Recent reviews by Grogmok

Before you read on, I bought this game 5 times during alpha access for me and friends.
Only going to highlight the issues with this game so you all know what to expect.
Randomly, every time you load into a "raid/match" you will have a chance to lose something of value, and its crazy how many times for a month now, that I lost everything my character had equipped as soon as we start the match. sometimes, i'll load into a match and a high value item that I brought with me disappears, like blowtorches. other times you put something in your bag and it disappears. for some of my friends, they lost half their gear to crashes, because even after lowering the graphics their game randomly crashes in error and when you load the game back up, you lose all your gear.
Funny thing is, to prevent "duplication" the developers made it so that when you crash or alt-f4, your body and its contents are gone. so now when you are about to die, you can alt-f4 and deny players loot, you also don't have the opportunity for teammates to grab your loot and bring it back to you.
Sometimes, you run the best gear in the game and still get 1 shotted even with 90% or higher health. Now either they are hacking or the damage values are way messed up. because I have ran the worst gear in the game and somehow managed to survive many shots from .45 and higher grade ammo.
Let me be clear, the game could be fun, but unfortunately, the developers cared more about fixing a duplication glitch than fixing bugs that literally make items and full containers disappear from your stash when you log in. to them, losing gear randomly is just part of the game, but god forbid if theres a dup glitch, and you could get all that back naw. To make matters worse, even if you had infinite money, you can't buy anything of value because you have to progress with trader levels, to do that you have to finish "contracts" you only get like 5 of them every 24hours, so no matter what it will take a month to be able to buy anything of "value" so now ask yourself if the developers actually care about the playerbase. They released a game in such a terrible state, right as soon as overwatch 2 came out and just before mw2 dmz comes out, its almost like they are desperate to make money. they don't have a shop to buy skins, the only money they make to upkeep servers is for new players to pay the small price the game cost.
They really call this game early access, its alpha at best still, and I played the alpha alpha way back when the only way you could get in was invite from discord.
Its unplayable from a solo persons standpoint, its too easy to get overwelmed by players and the damage values are all over the place. there is no insurance, you don't get gear back in any manner except what friends give you, and if you all die your ship is gone. If your teamate flys your ship to extract, it becomes his ship, so even tho you are all in a grp together, you had to disband grp, join his just to use the same ship, how is that quality of life? how annoying must the developers make this game? the developers should have kept the duplication glitch in the game upon release, I play this nonstop despite all the bugs with friends I either bought the game for or told to get the game. Now, I refuse to tell people to buy the game until ever issue is dealt with.

GAME KEEPS FATAL ERROR CRASHING ON ME

Where do I start?
The lack of a reconnect feature is #1, as of today its still not implemented and you lose all your gear if there is a slight disruption in your internet or if a breaker triggers and you lose power, etc.
Movement is always going to piss you off, there are invisable boxes blocking you, areas you should be able to vault but flat out wont or you have to try 100x to climb. sliding on objects especially rocks which is everywere and so many areas where you slide into a spot that has you falling forever so its making this thuddering sound like a avalanche, thousands of boulders. its a struggle to move around every corner of every map.
Gun play makes zero sense in this game, you'll empty a mag from a white weapon into someone, land every hit and have to reload, but someone else will do it to you and kill you in 1 mag. not to mention anyone with a better quality weapon just has extreme one up on you, and since the beginner map can spawn anyone, who ever brings the best gear can kill every new players experience.
Attachments come with really bad crosshairs that cannot be changed, some idiot developer made it so that you can only craft the best attachments or buy the worst from the traders, everything in between has to be found in the map and the attachments cannot be insured so it becomes a large waste of money.
Speaking of MONEY: nobody gets rich in this game unless you either hack, or run kitted group and even then ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ does everything sell for nothing. quests are your main source of income and that gets eaten fast by hideout uppgrades. I dont even understand why weapons will cost 100k from the traders when you regularly make 5-14k in bright sands and upwards 60k if lucky in crescant falls and if you die your losses are always greater than the 3 raids you got out alive.
Speaking of traders, why do I have to craft everything? making it even harder to obtain money because if die, you have to spend money and items to craft then wait a long ass time like 15min for one backpack to be created or you spend even more money to speed up the process. see where this is going? you make no money in this game.
hackers, running the best equipment makes you a loot pinata, it always just generally kills the experience. its a free to play game with more hackers than some of these paid games.
90% of the player base are just bored tarkov players and tarkov plays who suck at tarkov.
You want to make it better? work on movement, reconnect feature, and the balance of getting money vs losing it, or at least crafting vs losing equipment. otherwise ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game wont recommend to anyone.

After ever match you are greeted with a very loud, obnoxious summary screen of your after match results. If you choose to mute the sound in the settings, unless you turn it on during the game you won't be able to hear footsteps and more important sounds ingame. It gives you the option to skip through it hitting space bar, but every skip is greeted by an even more loud sound, and its several skips. Its so annoying infact that I have to alt-f4 my game everytime I finish a match because I would rather let a horse ♥♥♥♥ my ear drums than listen to it.

