Recent reviews by Coping Kobold

I HATE shooters. I HATE competitive games. The idea of pitting my own skills against someone else's TERRIFIES me. I have the medical records to prove that this is a problem for me.

And yet, somehow, this is the only shooter that I've enjoyed for any length of time. That's a hell of an achievement.

This game has fantastic controls, but the platforming in this demo is just throwing yourself at a wall until you succeed. Beyond the one-minute tutorial, there's no place to succeed at the basics before it throws you into the advanced stuff. It demands absolute perfection of you most of the time, and that's not something I personally find enjoyable.

Still recommending it because of how incredibly well-crafted every aspect of it is. Just want to see a "Level 1" in the future.

Useful little reference material, having intuitive knowledge of the space is well worth the pocket change it costs.
I wish the narrator would shut up though.

Bot missions are the worst designed thing I have ever seen from an accessibility standpoint. Traditional wisdom says you make your enemies stand out from the background, but Arrowhead says screw you if you have visual impairment or a sensory processing disorder. Make the enemies and rocks the same shade of black, cover the terrain with blinding lights, fill the air with laser fire from every direction. It's like trying to play that scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey while on LSD. There's nothing for my eyes to work with.

Can't join any servers because the client times out downloading all the meme sound effects, each of which is larger than the map
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I just spent the past year failing to get games started because of toxic and/or uninterested friends. I got this game to escape and actually play something fun...and the story is about failing to get games started because of toxic or uninterested friends.

I can't enjoy this.

I know I'm in a deep minority here, but movement and shooting just feels wrong. Sluggish. Impactless. It feels like I'm shooting harmless laser pointers at the enemy and then they just type /kill on themselves.

Doesn't start.

Painfully barebones. Addons are an absolute requirement, and they actually REMOVED features halfway through development--this game used to have 3d environments. Now it has laggy, brute-force dynamic shadows. That's what you get for using the Torque engine.

Controls for building, driving, and shooting are all some of the worst I've ever experienced.

Not to mention a toxic community that gives Facepunch a run for its money.

Bonus fun fact: This game uses the Torque engine, a truly PRESTIGIOUS 2000s-era game engine that hosted such well-known games as Tribes 2, BeamNG Drive, and, uh...Marble Blast Gold? Yeah that's pretty much it.

This game really dropped, off, didn't it?
The editor is just...simultaneously really unrestricted and freeing, but also weirdly limiting. There are tons of "missing" parts you'd think would be obvious; missing, lacking, or janky editor features--and the art is just awful. Everything has this weird, rubbery sheen like it's coated in lumpy wax; and I don't know if it's the lighting or the color palette of the parts, but everything looks like it's bathed in this unpleasant yellow haze like the sun is made of halogen.

As a builder who's spent over a thousand hours making stuff in this game--successfully, too--I can't recommend it at all as a creative outlet.