Recent reviews by Hobokat

Do I recommend this game? Yes
Is this game good? Yes
Is this game extremely unbalanced and frustrating to play? Yes

The biggest flaw of this game is the enemy AI. They track you through walls and pre-fire before you see them. Their aim makes any encounter near impossible. You can sneak up behind an enemy and they'll still 180 headshot you instantly.

The friendly AI is one of the best out there. But they also have their issues. They will (most times, not sometimes) cancel any order given and just stay in one place. You have to tell them to Fall In and give the order again before they react.

They will also pre-fire and instantly headshot any enemy in their vicinity (not necessarily in vision), which often leads me to let them do most of the work while I just stand back (impacting the nature of immersive gameplay).

Flashbangs and Stingers usually doesn't work due to their impact zone being extremely small, so they have no impact on the enemy.

There have also been times where friendly AI die to stupid mistakes (not covering angles because they're stuck in an order loop).

Despite it's flaws and frustrating moments, it's still one of the best tactical shooters out there. It's engaging, thrilling, nervy and immersive. I bought and played this game from the first day it got released on steam as early access, and I'm blown away by the amount of gameplay addition and improvements they've made.

I'd give it a neutral rating if I could

The matchmaking is absolutely horrendous, I'm not sure if it's live or cloud opponents, but that's one of the biggest reasons I wouldn't recommend the game

But even with that frustration, the game is simple, and it's mindless fun that you can sink hours in to. Art is great and I think the game is unique and original overall.

I do recommend you give it a try, just keep in mind that the matchmaking is not at all fair

Edit: Matchmaking is worse now than before. You're not playing live opponents, it's all cloud based and you more often than not end up facing teams that are 1-2 rounds ahead of you.

The game also doesn't adjust the opponents to your winrate/streak, so the game becomes very inconsistent at times

This game would constantly have stuttering issues for me.

I tried looking online for any sort of fix, but none of them worked for me and I do have the required specs to run the game.
The stuttering happened constantly with 120-140 fps and people mentioned that poor CPU optimization could be the main villain of why.

I tried to cap my CPU for this game, but the stuttering was still there and the game for me is unplayable. (It fixed the stuttering a bit, but still not near playable)

This is my personal experience about the game, and has nothing to do with the actual gameplay or the story. I just couldn't get it to run without constantly stuttering.

It's lego

This game. It's a love hate relationship.

It's very fun. It's very unique. I do have tons of fun.
However, there are a lot of buts. The review is my own personal opinion and may not reflect your own thoughts about the game.

The matchmaking is not good. To begin with, playing this game solo is not advised. You will almost always end up playing as a party of one, the reason being that other players will see your level and experience and flat out leave the party. They will not play with someone who hasn't prestiged.
On top of that point, why on earth would the game not try and queue you with players of similar experience and level?
You will end up playing against all types of people, the hardcore prestiged ones, and the newer ones, which I guess is fine, but you will die from the hardcore prestiged ones a lot. Be prepared to die a lot.

Personally never had any issues with long queue times, but maybe that's because I party as 1 , seeing as people don't want to queue with you anyways.

There are a lot of server issues and performance issues that I won't go in to, but feel free to read other reviews on steam or online about that point. Game can run smoothly, but then the next second you might be in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

DLC. 3 AAA games worth of DLC for this game. To me that's laughable. Why would there be so much paid DLC when there are so many issues to fix? My guess would be trying to entertain the image of actively producing content. On top of the DLC there are tons of microtransactions in the game itself. Personally I haven't paid for anything inside of the game, so I can't give an opinion about whether or not it's p2w , but someone will probably let you know if you actively ask the question.

I recommend this game purely because of the uniqueness. It can be fun, but be aware of the many many many issues you might encounter.

This game is a must if you're a racing fan or just like racing games in general.

Make the most out of this gem. This might be the last good F1 game we get now that EA took over

Play this instead of Cyberpunk. A better game, more value for money.

Greed. That's what this game is.

You don't have to pay in order to progress, but be prepared to lose a lot and grind hours upon hours if you choose not to spend money in this game.

Getting back to the point of greed, the developers do anything and everything they can to push microtransactions in your face. Got a new card? Spend $20 to make that card better. Got a pet? Spend $5 to max out your pet (that mostly does nothing, it's only cosmetic). They have daily offers that will give you a quick boost, but those DAILY offers can cost you $20 and then the next day you get a new offer. That's $40 bucks in 2 days they want you to pay.

On top of the microtransactions, the AI are extremely overpowered and the game feels rigged. They never miss a +4 or more, they always manage to get multi-skulls out of nowhere in order to one shot 1 or 2 cards and they do this so that you'll get frustrated and spend money.

I have spent money on this game, because I enjoyed it. But I'm not spending a single dime anymore and that's because of the rigged AI and the constant what feels like useless, push for (expensive) microtransactions.

This game is fun, but unless you're willing to spend $400 every week, be prepared for hell of a grindfest and frustration.

There are so many cheaters running around in this game and most of them don't ever get VAC banned, only game banned for a few days.

The recent VAC update which aimed to fix the cheater issues by disabling third party programs while CS is running didn't fix anything. The cheaters are still running around more than ever and now you can't ex. stream the game or use nvidia geforce in the game because of this third party update.

There are a lot of issues with this game, but the gameplay is fun. A lot of issues can be solved by playing on ex. Faceit or ESEA.

It's fun, but there are so many issues with cheaters and third party blocking, so beware.

This is in my opinion the worst fifa to date. There's no skill involved, it's all about having the better players.
Gameplay is awful. The worst so far. The greed is still there from EA. They don't care about the players they only care about the $$$.

Career mode is a joke. They never care or do anything with it.
It's a bad game. Simple as that.