Holy sh*t I have never seen so many cheaters in my life. I'm not talking about "oh i think that guy is walling/aimbotting" (though there are PLENTY of people blatantly using those). I'm talking about autokill the entire lobby at spawn, flashing screen, nobody but the hacker has any ammo, lock out the votekick option in a permanent loop so you can't boot them, full control of the lobby hacks. I haven't seen this kind of client side hack trash in 20 years. Holy. Sh*t. And these devs just made a bigass update post about how they improved anticheat. Absolute clowns. Do not play this trash. Under no circumstances give any money to this trash.

Wow.

edit: Got warned/banned/thread deleted off forums for just mentioning the absolute unplayably hacked state of the game. Criticism gets removed and gets you banned. Devs are straight up scamming. report this sh*t and get it taken off steam

mobile gaming mechanics is the downfall of gaming industry

ORIGINAL STEAM REVIEW CAN BE FOUND HERE: https://pastebin.com/sxkNpfzb
I'VE UNINSTALLED. NOT INSTALLING AGAIN(Unless major update, for like 5 mins).

What qualifies this review:
- I'm the highest legitimately ranked player in the game
- I'm ranked No #1 and #3 World Wide in acquiring the Firearms Achievements, also legitimately (#2 within my clan).
- I've also been head mod for Neowizs Black Squad server in 2017 so I have a rough idea of the surface of what goes on internally.
- Made 3 community guides for this release and my biggest project on YouTube.

REVIEW:
Preface/Lobby
- New to the game? No Tutorial = No idea what mods do or that they even exist.
- Tutorial was removed for no stated reason.
- You have to pick a camp and can't leave without joining a clan. Your chatbox will be flooded with people leaving and joining the game
- Found a clan? There's no clan member list where you can invite them.
- OLD AVA had a system where harder to use weapons were available at higher ranks. REMOVED! so new players have 0 IDEA what's EASY or HARD.
- Pre-Customised weapons are so poorly customised by the devs.
- Mods have durability. You will NOT be told when they run out. You will ONLY find out when your gun is SIGNIFICANTLY worse than what it was with mods.
- Mods of your second slot weapon WILL RUN OUT even if you haven't used the gun at all.
- Clicking on and then out of the Battle Pass results in the game crashing 70% of the time.
- NO ALL CHAT function in AVA meaning no interaction with other players.
- Chat is censored so heavily even numbers such as 'cus' and 'Fox' are censored.
- Trying to invite someone but clicked their name a few too many times? You're now spammed with their profile and will probably 'accidently' click on 'remove friend'.


