Recent reviews by Shrakn3l

TLDR: The game runs terribly and looks like garbage, I can count the pixels. Wait for updates, and for the game to go on sale to 30 or 40 bucks. I am refunding the game for now until they make drastic changes to the game.

I have played the original stalker games. While not a mega fan of them as some people are, I do enjoy them and think that they are great games.

This game however does not bring joy, can barely maintain 60fps at 1080p with out frame gen, and it gets even worse at 1440.

Then there is actual picture quality, which is horrible, I can count the pixels that make up the leaves of a tree, it gets so bad at times that it actually makes me sick.

As it is I can not recommend this game, and especially not this price point. Wait for updates, and wait for the game to go on sale for 30 - 40 bucks then it would be kind of worth it.

I am refunding this game until they get everything fixed.

This game is a hot piece of garbage the game looks like arma 3, the game play is just bland, the ai is dumb as ♥♥♥♥, and no one is online playing the game.

No mics system so you can't talk to the few people you may publicly match with. Lastly co-op just does not work for an extraction shooter.

Sony has backed off after having their hand ripped out of the cookie jar.

So this goes back to a recommended for now.

Warning though Sony you try to do something like this again, and next time it becomes jugular not just your hand.

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I hate having to make this update but Sony/AH has announced that you will be required to have a psn to play the game.

I have been playing off and on for a few months now without a psn account and don't plan on making one.

On top of all of this there are several countries where psn is banned, but sony soled the game there anyways on steam. Now those player will never be able to play the game again because of Sony's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ maneuver


Sony really took one look at everything the BSG has done to it's community and said: " I would like what he is having"

You had a winning hand Sony and you had to go and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ throw it way because of your greed.

All you had to do was remain on the current course and you had money for days, and you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it up.

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Nothing like dealing out a healthy dose of freedom and liberty to all those traitorous bugs and bots!

In all seriousness though this is the first game in a long time that have been excited and hyped up for, and haven't been let down by in the long run.

One of the newest games that i will buy and recommend buying at full price.

The game is a fun smash bros. clone but has some serious issues.

The game balance is all over the place some characters are stupidly weak and other are stupidly over powered.

The dual characters are broken (beavers and R&S). The few characters that have range attacks can just spam you from the other side of the map and keep you from doing anything.

Then you can just spam moves, since there is no delay between attacks and an enemies counter attack will just randomly power through what ever move you are making. Then shield is just random if it actually blocks anything or not.

The multiplayer servers are ♥♥♥♥. You may or may not load into the game, and then even if you do load you will have a terrible time with the lag even on gb internet.

Currently in the state this game is in I can not recommend it.

If the game goes on sale for 20 bucks or less then maybe buy it.

Holy ♥♥♥♥♥ sh!t this game is good!

Saw the game on release and just ignored it not even thinking twice about it. Then i saw one of the guys i watch start a play through of it not even 5 min in i closed the video so I didn't ruin the game for myself like i did when ddlc came out, immediately bought the game and haven't regretted it.

So much replay ability to this game and as someone who loves to play ttrpgs, it gives so much inspiration for potential stories.

If you are sitting back considering just drop the 18 bucks on it, worth every dollar.

I think the game is okay pretty fun. I have never been a fan of the pokemon could never really enjoy them. I have for the most part enjoyed this game all except for the **** trainer battles that are every 5ft from the last trainer you just ******* battled!

Seriously the trainer battles suck all enjoyment out of this game due to not being able to go anywhere or do anything, that combined with the random wild temtem encounters you will have to stop by the trainer station every time you get to a new area if you don't get reset cause all of your temtem's are dead!

Then there is the terrible ui. The best way to put it is it sucks, get a new quest? Great! Only one issue the game doesn't give you a direction to go in, so you will just wonder around forever adding on new quests and never being able to figure out how to complete the old ones. The game will throw a bunch of names at you that mean absolutely nothing to you and expect you to know what to do.

The map doesn't have the towns marked on it so if you need to get somewhere your just making a guess of where to go.

There are no indicators on your temtem's as to what kind they are or if they have a synergy with another one in your squad/inventory, so unless you are going to spend hours of time researching and grinding your aren't ever going to be able to build synergetic teams. There is no indicator for your temtem's speed so it's impossible to know which will go first, again it comes down to hours of grinding and research to actually figure it all out.

I'm just glad i got this game with my humble choice sub, there is no way I would ever pay 50 bucks for this game, it has way to many design issues to be worth that much.

Team17 buys the game from blackmatter, immediately throws the game out the window.

The game already had issues before Team17 bought the HLL ip and now that they directly develop the game it has gotten so much worse.

Hit reg issues, extreme lag, large fps drops. Then the utter trash that is the british forces update. No lee enfield, can't use the bipod on the bren, no desert camo for your units even though the british mainly play on desert maps.

