Recent reviews by Nashville Hot McRib

Excellent objective based movement shooter with interesting classes and gadgets. The game is a "clutch win" generator and it so often feels you are snapping victory from the jaws of defeat. Amazing character customization and very pro-consumer monetization makes The Finals feel like a game with a dev team worth supporting. Play the finals.

The most unique BR type game I've played. The game is packed with well thought-out mechanics that enhance and perfect the core loop; explore a gorgeous and atmospheric world carefully killing zombie threats while hunting down a boss. All the while a number of other players/teams are trying to find the same boss target. This sounds simple but its a shocking compelling loop given the strategic and tactical options you have for accomplishing this. Speed run clues to find the boss, kill and banish, and make a beeline toward the extract? Speed run those clues and not kill the boss but setup to ambush the players that try when they find him? Setup an ambush to grab the boss bounty when others try to extract with it? All of these are options and the game carefully balances so that no specific strategy becomes overpowered. The game carefully gives you options based on how you want to approach the objectives in the match.

A lot of people compare this game to Escape from Tarkov because of its permadeath and loss of equipment if you die in a match. This is a bit oversimplified. The matches are intense because of this loss element. But the game balances it out by providing you with plenty of free characters to replace the ones you lose, and a general design feeling that characters always meet there end in the bayou unless you retire them intentionally for more progressive exp. The game finds this perfect middle ground where it creates risk and value so that matches have a more rewarding feel but not so punishing like the essential tarkov experience of gearing up for half an hour to get faceshotted and lose everything.

I tried Hunt right when it hit EA and found it interesting but poorly optimized and feeling clunky. Coming back to it I am amazed at how many new mechanics the developers added to perfect the core gameplay loop. It's remarkable to see developers examine exactly what is fun in their game and work to improve it. With such an entrenched tradition of releasing a game and then going whole-hog on the monetization (im looking at you PUBG and every big BR title) Hunt is remarkable in the sense that you can see its developers deeply care about building an enjoyable game with an incredible atmosphere and then further polishing and perfecting. Hunt deserves your attention. It got me to write this essay of a review after all. (my first steam review lol)

Excellent expansion and great redesign of core mechanics. Love the new fleet organizer. War exhaustion could use a rebalance though.