Recent reviews by Xianyu

Nope.

The ai is too absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to even bother with this game at present.

Water mechanics can be forgiven. Whatever. My EXP and rig remains the same? I'm fine with it. But the AI is the most frustrating, OBVIOUSLY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ infuriating piece of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ garbage I've seen in an extraction shooter in a while.

Enemies only spawn within 20 metres of you. And often times, they'll immedately look exactly where you are and then BEELINE towards you. I'm against a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wall on the side of a building where there's no walkway, no pathing, no REASON for them to ever, EVER come where I am, and yet they stop and move directly towards me, alert the entire squad and then gun me down instantly.

This is NOT good gameplay. It is so blatantly obvious that they're programmed to know where you are at all times and randomly walk towards you to discover you that it ruins any sense of immersion and makes the game blatantly unfair.

If I die, it should be because I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up, not because some idiot savant AI spawned in and instantly knew where I was.

Think I'm exaggerating? Steam lets you record things now. Let's examine it together.

https://steamusercontent-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/29934071621348786/24A1F1F9478AE88EDC22EB9D315DBA86CF2634B4/

You can see the enemies spawn in, in front of me, in clear line of sight.

They follow my position up the slope. They stop at the bottom of the slope because the AI doesn't even have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PATH to get to me. And then they spot me because their basic-♥♥♥♥♥ programming tells them to look directly at the player they have no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way of knowing is there, and then I die and lose all my ♥♥♥♥ to ridiculously unfair programming.

The game has promise, yes, but until they fix the AI, it belongs in the dumpster.

It's just not fun.

The enemy are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. And not 'oh I died I'm bad at the game :(' but actually ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. They're either riding the short bus or actual ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terminators who only need to hear one footstep or see one inch of your ankle sticking out from behind a crate to kill you. They see through foliage. They hear you well before you ever heard them. So if you somehow hear footsteps nearby, guess what? They already know where you are!

The sound design is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ horrific. Footsteps 100 metres away or 10 metres away sound pretty much the same. There is NO directionality. I couldn't tell you a cardinal direction when I hear enemy footsteps, and in a pve FIRST PERSON SHOOTER where the enemy can and does kill you in a single ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bullet, where the enemy has perfect knowledge of your location the instant you make one non-sneaking footstep or show one inch of your body from around a corner a hundred metres away, sound design is VITAL. In fact, your own footsteps are so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ desynced that you can't even tell, 80-90% of the time, if the footsteps you're hearing are your own or are from an enemy! What FUN!

Oh and in a TWITCH SHOOTER PVE FIRST PERSON SHOOTER they stream textures. They don't precache that ♥♥♥♥. My 4070, which gets perfect fps otherwise, freezes the game entirely for a solid half a second whenever a new enemy texture appears on the screen. Guess what happens if that's an enemy right in front of your around a corner? Did you guess 'throws off your aim and you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ die and lose all your ♥♥♥♥'? Because that's exactly what ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ happens.

Wrap all of this in a game that actively punishes you for dying to any of its complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ by taking all your ♥♥♥♥ away, in a new update that deliberately nerfed the ONLY way to progress in the game, and the game is NOT fun any more. Last update, I could at least do side contracts to earn reputation, and ignore the rep missions which, in another stunningly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid decision, lose you rep when you die, therefore punishing you again for dying to the games' ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, Now you can't even do those!

Long story short: Not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fun. Frustrating, tedious game with a good weapon and looting system let down by a management team that are DETERMINED to make their players suffer from deaths and lost progress from THEIR ♥♥♥♥ ups.

Dying to an enemy I can't see who hauls ass to my position with perfect accuracy because I dared not sneak-crouch the entire three hundreds metres towards the objective and dying because I can't hear where the ♥♥♥♥ he's coming from except 'footsteps getting louder from a vague direction' is not good game design. It is fact the opposite of good game design. It's game design so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ridiculous that I'm uninstalling.

Yeah yeah 'eARlY AccESs'.

Well right now, this early access title is basically unplayable.

Is it worth money right now?

No.

No it is not.

Until they fix the sound design, fix the idiot savant AI, and precache shaders, I don't see how ANYONE could recommend this game.

Oh I'm back with another complaint: The community for this game are such ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ morons that they give clown awards to anyone who has legitimate negative criticism.

