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Not Recommended
35.7 hrs last two weeks / 1,126.4 hrs on record (154.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 9 May, 2020 @ 1:25pm
Updated: 16 May, 2020 @ 12:36pm

Early Access Review
This is a honest and detailed review about this game and my personal opinion that most foxhole veterans think and feel.
Also as a foxhole veteran my self and player that has been playing this game from BETA, i still recommend this game and come back after couple of months of taking a break. but i just had to write this review in hopes that one day devs will improve couple if not all of the things i mentioned but many more that i didnt mention but every player will encounter them once they start playing.


POSITIVE
There are many positive things about this game, but ill mention only 2 that i feel are most important because i am doing a negative review and there are already many positive reviews you can read.
1.Regular updates and game improvements - Every couple months there is something new/different/changed, and its worth coming back and checking it out for couple of hours and then again taking a break for couple of months.
2.Everything is player controlled - Meaning you want something done, you gotta ask someone to do it or do it yourself. and yes, EVERYTHING IS PLAYER CONTROLLED, defenses, outposts, town halls, city defense building, bridges, vehicles and fuel for them. i am just waiting for a moment when they will make us repair roads, paint buildings and even implement a food and drink system, so youll no more need to go play farming simulator and instead can do farming stuff and supply food to real players. after all, this game offers everything and you can be anything you want: Medic, builder, miner, driver, engineer, architect, even roleplayer that can take enemy players prisoners, but of course you gotta find an enemy willing to roleplay.



NEGATIVE
-Corner shooting - 1. With rifles you can see further when corner aiming(i believe about 40-50% more).
2. Big size monitor give you extra 10-20% view distance boost that honestly doesnt sound much, but trust me, its ALLOT in this game.
3. If you add all that and go to a hill, youll gain about 30-50% more view range. so there is no surprise if you see a player base/outpost that your friendly team decided to just go around it and ignore it the entire war.

-Logistics is fun idea but badly done - There are 20+ regions and you gotta drive and teleport in each one to come to the front line. on top of that, front lines sometimes have 10+ queued players and you gotta wait till a spot becomes free, the more players the longer queue, sometimes even 20-30+ minutes of waiting.

-Day night cycle - Entire cycle is 60 minute long, meaning 30 minutes day and 30 minutes night. at night you cant do anything(especially if you in a vehicle because enemies can see your car headlights at all times, but you cannot see them unless they come in range of them being able to throw a anti vehicle grenade and you are GONE), the night should be reduced to 10-15 minutes, because right now, as soon night falls you go afk, unless there is some special "spec ops" mission that you and your friends/clan doing, but those are very rare moments.

-Ranking system - Each war big groups of 20-50+ people switch sides and war is always won if you follow what side they join and fight along side with them. you may think "well 1 or 2 groups is nothing compared to thousand of players" and you are right, but when 10+ groups of 20-50+ members change war sides, and all of them are veterans or at least know what they are doing. well you do the math.

-Leveling system - Levels dont really give you any benefits or advantages, but its always nice to see when someone is a high level, in most games it means that player knows what he is doing. but sadly in this game high rank/level only means you are saving those leveling points to trade them with your friends/clan mates and other way around.

-Player system - If you plan to go afk for short or even longer time(for example go sleep), just hide somewhere and leave your game ON, the next day youll find yourself still in game and ready to go(unless someone killed you and you went to main home page). many players do this because they are to lazy to wait to load into a game and wait for very long queues.

-Steam names and road signs - There are many players that take advantage of this, because its very easy to set your steam name and that name shows in game, and there isnt anything you can do about it, even devs dont care cause there is no "report" system that you can report that.
Second thing is the signs that anyone can build anywhere on the map, you build a nice sign that says something nice, 2-3 people upvote it, then you change that sign into something very bad/rude/rac!st and not even 100 players that downvote it cannot destroy it.

-No anticheat - This game doesnt really need an anticheat because even if you had aimbot, the aiming/shooting mechanic is so "Broken" that even aimbot would not help you to hit the target xD also second thing is you cannot even see a player name that killed you(unless you are downed and enemy player comes in melee range), and in order to report him you gotta know what he is using, what cheat and on top of all that video evidence of him committing what you state he is doing wrong. so there is not much point of going thru all that trouble.



CONCLUSION
All the things written in this review(and many more) have been mentioned before and even discussed with devs in multiple occasions. but nothing has been done about many of this things and no plans on changing them. even devs them self said couple of this things i mentioned will never be changed/improved. or one of their popular quotes they like to say is "thats not our priority". if "Unbalanced teams", "Tedious logistics", "Ghost shots" and most important "Corner aiming" is not a priority. then i dont know what is. but we are still left with a hope they will maybe one day think about improving/changing how some of this things work or think about them if/when they decide to create foxhole 2 or a similar project.
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