Recent reviews by Necramonium™

I can still remember the controversy of when this game was announced in 2009, people were not happy to see this game, im happy to see it being picked up with another developer after it was cancelled, dropped again, and picked up again now in 2021.

The game still has some issues, as it's bare bones still, so people with bad reviews need to stop complaining about "almost no content!" Stop pretending to think you will get a fully released game on early access! Early access is meant for developers to get further funding for their game in heavy development while you get to play it, bugged and all.

The game is brutal, as it's mil-sim, it's realistic, you try and run and gun like its Battlefield/COD, you don't last long, clearing buildings brings anxiety because you dont know if they are waiting behind the door ready to shoot their weapons in it. You go in and nothing happens, you feel releived, and than when the first room is clear, the anxiety goes up again as they could be in the next one! Enemy A.I is very sneaky, they either hide in their room for you to come, or run out to rush you, or exit the building in the back and flank you from your sides. One thing that is noticed, is that sometimes they take too many shots, they also show no signs of getting injured, i know a human body can take many shots while another can die from a single one, but so far, they react to direct hits like it's nothing.

The game holds a few online coop mission so far, but this all plays out like Left 4 Dead and the Payday series, you play a mission together, and try it again later! The biggest difference to those other game series with SDIF, is that the area you start in, the buildings always change, that big building on your right you used to not get shot by that sniper in the previous mission, will be completely gone in the next attempt and all you get now are some ruins from bombed buildings, so you gotta find a new path!

The flashlights, are very low inside on really bright days, in noon/morning missions, they are somehow really bright inside. If they always were like that, it would be a much better experience. There are still bugs and other issues, but they are very likely to be fixed, we already had 2 patches in one week, so that is nice! Keeping my eye on this game to see what it will grow in to!

Ever since reading the books as a kid and watching all the movies we HP fans were waiting for a HP game like this, the HP game based on the movies always were rushed and were missing things, and combat always was bad. But not in HL, combat is very satisfying! Graphics seem a bit outdated... So far i am having lots of fun with the game! flying around Hogwarts, seeing where some places are vs how they were in the movies, is very interesting to see. Hogwarts is mostly based on how it looks in the movies but also in the books. Like some of the classrooms are identical to the movie versions, but some rooms are more how they were described in the books.

One downside, and this is what i feared since the game was announced, is that the game uses Unreal Engine 4, a very unreliable engine that never got much love from its developer Epic, and it shows, even though i get near 60 fps, my videocard does not like the game, at all. While my CPU barely is being used. I hope this is fixed in the near future. Mods are also a reason why i bought the pc version, and there already are some around! This is why i love pc gaming!

After playing around with the sim for over a week, i will put my opinion in writing. i, luckily, so far had no issues with the launcher, downloading or crashes (knock on wood). After tweaking some of the graphic settings i managed to get a 40 fps in cities and 50 in open areas. Looking forward on how much they will optimize the game further.

Graphics:
Graphically, this game looks amazing compared on what we had before in simulators, at one moment i just sat there in the cockpit at the parking, listening and watching the rain storm outside. Even though the game holds the entire world, with thanks to Bing Maps, some area's in the world sadly don't have photogrammetry, so they look less appealing and have A.I auto generated buildings, but flying high in the sky, that doesn't bother me that much, it's a fly simulator after all, not a race game.

Sound:
The sound is incredible, the cockpit creaks when rolling over the taxiway, engines roar in full throttle and a highway can be heard in the distance if you are in the external view.

Gameplay:
Whats there to say about gameplay, its a flight simulator, you do what you want, want to do a long distance flight between Amsterdam and New York in a airliner? You do that! Wanna grab a small prop plane and just fly and soak in the view during sundown, you do that! If you are new to a flight simulator, there are simple tutorials for you to know the basics, if you want to do some missions, there are some nice Bush flights ready for you to play. Don't expect a career mode, maybe one day this will be added, we never know.

Planes:
Various amount of planes can be found in the sim, from the legendary Cessna 172, to the Airbus A320neo, as expected, not all switches and buttons can be used in the cockpits, but still a good enough amount so you still can start your plane up by hand. Some things are still missing, like a de-ice windshield option, but for fully working cockpits, we have to wait for study level planes from third part developers who are already busy with creating them!

Negatives:
Yes, the sim so far is great, but there are some negatives, the ATC is sadly still not a improvement from FSX, the same old bug that ATC does not work on smaller airports is still there and kills the immersion when taking off from those airports, sometimes you dont hear them talking and just hear a static noise, some say this is due to the Microsoft servers just receiving too much traffic.

