So i sank 19 hours into this game. I was able to look past the bug that basically corrupts the game files randomly requiring verifying steam cache every other play session. I reported the bug in the forum but apparently nobody working for the game has even looked at them in 3 months. I was able to look past the fact that for some reason nobody ever plays it, and the bad reviews. I was even able to look past the brutal early game - which had there been other players would be worse if you were being attacked by pvp too. I even gifted a copy to a friend who had it on their wish list.

I shouldn't have. The worst part here was I was actually enjoying myself after surviving the brutal early game - until a final slap in the face:
What finally did it in for me was some stupid stupid insta-kill roblox obby game inspired nonsense at the bottom of a very long bunker in the south west of the map that is difficult to get to, and impossible to leave once you enter it. Virtually assuring that you will die and loose all your items. I managed to progress quite far until a bug made the game suddenly decide I was carrying too much and locking me in place as an enemy murdered me where i stood. This is a game where losing your items completely destroys your ability to progress. The quick heal item (adrenaline) is just as slow as a medpack or medical spray.. why bother. Items you need for higher level weapons and armor are very difficult to come by if you ever come by them at all. Cloning chambers? waste of time. You respawn with nothing. Why even add them. Bases maybe handy you can store extra crafting materials, but they have this frustrating time limit which i believe was added to counter high level players blowing up low level players buildings. That at least I could live with.

To rub salt into the wound the bunker that glitched me to death was not even properly play tested, enemies would glitch into walls floors or scenery, I found myself glitched into the wall right where you would land after navigating a laser filled elevator shaft. Prior to that I found myself nearly killing myself when a tunnel you need to crawl down throws you a nearly fatal distance at the bottom.

Considering how difficult it is to get items - a death trap bunker is utter lunacy. Obvious the devs who tested it likely walked around in god and fly mode the entire time they tested so likely never considered these problems. Or if they were aware of these problems they didn't care. They should be fired. Also half the intel (a key plot element) is in another language ? Seriously? So I am supposed to find out what happened, but its in Russian and Chinese? How is that even remotely a good idea even after 12 beers?

Also I didn't play long enough to find out, but apparently the entire planet blows up after every 7 days of in game play time, and if you don't have a high level memory core by then I believe all your progress is wiped. So the game makes you play for hours just for basic gear, you can lose it all by a single moment of distraction, or from random pvp, or from not logging in frequently enough to reset your base timer. A game that punishes you for not playing it every waking hour? What is this facebook?

This game started somewhere as a good idea, you can see aspects of that when you play - or i wouldn't have sank 19 hours into it. But somewhere along the way they ruined it. Badly.

One thing they did do right however, is you can run your own dedicated server. So basically you can run it as a single player game - and you will always be able to play it.

However unless you own the server you play on, don't bother with it.

So i sank 19 hours into this game. I was able to look past the bug that basically corrupts the game files randomly requiring verifying steam cache every other play session. I reported the bug in the forum but apparently nobody working for the game has even looked at them in 3 months. I was able to look past the fact that for some reason nobody ever plays it, and the bad reviews. I was even able to look past the brutal early game - which had there been other players would be worse if you were being attacked by pvp too. I even gifted a copy to a friend who had it on their wish list. I shouldn't have. The worst part here was I was actually enjoying myself after surviving the brutal early game - until a final slap in the face: What finally did it in for me was some stupid stupid insta-kill roblox obby game inspired nonsense at the bottom of a very long bunker in the south west of the map that is difficult to get to, and impossible to leave once you enter it. Virtually assuring that you will die and loose all your items. I managed to progress quite far until a bug made the game suddenly decide I was carrying too much and locking me in place as an enemy murdered me where i stood. This is a game where losing your items completely destroys your ability to progress. The quick heal item (adrenaline) is just as slow as a medpack or medical spray.. why bother. Items you need for higher level weapons and armor are very difficult to come by if you ever come by them at all. Cloning chambers? waste of time. You respawn with nothing. Why even add them. Bases maybe handy you can store extra crafting materials, but they have this frustrating time limit which i believe was added to counter high level players blowing up low level players buildings. That at least I could live with. To rub salt into the wound the bunker that glitched me to death was not even properly play tested, enemies would glitch into walls floors or scenery, I found myself glitched into the wall right where you would land after navigating a laser filled elevator shaft. Prior to that I found myself nearly killing myself when a tunnel you need to crawl down throws you a nearly fatal distance at the bottom. Considering how difficult it is to get items - a death trap bunker is utter lunacy. Obvious the devs who tested it likely walked around in god and fly mode the entire time they tested so likely never considered these problems. Or if they were aware of these problems they didn't care. They should be fired. Also half the intel (a key plot element) is in another language ? Seriously? So I am supposed to find out what happened, but its in Russian and Chinese? How is that even remotely a good idea even after 12 beers? Also I didn't play long enough to find out, but apparently the entire planet blows up after every 7 days of in game play time, and if you don't have a high level memory core by then I believe all your progress is wiped. So the game makes you play for hours just for basic gear, you can lose it all by a single moment of distraction, or from random pvp, or from not logging in frequently enough to reset your base timer. A game that punishes you for not playing it every waking hour? What is this facebook? This game started somewhere as a good idea, you can see aspects of that when you play - or i wouldn't have sank 19 hours into it. But somewhere along the way they ruined it. Badly. One thing they did do right however, is you can run your own dedicated server. So basically you can run it as a single player game - and you will always be able to play it. However unless you own the server you play on, don't bother with it.