Don't buy this game, even more so don't support team17. They money grubbing dev/publisher that is willing to pump out cash grabs left and right.

This game was amazing and awesome till tencent and their new ceo for OWI came into the game. Now it's about turn into a micro-transaction hell.

!!NO EMOTES!!

Thanks guys for all the good times.

Edit: Almost forgot the aim assist for controllers is just a built in aimbot. And as a pc player you can't opt out of cross-platform play. Even then it wouldn't even matter as most of the pc players are just using controllers anyways to get the aimbot.

Don't waste your money on it. This game is a piece of hot garbage. The game freezes and or crashes all of the time, nothing particular causes the crashes; it just decides it wants to die.

The maps are terrible, you get one of 2 map types:

1. Super open you can see from one side to the other, has absolutely no cover so if you aren't sniping you're just dying.
2. The entire map revolves around the central area of the map. The center completely controls movement on the map and the game just turns into a camp fight over the center.

The only decent map in the game is Hotel.

Perk system has been ruined. Now you get 2 base perks the work right off the bat and then bonus and ultimate perk. Bonus charges and takes effect 4min after match start and ultimate takes effect 8min after match start.

The weapon unlock and customization system has been completely redone from the ground up and is confusing as all hell.

People blend in with the maps and can be impossible to see people in spots.

idk if it's just me but the over all player visuals have become worse. In the 2019 version player would stand out and I could make out every part of their body no matter how far they were away from me. In MWII if they aren't basicaly right in front of you they look like a stick in the distance.

No it's not my system. I have a RTX2070, i7-9700K, 32GB ram and I run the game on high 1080p.

Lastly the campaign sucks ass. they some how made a campaign that is less interesting and less fun than coldwar.

I am going to be trying to refund the game myself. Please save yourself the time and money, and don't even consider buying this game.

This going to be a long review If you don't want to read the entire thing that is fine here is the summary of it all.
I am a Beta/ tech test player that can't recommend the game due to the severe amount of bugs and lack of content.
You may say duh there is going to be bugs it an EA title, if that's the case please continue reading to understand where I am coming from.

Before I start this review I want to state that I have played through both betas and all tech tests.

Marauders in the beta was a great game that showed a lot of potential, but had many issues that needed to be fixed before the EA access, a ton of bugs many of which still haven't been fixed. For example There are mm bug where it won't pull you into the game with your crew, this has been a bug since the first beta. Indefinite queue this has been in the game since the first beta. Mater of fact the only bugs they have fixed since the first beta are some easy to do duping bugs. Even know you can still dupe items, you can even accidentally dupe items just by grabbing them off a players body.

Then there is the severe lack of content as it currently stands. yeah they have added some new maps in the last tech test before EA release but it's really nothing in perspective of the longevity of the game. Let me put it this way; I come Tarkov and a little hunt showdown on the side, like many others in this game. Those two games got old after a few months of consistent play, Marauders gets old in a matter of weeks. It's so easy to get all of the best gear in the game and then just like Tarkov it's get's stale quickly.

Even during the second beta to resolve the lack of content issue the locked items that you used to be able to purchase and/or unlock for crafting normally behind the zero to hero quest. for example the blow torch craft. You used to be able to craft the blow torch at like lvl 7 or 8. For those of you who don't know you need a blow torch to be able to gain access to the vault on each map. the vault is pretty much the only place on any map that spawn actually good loot worth going onto any of the stations for. All other loot on the map is generally junk except for anything that spawn in a medical or security location.

Hit detection sometimes works and then other times you can dump a mag into a guys face and not kill him. Recoil on the large caliber weapons needs a rework, you currently can't use them as a full auto weapon due to the recoil. matter of fact the weapon you will see people run most of the time is the MP40 or the Liberator; purely because they are the most effective weapons in the game.

Before EA access the dev team was warned by myself and many others on the discord that this game wouldn't last long out in EA with the lack of content and severe amount of bugs it currently has.

There is a pattern I have noticed with Marauders and Team17's other fps game Hell Let Loose. Hell Let Loose like Marauders started off as a great game with lots of potential, very buggy but was doable just do to the excellent game play and replay ability. As time went on they kept on adding content but never really fixed any of the serious bugs. Now in it's current state it is barely playable at times due to some of the bugs, but they will keep on pushing out new content just to keep players coming. I personally see Marauders heading down the same path in the future. I don't put this on the devs cause I don't think this is a devs thing, this is Team17 as the publisher pushing them to get the content out there so that they can rake in the sweet, sweet dough.

If you have read this far into the review I greatly appreciate you taking the time to do so.

As this game currently stands I CAN NOT RECOMMEND THIS GAME If they get the majority of the serious bugs fixed and more content added then this review will be turned around.