So far, so good! Actually it looks really promising.

[Georgy ✪]

I didn’t expect much because it’s Netease — when I saw that the game will be available on mobile, I was like “Welp, another P2W-driven Chinese game”, but I’m glad to tell you that it seems that I was wrong!

I’m still in a quite early game, even though I reached level 13, but I stayed in the first region (didn’t even explore it that much), because it was really fun building your own base. Like there is an actual variety and possibilities to build cool stuff.

Exploration is fun and it’s engaging, like I actually want to wander around to find cool stuff or just see new locations — level design, at least in terms of visuals, looks great.

Gunplay is quite decent, I would even say it’s good. I haven’t played PvP, so experience limited to PvE only.

Character movement is really nice. Not MGS5 by any means, but it’s smooth enough and cool to be able to “parkour” even.

Enemy designs are pretty fun, enemy AI is bad. I mean it does it’s job, but usually mobs can’t see you even in front of their eyes. My it’s because of my connection, but I doubt that. If the devs crank up the AI, then it would be awesome — stealth works, and it’s a good strat, but right now you can just bypass all enemies or easily cheese them. However even regular mobs pack a punch, so they can hit hard.

The plot though is intriguing, but actual script is… eh… so far, not so good. It’s stiff and lacks polish — lots of exposition dump, and a bit pathos-driven. I mean it does the job right, so it’s fine in my book — I still want to find out what’s going on.

Also the graphics fidelity is astounding. It ain’t a AAA game with a bunch of cool tech (Alan Wake 2, lol), but it does look impressive — I sometimes just pay attention to nice looking lighting for a few moments, and only then move on somewhere I needed to go. So, yeah, the game does look good.

I can’t tell you about many thing, and other things I didn’t even mention, but I highly recommend you to check the game out yourself!

P.S: I just pray the devs won’t ruin the game by egregious monetization. Paid visuals is fine, some boosters I can tolerate, but not blatant P2W.

P.P.S: There’s only Western USA server right now, and my ping is really-really high, but I still can play the game just fine.

P.P.P.S: I’ve spent so much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time in this beta, that I regret doing so. Like the progress will be wiped, and I’ll move to a European server, so no bases there and, most likely, no my character. But I still want to play, hahahaha.

[KripTed]

These are some criticisms I have.

Performance: It needs work. There are stutter issues at times. Mostly when traversing.

Enemies: The AI at times seems dumb. Like really dumb.

Chat: The filter is too restrictive and you can’t even say things like suck or ass.

Animations: Sometimes seems wonky like when hitting F to search and stopping then doing it again.

I’m sure I have more but all I can think of right now.

For the most part though it looks pretty promising.

[Georgy ✪]

Originally posted by KripTed:

Performance: It needs work. There are stutter issues at times. Mostly when traversing.

Yes, I strongly agree — performance is really bad. The visuals are good, but my rig should handle it way better — I even decreased resolution scale just to play on max settings comfortable, but it still stutters and dips. Cannot imagine how poorly it can ran on lower end rigs.

Originally posted by KripTed:

Enemies: The AI at times seems dumb. Like really dumb.

Well, yeah, as I’ve said it seems really dumb.

Originally posted by KripTed:

Chat: The filter is too restrictive and you can’t even say things like suck or ass.

Ahahahaha, true, true!

Originally posted by KripTed:

Animations: Sometimes seems wonky like when hitting F to search and stopping then doing it again.

They are indeed. I still think it’s because of the beta, so I hope they will greatly improve in this regard otherwise the game will feel quite janky (because it is right now).