Recent reviews by Varunea

55 hours on record, for just act 1. This game is honestly an addicting slow crawl of occasional pain and suffering, but a very enjoyable game regardless. If you do something Astarion likes, you've probably committed a crime, or are about to genocide a civilization.

This aint it, not yet at least. The game is very basic, at its current state, and yes, I'm aware its Early Access.

• Audio needs work - pretty easy to determine what direction shots are coming from, or where a fight is happening, but it sounds so fake.
  
• AI need work - AI trying to kill each other through walls, not even REMOTELY responding to player interaction sometimes, just kinda stand around and do nothing, walk past each other when they are on opposite teams, the intelligence is FOR SURE artificial in them, by which I mean lacking.
  
• Animations need work - Its pretty hard to tell if you killed someone or if they just went prone at a distance.
  
• Graphics are OKAY - At a distance, everything isn't great, even on ultra. Comparison, I can make out things better in Arma 3, at double the distance, than I can in this game, running ultra settings, its... not good...
  
• Bipods - Just a visual. Can't seem to use them. One of the things that's nice to do with machine gunners, is lay down a base of fire in games like this, and support infantry advances, laying down suppressive fire while friendlies move up, right? yeah, can't really do that here. Bipods are a myth, and their visual is just a suggestion that you COULD use it, but can't.

• Give us a map we can open while on the move, I shouldn't have to open the menu to look at the map, even if its just a paper map you pull out of your pocket...
  
• Bipods, shouldn't have to say it, but here we are in 2023, where devs struggle to implement a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BIPOD...
  
• later on down the road, would be nice to take control of a squad of AI by being a squad leader and joining an AI squad, since they don't have a squad leader by default, and give them orders on what they SHOULD be doing, instead of staring at a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wall...

Overall, mid game, LOTS of work to be done gentlemen. You got something nice? I guess? lots of potential, don't squander it like literally any other game that had "good potential" in early access...

Surprisingly a very fun game. All the cry babies in the reviews don't really seem to know what to pin their frustrations on, honestly.

The game is good. Yes there are disconnects. Yes it's annoying. Yes it crashes, and yes that's annoying as well.

Small critique, if they paired solo's against solo's, and teams against matching stacks of teams, that would be great, given I hear the solo experience is... very unforgiving, especially given you can be put up against three of the sweatiest people in the DMZ, god forbid they find the other three stack of sweats and make a six stack, then you're just ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

fix match making to be more similar to that, and fix the issues with the game, and it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ fantastic. Y'all are just mad you spent so much money in WZ 1 for it not to mean anything in the new one..

Surprisingly a very fun game. All the cry babies in the reviews don't really seem to know what to pin their frustrations on, honestly.

The game is good. Yes there are disconnects. Yes it's annoying. Yes it crashes, and yes that's annoying as well.

Small critique, if they paired solo's against solo's, and teams against matching stacks of teams, that would be great, given I hear the solo experience is... very unforgiving, especially given you can be put up against three of the sweatiest people in the DMZ, god forbid they find the other three stack of sweats and make a six stack, then you're just ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

fix match making to be more similar to that, and fix the issues with the game, and it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ fantastic. Y'all are just mad you spent so much money in WZ 1 for it not to mean anything in the new one..

Was a good run I guess...

After playing this game for quite a decent amount of time, I can say that... this game is good, but far too grindy.

-It's an easy to get into game that you can burn time on and just sit back and relax with.
-There is quite abit to do in this game.
-Game is beautiful, and runs really well, even on older PCs
-Plenty of ships and modules to outfit how you want, for your specific type of gameplay.
-They reworked everything you can do, most things pay roughly the same now.


-Fleet carriers cost... arguably way too much, knock like, 2 billion credits off of them (for a total of 3 billion required) and I think people would be happy.
-Variation is kind of... lacking... the game far too often feels repetitive.
-The last ship that was released was the Mamba (back in December of 2018...)... the lack of ship content is... depressing.
-Some hardpoints need rebalancing, they are so lackluster to literally anything else.
-Powerplay is... depressing and needs a rework.
-The grind is far too much. Some of us have jobs and other games we want to play and dedicate time to as well, we shouldn't have to slave our asses off for every. single. thing. in this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game... that's not "fun and rewarding gameplay"...

The game is good, but holy ♥♥♥♥ does it still need work. More ships to add more variety. Module and Hardpoint rebalancing, Ships need a bit of a rebalance as well, Cutter and Vette, the two "top dogs" of the Major Factions (empire and feddies), can be outmatched and outclassed by literally ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ anything piloted by a monkey, if they are dedicated... and you have to be rank 12 with the faction to get the ship, not a great payout for such a grind.

Yes I'm aware about engineering and all that ♥♥♥♥ to make them better, but their turn rate is abysmal and a vulture can literally do 360s around them and destroy them, for about 15mil~ credits compared to the 200~ Mil ENTRY point for the Vette or the Cutter... You can argue all you want, but at the end of the day, you KNOW I'm right... no matter HOW much engineering you put into the cutter or vette, the only thing they have a one up on things, is SLF and better overall damage output.

Again, Game good, but needs rework of alot of key gameplay aspects.

Its a great game, love it to death.

But... i shouldnt be having my game lock up on me and damn near CRASH. Im running an I7 8700K, GTX 1080, and 32 gigs of ram, yet this game, the MOMENT russia enters the war and goes into over drive, the game nearly becomes unplayable. If the devs ever get around to actually fixing this garbage, itll be flawless.

Edit- Upon writing this review, my game actually DID crash. 10/10. it knew i was talkin ♥♥♥♥.

Rather good game, would rate currently 7/10. Fun gameplay, will leave you playing for hours, rather hard to survive and play (in most cases).

Pro's:
Gunplay CURRENTLY is rather smooth but with each update it may change.
The game itself is challenging, having to run and find items you need for survival just to possibly die in the process.
The players you run into are different in every way, the first person you run into may help you, the next may kill you for absolutely no reason.
Survival is based upon how YOU play, you can take the survivalist route, by being passive, take the heroic route by helping people and trading for supplies, or take the bandit route by killing everyone and pillaging thier bodies for what you desire.
Everything is randomised except the map itself, lootspawn is totally random, car spawns are totally random, and helicopter crashes are totally random.

Cons:
Game is rather hard to run, you need a good rig to play at max settings.
The devs hardly update it (rather dedicated to massive updates and ensuring the best of it before an update), game has been out for a few years now and hasnt broken out of alpha yet (although it should be soon from what ive read).
Although they want the best out of every update, something seems to break, but is generally fixed later on (not too far later however).
and last but not least, generally EVERYONE is a bandit, survivors and heroes are few and far between, always watch your back, and trust NO ONE.


Honestly, game could be alot worse, could be alot better, as for me i shall continue to play it.

However if you want dayz, to the point its easier to run, and has more zombies and player interactions (wether bad or good) i suggest arma 2 dayz mod, ANY of them.

Dayz standalone is still in early alpha, thats why everyone is writing bad reviews, because people cant read, they say "oh the game is bad, oh its hard to run, oh the framerate is bad, oh its broken" yet half of them seem to not understand, thats whats wrong with early alpha games, my opinion, suck it up buttercup, and learn to read.