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Like is something even happening? Im coming back every month or two to see if its getting better... I always get disappointed and i deinstall immidiately. Still huge fps drops, zero content update, dont thing the night patch will change something. This game would still need like 1,5 years developement to be worth checking again.

Firstly, I just want to start off by saying I was IN LOVE with the concept and idea of another Tarkov-like game of the scale, and I DO realize that I only have 22 hours on this game, although I wish I had many many more, but 90% or more of those hours are in the first two days after I had purchased the best supporter edition, so i did "no life it" for a few days before I realized what was happening over the course of the initial month of release, and this review is more based on the EARLY ACCESS DEVELOPMENT AND PATCHING aspect rather than the game itself. Although I WILL say some things about the game itself.

For benefit of the actual point of this review, I will keep the game-play part short and sweet. So to start off with that, YES, the game is VERY fun, has a very good concept, a very good game world/map, gorgeous graphics and immersion, good sound design other than a few bugs, a very good vision for what it COULD be, and all in all, the game DOES play "good enough for early access" for literally anyone who enjoys the base idea of an extraction looter shooter to enjoy as much as they want, for however long of a time period they deem worth it to enjoy in their own personal opinion.

HOWEVER, sadly the actual issues with this game are less about "is it fun? Is it a good game?" (because it IS fun and a good game), and more about "what in the world have we been paying to support" in the sense that it is in a VERY unfinished feeling state as far as, the AI realism, a lot of mechanics not working being bugged or missing completely, the ongoing PvP war having basically NO point, having unique loot to pick up other than food, overall quest flow, bugs, balancing, tuning, graphical issues, network issues, server issues, compatibility issues, and ESPECIALLY over everything else - the optimization, I can keep going but you probably get the idea by now, and if you dont; (TLDR) = THE ACTUAL ISSUES ARE WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAME IN GENERAL OVER THE FIRST 6 MONTHS.

Now, again, I do know its early access, I bought into it knowing that, and knowing I was going to be paying for an unfinished product to test, that things will have to be ironed out of over the course of early access until full release, however long that may be, and I am not saying that all those things are completely unacceptable, as they are the typical early access issues of a game, and they have nothing to do with me giving a negative review.

I AM however saying that the fact that this game was released on Apr 30, 2024, and as of the date of this review on Nov 5, 2024, where has our support money for development gone? what development have we gotten for the game other than a few irrelevant hotfixes? what issues or features have been smoothed out, added, or removed, over the last 6 months? The sad answer to that is they have done NOTHING with this game, yet continue claiming they have this crazy roadmap in their heads that i'm sorry, just simply does not exist or is not being acted upon. They have acted like a kid who keeps telling their mom "yeah ill clean my room in 5 minutes I promise" yet it never gets done.

I cannot and will not recommend this game to anyone EVER, even if they release an insanely huge patch tomorrow that fixes all the issues that i stated, based on the FACT that there is NO and I mean NO reason anything should be taking half a year to address and fix literally ANYTHING at all for how much they charged for the game. (No, I have no complaints about the pricing, I paid what I paid for it because I wanted to)

This game was not marketed as "hey guys its just about done, so we are gonna put it in early access to PURCHASE as basically a demo and flesh out these couple things to give it a proper 1.0 release soon", they said "this is in a very early state and we will be working basically around the clock to give you the full experience this game can give you as soon as we can" and they are treating the game as if it is already 99% done and fixed which is unfair to the supporters.

Its my own fault for buying in to an early access title that ended up this way, and I am the only one to blame for my frustration and money loss, I am not mad at those things although they are upsetting. I am simply saving anyone else the same struggle of purchasing a game that clearly is not being taken seriously by its developer, probably will never be finished, and if it ever is, it will be completely irrelevant by that time because it is a PvP game at its core and other players playing it alongside you is what would keep a game like this going, by the time this would be done we will all be 6 feet under based on the fact that we basically have had no development towards the game on top of the initial product for half a year making this a complete waste of your money.

Sorry devs, all in all you had a great game and could have made this better than the other survival extraction shooters, but you completely failed and need to own up to that.

Waiting 6 months on updates to do basic upgrades is far to long cant recommend something the devs aren't serious about.

