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.

It's just not fun. The enemy are fucking bullshit. And not 'oh I died I'm bad at the game :(' but actually fucking bullshit. They're either riding the short bus or actual fucking 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 fucking 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 goddamn 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 fucking 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 shit. 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 fucking die and lose all your shit'? Because that's exactly what fucking happens. Wrap all of this in a game that actively punishes you for dying to any of its complete bullshit by taking all your shit 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 fucking stupid decision, lose you rep when you die, therefore [i]punishing you again for dying to the games' fucking bullshit[/i], Now you can't even do those! Long story short: Not fucking 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 fuck 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 fuck 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 fucking 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 fucking 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 fucking 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.