Recent reviews by uniflare

A fun casual builder game developed in part by a good friend :). I saw this at Gamescom 2024, and thought it was a very interesting concept.

I found that I ended up spending a lot longer in the game than I realised. This game can really suck you into the planning and building. It's fun to try to come up with an efficient layout, meeting various criteria.

There are a few bugs, being early access I expect they will be working on those of course. However it didn't really stop me from playing the game. All in all, can easily spend many hours in this game stretching my design muscles :D.

It's different, in its current state I cannot recommend.
You need to look online for community resources on how to do some things, what some things are for, the game is missing more than half its tooltips for what is there, and then half of the content isn't there (yet).

I also don't understand how 1 enemy brigand group can kill 72 fighter mercs.
It is a very steep learning curve and yhou pay for it in real time, spending 8 or more hours on a save, only to be crushed because 6 hours ago you didn't start doing something you had to do. I hope they can balance this out, because it looks cool, just the combat/military is too much sometimes, and not fun.

I feel like john wick up in dis house

Broken:

- Not getting progression sometimes
- Crashing randomly
- Cannot interact with some terminals (cannot progress side missions/missions)
- Disconnections randomly (Even rejoining, you are not host, so you don't progress)
- Getting stuck in terrain
- Getting stuck on dead monsters
- Mechs blowing themselves up just by turning
- Mechs blowing up before even dropping
- Missing pistol sometimes
- Supreme lag sometimes
- Cannot reinforce sometimes (They have to rejoin the mission)
- Cannot join matchmaking (never get a match)
- People sometimes cannot join you even via invite
- Never getting someone else in your game with SOS Beacon
- Extraction ship leaving immediately when one person enters with others alive


BS Mechanics etc:

- Getting stuck and dragged under living monsters
- Getting killed by dead Shriekers
- 5 Titans and 10+ chargers for one side mission
- Falling over little stones
- Not reloading weapon (just puts one in chamber, have to hit reload again)
- Matchmaking trolls
- Smoke doesn't work (only blocks your own LOS, not enemies)
- Devastators are one hit wonders (sometimes missile doesn't even render)
- Getting stunlocked by hunters/stalkers/rocket bots

This game is one of the most broken multiplayer games I have ever witnessed. When it works it is quite fun. Progression is pretty chill you can max out in a few days, then the rest is just ship modules and equipment so all about samples and medals.

- Minimal armor variation. (Only a few are any good)
- Minimal weapon variation. (Most of them are useless)
- Most strategems are weak and useless at higher diffs so everyone uses the same ones.

44 hours to complete, with fully unlocked car and suits and materials to craft anything I want.
Not too long to get burned out, not too short to feel swindled, I think this is a great play time.

However, the story was interesting, but seemed like the intrigue really tapered off at the end. The final mission was super short, with no big reveals or anything, just something about the supporting cast characters history.

Guess it is not the destination, but the journey, very much in this case - which was fun and pleasantly interesting. Recommend.

---- Update September 24 ----

2 Years and they haven't put in any of the most basic gameplay features that the community has asked for time and time again.

- Animation cancelling (AI Pushes when you pull grenade pins, reload and restrain. Good luck when an AI pushes while you are restraining).

- End of mission hints (Finding that last piece of evidence or hostage takes all the fun out of it, make them scream or something how hard is that).

- Evidence stuck in inaccessible areas (Even when you find the last weapon, it can be somewhere you can grab it).

- Filtered Matchmaking (This game has literally the worst matchmaking period. Give us ability to filter by lobby type, like lethal, or non-lethal, tactical, voice, english etc etc).

- Banning players from lobbies (So you kick a person from a lobby, but guess what, the 'random' matchmaking puts them straight back in your lobby).

- Hit Registration (you cant shoot through most stairs, Or gaps in boxes, but the AI can with their machine guns, feels good).

- Reporting downed officers (If you report an officer that was downed, but then he leaves, or leaves before you report them downed, you can't get S Rank).

- Discord integration (Since matchmaking is completely useless, you need to use Discord for LFG servers. But you need to add the person on steam to invite, or let anyone join you on your profile).

Still cannot recommend.

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I want to recommend this game but it is so frustrating getting killed through opaque windows and solid walls by the AI. I will play more because I am a sadist, but I cannot recommend anyone else to go through that pain.

I think if they fixed the aimbot wallhack AI it would be fantastic. Shoot through walls fine, just do it blind, don't track me as I back off away from the door and continue shooting exactly where I am without seeing me.

While working on and testing the build I found myself playing for longer than absolutely necessary, on my own, due to it's intuitive and satisfying mechanics. This game is really great for a small, quick and customizable competitive game between friends. The ball behaviour really shows just how robust the physics system is in CRYENGINE and the team did an awesome job making the most of that.

Set-up a quick 1 on 1 to settle a debate, or a tournament for who gets the last slice of pizza! Game loads fast, plays fast and runs smooth.

Just tried it out after the big update, they completely ruined gunplay for me - I used to actually like this game. Guess I am no longer their target audience. Uninstall and move on I guess.

They were fixing all the bugs and stuff that were annoying and then took the game into a completely different direction. It is trying to be more clunky than arma 3, and succeeding.
Just without the things that make arma 3 awesome like community maps/missions/game modes/vehicles/ai etc. One good thing, the vehicles don't desync, as often.

It's a nice game with a simple story.
I would like more optional stuff to figure out on my own, the whole thing is on train tracks essentially but I still recommend for the price.

The game itself is pretty fun, although I'm more interested in the mystery, than anything else. The characters are pretty forgettable. And when you have so many, really I couldn't care much about them.
I find myself skipping a lot of the dialog etc, and not reading any of the text, there is so much. Less is more, and in this case there is so much that there is nothing.

This game crashes. Had to fix the game myself by downloading a newer version of some library they were using.