Don't play people are losers and will sweat their lives away and the developers don't give a ♥♥♥♥ they release a quarter a year update, or semi year update with a new weapon for each faction and maybe a map if they care but mostly one weapon per faction and a buttload of paid cosmetics it shows where their intentions are and how little they care about the game other than the micro transaction slop. And declining steam player count numbers with the addition of cross-play to rebound the population unfortunately the console players are left to the sweats & nerds of the game.

I can only recommend this game with a gigantic asterisk, which is the community itself.

The game is great as a matter of software, having come from a group of very skilled people with all of the experience from the original Insurgency source mod. It's fun, it's smooth, it runs well even on modern systems. I can't think of a single thing that sticks out to me as truly "bad" about the game as the developers created it, besides maybe their parent company, Embracer Group, which you can read all about on Wikipedia.

The community, unfortunately, deserves no such praise. As of mid-2026, you will still be able to queue for matches and find a game instantly pretty much any time of day, but if you play on US servers, fully expect some of the worst ankle-biting, racist, high-cortisol losers on the planet screaming slurs back and forth, no different from the COD lobbies of the early 2010s. On off-days and weekends, you'll find more cool people on who are willing to chat and have fun and don't get angry when the numbers in the fake video game don't go up how they want them to. In most lobbies, people just won't communicate though. No-mic is about as common as the chuds.

There's also the classic problem that most long-running PVP games suffer from. People who have been playing 5 or 6 thousand hours, being matched with people who downloaded the game for the first time yesterday. It's pretty bad for longevity and worse for enjoyment for anyone who isn't up to that level of skill.

The developers recently (within the last year or so) added crossplay, so everyone on PS and Xbox can help keep the thing up and running until the community drops off for good, and it does even out the skill gap for a lot of people even with modern gyro aiming, but whether the game continuing to go on as it is is a good thing is anyone's call.

There are PVE modes built in, if you prefer to fight bots in co-op, and the level of sweat and bigotry here is significantly reduced, but still non-zero.

Just not very good, gun play feels somewhat weight less recoil while high does make sense. But your a newbie most have been playing this for years. I would say there are better shooters, more realistic shooters. It's a good way to waste some time, no way I would no life this. It's fun at times but can quickly get frustrating because of low player count meaning bad connection. I ran into several bugs such as my arms disappearing not being able to leave chat without sending a message and enemies just not being there when I was killed. I also got killed through wall by explosions a few times. I also have to mention mantling it is unintuitive situational and somewhat frustrating. I'll play some more but for a game that is eight years old I had wanted and expected more. The guns are amazing, kills do feel good to get but also leave me wanting.