Region lock China players, I can confirm 90% of all players you think are cheating comes from the same place, even more evident when they try shooting you through walls in a game with no wallbang, banning them is pointless, there’s more of them then there are sperm in my bollocks, I’ve reported 7 very glaring cheaters so far and no actions have been taken, i guess its normal to beam people with a uzi through smokes or try shooting through walls and floors ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiots, even better are the ones that are literally just hunting players, sick bastard had 10 name tags on him when I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shot his shriveled up ♥♥♥♥ with a shotgun when he tried to jump shot me.

Other than that, good game I guess.

Delta Force!

Graphics is good
Game feeling is good

But there are an incredible number of cheaters.
In war mode you can say out of 30 players, 7-10 are cheating.

Many accounts can be found on Steam, brand new no games, no level, one or two hours of Delta Force and do 80-100+ kills.

This game is already more contaminated than CS has been in 15 years.

There will be a TL;DR at the end.

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Everyone here should know - if not already - that this Free To Play experience uses a Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat. Which, if you don’t know, is the equivalent to signing the rights to your computer away to a corporation.
More on that later.

Although my expectations were nonexistent for this title, I’m still very aggrieved and disgusted by it.

It opens up a launcher from steam with its own account and login that is separate - meaning your Steam is not the platform used - but a third party program.
Ew.

What’s even more of a killer is the paperwork you have to sign in order to get into this game.
Sign a shady EULA, some concerning Terms Of Service, and two separate Privacy Policy papers that essentially strap a bomb to your computer and any notion of self sovereignty.
The paperwork is the stuff of nightmares, and is the first massive, major, huge red flag.

It’s “Put me in your will and take out a massive life insurance policy before our honeymoon” levels of scary.

I don’t think anyone is talking about this particular aspect of the game since its launch, but I just have to say it here:
I’ve been making game reviews and reading them with passion and interest for the past 13 years. I’ve been scrolling through YouTube comments and social media since they were ever a thing - and everything surrounding this game gives weird, AI levels of unnatural vibes.

Here are examples of statements NO sane consumer has said in a review ever, but are repeated constantly about Delta Force:

”Nobody will read this positive review, so upvote me!” - a common manipulation tactic used in TikTok and Twitter, clearly to bury negative comments.
“There are no hackers anywhere! That’s why I keep coming back” - said no human being at the launch of a new game. Clearly a ploy to make the anti-cheat look better in spite of the fact that no playerbase feels the sting of cheaters early on.
”China already has our information anyway, so why is everyone complaining?” - I couldn’t make that up even if I was a spy.
”The game is incredible! It looks great and sounds great! No bugs and very fun! Delta Force is phenomenal!” - copy and paste HR approved sales jargon.
”Only little babies are worried about the anti-cheat” - said nobody who ever owned a computer.
”Kids complaining about giving away Kernel access are unfun nerds and bad at the game!” - typical bullying, but around this kind of topic? Doubt.
“Don’t listen to negative reviews” with no further talk - as if written by a marketing director themselves.
”It isn’t pay-to-win!” - The only reason anyone plants this thought into the minds of buyers is to justify preying on the weak-willed.
”Why do people even listen to reviews? If it's fun I don't write a review, I just keep playing!” - like ???

The entire vibe given off by positive Reviews and comments surrounding Delta Force feel like AI bots too stupid and creepy to be real are generating this stuff.

There certainly are valid positive reviews, but after having read tons of review spreads in my many years doing this as a hobby, I’ve never seen such a concerted effort to brainwash as around this game. It’s weird.

What makes it worse is when you look at the negative reviews down here on Steam and see that the developers have responded en masse to invalidate actual criticism and shoot down all negativity specifically in negative or cautionary reviews.
***Even THIS review - the devs use their authority to devalue and redirect rather than address the legitimacy of concerns**

You look online and content creators are hitting this game in droves during release, but the content is often forced and uncanny - obviously sponsored and staged content.
I mean, you look online for gameplay and you get weird, uncanny voice overs from awkward gameplay - like footage straight out of those awful E3 trailers where “players” do that ‘gamer communication” and talk to each other in direct, dispassionate, and paced out dialogue lines. It’s like the execs and marketing companies don’t understand that this isn’t how actual humans playing video games actually sound.

And, on release - with absolutely 0 proof of solvency for the product, Tencent has some $1,000,000 shady contest to con vulnerable players into playing the game? Like, the most predatory and unashamedly evil way to trick as many people as possible into blindly signing a contract and giving away the agency of their own computer? It’s scummy and pure evil.

I’ve honestly seen enough scams to know the blows, and to see the red flags around this. The aura of this product isn’t natural, it isn’t organic or reasonable. A massive company has some of the most concerning legal talk in their numerous paperwork policies with a spyware virus added to your computer… has brainwashing comments surrounding it from all sides and an ocean of garbage content about it… and is offering a massive paycheck to trick impressionable minds into downloading the game.

This was not going to get a recommendation out the gate, but let’s talk about the game itself…

Delta Force has a lot of negatives baked into the cake; expensive cosmetics being shoved in your face, industry standard user-hostile battle pass, predacious and scummy aura obviously aimed to con kids and the weak minded out of their cash. It’s another live-service game, and a hungry one too.
But the worst part about the game - the absolute worst part - is that… it’s Battlefield
It’s Battlefield.
No I mean, what are you even doing here, you should be playing Battlefield levels of “I AM Battlefield”
What more do you want? What more do you expect?
If you love the franchise, you already own a version of this game without horrible battlepasses and ripoff skins. It’s in your library.
If you don’t own Battlefield or don’t know what it is, you can go and play Battlefield 4 - hell, you can go get Battle Bit - and have the same experience without selling your soul to a greedy mega-corperation.

And that’s really the worst part.
It’s not a bad game.
It doesn’t look or sound bad - but also not particularly amazing.
It seems good, it plays nice enough, and there’s clear enjoyment that can be had.

The cons simply outweigh the benefits by a long mile. It simply doesn’t get past the sniff test. Delta Force is a product that manages to be transparently evil, astonishingly unoriginal, and only nominally enjoyable.

I would possibly rest easy knowing that SOME players that are willing to sign away their computers may be sacrificing for some incredible game, but it just isn’t.

It’s not even a bad gameplay experience, it’s just unextraordinary.
It’s nothing that games from Battlefield’s history haven’t done eloquently over a decade ago.
It’s honestly not something that you cannot experience with other modern shooter games in a sense.

The crime is not merely being a “fairly good” experience, it’s asking for something as hefty as the sovereignty of your own property in exchange for an “okay” game that is easily replaced by already existing products.

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1.5/10
Delta Force is a Repugnant game.
While the gameplay itself might be worthy of a solid 6 or 6.5 - there is no hiding that this application is clearly poison. Even if they remove the spyware, this is nothing to come back to like a hungry dog.

It’s just yet another live-service scummy game that will ‘inconvenience’ and pressure you to dish out your cash - after you sign over your rights, self respect, and basic dignity to some shady overseas corpo exec.

You may be excited to play “FTP Battlefield 4” - but is it really worth cutting off your nuts and getting on your knees to lick boots and beg for it?

It isn’t.
Don’t be that guy.