Recent reviews by Terraphon

BIG review with lots of stuff that I hope the devs bother to read, below:

First, I want to say that this game has a lot of potential...A LOT.

Unfortunately, it was released way before it was done cooking, and the devs are clearly very disconnected from their own gameplay.

Pros:
- Lots of good action.
- Tons of weapon customization options.
- Many tasks to keep you occupied.

Cons:
- Kill 20 people in [insert location here] missions can take days to complete because all the bad guys are always dead. (make squad kills count and this becomes much more realistic)
- Kill [insert boss name here] missions can also take days to complete because the bosses spawn way too slow and get killed almost instantly.
- Leaves stop friendly bullets...but enemy bullets will tear right through them and kill you.
- Dramatic inconsistencies with weapon damage (i.e. shoot a guy 16 times with an M4, in the side, from point blank, to kill him, but a single round to your HAND can kill you)
- Lots of enemies, especially at higher levels, are near immortal (7.62X54 (or 54R) to the face, with accompanying blood spray, and the enemy turns and one-shots you from 300 meters)
- Not even nearly enough helicopters (And the devs say "we didn't expect so many people to play solo"...completely disconnected from their own demographic)
- Instability causing lost gear: Get killed because of a 4 second freeze. Do corpse run. Crash. Come back in to find you've lost all your stuff...with no way to get it back...so supporter pack stuff is gone until the next wipe...
- Not nearly enough servers causing massive wait times for squads: I waited 1.5 hours to get in, the other night.
- Did I mention the "Kill 20" and "Kill boss" missions and how they're obnoxious and take forever to complete? I did? Well, it's worth another mention because that's honestly the second worst failure in this game, after the stability issues.
- "Matchmaking failed". If you know, you know.
- Not nearly enough key drops. Bunker genny room, office 2, elder hut key, office storage...The failure of these keys to drop puts a brick wall in front of your gameplay. You CAN NOT continue without them. Do better, devs.

I think I'm going to leave this here, at this point. I have more but on the extreme off chance the devs ever read this, they'll have a lot of work to do.

I'm doing an edit to add another major issue. AFK'ers. Nearly every server I have ever logged into has at least 4 or 5 people standing in the "just loaded into the game" area. Go do some missions that have you out and about for 45 minutes, get back, same guys standing in the same place. Put an idle timer in, devs...How you didn't think of this, is beyond me.

Great game. So far I have loved every minute of it.