🚫 DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME! 🚫

[[UA] Forest Spirit]

I have played for quite a while during Seasons 1-2, and here’s what I have to say:

At first, everything seemed amazing!
✅ Fast loading times – Wow, faster than Tarkov!
✅ Smaller maps – No need to run through endless forests!
Bots don’t one-tap you in the head – Wait, they actually do!

But… once the game stopped feeling new, my account hit level 30+, and that’s when the nightmare began:

Major Issues of the Game
❌ It’s hard to make a profit unless you’re a pro player with a full squad of 4 friends.
❌ PAY-TO-WIN, PAY-TO-PLAY – this is where things get ridiculous! In Tarkov, you buy once and forget, but here, you have to pay every month for storage, camo, and literally everything! The pricing is insane – €200-300 for a storage container. If you don’t have a high salary, you literally cannot play without spending money.
❌ Developers only care about money – I received an in-game email: "Leave a review about the game!" I thought, "Nice, I’ll write about what can be improved." But no! The entire survey was about money! "How much are you willing to spend per month?" "What would you spend it on—camos or currency?" Not a single question about actual gameplay. Disgusting!
❌ Bugs take ages to fix – feels like a low-quality game.
❌ They promise one thing, but always release something paywalled.
❌ The game is flooded with cheaters, especially those with Chinese characters in their names.
❌ Even in hardcore modes, rare loot drop rates are abysmally low.

Gameplay Hell
🔻 You will die to campers in bushes, naked runners, thermal scopes, red ammo, and cheaters.
🔻 Constant reports if you play well – If you’re not a bot, you’ll get banned.
🔻 Rare loot is so rare that getting anything valuable feels like a miracle, but the market value is only 1.5 million (enough for 6 cheap gear sets or one thermal scope – which isn’t even enough!).
🔻 Players are constantly frustrated – I know several friends who deleted the game out of pure rage after another unfair match.
🔻 A top-tier player I know won 70-80% of the time, yet even he kept quitting due to cheaters and bush campers.
🔻 Your survival rate is around 30% at best, meaning out of three matches, only one will be profitable.

Why didn’t I quit earlier?
I love hardcore games. To survive, I spent hours studying tactics, crawling in stealth, and improving my skills.

Why did I quit?
☠ Once I started dominating (3-4+ kills per match), the reports started flooding in.
☠ Players got salty because I killed them in worse gear, and that was enough to get me banned.
☠ First, I got 1-day bans, then a 10-year hardware ban.
☠ I can’t create a new account, and my old, heavily invested account (worth over 60M in-game currency) is permanently gone.

🔴 I never used cheats!
After researching forums, I believe I was banned for using AutoHotkey, which I only used to rebind F1 and F2 keys (since I have a small keyboard, and the game doesn’t allow custom bindings).

☠ Another possible reason? Using advanced movement tricks – but everyone does that!
☠ Support is just bots who don’t care about evidence or fairness.

Final Verdict
🔥 I suffered, wasted time, tried to improve – lost everything.
🔥 Spent $1,200-1,400 over 1.5 years – got banned with no refunds.
🔥 Honest players can be banned for no reason – there’s no point in investing.
🔥 Thousands of negative reviews from people like me – no one ever gets unbanned.

👎 The game is built solely for monetization, developers don’t care about the community, and they ignore any suggestions to improve the game.
👎 No balance updates, no real fixes – only more ways to push microtransactions.
👎 If you gear up well, you’ll get wrecked by naked players. If you go in naked, you’ll get stomped by top-tier players.

Don’t make the same mistake I did.
🚫 Don’t waste your time. Don’t waste your nerves.
🚫 And most importantly – NEVER SPEND MONEY on this game.
🚫 I could’ve bought a new PC with what I wasted here.

The only way to "enjoy" this game? Sit in a bush for 30 minutes, wait for a target, loot, and run.

Is that good gameplay? A good game? No.
🚫 DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME! 🚫

[Homuya]

Originally posted by DroFingerz:

I'll say this.. the player base definitely doesn't seem like one worth joining. Bunch of peacocking chads basically sayin "get g00d", completely ignoring valid points.. and getting real personal.. wtf? Some of y'all mentally ill.

The OP laid out many points that I've seen from many other people about this game.. it's why I don't play it anymore. It's not just this game though... The extraction shooter genre as a whole is riddled with cheaters.. every single game in this genre has the same problem, even a paid title like Tarkov.

