why is the rating very negative?

[Christmas Man]

The first was f2p what happened?

[The Level 0 Esper Hades]

here let me give you my experience so far. i bought the game checked that my laptop reached the requirements to run it then hit play.

the game crashed over and over before even getting to a game.

so its basically unplayable for some people and lagging a lot for the lucky ones that can get in.

so for the people complaining about game play remember this. at least you got that far others like me can't even get to the game yet. im stuck trying to get past the game crashing.

[JudgeMental1337]

Read the Reviews dood

[Greyline]

Not only are there a ton of bugs, but the developers have a sour reputation, and they also removed several aspects that made NMRIH what it was.

[Stellifera]

Best to just read what’s out there and conclude to what you see. There’s two divided arguments about this game.

[Ibuprofen]

The game is just extremly bug infested. To a point where game breaking bugs can end a round very quickly. And there is constant massive lag going on.

The game itself is probably great. But there barely is a game as of now. It is in an alpha state.
And while this is EA, it is not within the terms of EA. EA is not feature complete and you can expect some bugs but it should be well playable.

[Manthrottle Beefdeath]

Originally posted by |F13| Jason_Light |F13|:

The first was f2p what happened?

Forget the technical issues, those can be fixed.

The problem is that they turned this game into a extraction shooter with some really stupid design choices, one of the dumbest being that this is an open world game.

[voodoo]

The comunity did a review bombing because they want:

-zombie kids
-infection system (is in roadmap)
-linear mapa like old game

The game is fun, and the problems are

-bugs (solving)
-lag (actively working and soon solved)
-high price (agree with that)

The first 2000 reviews are old comunity. When I biught the game, it has only 15% of good reviews, now a few hours later is 31%.
In some days the review bombing will be solved with reviews of new players if devs solve some bugs and lag problems

[demon]

Originally posted by Ibuprofen:

The game is just extremly bug infested. To a point where game breaking bugs can end a round very quickly. And there is constant massive lag going on.

The game itself is probably great. But there barely is a game as of now. It is in an alpha state.
And while this is EA, it is not within the terms of EA. EA is not feature complete and you can expect some bugs but it should be well playable.

Played about 6 games never had bug what ended the round bit of floating here and there that about it. Does make me laugh the review bombing by a bunch of ppl what loved the first game what do they think they achieving if they like zombie games they only damaging the over all future and market for zombie games talk about counterproductive lol 😆

[headset-vr]

Played a couple of games, died in all 3.

Reasons are

1 - Playing on Steamdeck and controls aren't optimised as game is currently unsupported

2 - Some jackass left booby traps around, how rude!

3 - Dropped a melee weapon into a black hole disguised as a bush. Couldn't seem to find a replacement and ran out of ammo on my pistol, wasn't clear how to reload my shotgun. But that melee weapon don't need a reload. Please remove all black holes that are incognito as that melee weapon would have spared me a spot on a menu!

Otherwise, my personal experience was pretty good. Got scared of zombies in the dark and chose to avoid rather than engage.
Had zero lag issues, game ran completely fine. I saw one or two zombies glitching through the wall. It's early access so no big deal. Seems like theres plenty of promise.
Trouble is, we are in the age of social media and drama llamas so any minor issue is way over exaggerated, especially as people seem to expect perfection right away and have zero patience for this kind of thing. Ie early access