Recent reviews by Agent Black

Game was okay. not great balance but okay. DLC battlegroups drop and the pay to win power-creep is already insane. classic modern relic, what a fall.

Huge 40k fan and honestly they nail the setting. The combat is good, the level design is good, the missions are good. It is because of the loot / inventory design that i cannot recommend this game. lets take a look at the game as a child of its predecessors:

In VT1 was a dice rolling simulator. every level gives completely random loot. want certain gear? get stuffed.

in modern VT2 you get a basic version of every weapon you unlock to try them out, and the forge can make you a random rarity version of any weapon. you can then upgrade and tweak the weapon to fit your play-style and the play-style of your group. this gave me great hope for DT...

but in DT your choice of gear comes from a small and completely random selection that rotates daily, and a weekly quests shop that sells random purples from an even smaller pool. no way to forge the base weapon you are looking for at all. not to mention the wide swings in stats between the same models of weapons. we have regressed completely. making a cohesive strategy is now just as hard as it was in release VT1

honestly with the amount of "teehee better check back tomorrow" i'd expect this to be a F2P that's revenue is ad driven. why else try to drive this kind of trickle back player engagement? I think the team at fatshark must genuinely love gambling and grinding because its always their goto mechanics.

game crashes every 4 to 6 matches as a professional developer i WISH i could get paid to code this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad

Game crashes = lose all gear and weapons from match and weapons on insurance now.

lobby UI is terrible, mission selection logic is bugged, several missions are bugged

edit: spawning impossible objectives like getting a hostage to a roof extract when the roof has no stair access is pretty cool too

edit: cracking a safe and enemies teleport into the room ignoring doors and windows, twice in a row.

edit: mission to collect dog tags but if players leave right when you kill them it removes their tags

edit: some items cannot be picked up

edit: bckpack UI rarely shows weapon slot. weapon UI all kinds of messed up

With motion blur on the game is incredibly unplayable, with it turned off there is still noticeable motion blur (i still game on a tn panel, its not my monitor). Also in the time it takes to refresh the server list all of the player counts are already wrong. if you want to play a full 50 on 50 expect to queue. after you get into a match expect to wait a dozen seconds to spawn, walk forward across a giant battle field for several minutes, get sniped from nowhere, and repeat.

Big fan of Doom '16, but when this first came out i couldn't bring myself to finish it. i didn't like the level design or the new mechanics for climbing nearly as much; I thought the mythos they added to the world was super cheesy and lame; and most of all i didn't like the balance. on nightmare it was way to easy to run completely out of ammo and the chainsaw was no help later in the game because of the fuel cost changes.

so fast forward to july '22, i was feeling punchy and thought, hey maybe its better now. when i opened it up i was bombarded with literally a dozen news pop'ups, changelogs, and content advertisements that have a timer on them before you can close them. Alt+f4, uninstalled

Unplayable.

Main menu freezes when you mouse over any element. Cant get into a lobby. Tried a long list of debugging options then opened a ticket with 343 11 days ago, got my first response today with "still looking into it". refunded.