Until one of these developers takes this issue seriously, no one is gonna want to pump hours and hours of their lives into one of these games just to lose it all to a wall-hacking aimbot. It's not worth it. Hopefully Marathon will have a good anti-cheat seeing as how it'll be the first extraction game made by a AAA developer (if you don't count DMZ), and we'll finally get a game in this genre that's worth a damn.

Unless you are close to China, you can just turn on low-ping matchmaking and the cheaters are gone. I find OP pretty silly for not being fair and saying that.

Hilarious you put your hopes into Concord level slop.

[fantastico]

I literally stopped what I was doing to log into Steam just to reply to this thread.

First question: Have you ever played Escape from Tarkov...?
Second: How salty are you, actually?

NONE of what you said is any where near as serious as you're making it. The survey absolutely DOES have questions about the gameplay, connections, improvements, etc. I would know, because I have taken several of them. They are asking us how much we would pay so they know what the fair average market price for the packs are. The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game is free. How do you think developers can afford to continue pushing updates if there is no money coming in?

I am still unclear whether this is a troll or not, the emojis tell me it is AI generated, but who knows. I am just laughing in your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ face at how pathetic this ♥♥♥♥ is, truly. I hate this term, but I'm going to use it: SOUNDS LIKE A SKILL ISSUE.

The game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ easy, and there are way more negatives about Tarkov and it's been out like 15x longer and it's very clear the devs have no desire to actually fix the games true issues, none of which this game has even in its' current state.

Again, skill issue. I can hear you crying from here.

[Sobakmen]

I sign every word of it. its a BAD game with BAD game design. Those who say “skill issue” and “learn to play” - it's very cool that you can play, but it's only YOU who can do that, and you can do it purely at the expense of those who can do worse. The game is completely unfair, ONLY pros survive, it's true, if you're not good at it - you'll suck, you'll never see any “100k net”, that's a lie, that's what people with a const pati and playing non-stop say.
Matchmaking simply does not exist - you will always be thrown against packs and such “superprofessionals”, who will just rip you off, taking advantage of hell's disynchronization, among other things. This game is definitely not for solo players, and it never will be.

And no, everyone who says that the loot here is RANDOM - just lying, well, or do not know enough to not see the obvious. Loot here is individual for each player, if there is no gold in the container, but it is looted by the “right” person - it will appear there, it will be loaded right in front of you, in front of your eyes - it happened both with streamers and non-streamers. The loot is just manipulated. The less money you have in your stash - the more gold and reds you will get.

Let's not talk about horrible disyncs - a man flies out at you and kills you in half a second, and then you watch the replay - and it turns out he had time to stick his head out, look for you, find you, aim slowly and shoot.

[Homuya]

Originally posted by Sobakmen:

I sign every word of it. its a BAD game with BAD game design. Those who say “skill issue” and “learn to play” - it's very cool that you can play, but it's only YOU who can do that, and you can do it purely at the expense of those who can do worse. The game is completely unfair, ONLY pros survive, it's true, if you're not good at it - you'll suck, you'll never see any “100k net”, that's a lie, that's what people with a const pati and playing non-stop say.
Matchmaking simply does not exist - you will always be thrown against packs and such “superprofessionals”, who will just rip you off, taking advantage of hell's disynchronization, among other things. This game is definitely not for solo players, and it never will be.

And no, everyone who says that the loot here is RANDOM - just lying, well, or do not know enough to not see the obvious. Loot here is individual for each player, if there is no gold in the container, but it is looted by the “right” person - it will appear there, it will be loaded right in front of you, in front of your eyes - it happened both with streamers and non-streamers. The loot is just manipulated. The less money you have in your stash - the more gold and reds you will get.

Let's not talk about horrible disyncs - a man flies out at you and kills you in half a second, and then you watch the replay - and it turns out he had time to stick his head out, look for you, find you, aim slowly and shoot.

After next week they will add a solo mode, the squads have been the only negative thing in the game for me and what got me killed most of the time so yay for actual solo mode.

Apart from that I've had a much different experience from what you are talking about. I also enable low-ping mode to not face ping problems with other people. So that looks prretty avoidable.

The loot also is completely random mate, believe it or not. As a scav and PMC I've looted BOTS who had 240K orange item. Yup. Twice.