There also seems to be a sensitivity issue when it comes to joysticks. Terrain issues are also present, like a giant tower of houses, or lakes having height issues so they go 200 meters into the air, but this is nothing that cant be fixed in the future. Not all airports are there (yet) sadly, i did a trip around the world a few years ago and stopped at a small airstrip north in Canada, i wanted to continue from this airport, but i only found a empty field shaped in the way of a runway. Also some airports have trees right in front of them, making landing difficult.

Performance wise you need a heavy pc, while my videocard is utilized for 80%, my CPU is barely over 20%, so lets hope this changes in the future.

So far the future of MSFS2020 looks bright, the game still has its rough edges, but if they can fix most of the issues, the king of flight sims, will be back on top!

Game has potentional, the community has not. The community is the most toxic community i have seen in a long long time. This is Microsoft COD days bad. Expect racism, grievers, tkers, and more kind of people who just wanna ruin the fun for you in this game. Maybe i will recommend this game if these people get bored with this game in a few months and move to the next game to troll around in.

Oh yeah, did it mention it has no anti cheat program? Yeah, also no admins in the official servers. Good luck as the developers don't care at all about what happens in the community, people complain about the blatant racism in the servers on the main forum, people there actually defend it cause according to their small brains, racism falls under "free speech".

I have been trying to play the game for four days, but there are just too many bugs and crashes to call this a playable version of the game, i know they are working on it, but after trying to finish the same mission for 4 days in a row, i give up. Don't spend you money yet, wait until they fix the biggest issues first.

The game has come a long way since early access release, it's still in it's small niche corner of the videogame community, so people can't expect thousands of players, but the player base has seen some growth, now 400 player size servers are being tested!

After coming back to the game for Chapter 3 that looked promising, i was met with disappointment, the same glaring issue are present, still poor performance on some maps, and the game just doesn't look good, everything looks too clean. But it's still the same as a year ago, expect almost no teamwork and one side dominating the other side. Utah Beach is so one sided i never see a more one sided map before. You will get killed before you even left the Higgins boat. I lost complete faith in these developers as i see nothing changed, it's still the same buggy mess as a year ago.

Syrian Warfare pretty much is Men Of War light, meaning, there is no Direct Control, can't mess around with a soldier's/vehicle's inventory, this makes the game allot harder, because the A.I in this game is just absolutely stupid, and this could have been fixed with Direct Control. I also found out that tank's pretty much can see through entire buildings and walls. There is also NO Skirmish mode, no mission maker, and no multiplayer at all. You are better off with Men Of War: Assault Squad 2.

Enjoyed the game for a few hours, but than bugs started to show their ugly heads, for some reason the Mission Log is completely blank now, searching for this issue showed that the only way to fix it is to restart a new career. After starting a new career in the other region, the game crashed immediately and keeps on doing so, even finishes the crash with a nice "You need Steam to run this!". The game itself has allot of potentional, but the game should have never come out of early access in this stage, it's way too buggy and still has too many glitches (animals getting stuck, tracking an animal that eventually seems to vanish into thin air). And the optimization is also not great, i might not have a new pc, but i can run Battlefield 1 on a mix of High and Ultra, i can barely keep it in the 50's in this game on High after tweaking the video options. And all you do is just walk in a level with nothing happening beside some animals walking around.

And the game suffers from something that is a personal hatred of mine in videogames, is that everything needs to be unlocked by experience, i really cannot use a different type of ammo just cause i didnt shoot enough deers? I need this much experience to use a ancient rifle?

The DLC that got people riled up, i can understand people are upset about it, the developer promised that you would buy this game and no microtransactions would become available unlike in the previous Hunter game. But now a simple tent and ground blind are DLC, thats not cool at all. A tent is standard equipment for hunters!

At the current state, i don't recommend this game. Wait for it to be patched up or if you are really interested, when its for sale below 20 bucks.

I didnt play for a year, i can no longer support it, awful game design decisions just creates a flawed gameplay, expect one side to steamroll the other side completely most of the time, vehicles eating rockets after rockets while they take out entire squads within seconds. And the most dumbest game design ever added to a game, has to be that after you died, you spawn with only two magazines for your main weapon and thats it. Of course this has to be resupplied at the local HAV but the team doesn't bother to resupply it so you got half the team running towards the objective, in the open, without ammo getting crushed. Someone in a game told me to join a clan to enjoy the game, if i have to join a clan to enjoy the game, the game is severly flawed...