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I was one of the original players who preordered the game and played years ago. Came back after seeing some news about a roadmap and changes to the game. The game is exactly the same as it was as I remember it before it became reloaded(pay to play). Not able to test out the missions and weapons because the servers for NA are basically dead. there was 5 crims in the social, only 1 actively talking. This game is never going to kick off unless a serious overhaul of the graphics and content is made. the latest GTA online had made this game absolete in ever sense. you have clear risk reward system there, the driving mechanics are much better, getting vehicles through racing makes it much easier to grind for your favorite cars, and vehicle chases mean something in gta. APB was supposed to be this like open world team death match in the streets kind of deal. Sorta like online saints row 1. I am also still upset that they took away my truck, the decals on it, all my mission progress, weapons, everything. only thing I got from the original game was my character and its decals. who ever "matt" is needs to rethink that roadmap. a 1.3 of the current game is not going to get you players and money. a 2.0 same or better graphics as the latest gta, much more content driven missions/maps. Im talking these maps need to be vastly larger, or they need to make every building accessable with more parkour options and angles and a whole different system of movement, much like tarkov since thats the direction fps games are moving towards. you pretty much need a new game at this point. I dont want to say that because ill lose my character and its the last thing I got back from buying this ♥♥♥♥ game back in the day, but thats what needs to be done for it to live on.

Here is my complaint with the game, you cannot skip talking, scene's, tutorial's, ANYTHING. So when you unlock new race's, go to a new screen, or progress in the story, it forces you to do absolutely nothing, listen, and wait for the tutorial or scene to end.
-This is not an RPG, I dont give a ♥♥♥♥ about any of the characters in the story, I don't even remember their names!
-Their voices are annoying, does anyone else get headaches listening to them or is that just me?
-I'm a grown ass adult that can figure things out myself, I don't need your ♥♥♥♥♥, telling me about the "tune" or "uppgrade" screen like I have never lifted a controller, let alone played a video game in my entire miserable life.

This single most annoying feature will have you pissed off the entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game! it doesn't seem to end! Who develops a game that doesn't let you turn off voices and skip scenes! WHAT PERSON IN THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?

FAIR WARNING if you buy this game you are forced to use origin. you launch the game and it launches origin, just another program that takes up disk space, wont go away, constantly updates itself which has NOTHING to do with the game, forces you to take said update or wont launch the game. EA is the worst game company that exists. Dont forget every expansions is like $20 for a set of new clothes and maybe a small new map. What happened to sims on xbox that came with a story line.

This game is nothing like kingdom come deliverance, this game is in fact, a pile of trash.
When using a bow, sometimes your character is so fixed to the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ front that he wont shoot arrow at the enemy unless your horse is riding directly at them, when you should be able to move your hips and shoot from angles.
the archers in your group never march with the infantry, combat is nowhere near as polished as kingdom come deliverance, you can swing left, right, up and down but you cant charge your attack and attack at another angle, its always just a swing with a sword or stab with polearm, you cant switch attacks to swing or stab, NPCs will take advantage of you if you dont understand how to block every angle, and the game is so terrible at telling you anything that you have no idea what to do when you first start out. most of the NPCs are just the same, with the same ass names. No unique names and voice lines, no unique quests and interactions with every npc in fact even the npcs that are unique dont have good voicelines and little to NO quests. you roam the map with a horse thats slower than a baby whos had his legs removed at birth. so if an enemy is on foot and runs away, which they almost ALWAYS DO, they outrun you for days. the game is not good for impatient people, its combat system is the worst ive ever had in a medieval game. but you get to make an army and a castle eventually so that must be why everyone is buying into this crap. This has been, the most buggy, pile of trash I have ever bought for $45 on steam. its not even worth $45 in its current state, and it has the audacity to claim early access, just a fancy word for buy at your own risk and wait out untill they polish the game. which even if they add content to the game, i dont see the combat system getting better.
I would never recommend this game to my friends. buy kingdom come deliverance or for honor, those combat systems are way better.

Update after playing for 20hours I still have not changed my mind, pro tip, make horse movement speed easy for the 10% speed bonus, otherwise, youll be chasing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ footpads that are running on foot across the entire map for 30minutes, because some idiot developer thought that was a great idea, lets waste players time. its not like we dont have to pay our army its salaries, and feed them the entire time im chasing looters across the map. I hate this game, I really hate everyone involved with the creation of it.

honestly im just trying to figure out how to get my refund. played this game for 77 minutes, did not end up liking it.
its nothing like warcraft 3, you dont just make town halls and units where ever you want. the system is all ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up, combat is dumb, this game is about goals and challenges and the challenges are stupid. way to ♥♥♥♥ this game up.