Now, I understand this game just came out of alpha, and is in early access. But at this time I couldn't and wouldn't recommend this game to anyone. I love the premise of a fair, skill based, anti-hacker/cheater based battle royale. I loved pubg, but the hackers killed that game. Unfortunately IoN just isn't ready, it's not done baking, it's not where it needs to be. The controls are still not quite firmed up, and I got caught on terrain a few times in the 90 minutes or so that I played.

More annoyingly is how absolutely lethal all the weapons seem to be. I got headshot with a PISTOL while at full life, full armor, and with a shield, yet still died in one hit? REALLY? How does that happen? If you can die to a pistol in one shot, what's the point of armor at all? In fact most of the games I played in almost every single engagement started and ended with whoever got the drop and first hit on the other player. Because the first hit was almost always the last hit.

Now this alone wouldn't be the worst thing, but the audio isn't quite there yet either. So when you're relying on audio to try to get the drop on someone on the other side of the wall, and then suddenly footsteps stop and then they run around another corner 5 seconds later silent as a mouse, it's rather enraging.

Yeah, so the end result is either:
A. they don't fix some of the mechanical game play problems, in which case you shouldn't play it.
B. they DO fix the problems, in which case you shouldn't play it YET.

Now, I understand this game just came out of alpha, and is in early access. But at this time I couldn't and wouldn't recommend this game to anyone. I love the premise of a fair, skill based, anti-hacker/cheater based battle royale. I loved pubg, but the hackers killed that game. Unfortunately IoN just isn't ready, it's not done baking, it's not where it needs to be. The controls are still not quite firmed up, and I got caught on terrain a few times in the 90 minutes or so that I played. More annoyingly is how absolutely lethal all the weapons seem to be. I got headshot with a PISTOL while at full life, full armor, and with a shield, yet still died in one hit? REALLY? How does that happen? If you can die to a pistol in one shot, what's the point of armor at all? In fact most of the games I played in almost every single engagement started and ended with whoever got the drop and first hit on the other player. Because the first hit was almost always the last hit. Now this alone wouldn't be the worst thing, but the audio isn't quite there yet either. So when you're relying on audio to try to get the drop on someone on the other side of the wall, and then suddenly footsteps stop and then they run around another corner 5 seconds later silent as a mouse, it's rather enraging. Yeah, so the end result is either: A. they don't fix some of the mechanical game play problems, in which case you shouldn't play it. B. they DO fix the problems, in which case you shouldn't play it YET.