Recent reviews by MikeTheRat

Pretty atmospheric zombie survival game in Romero's style.
Will update this review later (pros and cons).
45 hours spent, so far I love it! Really good sh*t.

I WANT BANNERLORD!

So heres some pros and cons for the game. No sh*t.

PROS:
+ Setting. Wild West? F*ck yeah!
+ Great graphics, and for great graphics i mean f*cking GREAT graphics.
+ Really good sound and music.
+ Interesting singleplayer storyline. Tonns of side-stories, mini-games etc. Rockstar Games style, you know.
+ HUGE open world to explore and interact.
+ Great and addictive online part (sandbox-like). You can play alone, cooperate with others, create a squad, all the good stuff. Also there are 4 professions to choose at the moment.
+ Some awesome game mechanics about scavenging, hunting, shooting etc.

DISCLAIMER: I didn't experienced any REAL negative stuff in story mode (except a few bugs, so the main CONS list is mostly about ONLINE part of the game).
CONS:
- The game is poorly optimized at the moment, you still can experience fps-drops even on top-tier PCs.
- Bugs, a lot of bugs, even now after a few updates, especially in the online part.
- We have diconnects in online, a LOT of disconnects. It gets really annoying when you hunt, cause the things attached to your horse (that is NOT in your inventory) will 100% disappear. Same stuff with the missions - you spent about 10 minutes to almost finish the mission, you have been disconnected, you need to start over again. Sometimes you can be diconnected every 10 minutes, sometimes you can play 3-5 hours straight without any. By the way, to be honest, last 2 days I play without any disconnects. Let's hope that they're fixed this.
- If you play online (to have some money to spend) - you need to GRIND. Yeah, a lot of brutal GRIND.
- In online mode clothes, horses, weapons etc are level-capped. For example you can't buy the horse at your level 25 cause the horse will be available at level 60. Even if you have the money to buy it. This sucks.

Anyways, will I recommend the game? Absolutely yes. If you like the Wild West setting - the game is must-buy for ye.
If you're not sure about spending this amount of money - buy the game with discount. It's amazing, no sh*t.

So here's some pros and cons for this game.
Pros:
+ Pretty nice graphics.
+ Great sound effects.
+ Dynamic gameplay.
+ Lots and lots of opportunities to customize your loadout. Tonns of weapons and gear to kill people.
+ Large game style variativity.
+ Passive perks to customize your character even more.
+ Horses, catapults, ballistas.
+ Built-in stationary defence facilities on castles.
+ BLOOD, A LOT OF BLOOD. Also dismemberment of any limb, in big battles looks brutal af.

Cons:
- Not so many maps to play.
- No single play, only multiplayer.
- ???

Total: the game is f*cking great. Had a lot of fun playing it and will play more. If you're into medieval setting and killing people - this game is a must buy for ye. Worth the money, 100%.

Quite authentic hardcore multiplayer FPS in WW2 setting. Kinda "SQUAD goes to WW2"-game. I enjoyed it, the game is great to be honest. The main gamplay is around the strategic points capture.

So, here is the pros:
+ First of all: ACTIVE DEVS. They doing updates, they making patches, they adding new content, they answer the community questions. This is awesome.
+ Pretty good graphics. Summer or winter looks beautyful. Visual effects are also great.
+ Sound is amazing, when the combat starts (especially at the 50v50 maps) you gonna realise - this sh*t sounds like WAR.
+ Hardcore FPS experience - one or two bullets hit ya and you are dead. Actually at the most cases injured, not dead, but if the medic is not near at the moment - you are doomed cause you can't be revived by you fellow teammate, only medic can do magic. Also if the tank, aviation or artillery hits you - there is no need for a medic anymore anyways. :)
+ Really satisfying weapons and a process of shooting.
+ Huge and well-designed maps for the tactical actions.
+ Artillery and tanks are also well-made. When you drive a tank - you realize that its a fecken tank and not a sport car with big gun on top of it. Tanks should be used by 2-3 people, otherwise they are quite slow and useless, this is also great.

Here is some cons:
- EARLY ACCESS. Nuff said. The work is in progress.
- There are not too many maps to play at the moment.
- Optimization. Can be really laggy at weak PCs.
- Pretty small playerbase (~1500-2000). I mean there are lots of servers and many of them are full, but this game deserves much more in my opinion.

Resume: great game, one of the best multiplayer FPS WW2 games so far. 100% recommended.

@DEVS:
Please add EAC support for Linux users! I and lots of people really want to play HLL, but they're just can't.
I sent suggestion in Team17, and this is what every Linux user need to do to play this AMAZING game again.

The game itself is quite fun, I also love the Wild West setting.

So here is the pros:
+ Random map generation, so it makes high replayability.
+ Spawning random indians (you able to trade with them if you want to) and bandits camps.
+ Pretty chaotic but still great wild life species diversity.
+ Nice economic model and micro-management.
+ You can build multiple cities on the same map.
+ Sounds and music are fine.

Cons:
- Sadly, graphics is pretty poor. Thats fine, not a big deal.
- Sometimes the game can be buggy, but bugs I encountered was not fatal, just a little annoying.
- The main one: the game has very little content. After a one or two games you will see all stuff the game can offer to you. It simply gets less challenging and boring at the end. All of your citizens are armed, you have lots of resources, the indians and bandits is not a problem anymore etc.

I still would recommend this game, played more than 20 hrs straight - it's pretty well made and addictive, but the leak of content is really brutal.

UPDATE 14.11.2022.
Looks like the game is abandoned by devs. That's sad, becuse it had a really good potential.

ПереКонтра, недоАРМА.
Смесь MOBA игры с тактическим шутером, 5х5.
В целом неплохо, можно поиграть иногда, но жопа горит от этой ♥♥♥♥♥ периодически знатно.

Describe DayZ in 3 words? YOU ARE DEAD.

UPD:
So I wanna share some true story from my DayZ experience.
Once upon a time I decided to change server to start from scratch. I play hardcore servers only, so my main goal was "survive at any cost" - I'm always trying to kill on sight.

I spawned and pretty fast I found a nice shotgun with some 12ga rifled slugs. That was actually a good start , so I continued to scavenge some loot from the starting village. 10 minutes later I met some guy who was also just spawned and had some real basic stuff but no weapon at all. I pointed my shotgun at him and he literally screamed "Dude, please, don't kill me! Take all my sh*t, but please, just don't kill me!" I felt pretty sorry for this poor f*ck and I just let him go, also I gave him some food and water. That was kinda new experience for me, because I just helped a random guy and this feeling was pretty good.

A hour later I met two guys with really nice guns like M4 and AKM. I tried to make a fireplace in the forest and they appeared right behind my back. "You need some help?" asked one of them. I was scared as f*ck cause I thought they will just shoot me immediately. So I said "Nah, I'm good" - "Alright, see you later, dude." - and they just left me in the forest and ran away. I thought holy sh*t, maybe this damn server have a lot of nice people who just want to help eachother? This is freaking awesome! From now on I will try to communicate with people instead of shooting them on sight!

My next stop was 2 or 3 military tents near the road where I spotted some guy looting this tents and with my new experience and good thoughts I just wanted to say "hi" and offer some help to this guy. So I went into the tent without a weapon in my hands... and this guy without saying a word just blown my f*cking head off with his SKS riffle.

I
WAS
WRONG.

Best sci-fi space simulator sandbox game with monstrous potential ever made by human being.
Can't wait for Odyssey DLC.

Intel Core i5-4200. Tested on 5 games, does absolutely nothing, I mean not a single FPS gain.
Seems it just run games oh -high priority, thats it. Not recommended.