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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 58.4 hrs on record (52.0 hrs at review time)
Posted: 6 Dec, 2023 @ 3:25am

Early Access Review
First of, I would have neighter voted yes or no. I would vote something in between. It is a great game to say the least. I wasn't able to play the current newest version 5.1.1, because the game crashes whenever I try and load into any map in that version. So my review is pretty much based on the betas. Each Beta has something unique. However I do have to point out a few things: 1. Bigfoots ai is kinda weird in Beta 2019, he doesn't even go for the traps due to a bug, even if I cover them up and put meat on them. Also after some time bigfoot just doesn't hunt for me anymore. At the start of glacier bay in beta 2019 he attacked me but after some time he just didn't hunt for me at all. Eventually I gave up at day 19 despite me having explored everything and had everything to kill him, but he just didn't go for me or the traps and I never say him on any cameras. From my experience this also applies to ross lake park in that beta. 2. The saving, since saving a game was implemented there were always issues with it. In beta 2019 for example you end up in ross lake park despite saving in glacier bay, you fall to your death then. Also saving, quiting and rejoining a game just messes up the game and bigfoot in some sort of way. In beta 2018 bigfoot just dissapears if you save, quit and then rejoin. In beta 2021 the saving works pretty well, bigfoot doesn't dissapear, his health doesn't reset like in other betas. But your time spent in a match resets, basically if you were on night 3 saved, quit and rejoined, you would be back at night 1. This isn't a big issue, but bigfoot from what I experienced doesn't attack or hunt for you at night 1, unless you run directly into him. 3. The bugs with the most recent version (5.1.1) I know I have already explained this at the start of my review. In short I can't play the update, it crashes everytime I try to load into a map. The devs should really fix this as from what I have heard I am not the only one having this exact issue in Update 5.1.1. Lastly again I have to say something about the AI, in beta 2021. Heres what I do due to the AI: As soon as I load into the map, I grab all ressources for the trailer, then it is already night 1. Because bigfoot didn't attack me at all on night 1, unless I run into him which has only happened once in my 4 games I played. I just go and gather ressources from various locations on the map. By the time I have gathered a decent among of traps, ammunition, some explosives and maybe a better gun, it is night 2. From night 2 and every other night bigfoot hunts for you relentlessly. Thats why I go to a village or any house on any map that is currently the near me. Then I set up 1-3 cameras, hide in a house with the lights off and all windows covered, place a trap at the front door of the house I am hiding in, usually also 1 explosive if I have one. Then I just equip one of these tracking spears (if I have one) and wait until bigfoot finds me. He always find me no matter where I am or how well I am hiding. Thats the issue with the AI. When he finds me I just stay calm until he tries to get into the house, but because every house only has one entrance and I placed a trap there he eventually steps into it. When he does I just trow the tracking spear at him while he is stuck in the trap and then I just fight him by shooting him and the explosives I placed and placing down traps. I usually revive myself with a medkit and then bigfoot runs of with the tracking spear. I then do this over and over again, because Bigfoot goes for me 2-3 times per night. And when it is day and he doesn't attack, I just loot everything again until it is night and I do the same thing at a different house or place. Basically I do this until he is dead. This has worked everytime so far, despite me being terrible at shooting and aiming. I hope this review isn't to long for you people to read. But until the next update, which hopefully fixes the crash issue in 5.1.1. I will leave this review as it is.
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