In Forbidden Zone I find gold goblets in jackets rarely and found in two runs both a CD player (240K worth~) in normal containers.

If you think im lying feel free to but those are my experiences within 7 days of playing. Loot seems entirely random, the only thing I never got out of normal containers have been reds. I had a red worth 1,5M however when I played on NORMAL and killed a random dude lying down on the beach (I was confused too)

[Sobakmen]

Originally posted by Homuya:

Originally posted by Sobakmen:

I sign every word of it. its a BAD game with BAD game design. Those who say “skill issue” and “learn to play” - it's very cool that you can play, but it's only YOU who can do that, and you can do it purely at the expense of those who can do worse. The game is completely unfair, ONLY pros survive, it's true, if you're not good at it - you'll suck, you'll never see any “100k net”, that's a lie, that's what people with a const pati and playing non-stop say.
Matchmaking simply does not exist - you will always be thrown against packs and such “superprofessionals”, who will just rip you off, taking advantage of hell's disynchronization, among other things. This game is definitely not for solo players, and it never will be.

And no, everyone who says that the loot here is RANDOM - just lying, well, or do not know enough to not see the obvious. Loot here is individual for each player, if there is no gold in the container, but it is looted by the “right” person - it will appear there, it will be loaded right in front of you, in front of your eyes - it happened both with streamers and non-streamers. The loot is just manipulated. The less money you have in your stash - the more gold and reds you will get.

Let's not talk about horrible disyncs - a man flies out at you and kills you in half a second, and then you watch the replay - and it turns out he had time to stick his head out, look for you, find you, aim slowly and shoot.

After next week they will add a solo mode, the squads have been the only negative thing in the game for me and what got me killed most of the time so yay for actual solo mode.

Apart from that I've had a much different experience from what you are talking about. I also enable low-ping mode to not face ping problems with other people. So that looks prretty avoidable.

The loot also is completely random mate, believe it or not. As a scav and PMC I've looted BOTS who had 240K orange item. Yup. Twice.

In Forbidden Zone I find gold goblets in jackets rarely and found in two runs both a CD player (240K worth~) in normal containers.

If you think im lying feel free to but those are my experiences within 7 days of playing. Loot seems entirely random, the only thing I never got out of normal containers have been reds. I had a red worth 1,5M however when I played on NORMAL and killed a random dude lying down on the beach (I was confused too)

I'm also very much looking forward to the solo mod, although I would really like not a solo mod, but either a solo/duo mod, or for the developers to make ADEQUATE matchmaking, where you wouldn't be killed on spawn by 5 people from unknown places, where you have at least a small possibility to maneuver, where you have at least an ILLUSION of being able to win a fight if you are a solo player.

But the problem is that this solo mode will work only on one map, and will be introduced TEMPORARILY, that is very likely that they will eventually abandon it.

Arena Breakout Infinite is not a game for solo players, it was originally made for squads, it was ALL designed with the understanding that the game will be played by packs, not solo players.

Ping and desync are different things, desync is not due to ping.
"The loot also is completely random mate, believe it or not. As a scav and PMC I've looted BOTS who had 240K orange item. Yup. Twice." - So what? A dead bot is the same container, only mobile and shooting, what prevents the loot from being generated “for you” at the moment of looting the bot?? it proves nothing, although in bots the game so blatantly does not draw you items - but still, VERY suspicious that yes, and bots start to get cool loot depending on the age of your account and the amount in the stash.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm drawing conclusions from what I see. Loot in the game is definitely not randomly generated. It's definitely not completely random, which means it's manipulable.

I could really be wrong about loot being completely NOT randomized, no, I think it is randomized, but very, very incompletely and depending on. And it doesn't really matter much - what matters is the fact that if you play solo and you're not a cyberathlete - you'll suck, you'll get killed by everything, you won't get rich and you'll never see normal gameplay with shootouts - at most you'll be able to snipe someone once in 10 raids. Because you'll never penetrate their armor with the ammo you have enough money for. you'll never kill them all - there's always more, and more, and more running at you. Your teammate will never take out your gear, because there is NO teammate. No one has your back.
I really want to play this game solo - but the game is not designed for that, and it's very frustrating - I would take it and forget about it, but no, I want to try to play again, maybe this time it will work? But no - the thermal imager answers you, killing you from the other end of the map under the cover of 4 bastards in t6. This game is not for you.

