Recent reviews by PainGravy

They said "Hey what if we make surroundead but with co-op/pvp before they do it?"

And then the players said, "This is very generic."

And then the devs said, "..."
Because they abandoned the game.

This game is a joke. All the evidence you need is the last three trailers that have released and you will understand exactly what this game is. One big joke. It's advertised as a realistic survival game, but it's not even close to being realistic, and the survival part is a stretch when you consider how easy it is to find food, and you can just drink whatever water you want wherever you see it. Even ocean water, just watch out for the 'food repulsion' bar and you will suffer zero negative consequences from drinking sea water. Even then the worst thing that can happen is you throw up. The game loves to boast some kind of depth with its metabolism system, but take for example when I drink that sea water. I can go to the sodium bar and see that there are lethal amounts of sodium coursing through my body, but that doesn't actually have an effect on my character. All those vitamin and mineral bars are purely cosmetic. The only thing that matters is you have protein in you so you don't lose any strength stat.

That isn't all, the whole game just doesn't work well. When you can just choose what sector you want to spawn into it makes pvp really dumb. I kill a guy and less than three minutes later he is back at his corpse coming at me with a machete he spawns with cuz he bought a DLC. Building a base is really not worth it when you consider how much less work it is to break into one versus building a secure compound. Because the respawn/lockpicking/explosive damage/base defense mechanics are hair-brained and half-baked it makes base raiding heavily favor the attacker.

Then we talk about the pve and it's like what is there that you really do? You explore the world with the same copy paste buildings and bunkers, to get trivial scraps of loot and for what? To store it away until the devs/server owners decide to wipe it all. There is no end game content, you just jack around building a base or playing Bear Grylls with a gun until you get bored and play something else.

Then we talk about all the planned content that will never make it into this game. Deadly weather events, mutated animals/hit squads sent against certain players/story missions/escaping the island/weight lifting equipment. I mean it has been years people have been asking for such a simple thing like removing ALL the nails/bolts/bobby pins from boxes. But even with 1.0 you still have to take them out 1 by 1. Do the devs just hate their player base or are they so incompetent they can't do something so small? I don't really care about the answer anymore, I'm just done with the game.

Pretty straight forward stuff. You give money they give you stuff in game ONE time per wipe. Not really pay to win because it doesn't really help you not lose it all in less than 3 seconds to someone hiding in a bush you had no way of seeing. I believe in the future of this game so I believe in supporting the devs for now with stuff like this.

Someday I could probably recommend this game, but not yet. The AI are braindead 90% of the time until you meet the one gangbanger that is impervious to bullets and insta caps your head. Not to say they haven't been improved, but they still have a long way to go. I think they need a downed state in order to improve realistically. When I shoot someone in the head, they should go down. I get they might not be dead, but shooting a guy in his helmet-less head only to watch him bend over and rub his head is anti realistic and anti immersive. And then it becomes ridiculous when he bolts like lightning and then starts to return accurate fire 2 seconds later. They're also still basic in their attention capabilities, like how they just have to hear you stepping on the other side of a wall and they instantly know you're an enemy. Grenades are mostly just a ping on your position when you use them for whatever reason. And my armor only seems to matter maybe 1 out of every 10 deaths. And when I do get the drop on them and somehow don't kill them with a bullet to the back of their neck, they insta spin on me within a millisecond.

YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO TURN YOUR BODY 360 DEGREES IN A FRACTION OF A SECOND IN A MILSIM GAME FIX THIS FOR PLAYERS AND AI PLEASE

Other than the AI the sound is not good. Really hard to tell the direction of bullets and if you're actually being shot at or if someone within 2 miles is shooting their gun. It's kinda funny how suppressors are more a pve thing since that whole sound quality issue. Suppressed gunshots sound carry just as far and are almost as loud as regular shots. The PvP is okay, but still way too susceptible to cheese tactics like camping, and people in comas shouldn't talk and one should be able to finish them.

Overall the first year of this game's development has looked pretty good, but the devs asked for reviews and here it is. I don't recommend it but perhaps later if they don't do anything too boneheaded.

It's boring and has absolutely nothing redeeming about it. Thought that whole start a new universe thing with it being altered from your doings in the previous universe would have been cool, but it's just really nothing special.

Very cringe. Very soulless. Glad I only spent 2 bucks on it.

If you buy this game you will end up waiting half your lifetime for them to update the game, and when it comes it will be disappointing and likely ruin what little charm this game has/had.

More first person shooter games should have firearm malfunctions as a game mechanic. Also, this game is very meta, to a surreal limit.

The three interns that have been left with the mod tools to dink around with this game think the term 'survival sandbox' refers to a game that is maximum 100 players on a server in a world filled with literal sand. There is no real survival in this game, and they want to sell that you can play a bajillion different roles to play but really all you do is fight and swing around on grapple hook/wingsuit, and if you're crazy enough you farm materials and craft walkers and weapons. BORING. Especially boring when you get into the "content" and it's just a janky lag fest of slide show animations and desync.

The developers of this game abandoned it because they don't have the chops to turn it into an actual game with a real audience, so they use terms like 'niche' to hide their ineptitude and inability to make meaningful changes to the game. Which is why after 5 years they've finally started adding stuff they should have been adding in year 1.

Pretty good looter character builder apocalypse simulator.