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I like this game, I like it alot. the movement is fun, the gunplay is great, the animations are awesome. When this game had its first beta some friends and I played the crap out of it, it was a wonderful time, we looked forward to every beta past that, even if it took nearly a year for the next one. and we were so pumped when it finally came out. and then suddenly the excitement was gone. we kept up with the game, but almost immediatly there have been frustrations. whether its balancing issues, strange decisions with the game modes, or just failing to do what the community asks for.

the thing that makes me say "No" is the servers. since launch I have had nothing but issue after issue, letting my friends host, having me host, this and that over and over and over. "kicked from server" "kicked from server" "kicked from server" and when i try to reconnect it doesnt work until the game suddenly decides "for leaving a competitive match you have been temporarily banned from comp playlists"

It has been 3 SEASONS, and im not the only person who has been having this issue, ive looked up help and have gotten no clear answers than some guesses on how to fix it or just "wait til the servers are fixed"

I love this games style, its guns, its personality, and hell- even with the whole "theyre using A.I." issue i was willing to overlook it because it seemed more legitimate than how must other companies do it. but i just cant recommend a game that wants to punish me for trying to play it, balance wise or server wise.

ill get laughed at for it but i liked playing light class, theyre my main, yet i have more fun playing medium or heavy, and those people are being PUNISHED while i see light classes are either "too op" or "too weak"

everything is a bit of a toss up, im just yapping at this point. a game with good personality, but with devs who are confued on what theyre trying to do and for why.

you did nothing for years, giving us no shred of any real tangible updates. just shilling out seasonal crap filled with things not even made by you but by the community, bug fixes no one asked for, or working of small things that in the grand scheme of things do not matter right now. we reached out to you and you told us you could hear it. that was corporate swill, meant to calm us down without doing a damn thing. then there's the "Holiday-sized update" originally claimed to be an UPDATE sized update. but no, clearly a error in communication. you hear us scream over and over and over, we want help, we want to play this wonderful game you gave us so many years ago, that have shaped people, childhoods, careers, and more. but you'd rather look so far into the future that you cant even give us the right of making the game playable anymore. who gives a damn about the heavy update, about any update for that matter when we cant play your game. you all have stabbed the back of a community that has been loyal to you, while you fed them scraps and let criminals use your IP as a means for harming people both in and out of the game. Fix it valve. Fix what you allowed to break, because for some of us, this means war. #FixTF2

i dont think the rental man is the real rental man. imma be real

Barbotine.

this is a reveiw literally the second day after the games full release, ill be sure to change it as they improve and update the game.

(THERE WILL BE SPOILERS FOR THE CAMPAIGN)

first, the game currently is a 3/5
the campaign is fantastic, lots of variety and levels that really suck you in as you pull covert operations or go guns blazing in crazy gunfights. a bit disappointing that Farah is mentioned for one level, Hadir or Alex are never mentioned or seen, questions and concerns from the first game arent really addressed in this game. but overall it was a wonderful experience.


the multiplayer

as of posting this 10/29/2022

the multi is good, most of the maps on release are actually not bad at all, i really like the racewway and border checkpoint maps. the guns feel good, look good, even pistols got a bit of love in terms of firepower and range which is nice. all of the base ops are unlockable via challenges and theres a great amount of them, providing players some personal customization which is great if some really dont want to spend the money of characters when theyre all just cosmetic.
i also really really like how camos are done know, with each gun having four camos which, when unlocked through a much simpler camo challenge, are unlocked for all guns. no longer having to grind every gun out for the same camos over and over and over doing mundane repetitive and sometimes frustrating challenges just to reach the mastery camos.

one of the biggest problems however is currently the game is having a bit of a glitchy release.
1. the game is very prone to crashing, i think if youre graphics settings cant meet a requirement sometimes the game just kills itself and i have to sit for up to 10 minutes just waiting for steam to verify the game files for the umpteenth time.
2. Camos are glitching out, i spent all day grinding out the camo challenges excitedly to get the gold camo for the m4, just to see that i am unable to select any of the mastery camos to see if ive unlocked the gold camo challenge
3. the voice channels is a VERY GOOD idea, it allows friends playing through crossplay to talk and play together in game so that all parties can still hear the game since things like discord and skype or pc and phone only, problems is its broken, there were so many times where we kept getting muted after loading into match no matter how we set our vc preference, we couldnt hear one person but he could hear us, and i was hoping that the vc would be prioritized whether you were loading in, or in a match while your friend wasnt. he has a ps4 so takes a bit longer to load in, but i cant hear or talk to him until hes loading into the match.
4. there is a SEVERE lack of content. im unsure if maybe IW is waiting until season one before releasing a bunch of content but we are missing quite a bit compared to the beta. executions that were seen from most operators in the beta have been removed so that everyone all has the same one, i unlocked the beta skin for horangi, but am unable to access his base skin so far it seems only the milsim ops have customizable skins. there was alot of hype and speculation that a few popular guns such as the honey badger was going to be added to the game, but its not there, think it was even usable in the campaign but i may have been confused. but its likely they removed it from the start of the game to use it as a season 1 weapon.

so far the game is good, but not great, its prone to bugs and glitches and breaks and needs a bit more post release polish, which i think we all hope to see within the coming weeks, and hopefully not having to wait for fixes until Nov 16th.

sorry for the awful review this is my first time writing a legitimate one and i had pretty much know clue how to convey everything clear and concise. tell me im stupid if it helps

captures the same awesome psychic magic the first game did 15 years ago, and it makes me so happy. the story is great, the characters are fun, the humor is top notch. the movement and fighting is fantastic with more use out of your powers. the game is fantastic, and i hope for more. but if this was to be the last in the series, well it sure was a good way to end the story.