Recent reviews by Mussels

It's only got 10 hours of campaign, and the last half feels unfinished

Fantastic game with great devs supporting a game that blew up far larger than they ever expected.
Then Sony came along to ruin everything with corporate greed. Blame Sony, not Arrowhead.

Sony have backed down on forcing PSN logins, so my review goes back to positive.

120 hours for a single playthrough.

I had a shapeshifting murder-clown (AKA a druid) go on wild rampages and be cheered on by the masses, 20/10 replaying again with murder-clown-midgets this time!

Still a lot of fun in 2023. DXVK is a great mod to move the graphics to vulkan and get it working at full speed on modern hardware (4k 144Hz, all settings but Phsyx maxed out lag free)

The only negative is that co-op players can go out of sync with no level scaling like BL3 has - so make separate characters for solo if you're going to solo play a lot.

Older game, with a graphical upgrade and new bugs

Using "DXVK" to convert to Vulkan fixed all framerate issues and stutters with the game, and now it runs like a dream in windows 11 with a 3090 - was stuttering to 5FPS without it.

Guns go pew pew pew pew pew

It's a buggy mess with coop players having all sorts of crash issues, weapons refusing to reload and is full of things that make no sense to people who haven't played borderlands 3 first

(Is that an SMG or a crossbow?!? Why does my pistol shoot sawblades?)


That said, it's chaotic silly fun.

Coop is totally broken with constant lag, desyncs and dropouts.

Taking 2-3 hours to even unlock the multiplayer to test this means if you arent careful it's hard to get a refund.

This game is an addiction.

Imagine if the Sims let you cannibalise your neighbours, keep slaves, and amputate the limbs off people you don't like.

Someone attacks your base, but survives hurt on the ground? Peg legs and wooden hands for you slave! now CLEAN THE FLOOR and sleep with the chickens... FOREVER! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA

A story first: Myself, my brother and a friend spent an hour mining all the resources to make a viking longboat and sail the seas. We crash into a lot of things and eventually make our way across to a new island, beach the damn boat and jump off to make a small base with beds.

My brother cuts down a tree, which falls on his head and kills him half an ocean away from his spawn point. 10/10 would watch again.

Now, the review: It's another game in the same genre as ark, rust, 7D2D and so on.

The key difference here is an absolute focus on PVE and not PVP - so the devs aren't balancing things between two diverse player groups like some other games get ruined by

7 days to die for example has terrible PVE, yet the game is often balanced around it - and ark you can spend months grinding for a player to teleport from another server and destroy your work - this game however, is PVE all the way (you can PVP each other for sh!ts and gigs if you wish)

Being made for 10 players at a time and PVE oriented, means its simply cooperative or competitive in nature with friends or possibly randoms on an online server - you arent going to be using catapults to siege each others bases, you're more likely to competing with friends to who can make the best looking medieval shack, only to have a troll appear and smash it to pieces

Being balanced for smaller groups also means the grind is reduced as they dont have to balance out 50 people in a clan working together to cheese servers - you cant even freeze or starve to death, you simply get health and stamina bonuses for eating a bunch - so you only worry about it before a fight really.