Recent reviews by Damaskus

Masterpeice. Worth every single penny, the music itself is amazing to listen to if you notice it between the gunshots and amazing gameplay. I highly recommend listening to "The world looks red"

You wont regret playing this game unless your made of mayonaise.

Great RTS.

Major objective: deactivate bots at Sony HQ

Mission accomplished

For the time i had the game i did enjoy what i had. And if you first get this game im sure you will feel like its super amazing for hours upon hours. I spent 200 hours just flying and it was great. Unfortunately the polished flight mechanics and lovely ship designs, cockpit, space stations etc arent enough to hold you over forever.

The game is as wide as an ocean, or a galaxy quite litterally. but deep as a puddle. theres nothing to do once youve gotten enough rep/money to buy the ship youve been aiming for for so long. whether that be an anaconda, a cutter, or a corvette. Once you have it, and use it to do what you imagined youd do with it. Things start to go downhill pretty quick. the only thing left to do is engineering which is just a massive grind jumping into semi far systems to try and gather alien materials to fly back to human space to engineer special weapons or components for ships. its not very fun. I tried to do enough to get railguns to fight thargoids but i couldnt finish. it wasnt fun.

Not only that but instead of spending time adding more space objects, missions, objectives, things to do in space. or even add more spaceships. They instead added a DLC where you can walk around and shoot guns like its a FPS... in a game where the main appeal is flying big spaceships and traveling planets. Yeah.

Alot of this game is wasted potential. Its phenominal for what it is and many poeple will find its grind enjoyable or love trying to do all the vanity projects like going to beagle point or Sagitarrius A*, or travel the neutron highway. All of which are very cool things. but theres too little to do.

Amazingly fun, if a bit short game. The mortorcycle and reload mechanic of doing a backflip really forces you to keep moving and makes combat amazingly fluid and fun even if you keep getting killed trying to get past that block of five or six enemies. I just wish the game was longer.

Some criticism are that some of the quests descriptions are very very vague on where exactly to go, and with some are downright misleading (like the mission where you hunt down a squad of birds on behalf of a dying bird, the mission states they are on their way to the mines, but they are in the opposite direction in the same area). Although its not too difficult to just go through the area your told to to find the one item you need, it can be a little annoying. But blasting through birds along the way helps alleviate it.

Good fun

UPDATE: The game has gotten significantly better in the last few updates (as of writing the twins boss fight has released) and fixed many major problems (though not all of them) of the game. Such as the crafting system allowing you to pick buffs instead of relying on random dice rolls (at least for 2 buffs you can redo).

The game certainly still feels great to play but there are still major issues. As a veteran main some weapons (Such as the lucius lasguns) Still have downright unusuable iron sights that significantly dissuade me from using them. The shop still has a time limit for cosmetics so if you want those death korps cosmetics your ♥♥♥♥ out of luck until they decide to reuse them. The non preimum item shop for cosmetics has 2 colors for each weapon and basic as hell cosmetics in basic colors besides the most expensive top two or three.

TLDR: Game still has issues that need to be fixed, however the game is in a significantly better state than it was before. I can say its a Soft recommend, buy it during a sale or if your just commited to warhammer. But otherwise wait a bit longer.


Original Review:
The game's core gameplay loop is fun, the envirements are great, the enemies are interesting and some of the weapons are fantastic to use.

that is all the good i can say about the game. It feels like it SHOULD be a good game but theres just so much missing. The missions feel all the same, the "Story" feels like a frat house introduction rather than a serious inquisitorial penal redemption arc. some of the weapons are blatently worse than others (2/3 of the lucius lasguns have downright unusuable iron sights), the missions feel mediocre at best, getting wepaons sucks and after a few hours of play youve basically gotten one of everything and only recheck the shop to see if you can get the same guns with a slightly better stat line.

I honestly wish this game was better, its fun but you just cant ignore all the issues with it. things like customizable weapons so you can add sights, change ammo magazines, change rate of fire or whatever. that would be fantastic and a way better use of the 'crafting' than the terrible upgrade system for a random chance to maybe get 10% increase of damage to 1 type of enemy.

honestly. unless this gets better or your really desperate for a left for dead sytel game in warhammer. dont buy this.

This Game is fantastic, however, there are some caveats you must know if you want to buy this game.

This is at moment PVP only, there is a skirmish function but the ai is at best braindead. PVP is where the game currently is focused on at the moments with the upencoming carriers update.

Many negative reviews came after the delay and restructuring of conquest, a highly desired feature of a campaign like gamemode that the 1 dev (Lys) stated he couldnt work on it longer due to technical debt and lack of it meshing well with the core concept of skirmish battles (doomstacking etc) However Conquest is going to be remade although smaller scale after this next update (carriers). So if you are a single player person hold off till that update comes out.

As of current, The game is very fantastic, a helpful community and a pretty communicative dev. The gameplay is amazing for what it is, some poeple say its 'realistic' when its really not. its more akin to a cold war esque navy in space with sci fi elements. The ships are very 'boat but in space' idea (especially ANS). as well as some limitations for gameplay reasons. like speed limits for ships, maximum range for weapons, and radars having limited range etc.

I recommend this game highly.

In a sea of terrible releases from triple A studios, with blunder after blunder. Here is a game, made by a developer who ACUTALLY GIVES A ♥♥♥♥ about their players! Elden ring is one of the best games i had ever played, id argue up there with hollow knight and Deep rock galactic with how fun it is and how well the developers are to their players.

11/10 Thank you from Software for being one of the good developers still left. and SOMEHOW filling the hole that 2042 tore out.

Also to poeple sitll wondering about PC compatability. as of writing i have 50 hours in and have seen maybe 5 bugs and 1 crash total. with a little stuttering on launch day which i believe is fixed now.

This Was an experience. While i have only had 2 playthroughs both were extremely memorable. This is the potential of video games. To tell stories with the player feeling like their changing the outcome, for better or for worse. Let me tell you the story of my first playthrough

Warning SPOILERS


I was President Rayne. Elected on a campaign to improve the healthcare, change the constitution and bring liberty to all. A hard line reformer. For the infrastructure project i promoted a grand highway, Improving the roads for the north instead of a railyard in the center only for the richest to use. When it came to a budget, i drove the country into debt. Spending on everything in hopes itll bring the economy up to pay for it. Healthcare and education were state owned, not privitized. When it came to policy, i went hard with reform. Supporting my wife on freedom of women, rejecting any bill that would hinder the rights of anyone. And when it came time to reform the constitution, i went all in. Changing almost everything, Making the system far more fair and democratic. Democratic, I was labeled a democrat. Refusing to budge with the conservitives on the issue and gaining the support of the left i was confident we could win. we lost by 1 vote. Soll. Reforms crushed as the economy went down. My frivilous spending had a negative effect on the economy, along with the taxes i imposed to try and fix the debt. we tried to fix it with more projects but it wasnt enough. Rumberg was knocking on our door and we made allies with Agnolia, Our long time trade partner. When war came our military was as advacned as we could get. A Volunteer army of 200k. Against rumbers Million soldiers. We fought hard, attempting to encircle them and be on the offensive. But we failed. As i sat in my office a handgun in hand, listening to rumberg soldiers storm the palace, i had accepted my failure. A soldier stormed in, young, much like i was when i was conscripted. I fired. The poor boy dropped dead but his squadmates didnt let me readjust my aim. By the time i was on the floor, bleeding out Knowing for all my failure i would at least not go down a coward.