joined game then lost ammo and stuck in high danger area but still better than overwatch 2

Score: 3/5
Bad execution/design choices ruin a nearly-great multiplayer STALKER competitor.

The Good
1. Writing and voice acting is good, and there’s a lot of it.
2. Some branching quests with interesting outcomes.
3. Ammo is cheap and the shops have infinite amounts.
4. Respawn rates on containers are high.
5. Gunplay is solid. They’re going for military-sim with the guns and armor mechanics except for manually reloading magazines.
6. Art style/direction is generally strong, except for the human faces and slight goofiness of the Minecraft-esque blockiness, which doesn’t bother me much.
7. Movement mechanics are really good. Character has a very fair amount of stamina and carry weight, being exceptional compared to most of the modern competition featuring asthmatics.
8. Technically solid. No bugs/glitches/CTDs. Almost no lag. Almost no graphical stuttering/frame issues. Other players, including hostiles, almost seamlessly play near me.
9. Free. Microtransaction marketing/pop-ups are annoying, but not overly frustrating.
10. Audio/Music/SFX are all solid, especially for the firearms.

The Bad
1. The tutorial’s enemies drop their weapons. Enemies in the actual game do not. Thankfully, your character doesn’t either. Having the game create artificial difficulty/restriction, along with strongly conflicting with the mil-sim mechanics, nearly killed the game for me on its own.
2. Death loot chance and amounts on most animals is moderately too low.
3. Smurf PvPers in the starting area.
4. Time-to-kill is too high for almost all hostile NPCs, especially non-humans. A very lenient economy system, especially for ammo, lessens this issue moderately.
5. Some of the areas have absurdly high amounts of environmental hazards which took me out of the experience / broke my immersion / ruined the fun.
6. My last straw was having to fight 1v10 against NPCs in a very tight area in the starting zone/area. Most are basically deaf and many have bad eyesight. Some have near perfect aim and can spot you nearly instantly with a lot of clutter in the way. I was dead before I could even identify their silhouette. But I respawn at the beginning of the area, about 10-25 yards away near entrance, rather than back at base. Huh. Clear half, die. Repeat 5 times. Enemies feel artificially difficult, and basically have wall-hacks after my first shot is fired, rushing me down but only half of the ten at a time. And I'm constantly reminded and frustrated by all guns disappearing when the NPC holding it dies. I’m done.

Игра не зашла от слова совсем, какой-то квадратный тарков для шкилы. 2/5