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Zach Buerkle   United States
 
 
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UPDATE: I HAVE REQUESTED A REFUND FOR THIS GAME, SO THE REVIEW MAY NOT BE ACCURATE AFTER 8/12/2018


I bought this game in its Beta about two weeks prior to launch to play with a few friends. I got about what was expected. I got a game that didn't run perfectly, seemed fun, but felt a bit light on content. I was genuinely excited for launch day, because I was looking forward to all of the content that would be added between the game being labeled as a Beta to a game being labeled as a full launch.

That being said, I still have some gripes with this game, which I will happily edit out of my review as soon as I see that they are fixed.

  • Performance
    I built my computer in December of 2017. I used hardware on the higher end because I wanted to make sure that I would be able to run new games for the foreseeable future. On my i7 7700k processor and my GTX 1080 along with 32 Gb of ram, I struggled to get 60 fps in game. Even when I lowered settings, I was fluctuating between 30 and 60 fps and getting weird artifacting on my screen. It felt EXTREMELY frustrating to have to try that hard to get a game to run with me putting so much money into my gaming rig just a few months ago.

  • Servers
    This game suffers what I can imagine is caused by a small playerbase, but it is an issue nonetheless. Servers are either full, which will require a few minutes in a queue in order to join a large battle that feels like it can be fun, or they are barren, and the player count varies from 0-20 out of a possible ~80 players.

  • Content
    The game advertises 40+ weapons and 40+ vehicles available in game. I have, in about 20 hours on the beta, gotten to use about 4 weapons and about 3 vehicles. Jumping into an empty squad as squad leader gives you a unique weapon, but joining a squad gives you your k98 rifle (or the British equivalent) 99% of the time. You need to join a squad at just the right time in order to make sure you can play as a special class before the limited special class slots get taken by someone else. This can be incredibly frustrating, because I played most of my time in the beta with one weapon. Maybe this is ok if you are a die hard fan of ultra realism in your games. Personally, it felt a little bland using the same rifle and the same equipment for almost my entire experience of the game.
    As for the vehicles, they were too laggy on any server I joined to properly test out. I couldn’t drive them at all without rubber banding across the battlefield. I didn’t see a huge variation on vehicles either, which disappointed me. I think that each time I tried to hop into a vehicle to test out, it was the same 2 vehicles.
    I’ve saved the issue that bugs me the most for last, mainly because it is a point that can be argued either way. There is no progression in the game. You get no reward for sticking through a battle that could last well over an hour if it is close and you push each point to the maximum time. This bothers me because I don’t really see a reason to keep playing a game if there’s not much to be working towards. Winning a game doesn’t feel super rewarding because you get a final score screen, and then thrown into your next match. It would be nice to see a way I could keep track of my progression throughout playing the game.

In the end, I wasn’t too upset by these issues in the Beta phase, because I don’t expect a completely polished game before a release, that’s why these testing phases exist after all. But now that the game is calling itself a full release, I wouldn’t pay $30 (or the $45 for the deluxe edition in my case) for what is currently being offered. I gave my money to this game because I wanted what was promised and advertised. I think that this game will be fine in time, but I definitely don’t think that the game was ready for a release with these issues and the content feeling a bit light. As previously stated, I will happily reevaluate my review down the line if things in the game change. I just hope that in the future, I will be happy I spent the money on this title, and not like I wasted it on a game that feels like its still a Beta title.

TL;DR Game still feels unpolished, and probably could have delayed release to stay in Beta.
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