I'm sorry, you think having broken sound is okay in a twitch shooting game? You think enemies homing in on your position like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Daredevil is okay? A 4070 super getting a full half second lag when a new texture appears on screen is okay? I can tell when a new enemy enters my field of view because I can SEE MY GAME FRAME LAG.

Hey, wanna check the steam charts for a sec? I'm sure all your clown awards will certainly help the game get above 150 concurrent players for more than a week straight. Guess what? Nobody wants to play a skill-based game where your actual skill level is completely irrelevant based on utter failures in sound design and shader caching.

But hey, keep those clown awards rolling in, I'm sure that'll convince all those people NOT PLAYING THE GAME to pick it up!

Morons.

Drop rates are not what is listed. Anyone who claims otherwise is huffing lethal amounts of copium.

It's very simple to keep track of how many attempts it takes to get something, since you get amorphous materials at the end of farming runs. I started counting my materials at the end of '20% drop chance' runs, and came up with 18, 12, 4, and 13 before I gave up.

Nexon have been fined for listing false drop rates in premium loot boxes, and they are demonstrably up to the same ♥♥♥♥ again.

There are people on the subreddit/steam forums with a hundred runs of a 20% drop rate and no item. You have better chances of winning the powerball lotto. And no, that is not hyperbole.

Your chances of winning the powerball lotto: 0.000000007%.

Your chances of failing a 20% drop 100 times: 0.0000000002

The listed drop rates are not accurate. They're a lie. And Nexon has doubled down and told you not to believe your lying eyes and that the drop rates are definitely actually what is listed despite simply RUNNING THE MISSIONS being enough to prove that they are not.

Do not play this game. Do not play any game from a company that lies to you about drop rates. They do not respect their playerbase.

Managed Democracy wins the day again!

Can't play my SINGLE PLAYER GAME

because ea's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ servers aren't working.

This is the state of modern gaming.

I recommend it, but with a few caveats.

It's VERY early access. There's only one map. The guns feel.... off, somehow. Placing things like mines or explosives is very, very janky and not smooth. The game doesn't remember your loadout, so you have to select them every single time you open the game.

There's no mid-game class change, or load-out change. Nobody in your entire team has ammo and you picked the ammo-hungry gun? Well ♥♥♥♥ off and run back to the resupply point every minute because nobody can ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ change.

One guy standing outside the dropship shooting bugs and refuses to get in? Well now all of the other 15 people on the team have to wait for him.

And don't even get me started on it spawning the mining machines ACROSS THE ENTIRE MAP and making you hit them TWICE so the entire fast-paced game slams to an absolute stand-still while you literally have to stand there doing nothing with no bugs spawning, waiting for a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cooldown timer to tick two excruciating minutes past, and then wait another 60 seconds for the canisters, and however long it takes to crawl back to base with them.

AND DO ALL OF THAT TWICE.

Oh and there's only one map. But they randomize objectives and locations so it's not TOO jarring.

But even with all of that, it's still fun. And 90% of my issues with the game could be fixed with patches.

Do your part.

Service guarantees citizenship.

It's aight.

Has a learning curve like being reincarnated as an F16 pilot in the middle of the Independence Day dogfight scene, but once you figure out how not to make your pc ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ explode, it's aight.

I cannot in good conscience recommend buyers to purchase a single-player game from a company that will summarily revoke your ability to play your single-player games.

At ANY price, this is unacceptable.

Do not purchase this title.

Ubisoft will decide in future to 'deprecate' the game and you will no longer be able to play the single-player game you purchased.

I'm finally done.

I played this game to relax and just enjoy something a little slower-paced. But the raw incompetence of the devs has finally done me in.

A 24-gig update and for what? A DLC Menu. That's it. That's literally it.

They added a MENU and they're so incompetent as a dev team that they can't do it without pushing a 24 gig download to their customers. Absolutely taking the piss. What next, you fix a spelling mistake in a hunting stand and make us download 24 gigs for that, too?

I like hunting games. I don't like being ♥♥♥♥♥♥ around.

And right now, the amount of time I'm spending being ♥♥♥♥♥♥ around is more than the amount of time I get to play the game. I don't want to have to download 20-gig updates every time you do a tiny minor bugfix every single other company can fix in 200mb.

You can have my upthumb when you learn how to code.

Catnip is a hell of a drug