Recent reviews by Maggie

I need barony 2 :<

It's been pretty good but I've had some problems mostly related to the fact I assumed one door that was on the journal list was already bypassed by going through the roof. It turned out that door was properly removed from the journal and there was a door locking mines behind it in an area I had already been and forgotten about and that took a long time to notice and was a game progression lock :< . The other problem has been that I am playing the game with my friend who has only about 3 hours a week to play and I am trying to not progress the story without him which is driving me a bit mad. I am currently at about 28 hours when writing this review and am only at victor lvl2 because of the waiting.

Removed arenas which was the only balanced game mode especially for comp, ques are long now.

I tried playing this game again it have been over 5 years since I lat played it and it doesn't feel like it has gone anywhere good. Play basically any other mmo. The game is so extremely grindy you are going to spend hours clicking on the same enemy pretty fast just for 1 or 2 levels and maybe a drop. Most enemy drop rates for anything worthwhile is 0.25% or less. The in game wiki is very out of date and just entirely doesn't include some skills and there is no direction on how to start those skills in game. Cash shop is a bit expensive and offers items you cannot obtain in any other way that are extremely useful like a multitool that makes it so you can save bank/inventory space and not have to constantly equip different tools while crafting. The bank space is very limited and you have to focus on only doing one thing at a time because you won't have space to save drops for alchemy, while also working on other crafting. While skilling or crafting you will also have to sacrifice bank or inventory space because your equipped gear takes up inventory space not character equipment slots. The extent of quests is just "kill monster" or "craft x" that is literally all and no plot or lore. Almost every npc is just a shop interface. Just a lack of meaningful content is one more reason I can't be bothered to play and if you think something is a good idea 80% of the playerbase will be very blunt and opposed to any change.

This game is an mmo which is stated in the about game but is not tagged or said in the brief description at the top of the page. This game doesn't do anything criminally bad but I I think it is very generic and I don't know if it gets any better later but it was giving me the I'm getting near the 2 hour mark and am considering a return kind of feeling. There is a restriction on exploration time in the ocean where you only get like 1-2mins of travel time with the starter ship and the other ships were a bit expensive with only one seeming to have one that can travel a reasonable amount of time. The game felt kind of empty in the small amount of time I was able to explore the ocean I was able to get to 2 other locations but the land looks like there should be a lot of content with it's buildings and roads. The combat felt really generic too basically just real time combat spamming left click and even in the turn based like mode it's just attack timers and flicking defense mode like a runescape prayer. The skill tree is lackluster and not fully baked either.

I could think of some more gripes I have with the game but these are the biggest offenders. These problems combined with the fact it's $20 for an indie mmo that's not gaining much traction doesn't really make me want to convince other people to buy this.

TLDR: game is like a 6.5/10 right now but decent enough for me to like it. It is very rough around the edges right now and expect to see some bugs and have your fair or maybe not so fair share of cheap deaths.

TLDR TIPS FOR NEW PLAYER: Buy a >>RADIAL<< headlamp to see anomalys at night. G key to see where hurtful anomalys are. Save for an armor set 10k at green army and 18k at bartender and weapon repair kits early game. Phone, silver chains, gold wristwatch, and guns are valuable to sell but guns are heavy 2-4kg avg. and pelts and meat make animals profitable with cheap low pen/good damage(denoted by green number% ammo). Get an ammo crafter upgrade early game as your main hideout upgrade and then a farm and stash upgrade asap. Drink your dirty water and don't do the 2 dirty for one clean craft. Do the sandwhich craft if you find cheese/salami and bad bread. Mosin and MKM are very good for humans and generally avoid combat when using ammos with less than 20 penetration against humans except maybe weak bandits at forest camps. When your gun jams spam left click but it will waste a round of ammo if you are not aiming at your target. There are some other good tips I could give you but they might ruin fun and discovery so good luck and keep an eye out/experiment with things since you don't lose them on death in the current build of the game 0.26 .

The review:

I agree with a lot of the negatives people point out.
Enemies have a 0 second reaction time and better aim than players and kill often in 1-3 shots

Enemies can see farther at night than the player even with all lights out often leading to 2-3 enemies running into the woods in the dark then suddenly shooting the player all at the exact same time leading to cheap insta-death

Enemies have armor but you more often than not can't tell what and never drop their armor I have put over 20 rounds of hp 5.45 ammo into a target and they don't die and you can't leg/head enemies like in tarkov or other shooters with armor hit boxes

Enemies are murder machines and never have guns jam but NEAR ALWAYS drop weapons between 15-30% condition best weapon I got as a drop/loot find was a mosin at 38% condition

Some weapons are blatantly overpowered and cheese enemies while others struggle to compete after dumping 30K+ roubles into attachments and repairs a good example is a 10% condition mosin will regularly out perform most other weapons using cheaper and more available ammo imo

Some anomaly things are bs at night like you really cannot see any lighting effects off the fire one

Player lights at night suck ass pretty bad early on and if you buy one it can help BUT you better buy the right one and as a new player you might make the wrong decision. It's the RADIAL headlamp btw because it is literally the same price as the directional head lamp but sees the same distance maybe like 1 foot less as the directional one but in every direction and they are only really useful for seeing the anomalys so you don't sprint/walk into one at night

There are other issues too.

Despite all this I enjoy the game's content is good enough to want to keep going but there is currently still going to need to be a lot of content added. AI needs to be improved and I do still want the AI to be hard or risky but not a terminator god or cheesable. Sound hopefully improved and hopefully this will help the AI to be manageable by giving some info about what is around a corner. Hitboxes on cover and walls improved. Prices of weapons, ammo, healing and availability of water, and other useful items as well as maybe risk in raids/death would be a nice thing to be balanced. Just a lot of things to be improved and tweaked in general. I don't claim to have all the answers and AI is one of the hardest things to make challenging and functional but I hope to see zero sievert get even better.

It's not fun.... the deluxe stuff is literally nothing but bland shirt and pants you basically pay $20 for a mount skin. The game has over $150 of MTX + Gacha pulls in a pay to play game on day 1.... The gameplay seems awful unless you want to play hunter and just destroy people while they have no idea what is even happening to them. I cannot even find a description of what items do in match.

Gonna have to say no on this.... Appears to have no in game group finding feature (or no one is online). The english LFG in discord has the most recent post from 2021 a year ago... last sneak peek was also from over a year ago... There is no gear to earn only cosmetics and ability builds which is sort of a let down. I then realized the last update link from the discord was ver 9.9 and then also realized this has gone full release. I get the game needs a community to play but the game seems like you really need a community or friends willing to play. I do not have people who will just play games with me.

It's ok I guess

Slow, pointless, not fun.