UI is also just less intuitive, to place a character you drag it on which is perfect, but you don't drag to buy which is what you do for everything else. League on the other hand is consistent and dragging is used for all character actions. Not only this, but in the Dota version there is a question mark to click on that tells you about the character, I hit that every other time I chose a character and it sucks, League just made it so left click picks character and right tells you about them.

-UI pt2: Since there is a lot of UI I split good and bad up. I will say understanding how to level characters up and knowing a character is part of a set is much easier in the dota version. Honestly that is the only Ui thing I prefer


-Gameplay: Well this is literally identical to league with minor changes. You don't race for a character you just buy one, which has ups and downs. This means you don't get super unlucky and lose the one character you want because someone else got him. But it does mean there are less characters to choose from so there is less chance the character you want will appear. Although it means multiple people can start with the same character which is nice, but it also means less diversity in the first fight. I'd argue Dota wins slightly here. Other than this literally everything is identical. From character types, money earned and xp are different values, but the same ratio. My biggest complaint is on Dota's end where end screens have obnoxious Ui elements come in and out which would be fine if they didn't increase time between rounds, thus time not playing. Dota does have a less wide board, but deeper. I actually much prefer this because it gives better uses for assasins, heavies, and other.

-personal gripes: The Dota version seems like a kid version in a way. Flashing lights, colorful, big font, fireworks when you rock, just everything tries to make you feel like you are amazing and hype you up. All the buttons have sounds like springs or doors opening. To me all of this just gets in the way and annoys me. It is like in COD when you get a kill streak and it slams half the screen to tell you. like "I KNOW I DID THAT, you don't have to tell me what I did" Then while that kill streak is on screen there are tons of sounds with it. The most annoying to me was as I was reading character I leveled up meaning I can put 1 more character on the board. Instead of letting me do my thing (reading and understanding) I just here "PSSSST PSSSST ME PICK ME PSSSST ME ME ME PICK ME PSSST" my backlog of character just kept asking me to pick them. I am looking for a new character just let me be

This game basically just has a ton of annoyances around every corner which is the main reason I can't recommend. If they calm down on the sound effects that is enough for me, but there are other reasons I would highly recommend the League version over this.(Although to get the League one you must install all of league. Which kind of sucks, but i see how it helps bring players into the new genre)

Honestly not much to say about this game. It is a cute fun parkour game. Nothing to keep you playing, but it is cheap so who cares. It has a few collectibles and times you. I beat all time achievements and got all collectibles in about 45 minutes. Definitely not a hard game, but fun for a short while. I am reviewing this when I bought the game for 90 cents tax included on 70% sale.

I am absolutely in love with this game and think it is worth a try.

Pros:
-Good looking(graphically)

-Great aesthetic

-No noticeable weapon inaccuracy while aim down sight, there is a sway, but the gun shoots where it is positioned in the sway.

-Voice is transmitted in game and has a drop off over distances.

-Sound is MAJOR. I can not stress this enough. If you play cs:go you know sound is important, in this game more so.

-Not too hard for a new player, but gives a lot of depth for an experience player to actually evolve.

-Unique play style. In a time where Battle Royale is the king of games. This feels like someone took that idea and twisted it into something nothing like it started, but you can still see the elements of the battle royal genre

-Many ways to play. You decide how you play this game. Stealthy? Loud? Fast? Slow? Conservative? Camper? Fragger? and more. You can go in and not fight a boss kill some real people and leave. Or You can take all the rewards for yourself and be risky

-not many glitches I've noticed. Only once I got something and it was me stuck in a fence. Luckily a friend saved me by downing and reviving me.(yes we are at the point that not glitchy, but still has a bad glitch is a good thing)

-Leveling system is great. There are 2 leveling systems. 1 for You the player and another for your character.(this is a long point) This system as it stands now is imo amazing. You unlock weapons, consumables, traits, and equipment by playing the game and doing well. This will increase you "bloodline" rank. all of this stuff is permanently unlocked. Then there is a second progression, Character progression. When you start the game it gives you 1 of 4 characters costing different amounts of cash. Not too expensive around $100 and you have over $2000 I believe. so you pick a character and from there you choose the guns, equipment and consumables you will be taking, better things cost more money. This is important. Because when you enter a game like most FPS games you can die. But in this death is death and you lose that
character forever and everything on him. so then you have to rebuild a new guy from level 0. If you make it out alive you will quickly rank up your character. And when you do you can buy traits. Make your character smarter, and stronger than he was before. So winning multiple games in a row or just surviving will make your character better and cost you less money, but dying will punish you costing money and losing your traits.

Cons:
-This games is poorly optimized. I am lowest settings 1080p with a GTX 970, 8gb ddr3 memory, I5-4590(quad core 3.5ghz) CPU, and an SSD. I get around 50-60 fps and sometimes it hovers around 70fps, but pretty often it drops below 40fps. I'm a guy with a 144hz monitor. This hurts to see.

-feels a bit repetitive. There are currently 2 bosses and 1 map. Now I will give it to them the 1 map is amazing and I feel like every time on it so far is different and it will take a long time to truly master. Much like Fortnite I feel like this is not holding it back too much. Although the 2 bosses seem a repetitive. More would be nice, and I think they are working on it.

NUETRAL: I added this only because there's a thing I don't know what I think about.

-Aim down sights. Many of you have probably played pubg. You know how there are 3 ways to shoot and 2 zooms, the hip fire, the increased hipfire, and the iron sight/scope. In this game there are 2 ways to shoot, increased hip fire and zoom. If you click left mouse button you punch, you must do a right click to increase hip fire accuracy to shoot the gun at all. This imo is fine. Although there is a problem doing the iron sight/scope. To scope you must hold down hip fire then click left shift to zoom. Which is weird, 2 keys to preform 1 action. Now it isn't bad, but it is weird and took me and friends a while to understand what was happening.


At the end of the day this game is insanely fun and especially with friends. It is very unique and you can not get a similar game elsewhere. I've played tons of battle royals and this is a nice step away from that, but still keeping the interesting elements of it. Definitely recommend.

Lol a lot of negative reviews for the current most played game on steam. That makes actually no sense. Do not listen to all of the negative reviews because numbers don't lie, it is a hugly popular game and the negative reviewers sometimes have hundreds of hours. They are simply people ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about a new update that changed 1 minor thing which "ruined" the game for them. Even though it changes nothing most likely. Some argue the lag, well it is a laggy game at start, but after 30 seoconds most lag is gone, but no game comes without lag. Also they are working on that, the game doesn't fix over night and I have seen massive improvement over lag. Also I have run into hackers like some say and I have been cheated out of a 1v1 chicken dinner. It sucks, but it happens. As if CS:GO or COD don't have hackers. The game gets more and more protection and has better and batter connection.
Give the game a try, Steam allows refunds. Play 3 rounds then decided if you like it or not. If not then refund, if so then keep. IT really isn't hard.

Don't want to write a lot. It's fun with friends and sucks a lot alone.