Recent reviews by norbee

Good graphics, realistic vehicles, sometimes fun gameplay (3 times out of 50 matches maybe), epic soundtracks for events, that's all the positive stuff I can say about this game.

As you progress on the tech tree, the game is getting significantly more complex and toxic.
Slow progress without premium account and battle pass (you can barely grind the free stuff from the BP, unless you play 4-6hrs per day).

There's no such thing as balancing between tech trees, while you suck @ss with the pervitin fueled wet dreams of WW2 tank designers in the GER tech tree, some other ones already use cold war vehicles with far superior ammo and overall ergonomics. Or when in the USA tech tree you don't get any other SPAA for a whole Rank, so good luck trying to shoot down ♥♥♥♥' jets with your WW2 era 4.3 BR anti-air thingy.

Let's talk about CAS (close air support - aka dropping the bombs/rockets on ppl). It can be fun sometimes, and the easiest way to experience it is arcade, and both teams only can summon up to 3 airplanes/helis (sounds balanced, amirite?). In Realistic, after getting 1-2 kills, the overly competitive fellas in the enemy team immediatedly jumping into fighters and heavy bombers, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ down your neck that FAB-5000 from the lovely Pe-8 or the 12.000 kg bomb from the Beef Wellington, causally jerking off out of the AA range of the sheer common sense, bc you cannot even spot them from that high without a maxed out crew in the first place. Nowadays even in Arcade you cannot make consistent hits on airplanes, maybe on the really slow ones. Direct hits from the front seems to leave airplanes simply unfazed (like the shots get sliced up the rotor or wtf?), only wing hits seem to halt the annoying rain of hell (if you can manage a hit, or don't get killed upon spawn).

Inconsistent hitreg while Gaijin is boasting about "simulating everything", I'm talking about disappearing shells or rockets, or the fact that in tanks the periscope cannot be simply penetrated with APCBC because someone decided that "yeah, that sucker can fit all your shrapnels. Oh shrapnels, how they are even simulated/calculated in the first place? Sometimes one good shot opens up to an umbrella of shrapnel and taking out the entire cast of Snowwhite and the 7 dwarves (shrapnels BOUNCING inside the compartment until they find everyone), the other 90% is like you have to individually shoot every single crewmember to kill the whole crew. Or if you have the Fox or the Falcon with their weird ass 30mm autocannons, you can shred even heavies from the front, because somehow that tiny shell makes so many shrapnels, that it can OHK anything, while their paper thin armor just lets thru anything, because with every AP shell you can overpenetrate them (aka not getting fragmentation).

Crew mechanics: either I didn't underrstand how "agility" works and scales, or in some cases killing the gunner + loader + commander doesn't mean that the ♥♥♥♥' IS-2 cannot shoot. I get that there's a game mechanics called "hunter killer system", but not in WW2 vehicles bro.

Aaaand russian bias. Every single ♥♥♥♥ plane gets outmaneuvered by soviet planes, every soviet vehicle has a drop of stallinium in the stats.

You may think I hate this game, but I don't, in fact I liked this game, but the longer I play it, the more I feel the lack of satisfaction to have some casual fun after work.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma


---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☑ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
Note: the horrendous grind and the shortcuts they sell is the way Gaijin monetizes the game.

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☑ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☐ 10

Jesus Christ, it's a trainwreck.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☑ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☑ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☑ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☑ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☑ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☑ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☑ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☐ 10

Grab this review template here! 👉 https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template/

FYI: played the game after the release, so take my review with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary after the major patches.
TL;DR: Don't buy it yet, or keep in mind the 2 hours gameplay limit for the refund. Get familiar with the gameplay before purchasing, it's maybe not your cup of tea.

Poor (or missing?) optimization, really hard to get stable 40+ fps on RX580, even FidelityFX cannot save this. Sure the graphics can look great, if you have a semi decent and current GPU, otherwise forget it, I had to crank the visuals to bottom in order to get some playable fps.

There isn't a single word about the mission based gameplay, which was a surprise to me, since according to the lore, we are building "outposts", but there is not a single change from mission-to-mission basis that "improves" our situation on this exactly Earth-like planet, where we have proper modern time flora and fauna, just can't breathe the air (facepalm). The character creation is basically unnecessary, because on the planets you cannot see your characters face at all, it wears the EVA suit and helmet all the time.

Got it as a gift from a friend of mine, but the game frustrated me so badly I have deleted it after 6 hrs.

Co-op and the constant updates could be the saving grace of this game, though the developers stating that this is a finished game is an obvious lie, more like an early access with minor bugs and non-existent performance optimizations.

Fun with friends. Good challenges, each run requires tactics and communication.

---{Graphics}---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Paint.exe

---{Gameplay}---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☑ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better
☐ Just don‘t

---{Audio}---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Earrape

---{Audience}---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
☑ Human
☐ Lizards

---{PC Requirements}---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boiiiiii
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{Difficulity}---
☐ Just press ‚A‘
☑ Easy
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{Grind}---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isnt necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding

---{Story}---
☑ Story?
☐ Text or Audio floating around
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life

---{Game Time}---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☑ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{Price}---
☐ It’s free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If u have some spare money left
☑ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{Bugs}---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

Funny game for the first 2-3 hours, but when there aren't cheaters, still have TOXIC players, who stand in the finish line and block you, or jump on your head so you stumble and lose time. The concept is good, cute as heck, but it gets boring after a few hours. It has potential, so we'll see where does it go for our money. Has some input lags and delays, which is annoying in the tail game for ex.

Egy rakás ****.
Ok, nem vagyok hardcore rally sim fan, de abban semmi realisztikusság nincs, hogy a procedurálisan generált pályán (és nem az erdő közepén, hanem az úton) mindig megtalálom azokat a pici kiálló részeket, amik a megfelelő pillanatban egy bal korrigálásnál jobbra beránt a susnyásba/erdőbe. A kontrolleren kiadott parancsokat lassan reagálja le a játék, folyamatos mikrolaggok-akadások vannak, tökmindegy milyen grafikai beállítások mellet játszik az ember. Ennél még a Dirt 3 is folyékonyabb, játszhatóbb volt. Lehet fújolni, hogy nem neked való a játék, meg hogy nem értessz hozzá, de ha egyszerűen egy műbráner élvezeti értékével bír ez a játék...

Jofféle, barátokkal játszva mégjobb.

Good.