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I can never go back
to being me

Pure eggstasy

I saw a clip with a guy followed by dozens of cute purple tiny little dudes chanting "MINIMIMUUUU" in various pitches.
That's all I needed to know. Bought the game to my buddies and it turned out to be a great experience.
There is great balance between comedy and horror. I haven't experienced any jumpscares, yet the game made me anxious at times.
First I though it is going to be a Lethal Company clone, but it is more like SCP:CB, FNAF Security Breach and Backrooms insipired games.

Right now the game is unfinished, 2 episodes out of 4(?), but I look forward to play the game again as new episodes comes out.

Zort/10

I'd never ever imagine myself using Vaas' "Pull the trigger! Let's go, shoot me! Shoot ME!" line unironically.

When I heard about this game for the first time I really didn't bother giving it any attention, especially for the 50€$ price tag.
A year later I gave it a shot and ooh boy is it good.

This game reminds me of the PS2 era of games based on movies but imagine it with modern technologies (Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death is the closest match).
For an Unreal Engine 5 game it runs relatively okay. Framerates are great, very playable at native 4K 60FPS High with Lumen on (RX 6900 XT) without any stuttering, only one location had noticable frame drops.
I've experienced a few "Fatal Error" crashes tho. The culprit is intel's 12th gen CPU.
Gameplay wise it is more of an action-adventure shooter and it just nails the fantasy of being a cyborg hyper badass cop.

I still don't think the full price is right...
However, for 20€$ it is an absolute no brainer.

The core of the game is fantastic, fun classes, fun base building, fun to shoot stuff. I really like this game a lot. It is a great experience with friends and it can be fun even "solo" with random players. My only complain is the party system or better to say in-match squad system when you can't guarantee playing with friends in a squad. But that is not the reason I'm labeling this as negative review.

If it was possible I would give this game a "neutral" review, it is playable but 1.0 introduced some stuff that rustles my jimmies.
1) Solo campaign
Who the hell thought this is a good experience.
I get it, at the end you get fully leveled class that you can hop in a real match without the feeling of being useless, right?
Except it won't explain anything to you, not even how your class works. 25 missions (~2,5h to finish it) and not a single base being built, only deconstruct for reasons unknown. Oh and the teammate AI? that gets literally stuck at the spawn teleporting like crazy so you can't even fix him by stay/follow command. Not that you need them for the most part, they are nice to have to revive you in the last 5 missions to rush through.. Who in the QC team thought this is fine? Who in the QC team thought...
I'm sorry for any newcomer that is going to go throught this and think this is what the game is all about.
The only good thing is slower introduction to all most of the bugs. You are better off to play the basic bulding tutorial (that takes like 2 minutes) and have actual fun in PvE game.

2) Galactic Map - is fixed, nice

Or war, or front, whatever they call it. Thing I was most excited about is.. broken.
Only Company can join this and there is virtually no way to get in one for reasons mentioned many much times. You can make your own and play solo, but that is not what I want to do. I want to have company with my friends and play with friends. I wanna contribute to the war and earn the rewards.

3) Skins
No, I don't mind the paid DLCs, even tho I expected the "first wave" being that, not orange hazard suit literally called "1st wave" but whatever, silly me. I am jelaous of PS5 players getting unique space tiger stripes for the galactic boogaloo. Yes, I got the game for free so can't really say I pre-ordered but we carried the development and all we got was this lousy orange skin.


Devs, don't waste your time doing nothing and fix the Company system asap at very least. Don't be another Payday 3, please. I still stand behind the "neutral review" but props for fixing Companies.

What rots and never dies? MEEEEEEEEE EHEEHEEHEEEE EAAAUGH EH UGH EEUGH

W D S S S

Early access "meme" review with positive mark:
Impressive, very nice.

Actual post release review:
I love the concept of this game. The only game being so close to my beloved SWAT4...blah blah you all heard it.
The gun and officer customization is excelent.
The levels are very nice, there is nice balance of maps giving more attention for tactical approach and then few that are almost like some arcade type of shooters. Which is great, this game is no boring simulator.
Sadly, AI in general is bad. SWAT AI came a long way since early stage of the game, they do feel a lot better, but they are not perfect - still failing to pathfind, look other directions during breaches, stuck on "move" command.. It is what it is, playing coop nullifies this issue
, but it doesn't change the problem with suspect AI. The reaction times, accuracy and literal "wallhacking" makes the less tactical maps frustrating.
Not gonna mention it makes players playing Ironman campaign mode using the most cheesiest of playthroughs.
I am sad to leave a negative review because of this. And even more sad to lay this game off for some time as I don't want to "fix the game with mods"

Update 3 suppressed the issue with suspect AI wallbanging and it makes night and day difference.

10/10, would ADADADADADADADAD FVFVFVFVFVFVFV F V F AD VVVVVVVVVV ↑↑↓↑←→↑ F again.