บทวิจารณ์ล่าสุดโดย Holy Athena

Don't even know where to start... Game used to be good.. Then over the past 5 seasons cheaters have infested this game, and Respawn has done NOTHING about it.. The game gets more and more buggy, servers get worse and worse, and again nothing is done.

Season 22 was supposed to be a "revival" hence the name. What did they do? Literally added in cheats.. I guess fixing the cheating problem was too much of a problem, so lets give everyone cheats!

Now if you hit someone you get to see their health bar, even through smoke, and behind walls for a period of time. What genius thought this was a good idea? There goes literally every skill expression, and dynamic of this game out the window..

Throw a grenade, and hit everyone, now you get to see exactly who is in the room, how much hp they have, and where they are... its literally built in cheats...

This game is complete trash now..

In it's current state. I have to say no. Don't worry about play hours, I've played at least 500+ hours in the last year before it came to steam. This is all my experiences, and feedback from following and playing the game for the last year.

This doesn't mean you won't enjoy it, but definitely play awhile in Free to play mode before you decide to put in money to buy the full version, it's free, so no risk trying it, and your mileage may vary.

I'll gladly and happily change this review if things change. I want this game succeed but I can't in good faith recommend it in its current state.

Edit: After waking up and re checking my review. it's easy to see the DaD fanboys (who are as toxic as LoL players), came out of the wood work.

Which is actually something I forgot to add. The player base can be extremely toxic. Thanks for reminding and proving that guys!

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So why don't I recommend it? Many reasons.

* Devs have no direction.

They've proven this in the last year, as they keep flip flopping on core design, and has left everything else at the wayside. This is the root of all the other problems I'm going to list, as instead of actually pushing the game forward, its been going in circles balance change wise for over a year, and its never been good, and i don't mean personal opinion good or bad either.. I'm meaning game instability bad, cheater galore bad, and classes so unbalanced, even the try hard supporters will admit only 2 classes are viable in most of the year. Fighter, Barbarian. or Warlock, depending on which shift that current patch favored.

They will say 1 thing, then do another.. + All Attribute stat was put in, removed, put in again, removed, put in again, removed again... Just 1 of handfulls of examples.. + all Attribute completely destroyed the games balance and fun each time, yet they kept insisting on adding it again and again and again.


Update 6/10/2024

As of today:

They are changing Free to Play "Normal" Mode to allow ALL gear qualities. Now off the bat this may seem like a great idea. But its not. I'll explain.

1) The Normal Mode is split into 2 Match Making Q's.. "Common" or under, so basically what it is prior to this update.

Or everything else. This means the moment a new player puts on a green item, they can now go up against chads in legendary and purple gear that 1 shot you and just roll you.

This is how the game used to be for a year. Before they changed it so Normals was common only.

2) This devalues HR mode. HR mode is the mode originally where you'd go with green+ gear.... Making HR almost pointless... Instead of finding ways over the year to give incentive to HR mode, and fill it out with more players, they keep making changes that makes it pointless to play. This means all the highest skilled players, are going to be pub stomping in Normals becaues HR is dead.. There is no point anymore to do it.

This knee jerk change happened, just 2 days after writing this.. Which is another example of IMs knee jerk, ping ponging and sweeping changes that adds more problems than fixes on a large scale, as well as bringing back problems from a year ago.. We've already had this system... it didn't work for a plethora of reasons...



* Cheater pandemic.

This problem has been hit or miss. There are large points in time where cheaters are almost non existent.. Then there are times where they just run everything over.

* Server Instability

If your internet is 100% perfectly stable, you will rubberband, and rubberbanding in this game is a 100% death sentence. Even to PvE, because PvE can chunk half your health in 1 shot depending on your class.

And that's when the server is actually behaving itself..

* Balance issues galore

I could write 10 pages alone on this issue. They have never remotely in over a year got a balance in this game that isn't a complete crap show.

As I mentioned before, generally 1-3 classes will reign supreme and run everyone over... Wizards and Rogues have been nerfed to virtually uselessness for half a year, and the ping ponging back and forth in balance design philosophy just makes it worse.

There is no end in sight for this either, as they still by their own admittance are just throwing crap at the wall and hoping it sticks. (Their words literally, not mine)

* Stale gameplay in the long term, with boring "metas", and frustratingly simple and lack luster combat.

After you get past learning how PvE works, and getting the hang of combat in the game, you start to realize the actual lack of any depth or skill expression in the game.

It is entirely 85% stat checking the other player, except you have no idea what stats they have. you have no idea even based on gear, as that plate could be junk, or it could be legendary best armor in the game, and there is no distinction.

You then realize this game is all about holding the W key and yoloing, and hoping for the best, because combat in this game comes down to throwing up whatever buffs your class has, and pressing the attack button, and block button, that's it.. That's all there is to combat.

This has lead to the same "meta" for a year now.. Where EVERYONE just spams throwables, and ranged attacks for 95% of the fight, then closes in to see who can finish each other off first in a stat check.

That's the gameplay.. that's it..

Edit:

I wanted to clarify this part, as people are getting confused. When I say the game is mostly "yolo holding the W key" I'm saying that's how the majority of players play it.

It's boring, and when you know what you're doing, those players are just cannon fodder and easy to deal with.

If you play against players who know what they're doing. The game devolves into ranged throwing matches, where you're either lobbing Fran axes, throwing daggers, or spamming xbows at each other, until one of you hits the other enough times you feel you like you can yolo in and finish the job in 1 or 2 hits..

Again, boring as heck, when all the melee specific characters just default to ranged throwing weapons for 95% of the engagement every time.


