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WE MAY BE AN AGE TOO LATE TO SAVE DEMOCRACY,BUT REVENGE IS STILL WITHIN OUR GRASP

ObeseShark broke their promises time and time again,as of today 14/01/2023 crafting still isn't in the game,along with all the glaring flaws that are 2 steps back from the previous title and are just a symptom of horrible project management:

-Can't select the mission you want to play
-Can't select the map you want to play
-Can't get the weapons you want cause of the RNG shop
-No endgame,after you hit level 30 the RNG shop is the only way to get weapons as T4 and T5 offer no rewards
-No weapon variety
-Penances are still borderline griefing your team instead of challenges to your skill
-No map variety,lots of map sections recycled and maps played with inverted start-end
-MTX shop fully functional with a hundred cosmetics lined up while the rest of the game is still a half-baked broken mess
-Community manager has no folds

The game as is will be ready in 2-3 years at best,save your money for later

-The game is set in an innovative era yet to be properly explored in videogames

-Attention to historical details,despite some inaccuracies it stays mostly true to the depicted battlefield

-Most weapons being bolt-actions rewards skill in aiming/relying on teamwork in order to survive

-Really good atmosphere at certain moments


-Unbalanced spawn rates, defenders advantage isn't countered by longer respawn times (like in any other FPS ever),this leads to having to flush out twice the same people from the same point within 12 seconds.

-Unbalanced maps, italian defense maps are wide fronts usually filled with forests and cover but no real obstacle, austrian defense maps are either funnels or barbed wire splitting the map in half with only access points,on open roads with no covers and 2 MGs overlooking at it from behind a ridge.

-Grenade spam is one of the worst i've seen in any game, RO2 or HLL everyone gets 2 grenades but is not an issue since the cap area is a whole section of the map and not a tiny square inbetween trenches or a R6S demo with a huge marker on it.

-An intrusive HUD that blocks vision and broken soldier stances, prone almost always gets you stuck in place, crouched is either too low or too high for the sandbags/walls to be of any use.

-Slow movement with no uniform speed acceleration,a dive mechanic or a leaning one, add it to constant either too high or too low cover and you will have a whole map with virtually nowhere to go when fighting

-The game requires you to die over and over through preset killzones but doesn't properly reward progressing the game by playing for the main objectives,making most people sit at the edges of the map taking potshots at eachother.

-No friendly fire from artillery strikes or grenades,again as opposed to other "realistic shooters" where such weapons get used in a tactical way and require good timing and team coordination, in here they are just irritatingly dull,so it's not rare to have enemies charge you through 150mm shells with no consequences.

Last but not least a dying playerbase that suffered a vertical freefall, the only game i ever witnessed going from 4200 players to 550 (at the time of writing this review) within 2 weeks from launch, effectively having a net 86% loss,which the plethora of mods and a few dedicated users on the forum will shrug off as something not concerning for the future of the title,so save yourself the money and get it only during Christmas sales or if it goes on Xbox gamepass.

I rarely write reviews but in the current state this game is in i feel obliged to let people know what they are getting into,so here's a list of what's wrong with this game:

--Bugs,like a ton of them,from sound not playing to invisible players to getting hit with everlasting poison to AI being either super dumb or super smart.

--Cheaters,too many to comfortably play a game with character permadeath,it's not unusual to get headshot through walls from people who couldn't possibly know you were there or getting teamwiped by someone running at 10x the speed or headshotting everyone in 5s.

--Weapon balance and power creep,weapons are not balanced between rifles and sidearms and ammo types,too many scopes and semis for a game taking from the 1800s

--Maps and Bosses....they charge 40€ for a game with only 3 bosses and 2 maps,too repetitive and boring after a while

--Hitreg is wonky as hell,many times you won't 1shot someone at point blank with a shotgun or get no hitmarker when you actually hit them or no death sound when you actually kill someone

--Servers,oh mein gott the servers are a hot mess of a joke. Half the time they are gonna be down or give a myriad of errors from "full servers please wait in queue" to "packet loss detected" to "you have issues with ping",if you are lucky you'll just desync and rubberband a couple times in a match.


In the current state the game's not working more often than the times it's working,and when it's working it's a frustrating mess,grab it only on a 75% sale.


Update: 2 months later the game is in the same state,with the addition that it is now crystal clear that Crytek is desperately trying to silence every concern about the cheating issue,their moderators? VAC banned themselves Everyone mentioning the sketchy fact? The thread gets outright deleted and the players banned Stay away from this company,it is what's wrong with the industry today


Funny Update: After nearly a year Loltek figured it out with this statement from a dev:

"We agree that moderators with VAC bans does not give a good impression, as such, they have been removed from the moderation team."

When i made fun of him for it,yeah you guessed right,he resorted to the usual silencing policy,seen through with broken grammar

"Disrespectful post, previous bans, I'll be makign this one permanant"

I mean,you can't even properly spell 10 words in a single sentence,figure out basic PR after eons,yet think you deserve any respect? Good try Crytek,no wonder the company has only went downhill for the past 10 years.

Game is very challenging and immersive,a good example of how graphics don't make a game fun.