Recent reviews by Jay8454

Factorio type of game but in 3D game play. I played when it came out originally for a few weeks loved it but realized the content was lacking and stopped playing till Jan 2021. Latest patch added loads of new content however need an advisory that lightly possess a slight reason to keep playing an ender, goal, a destination, a common purpose, or it risks becoming wearisome or mundane.

So far the game is hours of fun please take this as a constructive criticism and not a negative assessment, it's a good potential game with the possibility of endless entertainment, and on my old AMD FX system it runs well.

It's a really fun way to kill time. It does get pretty factory like feel where you feel you have a high work load. I hope they put more in the game such as a bigger place and maybe some help.

It get to a point where you become in high debt and the things you have to do become retarded!
It becomes very UNFUN!, and repetitive you stuck in debt and what you can and need to accept for business. It's a COME ON GAME REALLY? Pet peeves picking up the PC is too easy and now you have to reconnect all the cables I am done with this game and can't get my money back.

This game is relaxing fun and it's like survival puzzles. It's in early access and it does show with the weather and some other things, however it's very time consuming and I always can't wait to get back to it the next day.
The crafting is smart and innovative I feel like I am playing an Elemental Maker, or Cody's lab game (American Youtubers) when I smelted an Iron ore rock after having to bake it I got mostly iron for sure but a bead of another element. The map I keep close to getting lost and you can't go up to high of a hill the get those resources that are saying, "na na you can get us!". I HOPE the guy that is making it keeps it up cause it's got a lot of stuff in it now what will it be like finished.

I paid $15 on sale Has Sandbox and store/mission potential! Needs bugs worked out.
I would like to play something like this! However putting up with the growing pains I just don't have the time for. My first 3 hours of play was not all bad. Had to quit 3 times once was to stop a recurring russell sound another was a "take all" from my dead inventory and after I build a 5x5x2 house and was going to open/place forge it hard crashed to desktop.
But I see if they work out the bugs it will be good, I build 2 types of fires, troth, well, and that's as far as I got. I saw a Miner 49'er trader walking around and first spawn was met with me being shot at. I saw some wagon moving around but didn't have anything to deal with the attacking wolves so not sure what that was. Needs maybe clues of what should be done next for crafting.

Ok, I gave it 5 hours of my life. I can't get that back but I give to whom it helps.
You play with Russians and no that is not a big thing.
The tutorials are garbage, I did all the reading missions and no clue where or what to do when they are done.
It's a lot of guessing who has the time for that? The lure was the movies, the large map and that is my fault for falling for that.
It looks good and has potential but it's to hard to figure out what the hell your supposed to do. If you have loads of time and a case of diapers than this game is for you, don't try to give any feed back on their forms as it's made to be hard to complain.

Early Access Game?

Buy at your own risk! BUT??

May24th 2020
Better painting items custom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8BRy8Jz7SQ tutorial.
Sucks real benefit come from being is a large group, if they put anymore dino type thing in it I will bail maybe as I did not like ARK for that cornny for that. But hey where are the other fun pirate games out there? There isn't any like the mass size of this. You could play Ylands...I'd never let anyone know or I would be playing with my 6 year old son wait now he's 10. You can suggest things on their forums but they either get inundated with good and bad suggestions or they only read the bad suggestion. They need to put some Greek mechanical things in like old Clash of the Titians' the Owl was the best!

As a single player just have a fast story and how to survive aboard ship if...
I left the edge of one map to another with my ship (schooner), to right into the middle of 4 Ships of the Damned my schooner is unarmed so I pointed for the best wind and way out kept my head (not true screamed I QUIT I QUIT!) when my schooner got free from the seeming/never/ending bombing or her tail I pointed to the nearest island in site and went down below to find calmly (not true still yelling UNFAIR UNFAIR!) 3 ship panels have been blown off and water up to my wast I calmly went through thoughts, should I scuttle her and comeback and salvage? Yes, that is what I'll do, but I have to buy more time and get closer to land. But how can I do that? OH!, my bucket it's in the smithy, I raced to the smithy to find it, my bucket was not there!
So, I had to make another one fast, but there is not enough materials SH1T! The chest, found paste and made the bucket in the smithy, by this time only my head was above the water I made the bucket and started bailing double left click get more water, right click trows it overboard. water in the bilge is now swim able crap! CRAP!, land is still to far off I am miles away BAIL, BAIL,BAIL,BAIL,BAIL,BAIL,BAIL, bail ~the water is going down even though I still have 3 panels missing... keep bailing bail,bail,bail,bail,bail,bail ~the ship stopped? It did!, I am saved I made it to shore and can I anchor yes! I anchored the ship bailed more water till it was down to about an inch, then I have a bear on board took him to the nearest fiber and cut trees fast! Got back to the ship (always in sight) not much more water was in it (due to being anchored). Made 5 ship panels in the smithy and placed them the water was getting up to knee high again still leaking a bit with water while the panels nit in bailed a little and all good!
All the water drained out and looked at the island I landed on.

