I cannot recommend this game for purchase, despite enjoying the core gameplay loop. As it currently stands, the core gameplay is a gem, but it's covered in awful monetization practices, bugs, outright missing features, and general mismanagement. Fatshark has clearly pushed this out for a Christmas/holiday release and reality of the game be damned.

Other reviews will cover things in more detail - but to sum up, the devs have outright lied, edited statements, on several occasions directly insulted the intelligence of the player base, and generally acted like a pack of baboons. This game is missing things it promised, from weapon variety, to the very cosmetics on the store page, to crafting, to story.

I've enjoyed the closed and public betas. I've enjoyed playing this game, as have my friends.

But I don't recommend it, not until the predatory cash shop and the broken promises are fixed.

UPDATED: This is remaining non-recommended. Weapon variety has improved slightly, and there have been numerous patches. That being said, the core of the game's 'progression' is entirely reliant on RNG, ditto most of the actually interesting cosmetics. The story still is non-existent.

Communication from the devs has improved, in that a single Community Manager, Catfish, is doing her job well. Hedge has not made any asinine statements for a while.

I'm still waiting for a better progression system that isn't gacha ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and the story that they hired Dan Abnett to make.

UPDATE 11-8-23: The class overhaul was a welcome change. Again, though, none of my particular pain points are changing here. In addition to that, they've started increasing the prices of 'premium' cosmetics, which were already overly high.

Steam doesn't give me options beyond a binary yes-no, until things become more player friendly, it's staying none-recommended. There are practices I can't condone.

I cannot recommend this game for purchase, despite enjoying the core gameplay loop. As it currently stands, the core gameplay is a gem, but it's covered in awful monetization practices, bugs, outright missing features, and general mismanagement. Fatshark has clearly pushed this out for a Christmas/holiday release and reality of the game be damned. Other reviews will cover things in more detail - but to sum up, the devs have outright lied, edited statements, on several occasions directly insulted the intelligence of the player base, and generally acted like a pack of baboons. This game is missing things it promised, from weapon variety, to the very cosmetics on the store page, to crafting, to story. I've enjoyed the closed and public betas. I've enjoyed playing this game, as have my friends. But I don't recommend it, not until the predatory cash shop and the broken promises are fixed. UPDATED: This is remaining non-recommended. Weapon variety has improved slightly, and there have been numerous patches. That being said, the core of the game's 'progression' is entirely reliant on RNG, ditto most of the actually interesting cosmetics. The story still is non-existent. Communication from the devs has improved, in that a single Community Manager, Catfish, is doing her job well. Hedge has not made any asinine statements for a while. I'm still waiting for a better progression system that isn't gacha bullshit, and the story that they hired Dan Abnett to make. UPDATE 11-8-23: The class overhaul was a welcome change. Again, though, none of my particular pain points are changing here. In addition to that, they've started increasing the prices of 'premium' cosmetics, which were already overly high. Steam doesn't give me options beyond a binary yes-no, until things become more player friendly, it's staying none-recommended. There are practices I can't condone.