In-Game:
- Can't list all the bugs here as it reaches 4 pages long but there are some disastrous ones. Some age about 10 years+
- NA is full of Brazilians macroing but because there's so many of them you'll probably be kicked (They never solo.. wonder why).
-ASIA1/2 is full of cheaters and/or people who script their accounts to avoid being afk banned and get the EOG loot boxes.
-EU is your safest bet but read below:
- YOU WILL BE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW YOU DIED 90% OF THE TIME YOU'RE PLAYING:
- EVERYTIME YOU GET HIT YOU WILL GET AIMPUNCHED. COUNTER AIM IS NOT REWARDED IN THIS GAME BUT IS PUNISHED. IT'S ALSO RANDOM.
- You will CONSTANTLY (EVERY ROUND) have your shots NOT REGISTER AT ALL in game (You will hit 4 shots and it will count as 2-3). https://imgur.com/a/7gWNDyh
- You will have people shooting at you BEHIND WALLS, and since there's no ping limit, you will CONSTANTLY face people with 200+ ping.
- This is especially prevalent in ARENA (Competitive) MODE where people who are SUPPOSED to be in ASIA and NA servers will come to EU servers as they're servers are near EMPTY
- Some guns which are clearly NOT supposed to be silenced are silenced beyond only 15 metres.
- Since the playerbase numbers are so LOW and those that play regularly are usually veteran players, they will GROUP UP to a max of 4 players. This makes the game UNPLAYABLE at times.
- Guns are clearly not balanced. Actually that's not technically correct. The balance was as if someone had not played the game AT ALL came in and applied the most GENERIC changes to each gun. Iconic PARA Recoil + 1 Shot Capability? GONE. M4A1's high ROF and consistent DMG. GONE. And instead we now have this typical AK-47 meta, Copy paste from CSGO garbage.
- Speaking of Copy paste CSGO garbage, there's a map called Desert Storm which is a direct rip off of DUST II. Since the scaling of the in game assets Vs Map is huge in this game, you're walking around like you're an ant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgXUGFeIl0&ab_channel=Beakham
- TDM has grenades enabled meaning you will die to nades 80% of the time. So much for TDM being an aim practice mode.
- Running into certain parts of the tank in Breach mode will result in insta-death. Have fun not respawning for 10 seconds.
- Neowiz decided to CHARGE players to play competitive at all, and yet there are still hackers prevalent REGULARLY, with bans NOT being announced AT ALL. YOU LITERALLY CAN'T PLAY 5V5 WITHOUT PAYING LOL.
- They also REFUSE to publicize any banned players, although in other versions of the same game they own, such as in S.Korea where they happily do so.
- New players do not have a 'Beginner's channel', which was present in the old game. This results in more experienced players losing patience and kicking them.
- Binoculars work like 60% of the time
- Did you just take out half their team and the C4 is right at your feet? Have fun being locked into crouch until you move well away from it.
- The FR-F2 will 1 shot you even if you hit their toes, yet its by far the fastest sniper in its category.
- MP7 received a nerf after 4 months. (imagine if the R8 from CSGO was never nerfed for 4 months)...
- ... and was promptly replaced by the X95R, which is just as OP as the old MP7 was. This was due to the devs not bothering with nerfing the mods.
- Getting hit too many times will show blood splatter which will cover your screen and CAN NOT BE DISABLED.
- Key Doors on some maps will stop working.
- Reload animations are extremely delayed so there is no way of knowing when someone has finished reloading.
- At the start of almost all games, silhouettes and characters won't render in properly or AT ALL, meaning they will look warped/ be COMPLETELY INVISIBLE/
- Switching guns on the ground will empty that gun's ammo. You will pick up empty guns 95% of the time.
- Spectating is a nightmare. https://imgur.com/a/CF6hCiI
- The game will put you in games that have 10 seconds remaining. It doesn't care.
- Good luck alt tabbing.


GENERAL:
- LOL https://imgur.com/a/VAWOqGc
- As detailed in my original review linked above, even suggesting that true veteran players such as Snowshovel should be part of their development team even as a volunteer were shunned and denounced as 'unprofessional'. (Check the original review in the link above for proof.)
- Meanwhile they continuously put 0 effort into getting the devs involved with the community and vice versa.
- Community/ Custom rooms? Still not in the game. Meanwhile unwanted PVE/PVP Hybrid modes are implemented which NOBODY requested.
- 100 Effort into releasing weapon skins from 5+ years ago back into the game and charging players for them through methods of gambling!
- Rewards for loyal players are trash. As I've stated, I've been the first to get some achievements and have gotten simple skins with not even a special outline in the kill feed. (One of my guns is labelled as 'Normal' quality). For the effort, they should have their own category at least.
- Also F**K their audacity to then even attempt to release a P2E version of this game.


All in all, thanks for the hours Neowiz but thanks for developing a game with 0 care, 0 accountability or responsibility for the mistakes of your now defunct best friend, Redduck and thanks for delivering false hope to the community.

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Big sad. The majority of the party game modes and PvE are not in the game. There isn't as many maps as before and the amount of firearm variety is not in the game either. The gun play is strange and not as I remembered it.

