Recent reviews by Shebby

Darktide is a love hate relationship, but not like Dead By Daylight and League of Legends level of sadism. This game is good. it's fun to play and after a few years of tweaking the devs have finally hit the nail with a progression formula that works. However, it's all about what we could've gotten. Darktide was teased to have an incredible story written by a seasoned warhammer writer. What we got was a string of unconnected missions that have no chronological order. Your only stories are brief 20 second cutscenes every 5 levels up to 30 and then it ends.

Vermintide 2 is one of my top 3 favorite games of all time and it featured a chronological order of it's missions where the main campaign was split into 3 acts that all converged into the final boss. Completing a mission would unlock the next to ensure you are playing in the right order It showed that Fatshark knows how to make stories with this game formula but chose not to.
Darktide is a good game, but it feels weak in comparison to what we could've gotten.

Gotta be the worst triple A release this year. Buggy as hell and an open world so bare bones the only enjoyable way to play the game is to do it with a friend.
I had to go into launch options just to force the game to launch into Directx11 or the game would crash when trying to join friends and even then its a 50/50 on if the game crashes.

It's like Risk of Rain but on a $5 RPGMaker budget and yet it's still fun

Not worth the price and by far my least favorite faction ever added. Their food mechanic makes it so CONSTANT war and fighting is a MUST with this faction, you can't settle down and just be a mercenary and only do contracts, you need to be constantly raiding, constantly making outposts, and constantly killing for your armies to not die of starvation.

Amazing mod but very short, beat it in less then an hour and a half + had moment where I got softlocked after the tram ride.

Decided to try the game again since the update and I enjoyed it. Missions are harder and enemies are more fun to fight. Game is still lacking in engaging missions with more objectives (some but very few) Connection is improved but not perfect since the edition of dedicated servers.

Update: Coming back to the game after a bit to find noone is playing pve/zombies anymore. I'm not a pvp person, so I'm sad to see this. The singleplayer campaign at least has still a decent amount of missions that take about 5-10 hours to complete. I personally wouldn't recommend this off-sale.

My personal recommendation would be to wait until it's on sale.

Good to get for the crowns.

I really really do not like this game outside of the shooting ranges and sandbox maps. Trying to play this game like a pve shooter is just infuriating to me. Trying to shoot spastic sausages that float at you with mach 10 speed is enough to give me a brain aneurysm.

One of the most irritating and janky combat systems ever.

For those stuck between this game and Mordhau I will provide a quick summary;

If you prefer 1v1 duels and a more competitive environment I would recommend Mordhau. Time to kill enemies takes less hits then it does in Chivalry. Mordhau has less variety in gamemodes outside of Capture Points, FFA, and PvE Horde mode but it makes up for in modded servers.

If you prefer large scale battles and a more casual/easier gameplay experience then this game is it. You will get a lot team-based objectives in this game where as mordhau it's usually just control points. Dogpiling and 2+v1s are 90% of the game so don't expect 1v1's too often outside of FFA.

I should also say both games have incredibly toxic communities. Don't expect any help from either or you'll just be called a slur in chat

One major problem with the game at the moment is hitreg, more so arrows and throwables. Countless times I've hit an enemy and the thing I threw at them is literally stick out of their body but it didn't do any damage.