Recent reviews by Aberrational

terrible optimization. What kind of a ♥♥♥♥ programmer you have to be that closing a popup freezes the game for a few seconds? Load times are terrible and random freezes are common.

CRASHdivers™ 2

Update after 930h:

Most of the stuff was fixed, the only thing they refuse to fix is the leavers and wasting time joining to a dead game, and that infuriating longer wait time on failed missions.
But I can change my review to a recommendation.



Old review (130h):


Crashtide made by Crashshark aka
Bugtide made by Bugshark aka
Darktide made by Fatshark

I like this game, I really do. It has potential. I even bought cosmetics and will probably do so again. But I'm giving it a thumbs down to warn others and hopefully force the developer to make changes.

This feels a little bit undercooked. 15 classes in V2 vs 4 here. Levels feel samey (while reusing tilesets is ok going through the same level just in different direction is a little too much).

The most annoying things:
- ♥♥♥♥♥♥ shop with rarely something good in it, that refreshes once an hour - padding game time stats?
- geting the currency for secondary shop is a PITA. To do it efficiently you have to run easier difficulty levels then you like to play. Make the rate of getting the marks scale with difficulty. Add some for playing the game not speed grinding with overleveled characters.
- incomplete crafting system (really?)
- bugs and crashes (it's better than before the december patch but still far from perfect)
- needs more content (yeah i know, DLCs are a thing)

How this has so many positive reviews?
This is a pice of undercooked &&&&. This game was better a year ago. The "campaign" is not even half-assed. It is just a joke. A joke that doesn't work half of the time.
Build a ship and it will go to mothballed status and never leave it.
Do you like nanite repair speeds in 1890? Ships can take hundreds of hits because they can repair in between them because even in few hundred meter range the to hit chance is pitiful.
Auto resolve is a joke. Torpedos are a joke. Your dumb sailors will not fire and if they do emeny instantly turns to avoid. While the enemy torpedos are launched on optimal trajectories.
Snorefest without any depth

In the land of used-car salesmen (or salespeople, we have 21st century) there are only bugs.

This has potential to be a great game. Abysmal QA and poor design decisions are weighing down great atmosphere and story.

Wait for patches and a couple of DLCs if you did not buy it yet.

The game shoud be known as Mafia: Load last checkpoint

-annoying graphical glitch of the car disappearing for a split second when you are driving
-super annoying not buffering input when a cutscene ends
-checkpoint system that can save with no health and no ammo
-bullet spongy enemies that rush you (missed the head, you are dead)
-non taggeble enemies that can hit you with perfect accuracy when getting hosed with bullets from the tommygun
-weapons other than the pistols are useless because only headshots count
-whack-a-mole shooting gameplay that is not hard just boring and frustrating (you need to wait a lot for enemies to sync so that you can pop up and shoot)

Cheaters, long queue times and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ map pool.

Previous review:

Wow, they fixed it.

Previous review:

"Early Access is a great platform as it gives us the ability to get feedback from new players"

So here's my feedback:
1) Fire that 14 year old kid that coded the ui
2) Punch him in the ****
3) Fire that 15 year old that coded the servers
4) Punch him in the ****
5) READ ABOUT TESTING AND HIRE REAL ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PROGRAMMERS 5k€/month can get you top tier guys in old eastern block countries. 100 people team my ass.