Things I think helped me most putting points into sink/rate and the bucket and a way to get to the bilge easily. I ended up landing on a freeport island I found and I can only assume that the SOTD's were glitched into the server grid because it's not normal for them to be in a freeport grid.

9/14/2019
I am changing my thumb down to a thumb UP!
They have added Blackwood map (hope More Maps?), and the ability to have or host your own server and what this does is give you the ability to modify the game (MODS!). Blackwood a rather small map and HAS a boundry so don't fall asleep or your ship bangs into the wall and you loose it and have to play pickup. I still want the MMO to do very good because the map feels endless and gives you many places to go to get things you need to play. But because they seemingly are very slow to make the game from good to great this works better for me cause I can configure and mod the game to my liking for now till they get their heads out of their butts.

The Mega update is BAD! 4/20/2019 on PvE!
They made a claim system like PvP and as a single player it's impossible to get an island. They added more islands but made it a point sys, per group size and you end up getting ppl already owning island going off to claim the 15 point islands then you end up arguing over who should get the island with no recourse to whom should get the island. The frame rates have gotten better but that could be because a lot less ppl play it. A am done until they make another fix on this problem I was an optimist too but I am at the short end of the stick.

Added:
March 19th 2019 The 20th is supposed to be a big update they are adding 200+ islands so claimable land if not said it should be less a problem the croc issues are solved and they are still the C.O.U.Ss' (Crocs of unusual Sizes), but playable. They seem to fix things promptly as they know they have a diamond in the rough. Ships and animals I hope they fix soon with upcoming update, the problem there is every time the server(s) restart some animals end up odd places. The bear gets picked on the most ending up in the ship decks somewhere. Sometimes boarding it has gone straight down into the water/map and died. Chickens end up sometimes floating outside the ship and I have seen crew do that to. You get a tip of this when your base managing at the top of your screen you'll get a message that a, "crew member has died".

Still, over all it will be a good game I have decided to sit out while they do this next massive update. I am going back to it cause it is over all despite the things I have side over all the bugs it's a playable game you just have to take steps to not loose things like putting stuff away when your done, (where have I heard that before?).


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It will be a great feat of enginerding when this gets dialed in.

For now, it's a sorta playable cobble of server time outs and syncing issues.

When it is working and what we 2 - 3 people have done.
Built a small house, 3 ships lost 2 because of very poor game balance problems, the crocodiles are also TOO BIG TOO BIG! They will attack and kill your AI crew if you puschase any, the crocs also eat your diving bell/crane if one touch. SOTD! (ship of the Damned) are too many spawned and you would be largly out gunned. Tresure maps, we have tried many times to locate a tresure and crocs see you out at sea and great you with a smile of "spawn again".

What interested me was map size, 15x15=225 map/squares each are one server to it's more like a world than a map.
So, I am going to hold slightly to optimism and hope they get this good idea going.
But for now, buying it? well it's cheap for the moment, there's only a thump up or down.

Easy game to get into, has a few graphical anomalies, only on map, only about 12 guns, and no melee.
But, it's fun, free, and I like it best than other pay BR games. I'd recommend it. There is better ways to get around, and no circle closing in on you, it's frosty and it worns you and gives you time to get out. Don't take your time for granted!

Exile game? I played it enough to still get a refund.
More games to figure out how it works, ugh! Jump in, find stone and stick! Search bush! Go to mil base! Find more weapons!, kill stuff and players, REPEAT! I did like the idea of your body type is dynamic! 3rd person can be balanced by skill but haven't had chance to test it on other players. Your dead body becomes a zombie that's cool, not sure if a server could be packed full of the player walking dead, but a cool concept. Not sure if the bots kill those player zeds, but, if so, that would be a great way to distrack a bot off of yourself.

There is some sort of horrable lag or desync with this game. When I die I swear I shot a whole clip at a person and the "death Came shows I fired very late or one shot. The desync goes on to showing the bad of it's truth with you view it, it shows that the person that killed you is shooting behind you. The game has issues that NEED to be addressed! They also need to crack down on there cheaters too, I have incountered them many times and I really don't think they review thier own "report" button log. they never post anything or something to the effect of getting bact to you telling you anything example: "looks like desync". Make this game viable so I could put $$ on it. and play for money.

Game looks flat, and it is! But, you get sucked in (62 hours) and can wait to keep going. However, you come to a point where it gets so overwhelmingly complex that well, I'm done, and I can't seem to pick it up again. I don't want to start over it just feels like to much work to push a button and move the mouse. Egh!, patience threshold has been exceeded, I can not pick it up again.

I wish I could sell my game code on steam for a factorio of the price. Jeezz, 62 hours and I just can't go anymore. If they made the complexities of the game more comprehensive or an easy mode. I own a machinists mill and this just gets to hard, I,I, don't have the time anymore to watch youtubers to understand what they are doing. It's a case of, "you don't know unless someone tells you".
At the time I did the review I noticed that the game is $30 NO! NO! way over priced! When you hit 50 hours they should reward you $20 back for your time.