Earlchaos

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I have only 1200 hours in the game (300+ since 1.0) so i'm not sure, if i'm qualified to rate it yet. Anyhow would buy again. Graphics: Beautiful Difficulty: Easy to learn, full time job to master Map design + graphics: Marvellous Sound design + music: Excellent

While the concept is great and really enjoyable Flashbulb (the Developer behind the game) went the EA way and started bombing players with DLCs. While at the beginning they were only cosmetical later they locked new parts in DLCs - story updates but also plain part DLCs. So base game is 25 Bucks but all the DLCs are now over 100€ together. Another point of criticism is that the two new story DLCs are lackluster and buggy. So if you can live with being locked out of a third of parts (and the workshop) go for it but i cannot recommend it any more and i've spent already like 60 bucks in total. Just DLC afterDLC. Also the physics is wonky and since a year Flashbulb forces PvP on players - nobody asked for that.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

It's a great game but it also has it's flaws. Graphics looks great. Basically every area is a big tunnel. You cannot turn left or right, follow the path we laid out for you, if you like it or not. Which is a waste in my opinion while i'm aware, that it's not an open world game. There are no decisions to make, the story is also a tunnel, you have to follow it. The only decision you can do is if you want to use a shotgun, a rifle or a pistole. The game gets in moderate difficulty at least often unfair. You scan everything, walk through a door and bam you're swarmed by 5 enemies while you have 5 bullets. Overall the scarcity of ammo is really annoying. Almost every human you met unloads 2 mags onto you if you let them but if you loot them, you get a few shots. Really? And apart from that upgrade material is also scarce - whoever came up with the ideas for the animations when upgrading weapons really liked his animations and they're pushed onto you until you fall asleep. 5% more damage - ok, watch this 15s unskippable sequence of wiggle wiggle. 10% faster reload speed? Another 20s unskippable useless sequence. I get it, you want to give me a way to improve but the pills would've been enough. I have played with controller for 5 minutes but i can't stand this. Switched to keyboard and mouse as that's my preferred way in like 98% of the games (and 100% of shooters) but i can't aim straight for 2 seconds. My cursor is wiggling like a clicker and when i give it a little move it's like three meters off.. I got the game at a deal for 30€ (around 33$) so it's ok but i wouldn't have wanted to pay 70 bucks for it. I give the game 7.5 out of ten. It's good but could be much better if the creators didn't insist on making an interactive movie where the interaction is looting and shooting. P.S.: I didn't have any technical issues or crashes with my 2 year old computer with RTX3080 and Intel I9 10900K, lots of memory and SSDs, game runs decent for me. P.S.: I've learned more about the reason of the outbreak watching 10 minutes of making of than in 15 hours of my first playthrough (you probably need to deduct 30minutes for shaders building wtf.)

Most innovative screensaver Bethesda: Delivers garbage Also Bethesda: You're playing the game wrong! Internet Trolls: Most innovative game! Seriously, don't waste your money now, it feels like Skyrim in space but with much less content, nothing to explore (everything looks the same except color and a few bushes) and instead of a coach you're using space loading screen simulator (worse than No Mans Sky on release) Wait for major update/more mods to become available.

Since 3 days game is working fine after 5 days of trash servers. Market is trash, especially the grind, UI/UX. CoF is a little bit better but still. why has everything to be grind? Exp is a slog fest past 80. Content once done with the mediocre story: Beat the same mobs again and again and again and again... Story is meh, having to go through it with every character is mehmeh. Mid season nerfs on income, drops and classes No new content on the horizon. Nah, probably coming back next season but it seems like EHG don't know, what they're doing. All the new masteries which weren't available in beta are broken.