Recent reviews by Taegonwolf.TTV

I waited until their FAQ came out on discord to address this PSN. they doubled down on limiting more than half of their player base after selling them a product and letting them play for 3months knowing full well they wouldn't be able to play while cashing those checks... The FAQ had zero meaningful answers, discord mods and community managers are not helping at all with exception of 1-2 professional, empathetic, and understanding while rest stroke the flames.

Since they finally let me review the game I pre-ordered (I was locked out forever to post this)

This game does not feel like the BF series... They basically sold their souls to try and implement aspects of other games in this game - - which was done poorly. The class system is everything to the BF genre and it is completely useless as they transitioned to a specialist system. This new system promotes solo play rather than team-based immersive play. The graphics are complete poop as if you increase graphics your performance is hit hard even with top level machines you will get an occasional crash (especially in 128 man maps). More people on map but map is larger so it doesn't feel like an 'all out war' it feels like a running simulator to one side to other side with infrequent fire fights. You can't see the current stats of people in a server besides your own squad. Overall, not worth the money and counters what made BF better than its competitors. That being said, I did not try portal which I've heard is really well done as it brings back the old games with classes that promote team-based game play and doesn't impact performance in this mode. WAIT FOR A 65+% SALE or UNTIL THEY FIX MANY MANY ISSUES.

UPDATE: CAMPDOWN SHOTGUN edition. Everyone basically camps with shotguns in buildings or snipers in bushes. Hive bombs have improved slightly.... flash bombs will blind everyone - do not think you can rush in shortly after throwing cuz it'll still blind you. Hitboxes still suck shoot through sheet where body/head is and no hit marker... shoot directly on chars head no hit marker... its sporadic at best.

Great game with friends, not so much solo (camp fest in solo).

They need to add a PvE only mode/custom games because the trials are poop.

DO NOT USE THE HIVE BOMB 100% will just attack you and/or a teammate - the devs need to fix it and actually have it you know attack the enemy you throw at the foot of....

Devs are mediocre... passionate for sure but they downplay reported issues like hit boxes (e.g., you can't shoot through a sheet hanging up but can wall bang through wood....

Excellent game - I know a lot of people hated it (as a re-skin and reuse of a map) but to be honest I absolutely loved it! I would recommend especially if on sale but good story with lots of fun.

10/10 would recommend! Valheim – A place where you can get drunk on mead with friends or alone. Honestly, I have been addicted since it has a nice progression and challenge with enough balance in the game from farming, building, adventures, explorations, sailing, crypts/dungeons, pushing the limits in different zones. I have been on the edge of my seat defending my building location from 10 trolls (5 waves of 2) to scaling the mountains with frost potions to take out drakes and steal goods. Overall, a nicely polished alpha that is amazing on steam in a sea of horrible alphas.

The game has gotten so stupid with penalty for individuals who get disconnected or quit... So now killers just camp on the hooks. What a piss poor feature. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME UNTIL THIS FEATURE HAS BEEN FIXED - 99% of penalty comes from disconnect or even better piss poor technical failures to their game.

Officially uninstalled after new killer was released - incredibly over powered, zero balance. Good luck!

I do not recommend this game. I purchased this alpha ages ago and it is still in Alpha. The first time I played I ran around for an hour never seeing a zomibe or human - - not much has changed since then... I have requested a refund (thankfully I am under two hours!) Do yourself a favor and avoid this purchase - IT IS DEAD.

6.5/10

Overall, I would recommend the game for its price <$5 while taking into account pros/cons.

Pros:
-Space-based survival with realistic components (meteor strikes / dust storms / power-water-food management / etc.)
-Multiple maps
-Population-growth focus
-Strategic
-Appealing graphics for this type of game
-Low-cost game with several hours of fun in return

Cons:
-Sloppy/mediocre UI
-Basic tutorial (doesn't cover critical components of the game like the earth rocket system, more advanced buildings, resources or other components to maps [rocks are used for research not just block buildings])
-Dumb/broken automation / command issue system (astronauts will just walk in place / forklifts won't move / etc.)
-Limited achievements and easily attained
-No sense of achievement (games never end) it is just a constant balance of population growth / managing environmental/mechanical problems. However, after independence if you have a food / water issue colonist will die until it is within limits and repeat.
-Primitive research system/choices

Missed opportunities (things that should have been added/improved):
-Achievements (add more and more difficult challenges) For example, have an astronaut die from a meteor strike which would require a large radar array requiring advanced notice of weather.
-Colonist should give birth after a specific # has been met.
-Research - ADD MORE! there are only two things to research and its primitive
-Add more types and designs of buildings
-Terraforming land with bulldozer/machinery would have been nice in order to fill in craters/etc.
-Ability to develop atmosphere/water (add more after independence)

This is an incredibly fun and easy game with a great space theme to it. I wish it was a longer game but overall 9/10. I highly recommend it if you want to kill some time with a great story and scenic backdrops.

UPDATED OVERALL 2/10; the game has progressively gotten worse with desync, audio spam bots, glitches, hackers, etc. The developers choose to work on $5 dollar skins, DLC bs, and suing the competition rather than fixing their game. The patches they do release are like 8+ GBs and literally nothing changes..... I know many people who are leaving this game due to the failed management.

Original Review:

Overall rating: 7.0/10, at this time despite any negative criticism I would recommend this game as long as you feel the positives outweigh the negatives and keep in mind this is still alpha though this will be changing soon and I'm not sure if all the issues will be fixed by the time it releases which is why I wrote this review. I hope this helps in your buying decision.

Note: I only have 12+ hours of game play due to a 2 year old gaming laptop not being able to handle low settings causing graphic lag, low detail, etc. (I was doing traveling work) and also playing on the test server. I was basically a mule/medic in my squad. Since relocating back to where my desktop was located and having a GTX1070 / 16GB RAM / Phenom 2 (3.4 Ghz), etc. I am able to play on medium - high settings with none of these issues. Please note if you would like to enjoy this game you should have a pretty decent and modern build.

Pros:
+Great team-based game (can solo but definitely more fun in a squad)
+Forces players to continue moving/looting (circle gets smaller and smaller) - mitigates long-term snipe camping.
+Graphics are actually pretty decent if your PC can handle max graphics. However, most can only run low-medium without sacrificing frames.
+diversity in weapons and vehicles (I would like to see this expanded on further).
+There is a degree of luck that plays into this game whether it is finding the right gear or dropping in the right location which is a nice variation to standard shooter games.

Cons:
-Optimization needs work need a really modern video card to be somewhat competitive (lower graphics lower ability to see enemies).
-Rubberbanding, major issue especially at the start of any game where finding a weapon is important for immediate survival.
-Random crashes, not often but does occur to almost everyone at one point or another.
-Cannot heal in vehicles while they are moving which seems counter intuitive (I can understand why you can't gas a vehicle up while moving). However, no reason you can't drink/use pain meds/heal in vehicle.
-There is only one map (second on test server) I would like to see more.