Recent reviews by Iamunknown

Honestly, look at the hours for each of the reviews here. Longtime players are peeved *beyond* just the massive UI downgrade, there's been a change to the engine / rendering that's more than halved frames for a bunch of people.

In a permadeath extraction shooter where every headshot is fatal (within range), suddenly getting choppy frames in a gunfight puts you at an excruciating disadvantage.

Hoping that Crytek can get it fixed, but until then they've more than earned the ire.

Currently less than 200 people online at peak time. Matchmaking is you vs the very few who have stuck around (and have 1k+ hours now). Shame, game had promise.

Was kinda worth on release, not worth your hard earned money now.

Also the Discord is a cesspool, don't ever make mention of the devs or you'll be perma banned out of hand. Not sure who Sweet Bandits has running that, but they're your stereotypical Discord mods.

Update July 2024:

Light class so ridiculously overpowered that literally nothing else is worth playing. What inept dev and balance team is running this game?

Fun game IF:

•You have a three-stack in voice comms
•You are not going to spend money on the game for cosmetics
•You're ok with the occasional absolutely blatant hacker

Otherwise (and especially in solo matchmaking) this game is just intolerable.

Gator: Hugged.

Huge step forward from Snoot Game, which was already incredible. Art and direction in this one are a huge step up and it's been great to see this studio put forward a sequel that builds on their strengths and continues to grow. The characters are vibrant and fully fleshed out, and I really am excited for the prospect of post-main-game content.

Full emotional reset achieved. Thank you Anon friends. <3

Tentatively changed to a positive review pending promises to not require PSN and reinstatement for helldivers in other regions to be allowed to play their game. Waiting on Steam for that one.

Remember kids, bullying corporations works.

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This used to be a positive review until Sony stepped in. Reverse this decision.


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With the server issues being mitigated, I can endorse this game. It's still very rough in places (UI bugs, occasional crashes and issues joining other people via the in-game social tab) but dang if it isn't just amazing fun to drop in and blaze away.

Somehow it manages to combine Starship Troopers, Terminator, 1950's Americana and the full brunt of 80's action movies into a single game.

With devs at Arrowhead diligently working on issues and being extremely communicative and forward as to what they're prioritizing with each (very rapid) patch, I see it's in good hands.

I've already got my $40 out of the game, and I predict I'm going to get a couple hundred hours more. Highly recommend.

Fat shart wanted an updated review. Sure thing, all below is still true.

Updated 11/14/23

One year later, with 240+ hours of playing with friends. Game slowly had small improvements, but the recent two updates have been apocalyptic.

Who is heading the balance team? Have FatShart decided to make their changes with a speak and spell and a dart board?

Psyker's been gutted, then gutted again in literally the most annoying way possible. Vet now only does damage if standing still in a corner like Martin Wahlund watching some chad plow his wife. Thunderhammer has been absolutely ripped apart, which was the only thing that made the Zealot unique besides the chant that fails to fire (but goes on cooldown!) every couple tries.

We read you Fat Shark. Welcome to the circus, we're you're clowns?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QuObrqbWd7g

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-Ridiculously unstable to the point where I crash out every other match.
-Pants-on-head stupid selection of missions (pick from these ten! No, don't choose what you actually want to play!).
-Random shop with random items that refresh on the hour, means gear progression is due to luck more than any effort.
-Ridiculously expensive crafting with very uncommon materials.
-Weekly quests are grindfests, and unique to each toon (not account).
-Unique economy per character, so any rewards earned are locked to that toon.
-Extremely exploitative cash shop with stupidly expensive skins.
-Penance system encourages you to work against the goals of your team to achieve an arbitrary objective.

ChubbyFish designed this game to be an absolute grindfest that players spend huge amounts of money in the cash shop to customize. The gameplay is decent, but the first 10 levels of any character use the same weapons and progression is again, random due to the random shop items.

2/10, maybe better than a sunburn. Way more expensive and frustrating though.

Unfinished, buggy trash. Should have had several years more development time before release.

DO. NOT. PURCHASE.

The best shooter you've never played.

Amazing movement system, incredible weapons and the absolute pinnacle of arena shooters. Worth every penny and more.

Stale, dead game not maintained by developers. If you've played one match, you've played them all.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awful. Be prepared to have to rely on teammates who will always give you up, let you down, run around, and desert you.