It's meh. Wouldn't recommend as of 8/28/2022. A huge update to add missing features and guns would be great.

i know now why GM_Superman said the devs on AVA was hard to work with they are deluded i proved the anticheat could be disabled in taskmanager and the game would still run with a video on my screen proving it n they still said i was doing something else to disable it and that im a liar it was all in the video showing them me launching the game getting to the lobby and ending task on the easy anticheat i then told them how to fix it they hooked it wrong the ac was in a protected folder and thus wouldnt run at the level it should i wont get into details even with the info i got a response back i dont know what im on about but then weeks n weeks later when they figured it out n that i was right they had let a small number of cheaters lead by lillyimamanwonnabeawoman ruin it n drive the already small player base away GG RedDuck way to kill a game go back to aeria forums i was one of the first users to gain trusted status the gamesages was made by superman and requested i ran them but i declined and gave forward your favourite guy miz dont support this game it will die they have a track record of it the company has gone bankrupt twice save your money dont buy premium items

Pros:
- this game has tons of weapon, compared to another FPS games.
- Nice and clean UI.
Cons:
- This game is not for newbies but Veterans.
- Neowiz had 1 year to solve every issues of this game and it still has full of bugs.
- Abusive power from GMs and Admins on official discord server. Got muted just because i have a difference point of view.
- GMs and Admin on official discord server are not official employee of Neowiz. They're players who volunteered for the positions and irresponsible. They pushed their duties on players, make us find cheaters, hackers for them while they were supposed to do that.
- Server is full of Chi**** cheaters and there was no respond from Neowiz, all they did is announced an event comes with worthless prize.
- Anti-cheats system doesn't work. Submit a ticket to report cheaters is complicated which you won't even bother.
- Want to have a nice weapon skins ? Spend your money and you'll never have what you want.

A last question, would you want to spend money on a incomplete game, full of cheaters, a discord server with an abusive power from GMs and Admins ?

Bring back the black rose for TF2 cowards

full of cheaters, tons of bugs, lagy game , bad administration

Sadly, they f*ed it all up.
Just everything is somehow worse than it was 10 years ago.

• UI and game is still 4:3 and stretched to 16:9
  
• It has almost no options, changing them means you have to restart the game and some options just outright are grayed out
  
• The game runs at a max of 59Hz
  
• It has still horrendous vertical tearing
  
• It's missing 80% of it's content, meaning: Items, skills, weapons, skins, armors, maps, game modes, game play elements, and even a lobby system, and more
  
• The item shop however is already as bad as it can get, at least I hope so. Most of the items that exist are timed, so if you can't play often enough you lose the items or can't afford to repair the permanent ones. So don't bother installing this if you can't play it every single day.
  
• It OF COURSE has EAC and EOS. I won't go into detail why that is bad.
  
• It already has cheater, since the stupid EAC version is weeks old.
  
• You can't test weapons before you buy them, meaning you have to buy them for very high prices just to realize that you will never use them again after that. Farming the 12.000 Euros to buy one gun takes ages considering the fact that you have to repair your stuff and buy timed items like grenades for example.
  
• Weapons have no licenses anymore so the AK-47 becomes the AM-47 or the DAS SA58 aka. "Para" becomes the "Cannon", not a joke.
  
• Rewards don't show up anywhere you have to look for your new items in the inventory each slot after the other over and over again.

And there is so much more but I'm really tired of this. This release is a literal slap in the face to make some quick buck without any work needed.
It is just the game as it was all those years ago just in 2022 and worse. And they actually "worked" years on this re-release?! Give me a break!
It's a lazy incomplete re-release of a game that once was ahead of it's time.




- They have now removed all Euro per min costs from the game, making it way more accessible to play as a casual player, well done!
- Setting a Basic Scanning Rate will recognize your native refresh rate and deal with screen tearing.



Someone is stealing other people's reviews, screenshots, and artwork.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198373502045/recommended/1473480/ If you find his or other stolen content, please report it. Thanks!



He changed his review but only to another stolen one, and his name too.
Original 25th August: https://steamcommunity.com/id/thethundertt/recommended/1473480/
Stolen 29th August: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198373502045/recommended/1473480/



Apparently it is now possible for cheaters to just crash your client and force a win by being the only one in the game, so they can literally decide who to play against, not to speak of the huge amount of normal cheaters there are.



Developer is also now buying positive reviews from accounts like these:

• https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198052934687
  
• https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198092563084
  
• https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198079963173
  
• https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198058960319
  
• https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198122743693
  
• https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198070240301

And so much more, all writing the same AI reviews and playing the same games.