Recent reviews by TheLoneWolf K32 // EtherEZ

mister chef 117/10

I don't generally write game reviews, as any community review usually sums up the experience pretty well. However, Nosgoth will definitely be my exception. While ill admit I have only had 7 hours played (at time of writing), 7 hours has been enough for me to go though most of the content offered in the open beta and analyze it. So far, Nosgoth is very Promising.

While, as i stated above, 7 hours doesn't seem like much. I have easily gone through 20 games and thoroughly enjoyed myself.
I Skype my friends while playing this game and, while we do not have a full team of 4 on the Skype call, we communicate a lot and really pull together as friends and also as game mates to secure the win. This game is heavily team plays and unfortunately for our team of 3, that one person who is not in our Skype call can sometimes cause difficulty for our team plays, which is why I personally encourage in game voice chat in order to work well with the teams you play with.
If you're a lone wolf, run-off-on-own player. Then this game is not for you.

The basic overview is this;
2 teams of 4 pit it out in an arena. Humans vs Vampires each with their own unique skill sets and Bonuses. there are 2 rounds each game, each round having a time limit of 10 or maximum team kills of 30, whatever comes first. At the end of these 2 rounds, the total kills from both are added up and the highest scoring team is the winner.

The game is fairly balanced. Coming down to, sometimes, pure luck that this certain person was on a certain health at the certain spot, which gives you a kill. But other times its just pure stupidity of a player. This game is about taking risks and learning tactics of when and how to deal with different situations.

However, i must shut down any comments about the game becoming hard after reaching rank 15 and changing playlists.
Rank is only a number.
What really matters is the skill of who you play with. Some of these rank 40's have been playing together with the same team of 4 and fine-tuning their team plays into almost unbeatable teams. Which does make it hard, but also a challenge for me and my friends also.
No matter the opposing teams plan, we always find a way to sneak in kills and our biggest loss to date was only a mere 12 kill difference. Any other losses against these teams have only been around the 6-8 mark, and even then we do thoroughly enjoy the experience Nosgoth has to offer in terms of online Multiplayer. Definitely one of the greatest aspects of this game.

What I also enjoy about this game is that its easily free to play. There is no paywall and I really hope it stays that way. Too many games are passing a stage where they think its okay to rip their customers off and ruin the gaming experience for everyone. No matter what store item it is, there is a way to get it.
The payment from games is also not low either. Each game will net you from 60-90 coins so you can definitely afford the item you want in no time.
One addition that I personally like, that others may not, is the ability to buy the item significantly cheaper for a period of 7 days from initial purchase. This encourages players to use a small sum of their coins to try a new weapon and also encourages them to play more games in total if they like the weapon.

Graphics and system wise, this game is not very resource demanding as the maps are quite small. Even then it is usually very playable on low graphics as well. My computer isn't the best out there and i easily hit around 30fps. The details in the maps and models are nice and movement does not feel clunky, but very smooth.
The only issue on this note that I have is sometimes I have delays activating an ability and I don't have time to look down to see if it has or not, which ultimately leads to my demise. Giving the enemy a 1 point lead. That is the only major issue i have run into and even then it may not be for everyone.

The developers of this game are awesome. So far they have delivered and they don't seem to be abandoning this game anytime soon. Seeing as there have been a few updates since the release on steam not too long ago. Playing an early access game is a risk as there can be many unbroken promises and rip offs. But so far, everything looks promising. Even though it is slow, which is understandable. But I, for one, am a patient person.

Additions that i hope to come soon in order to improve this game are;
*Dedicated private games. Being someone who has no choice on port forwarding or not, I would very much enjoy dedicated private games so then I, and others, can just set up a game then and there with no issues.

*More Weapons and Abilities in store. So that way there will be more tactics involved in gameplay

*More maps. Duh.

*New Playlists and game types. While we have the typical TDM and Objective based game modes, i would love to see the developers come up with new unique game types to make this game stand out from the others. An infection game mode would also be quite cool to play.

*Weekly gifts. Not actual in store items or what not. But maybe a good addition personally would be gifted boosters every so often to help those new players or the players saving up to buy things. I also think a gift bag would be a good idea to encourage people to join. Which could include some 7 day trials and boosters.

*More classes. I would love to see some more additions of classes to change up gameplay a bit. Already there are a few more on the way, but I would love to have a large variety of play styles to chose from.


Thank you for reading, being my first guide
Any devs reading this, thank you for being so awesome.

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