[Homuya]

Originally posted by Sobakmen:

Originally posted by Homuya:

After next week they will add a solo mode, the squads have been the only negative thing in the game for me and what got me killed most of the time so yay for actual solo mode.

Apart from that I've had a much different experience from what you are talking about. I also enable low-ping mode to not face ping problems with other people. So that looks prretty avoidable.

The loot also is completely random mate, believe it or not. As a scav and PMC I've looted BOTS who had 240K orange item. Yup. Twice.

In Forbidden Zone I find gold goblets in jackets rarely and found in two runs both a CD player (240K worth~) in normal containers.

If you think im lying feel free to but those are my experiences within 7 days of playing. Loot seems entirely random, the only thing I never got out of normal containers have been reds. I had a red worth 1,5M however when I played on NORMAL and killed a random dude lying down on the beach (I was confused too)

I'm also very much looking forward to the solo mod, although I would really like not a solo mod, but either a solo/duo mod, or for the developers to make ADEQUATE matchmaking, where you wouldn't be killed on spawn by 5 people from unknown places, where you have at least a small possibility to maneuver, where you have at least an ILLUSION of being able to win a fight if you are a solo player.

But the problem is that this solo mode will work only on one map, and will be introduced TEMPORARILY, that is very likely that they will eventually abandon it.

Arena Breakout Infinite is not a game for solo players, it was originally made for squads, it was ALL designed with the understanding that the game will be played by packs, not solo players.

Ping and desync are different things, desync is not due to ping.
"The loot also is completely random mate, believe it or not. As a scav and PMC I've looted BOTS who had 240K orange item. Yup. Twice." - So what? A dead bot is the same container, only mobile and shooting, what prevents the loot from being generated “for you” at the moment of looting the bot?? it proves nothing, although in bots the game so blatantly does not draw you items - but still, VERY suspicious that yes, and bots start to get cool loot depending on the age of your account and the amount in the stash.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm drawing conclusions from what I see. Loot in the game is definitely not randomly generated. It's definitely not completely random, which means it's manipulable.

I could really be wrong about loot being completely NOT randomized, no, I think it is randomized, but very, very incompletely and depending on. And it doesn't really matter much - what matters is the fact that if you play solo and you're not a cyberathlete - you'll suck, you'll get killed by everything, you won't get rich and you'll never see normal gameplay with shootouts - at most you'll be able to snipe someone once in 10 raids. Because you'll never penetrate their armor with the ammo you have enough money for. you'll never kill them all - there's always more, and more, and more running at you. Your teammate will never take out your gear, because there is NO teammate. No one has your back.
I really want to play this game solo - but the game is not designed for that, and it's very frustrating - I would take it and forget about it, but no, I want to try to play again, maybe this time it will work? But no - the thermal imager answers you, killing you from the other end of the map under the cover of 4 bastards in t6. This game is not for you.

I'm sorry your experiences have been like that, I have no problems getting my kills and winning shootouts in any mode and within a week only got killed by a thermal player once. Only downside so far has been squads but that'll get fixed soon. Of course I still die and not win every time but a fair amount.

"where you wouldn't be killed on spawn by 5 people from unknown places, where you have at least a small possibility to maneuver"

That cannot happen and at this point im convinced that either you make this up or the game was different years ago when you played because you can check the spawns online, they are never so close to each other that you can immediately get killed on spawn so what you say is factually not possible.

[Sobakmen]

Originally posted by Homuya:

Originally posted by Sobakmen:

I'm also very much looking forward to the solo mod, although I would really like not a solo mod, but either a solo/duo mod, or for the developers to make ADEQUATE matchmaking, where you wouldn't be killed on spawn by 5 people from unknown places, where you have at least a small possibility to maneuver, where you have at least an ILLUSION of being able to win a fight if you are a solo player.

But the problem is that this solo mode will work only on one map, and will be introduced TEMPORARILY, that is very likely that they will eventually abandon it.

Arena Breakout Infinite is not a game for solo players, it was originally made for squads, it was ALL designed with the understanding that the game will be played by packs, not solo players.