* Terrible PvE, that doesn't stay true to its design or selling point.

So you think "well what about PvE? This is a dungeon crawling game right?" No.. It's a Pvp Arena game first, dungeon crawler second, if you're lucky.

The PvE are all very basic. 99% of the time, players will just cheese bosses, because depending on your class it'll be impossible to even deal with them, as a solo player. (Not including the bosses in the goblin caves which are actually soloable by anyone).

By cheesing I mean jumping up onto a ledge where the boss can't hit you and jabbing it in the face 100 times. That's about the extent of engaging gameplay you can find in this game PvE wise.

They reverted the requirement for PSN. This was Sony's decision not the developers.

The developer also owned up to his side of the problem, too, which shows moral fiber. I respect that as well.

The game is a great game, and tons of fun with friends. DEMOCRACY WINS AGAIN! FOR DEMOCRACY!

This game has no excuse or right to be as good or addicting as it is.

It's a little dash of everything. Base building, Pokemon, survival (in terms of having to eat, and feed your Pals, but its really not difficult, can easily setup a functional, self sustaining base in no time), and exploring and dungeon delving.

While the game is Early Access, it feels and is legitimately a full game, and it has the base mechanics and structure so well done, that they could easily add another 10+ years of updates, DLCs, and expansions to this game easy.

It has a bright and addicting future.

When this game first came out, it had a lot of great ideas, and unique foundation to build on.

The map was randomly generated, and like your traditional BR game, a "circle" closed in, except in this case, the outer edges of the map literally broke away, and open space was left. Watching the ship you're on slowly break apart around you, pushing everyone to the center was really cool.

They also had "extraction shooter" style systems. Looting for loot, to craft, and put together armor, weapons, etc. Armor wasn't lost on death. Every armor piece had "masteries" applied. Every mastery point towards a certain mastery unlocked new passive perks. You couldnt unlock every mastery tree, or every perk. You had to pick and choose, and try to craft the armors you needed with the perks you wanted. This allowed for you to craft multiple sets of equipment depending on what you were trying to accomplish.

It was a great game-play loop, and kept you coming back.
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Then they decided after their initial launch and drop in player base, that they wanted to take feedback, except.. They took all the wrong feedback, and instead of keeping to their original unique vision, they turned the game into a basic Battle Royale..

Then after losing another massive hcunk of playerbase they decided to do this weird psuedo mash up BR/Looter Shooter but none of it jives together, which is what we currently have right now as of writing this....
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There is no loot to collect.. Just killing brain dead PvE to collect weapons/armor, and pvP if you're lucky enough to find it. It's a soulless, and extremely basic BR game now. They brought back the masteries but instead of it unlocking perks, its just a straight stat buff towards specific things. (like agility making you reload faster).

THere is no point or focus on the game, and that's quite fitting, because the game development seems to have absolutely no focus or point either.. They keep doing massive knee jerk reactions, ripping the game up from what it originally was, and making it worse with every iteration.

The game is barely struggling to hold 100 players at this point, and this is why. It's a soulless directionless game, with developers who don't know what they want to do with it anymore.

Low effort game, copy pasted crap, with bugs that have no excuse for existing. So I'm gonna give a low effort review.

Wanted to try it, as it seems like it had great idea's. A mix of all the usual Escape from Tarkov, Hunt, etc.... Problem is.. It's buggy as hell, barely functional, 20 frames even on low, and plethora of other serious issues... Feels just like what others have said.. a cheap mobile game ported to PC. It's a shame.


Edit: Went to give this game a second try.. after a week of playing, and writing down positive things.. I got banned..

lol.... yea.. skip this game..

There have been quite a few reports of false bans, and Support does nothing to help you. All they'll tell you is "abnormal data" was found... (what the F does that mean?), and to create a new account and turn off any 3rd party programs while playing... ANY third party programs..

The only things I had up was steam, discord, and Firefox...

Apparently one of those triggered the automatic ban..

Game is closing down on Sept. 2023. So I'm switching this to a down vote.

Still a fun game to mess around in for the last months, since it's free, but it is officially shutting down.

Last 30 days had 1 player in it total. Unfortunately a dead game.

Steam is forcing me to choose yay or nay. I'd stay this game heavily depends on what you're looking for. It's not a "Bad" game, and there isn't anything inherently wrong with it per say.

The problem I have with this game is simply that it feels like a Rust/Day Z/Hack n Slash/Survival game and it doesn't know what it wants to be at the end of the day.

You can play Solo, but this game isn't really designed around that. It will get boring fast, just chopping down tree's and hacking at rocks for hours on end. With friends it'll be more fun, and more content will open up to you, but quite honestly even past that.. There really isn't much going for it.

The map size is relatively big, but for 40 people per server, it's both really big, yet not big at the same time. The more north you go, the stronger enemies get. You have to build a fort though, or castle.. meaning people have 2 options.. venture north, while you're weak, or build in the forest with the other 40 people, which isn't enough space to begin with.. meaning you're going to always be tripping over other peoples castles.. and in a game like Rust or Day Z where invading other peoples forts is part of the game.. well.. that gets annoying.. fast...

Another issue is there are a lot of choke points in the map.. like ALOT... alleyways throughout, with flat hilltops for building stuff.. meaning finding bases, isn't that difficult, and everywhere else is no go. This makes the map feel both really small, yet really big at the same time. Small in the sense of nowhere to build that feels relatively safe, yet you're spending 15 minutes running to get to where you wanna go.

Over all could be fun with friends, nothing inherently wrong with the game, but solo, especially offline play the game will simply become a barren base builder, resource collecting game with no reason for being.