Recent reviews by iDrkTV

Fun game, can get a lot of enjoyment out of this game free-to-play. They listen to community feedback and actually try to make positive changes and 2 step forward type of content additions. I feel this game has the potential to be around for a while. Well worth a shot! It's free. Give it a go.

Alright, here we go.

Getting into the game is your initial problem. Seems like they only ordered a small handful of servers per region. There is no limit indicator on number, just says full on mostly all of them. If you're lucky to find one that says 'high' then good luck with it letting you actually access the server. There is no queue system.

Once in game, you will find yourself with addition issues to overcome.

UI/Visuals:

First and foremost - settings. Along with a terrible UI, if you change practically ANY setting whatsoever, your graphics/video will reset to default. And changing to borderless, etc, is hit or miss if it will actually save the proper setting. Sometimes it seems like it does, but it does not; it's actually a bit too zoomed, etc, and you need to re-save again.

Black 'strings' of artifcact glitch lines will be randomly shooting out from objects/stores, etc. Very weird. Doesn't help with the already struggling non-optimized fps conditions.

Gameplay issues:

CLUNKYYYYYYYYYY. Period. Game feels released SUPER unready. Sprinting feels terrible. Want to run around but also be looking around as you do so? Character auto-stops moving, nearly. Have to stop and restart sprinting so often in the middle of roads/streets, etc. Get stuck on all the corners/objects that you want. It's almost impossible not to do so.

Looting issue: HUGE ISSUE. Bodies disappear within 45-60(?) seconds after dead. So, kill a player? But injured and want to heal before looting? Ha. Body will disappear and no loot will be left for you. My assumption is that a backpack/loot pile is supposed to take the bodies location, to allow being looted after the body sprite disappears? But it does not work this way. Your loot will be gone. Kill a player, better loot them quick, while bleeding and unsure if they had mates. Good luck!

Zombies - If you're lucky to find any (lol), they move clunky, and take 3 9mm pistol headshots to kill (or roughly 12-16 9mm pistol body shots). Fun sponges.

You will see lots of players 'skating' around. Enjoy the crouching skaters, hidden T-posers.

Stash issues:

Once you organize your 'stash' the way you like it, but leave and access the stash again, everything is scattered about the way it was originally. Nothing saves the way you set it.

Backpack swapping.. Works in 'city' and in 'base' but not in the stash system. Very annoying.

Money! Trying to buy from vendors in base is a problem. You must go to your stash, put your money in your inventory, then go to the trader to buy the item. It does not see your money unless actively in your inventory. QoL, please?

Inventory issues:

Cannot split med stacks.

Having no quickbar access is slightly annoying. Need to heal? Gotta find a safe spot, pull up HUGE inventory overlay, and hold space bar on your med for a good 5 seconds just to heal a small portion of your hp. Good luck being low hp and needing to heal in a pinch before having to loot, fight again, or even just seeing if you're hungry or thirsty, etc.

Want to check your mission items? No UI overlay for this, either. Need to find a safe space and pull up huge overlay screen, and navigate through the 'journal' to see what you need to find/do.

Speaking of missions - Only being able to 'accept' one mission at a time is blasphemy. The game gives you multiple options for questing/mission progress, but only lets you do one at a time. Very annoying and easy QoL change here.

Got all of this based off 2.7 hours of gameplay.. And that was 2.7 hours too many. Good luck!

Would be such a great game if they just put the work into it that they've put into KOTK... Which was supposed to just originally be an additional 'game mode' to H1Z1..

Maybe one day they will. Keep your fingers crossed that all the rumors of a massive update for JS are true.