Despite enjoying the game since the first playtest, nothing motivated me to recommend this game until last patch.

The core concept is funny and enjoyable. A "loot extractor" with a dungeon and dragon vibe is realy funny.

The gameplay is in line with some melee games i like the most. Even if the mecanics are not as developped as chivalry or mordhau, at least it's in the same line which is enjoyable. They could have released a simple "action rpg slasher" type of gameplay which is the easy way to go for every deleopper having melee element in their game but they went for something more complexe instead in line with the best studios that ever worked on first person melee games like Chivarly and Mordhau i mentionned above.

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The only issue, in my opinion, was the extreme importance of gear and the fact that in a same lobby you could end up facing some opponent having a gear score ten times better than yours. Let's be honest, even if there's always something you can do to win and thus you'll never have 0% chance to prevail, it was nearly impossible. Obviously ruining the fun of many players based on raw math instead of a true skill diff. The feeling of fairness wasn't there.
On the other hand i never enjoyed winning easy fights and realising my opponents had little chance to win due to my gear being superior. A flavourless victory.

And then, they released a patch reducing the difference between the best gear obtainable and the starting gear you can have, as well as lowering the time-to-kill (number of hits required to kill an opponent). Pushing the importance of team play, individual skill and global understanding of the game way further than before.
Which, from a competitive point of view, is a step in the right direction.

Yet, as you can imagine, it led many people to spam bad reviews and negative comments on forums because they can't abuse their gear anymore to mindlessly one hit kill low geared players that are now a threat to them.
And you know humanity : most of us are not fair competitors with knightly valors but more abusers enjoying to bully people that can't retaliate (videogames be like).

Now that this is over, it's the perfect moment for new players and more competitive / pvp players to dive in this game and enjoy it in a fair and healthy environment. Comme get your fun, you'll have your moments like any others and maybe you'll even become a fierce opponent to face while crawling in a dark dungeon !

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Changing my recommandation as they reverted the changes due to PvE crowd pressuring them using different manners.

Game is back to gear based RPG like any others.