Mixed Reviews = Bad Game?

[侍Kage]

Everyone was praising this game now it's dropped to mixed reviews, i was about to buy this game today but i have second thoughts now. Is mixed reviews mean bad game ? The game had 500k few days ago now only 200k on steam, the game is already dying as well. What is going on? I think i will delay my purchase for now.

[Toyota AE86]

Originally posted by 愛IcyTea Lemon:

Everyone is complaining wow, it's going to be dead soon at this rate. Glad i didnt purchase it!

What did I say about poor people ? Go play with an empty can.

[Codesterz]

Having actually got to play the game for a few hours yesterday I can safely say this game is mid at best IMO. The balance is horrible. There are 2 enemy factions to fight robots or the bugs. The robots are overtuned and unfun as all hell to fight against. The enemy variety is kinda low. Exploring maps to collect resources to unlock ship upgrades is boring and tedious. Half of the mission types are unfun and some are both way harder and less rewarding for completing. To me this is just less fun EDF. I'll still play it more since I'm past the 2 hours mark and can't refund it anymore. Honestly very disappointed with this one no hate intended. I heard people comparing this to EDF and Starship Troopers, 2 things I love. But this game just isn't it for me.

[Tantrumus]

Most Amazing game my family cannot play. It really is FUN AF when you:
1) Can log in 2) Stay Logged In without being kicked randomly 3) Not CTD 4) Not get a black screen at launching game 5) Dont have a 7900 series 6) Dont care about multiplayer or matchmaking.

Very Ironic Sony name stamped on a game with this many issues at launch.....remember a game they took off the store becuase of all the issues.

I know above sounds harsh but the more you love something the harder you react to the negatives.

Have 4 copies played one time all of us. Have 3 friends that all refunded that own the 7000 series GPUs and gave up im between the CTD/Perf/Capacity problems.

To me it seems like a crime its allowed to be sold in its current state.

[PrettyBoy.]

Originally posted by 愛IcyTea Lemon:

Everyone was praising this game now it's dropped to mixed reviews, i was about to buy this game today but i have second thoughts now. Is mixed reviews mean bad game ? The game had 500k few days ago now only 200k on steam, the game is already dying as well. What is going on? I think i will delay my purchase for now.

"the game is already dying as well" - had me rolling

[iDankenstein]

Originally posted by Nemrodh {HoRS}:

Originally posted by Connatic:

This is why you should never just make a judgment based on a numerical score alone. Sometimes the main "negatives" of a game, either won't affect you personally, or can soon be fixed. Read the reviews, follow game journalists who share your tastes.

Does matter how good a game is if you cant play it.
the reviews are valid..
If you dont see t hat, a fool and his money are soon parted..

no they are not... the review arent valid cause you arent playing the game so you cant make an honest review

[Gwennec]

Originally posted by MoarAsianThanU:

Originally posted by Gwennec:

Don't look too closely at Steam reviews, they're not always a reliable guide.
The negative reviews at the moment are from people who have made the age-old error of buying a game in Alpha state and expected a finished and bug free product, then raged when they got a bug.

There's a black screen bug that's affecting some people and it's set the above group off.

Reminder to those people: It's an alpha launch, there will be bugs, you've literally paid for the job of testing and finding bugs. Instead of raging about it, report it. Otherwise, all you're doing is causing yourself stress needlessly.

It's not in Alpha state. It's fully complete. It's just suffering from success. Helldivers 1 had a peak player count of 7000 combined between PS4 and Steam. They had no idea more than half a million people would be trying to play at the same time.

There was almost zero marketing, too. Not sure how people expect Arrowhead to predict the future where their game would explode like this. Most people playing HD2 had never even HEARD of the first game.

Double checked and you're right, could have sworn I saw the alpha banner on the store but clearly having a senile moment.

[Sixshots]

it is a bad game.
- Gameplay is not smooth, movements are very scripted.
- you can not even jump
- servers are wooden
- quickplay does not exist, you have to find yourself via "Friendcodes" a team together
- meanwhile you gamble everytime to even get into the game, you fall behind and get kicked out of teams, IF you manage to find one. While you barely made it to lvl 4, there are teams around lvl 20-xx and they just kick you. Another possibility is you just get boosted by those and don't rly get to play.

For that money you can buy another game on your wishlist. It is not worth it.
Nobody knows when the game actually will work, but it is gonna be months atleast

[Natey]

It shows how the review system isn't always meant to be trusted. This is honestly one of the best games out today.. but the server issues are huge. It'll likely be better in a week or two, but that could do significant damage to the game either way. This game would definitely be "very positive" without the server issues.

[BigOunce]

You know those reviews on Amazon about something really good? And the 1 star reviews is about receiving the item damaged not about the quality of the item? Yes those are the negative ones.

[Connatic]

Originally posted by Nemrodh {HoRS}:

Originally posted by Connatic:

This is why you should never just make a judgment based on a numerical score alone. Sometimes the main "negatives" of a game, either won't affect you personally, or can soon be fixed. Read the reviews, follow game journalists who share your tastes.

Does matter how good a game is if you cant play it.
the reviews are valid..
If you dont see t hat, a fool and his money are soon parted..

I never said the reviews aren't valid. I said don't make a personal judgement just because of the word "Mixed" alone. It's "bad" because of a technical issue, caused by the gameplay being too good.

[Deylendor]

Good game. Bad connectivity

[Fraktal]

Originally posted by Deylendor:

Good game. Bad connectivity

[Knight Errant]

Originally posted by 愛IcyTea Lemon:

Everyone was praising this game now it's dropped to mixed reviews, i was about to buy this game today but i have second thoughts now. Is mixed reviews mean bad game ? The game had 500k few days ago now only 200k on steam, the game is already dying as well. What is going on? I think i will delay my purchase for now.

Don't listen to a lot of the complaining in the discussions, but do delay your purchase until they can fix the server issues. Let me explain the situation briefly:
- The servers have a max capacity of about 450k players across both PS5 and PC, and the game's extreme surge in popularity was unprecedented by the developers (who were expecting only like, a max population of 10k at once)
- They found the issue with the servers being related to their backend code, and stated that it's going to take some time to fully solve the issue

It really is that simple, but people are trying to spin the narrative that the devs "abandoned the game" and that they're lazy and money-hungry. In my opinion, just keep an eye on it until the issue can be fully solved.

[Natey]

Originally posted by Sixshots:

it is a bad game.
- Gameplay is not smooth, movements are very scripted.
- you can not even jump
- servers are wooden
- quickplay does not exist, you have to find yourself via "Friendcodes" a team together
- meanwhile you gamble everytime to even get into the game, you fall behind and get kicked out of teams, IF you manage to find one. While you barely made it to lvl 4, there are teams around lvl 20-xx and they just kick you. Another possibility is you just get boosted by those and don't rly get to play.

For that money you can buy another game on your wishlist. It is not worth it.
Nobody knows when the game actually will work, but it is gonna be months atleast

* Gameplay is very smooth, so I don't know what you mean.
* Who cares if you can't jump? In theory, in big giant armor, you shouldn't be able to jump easy.
* Wooden servers? Not really sure what you mean. But the servers work great if you get in.
* Quickplay has worked every single time I've tried it. Sometimes takes a minute but it always works.
* Never been kicked out yet. Seems crazy for you to experience that at only level 4. You're probably doing too high of difficulty if you're level 4 matching with level 20s. If you can't carry your load, why keep you?

[Pluton]

good game. but if you can't play the game is it really good? I mean if the game was called queue simulator 2024 or server disconnect simulator then it would get full marks