Fun game, difficult, and time consuming . Just wish the enemies weren't literal bullet sponges. You'll fill an enemy with 11+ rounds and they still wont go down. Which if they were heavily geared it would make sense. But you're fighting enemies in t shirts and chest rigs.

So pretty early on to review - but the game just is not fun in its current "pre-alpha" state

I really like the concept and won't ask for the refund - but for my faction there were 4 people online - unless you bring people you will not get a team.

You are up against AI that really isn't that good but lucky - one head shot/neck shot etc. and you are dead. The AI may take 3-5 shots to kill even with the first being to the head. They are going to shoot you - you will eventually just get an unlucky head shot die and lose all your gear (especially in 4v1 scenarios - when you shoot you get swarmed)

You can not carry much loot back so you can either go out shoot one NPC and return with the gear/weapons or roll the dice on luck again of not taking a head shot. Eventually you will lose gear until you just go out with crap weapons. The only "free" weapon is a knife - you will die as you can't hide from the NPCs and even stabbing them they do not always die on the first hit.

Fixes needed to make the game playable:
Carry more loot/multiple weapons so you can collect and extract it and actually build up a stockpile.
Let NPCs drop $/let you find $ while playing or straight up take contracts that pay for kills in an area.
Let concealment let you hide from NPCs without them shooting you instantly in the face.
NPCs are very loud - you can hear them but audio does not let you hear the direction, show it on the overhead compass the direction the sounds are coming from or fix the left/right audio.
Let head shot/critical shots insta-kill enemies the same way theirs kill you.
Let weapons you lose be found in the area of where you lose them - such as let NPCs pick them up.
Finally - if there are no players to group with, we have to tone down the 4+ NPCs vs 1 player.

Definitely in the current state do not buy the supporter packs - you will lose it all to game mechanics.

Overall the game play isn't too bad. The gunplay feels good, the medicinal system is easy to understand and the animations are all pretty cool. There is a lot of different tasks which is really nice and great for an early access game, it gives you a lot to do, I'm maybe halfway through them currently at the time of this review. There is plenty to keep you occupied BUT here are the negatives and they are some big ones for me:
1. The chopper system
Its a really neat concept but it gets INSANELY annoying later in the game. When you first start out its not bad cause the city is very close and its a quick back and forth for missions or if you are dying and need to get back in quickly, however later when in Tiger Bay, Ban Pa, and Blue Lagoon, just to get there will take about 5 mins, get back 5 mins and that's just the ride itself, that's not including the 100 "NEGATIVE ALL BIRDS ARE IN THE AIR" you will get spamming the crap out of trying to get a heli just to leave or go to your destination, I bet out of the almost 50 hours of gameplay I have 10+ hours are waiting to call in a heli, waiting on the heli, riding the heli. DEVS THIS NEEDS A MASSIVE REWORK PLEASE ITS KILLING THIS GAME ALREADY.
2. Please Please make a private server to play on, I should not be wasting my time going to do a kill 20 people task waiting/riding the heli for 10 mins just to get to where i need to kill people just for an enemy faction to have just cleared the place now i have to wait another 15-20 mins for the ai to respawn. Then once they do respawn I dome an AI with no helmet with a silences 7.62 from 200m away just for them to not die, snap directly to my location and one shot me. Its too much please fix this.
THERE IS SO MUCH WAITING in this game. Wait to be able to call a heli in, wait on the heli to get to destination, wait for AI to respwan, wait for heli to get back to pick you up, wait while riding heli back. It takes me out of the game so much that after 50 I just don't want to play anymore. If I could just log in, and get right to playing the game I would love it so much, especially if I knew the enemy AI was going to be there once I got in. Get rid of the heli system, add a loading screen and a private server and I'll come back to it.

save your money

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very new to pc gaming, this is the second game i have played (scum being the first) where the realism of the game make it that much better than the others like it. the animations are awesome and the communities across both, pvp and pve servers make this one of the best games i have played in a long time. everyone has been super helpful, even higher level players donate gear/supplies and assist on quests if your a solo. tip to new players, be patient. the AI stands 10 on their name, they hear you and they will find you. second tip, dont get attached to gear/hoard. loot is plentiful, if you find yourself down bad bad, just ask for help. i look very forward to what the future holds for this game and plan to upgrade my version when funds free up a bit. Thank you to the team behind this game and the attention to detail to make this an amazing tactical FPS that really is unique in its own way.