Ping and desync are different things, desync is not due to ping.
"The loot also is completely random mate, believe it or not. As a scav and PMC I've looted BOTS who had 240K orange item. Yup. Twice." - So what? A dead bot is the same container, only mobile and shooting, what prevents the loot from being generated “for you” at the moment of looting the bot?? it proves nothing, although in bots the game so blatantly does not draw you items - but still, VERY suspicious that yes, and bots start to get cool loot depending on the age of your account and the amount in the stash.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm drawing conclusions from what I see. Loot in the game is definitely not randomly generated. It's definitely not completely random, which means it's manipulable.

I could really be wrong about loot being completely NOT randomized, no, I think it is randomized, but very, very incompletely and depending on. And it doesn't really matter much - what matters is the fact that if you play solo and you're not a cyberathlete - you'll suck, you'll get killed by everything, you won't get rich and you'll never see normal gameplay with shootouts - at most you'll be able to snipe someone once in 10 raids. Because you'll never penetrate their armor with the ammo you have enough money for. you'll never kill them all - there's always more, and more, and more running at you. Your teammate will never take out your gear, because there is NO teammate. No one has your back.
I really want to play this game solo - but the game is not designed for that, and it's very frustrating - I would take it and forget about it, but no, I want to try to play again, maybe this time it will work? But no - the thermal imager answers you, killing you from the other end of the map under the cover of 4 bastards in t6. This game is not for you.

I'm sorry your experiences have been like that, I have no problems getting my kills and winning shootouts in any mode and within a week only got killed by a thermal player once. Only downside so far has been squads but that'll get fixed soon. Of course I still die and not win every time but a fair amount.

"where you wouldn't be killed on spawn by 5 people from unknown places, where you have at least a small possibility to maneuver"

That cannot happen and at this point im convinced that either you make this up or the game was different years ago when you played because you can check the spawns online, they are never so close to each other that you can immediately get killed on spawn so what you say is factually not possible.

"That cannot happen"
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArenaBreakoutInfinite/comments/1k4sejv/im_just_sick_of_it/

It happens just now. And it keep happening.

[M3ch4n1c]

Originally posted by Sobakmen:

Originally posted by Homuya:

I'm sorry your experiences have been like that, I have no problems getting my kills and winning shootouts in any mode and within a week only got killed by a thermal player once. Only downside so far has been squads but that'll get fixed soon. Of course I still die and not win every time but a fair amount.

"where you wouldn't be killed on spawn by 5 people from unknown places, where you have at least a small possibility to maneuver"

That cannot happen and at this point im convinced that either you make this up or the game was different years ago when you played because you can check the spawns online, they are never so close to each other that you can immediately get killed on spawn so what you say is factually not possible.

"That cannot happen"
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArenaBreakoutInfinite/comments/1k4sejv/im_just_sick_of_it/

It happens just now. And it keep happening.

One thing for sure: Your argumentation is childish and extremely biased. Also, you are assuming thing about the mechanics ("individualized random loot") that you do not know. I played the Game for about 400h now and i can assure you that there is definitely no such thing.

Learn aiming and gaming and don't blame people who can do so for your gaming experience beeing bad. You're simply disctracting yourself and other from the cause of your crazy complaints. And the cause obviously is beeing incapable of udnerstanding that you're a bad player and that this game is not designed for you then.

[Javelea]

You should play Tarkov instead of spending 1400$ on a free and early access game

[Homuya]

Originally posted by Sobakmen:

Originally posted by Homuya:

I'm sorry your experiences have been like that, I have no problems getting my kills and winning shootouts in any mode and within a week only got killed by a thermal player once. Only downside so far has been squads but that'll get fixed soon. Of course I still die and not win every time but a fair amount.

"where you wouldn't be killed on spawn by 5 people from unknown places, where you have at least a small possibility to maneuver"

That cannot happen and at this point im convinced that either you make this up or the game was different years ago when you played because you can check the spawns online, they are never so close to each other that you can immediately get killed on spawn so what you say is factually not possible.

"That cannot happen"
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArenaBreakoutInfinite/comments/1k4sejv/im_just_sick_of_it/

It happens just now. And it keep happening.

Mate you can see the spawn locations online...You cant get spawn killed. Some spawns can be close on lets say Armory but you always have the chance to run or stay and fight.

[KrazyZombie]

I did try this game a few day, because it free, but after i know the existing of SPT, i am ok pay of EFT then install SPT and other mod, and don't have to worried about Hacker & Micro transaction from both Live EFT and this game