Recent reviews by Tax Refugee

You hate the parry timings until you start to oneshot.

Game is massively undercooked.

100% the princess

Technically the game is good, very good even, scales extremely well.
There is currently a bug with RT Reflections On/AO On and Ultra RT turned on. If you want to go back to Selective you need to deactivate and reactivate Ultra RT to unload the buffer correctly. Otherwise you're stuck with the performance hit until you load a new area.

EDIT: There seems to be a general issue with buffer unloading. Data from a previous area will still remain in the buffer even when you let the game sit for a bit after traveling. The result is a drastically reduced frame rate. Quitting to the main menu and reloading fixes this. This is not a memory leak.

Story is good so far (if you have played the other games, otherwise nothing makes sense probably), but the writing is absolutely abysmal. High school levels of characterization, dialogue is written like a museum exposition. There are some glimmers of good writing, you can kind of see a pattern of who wrote which characters' lines.
Also why are you not allowed to be bad or mean whatsoever?

Combat is shallow and unengaging, fun for the first few encounters and then gradually becomes more and more boring. And there is a lot of combat you have to drag yourself through.

A lot of the game systems feel like "We need to have at least something.". Very similar to the combat.

While the world/environment is technically impressive, it's very static. Exploration is kind of meaningless, you find a few bits and pieces here and there, but you never feel like you discovered something hidden or interesting.

Overall probably the most 5 or 6/10 game of all time. Rainy Sunday slob.

Fun until you've seen everything and built everything, wish it wasn't quite as grindy in the standard settings

neuron activation

Locking server populations by accounts and not active players is the highest IQ move I've witnessed this year.
Locking content to phases and then locking those per server is the second highest IQ move I've witnessed this year.
Locking the map to content phases and then killing you for moving from le level 30 area to le level 32 area is the the third highest IQ move I've witnessed this year.

Either the devs donated their last braincells to the CCP trust fund or they have not spent a single thought on how this whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ was supposed to work in the first place.

ogey

edit:
The main endgame mechanic is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, if you have 0 wakestones or even shards you're pretty much ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Fix that or remove fall damage. Ruined the game for me.

An open world RPG with excellent combat, things to discover without shoving a million markers in your face, semi-intelligent NPCs and a minimal amount of collectable ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥? In 2024?

The performance is ass, but luckily I'm not poor.

tom ist doof