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Once upon a time this was a fun, balanced game, with a sense of progression and adventure. Now it's a trashy, low-rent, poorly balanced game, morphed into a PvP-themed stumble through toxicity. Fatshark have absolutely lost the plot.

Avoid. Nothing good will come from this game in future.

Games don't need to include pipes and smoking as a buff mechanic. Gross.

Look, I loved this game for many, MANY hours. The early settings are beautiful and fun. When they brought out Mistlands I thought it wasn't particularly fun and pushed the game beyond what I found enjoyable. But Ashlands is hideous. Simply a miserable punishment simulator of a difficulty spike.

You can play the game and enjoy the first four or five biomes and have a good time for $10, but I'll be avoiding Iron Gate's future games as it's clear they're more interested in chasing the hardcore difficulty crowd more than allowing people to progress at their own speed.

Thanks, but I can't recommend Valheim as a complete package any longer.

It's... a disappointment. Technically, the game's a decent MMO. It doesn't break any molds and doesn't do anything wild with the gameplay, but it's solid and the housing's cruelly limited but great if you can get it. The story never seemed interesting to me, thousands upon thousands of 'Warriors of Light/Darkness' all being the hero together, with horrible NPCs and cringey cutscenes that you are absolutely forced (no joke, really) to sit through to open up the dungeons, zones and other content. If you come late to the game you can pay extra to skip this grind to be able to play with friends, or you can go through it all, solo, to catch up and join the pals you probably signed up to hang out with. And heaven forbid you try to join the role playing community - oof, the only people more elitist than these RPers are League of Legends players.

This game felt like such a chore, and always a nearly-but-not-quite great game that, ultimately, is a letdown if you're not crazy about anime cliches.

I can't quite explain why I've been enjoying it so much, but it's delightfully relaxing just noodling about pretending I'm a hot, truck-driving, OnlyFans star. This reasoning might be quite specific, but it works for me.

The controls simply work, I've experienced no bugs or glitches (so far) and although the UI is a little cluttered in the garage the features are ultimately simple to find and understand. Get it on sale, doodle about and don't question too hard why you're having fun delivering boom lifts to Yuma.

I'll likely buy it when it's on sale, and the Chaos Dwarfs when they're on a decent sale too. Unfortunately, the chosen TWW3/DLC pricing structure is simply unacceptable, even for an enjoyable game.

I cannot recommend to anyone I know going out and buying 3, when you can get the Total War Warhammer experience by buying 1, or 2, plus several DLCs for less than the cost of the Chaos Dwarf DLC alone, for virtually no difference in quality as it's fundamentally the same engine, the same graphics and the same game.

If FotCD can really prove it's worth this ridiculous DLC price point, I'd be happy to take my review back, edit it, admit that. But until it does, no, not sorry. I'm not going to reward this unnecessarily steep price hike.

I'm leaving the original negative review below. Thanks to turning off many of the settings that are meant to improve the visuals, the FPS and the clarity of visuals has improved dramatically. It is mostly playable, though many people have suffered crash bugs and the patch rate from Fatshark is abysmal. The graphics and performance are able to be much better than default if you spend some time tweaking everything (mostly turning things off and cutting back worker threads).

THAT SAID - the introduced cash shop, and worse, the response by Fatshark to the community backlash and the overall level of unfinished nonsense surrounding the gameplay is enough to ensure I cannot recommend it without a major disclaimer on their unnecessarily consumer-hostile practices.

Game is barely improving, company is acting really, really badly. Lying to the community. Go into it with eyes open, they are trying to prey on their consumers.

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While the basic gameplay loop is still the same cooperative fun as the Vermintide series, the melee combat feels very clunky and inferior to Vermintide, with weapons feeling lacking in the way of visual feedback during hordes, and definitely needs a lot of polish. The crashes, too, are numerous (I suffered two and a lockup in the 1.5 hours I played!) but with numerous fixes being suggested already I'm sure such issues will be polished out.

The biggest problem however, at least to me, is that the environmental effects and atmosphere render many of the mobs in the game incredibly hard to see. That lack of visual acuity, in a game that relies on quickness, glances and the ability to respond to close threats, means that the game is virtually unplayable for my old eyes, at least in the two maps I've been carried through.

I've looked forward to this for years, had it wishlisted since announcement, so to say this in a review is a huge disappointment for me. I WANT to like this game, and I hope the game is adjusted or some workarounds are discovered, but I wouldn't urge anyone to buy this right now.

Tried the single player thoroughly during the free weekend and I'm really not feeling inspired to buy this, not even at 50% off.

Perhaps if they let us turn off the stupid 'experience bars' and leveling progression to somehow earn the right to play the content it might be a passable RTS. Alas, since you really don't feel like the game itself is yours *AND* the menus and interface are so messy, cluttered and generally has a poorly designed workflow compared to it's own older editions, taken altogether it has to be a certain no.

Thanks to the hard work of the modding community and the fact that we were ultimately given a good skeleton of a game, this game is at last worthy of carrying the name of such a beloved franchise. It doesn't match some of the finer elements of earlier iterations; the story isn't a match for some, better-written editions for instance, but for the visceral feel of a Mechwarrior game? The graphics are good, the effects are good and the sound is great.

Is it worth full price, all expansions included? No. It isn't. And does it need a little time and love and effort to find just those mods that are right for you? It absolutely does. But at a modest discount, and with the expansion content included, this becomes well worth the time and money for the fine stomping career you get out of it.

It looks like a tremendously fun cooperative game, but the stark contrast between dark and illuminated areas gave me a terrible headache after half an hour of play. I'd love to revisit this with some less harsh lighting some time, but until then I have to suggest it's best for those with younger, better eyes than me. Sorry!

EDIT!
So I'm revisiting this review. I've fought with settings over time, limited my play time to short bursts with very wonderful, patient friends, and it's a superbly fun, exciting game. A real labour of love and it shows. The characters are fun and unique, the gameplay is tremendous and the bugs are horrible (in a good way)!

I'm still not a great player, but I really do enjoy this game. I cannot recommend it for people with light sensitivity issues, it still gives me terrible headaches if I play more than three missions at a time, but I can play in short bursts and have fun. I'd still love a way to improve the accessibility, to play it more frequently, and longer, but if you're questioning on this still and don't have light-dark sensitivity issues you should stop hesitating and get this game to play with your friends.

But not my friends. I need them to carry me back. No Dwarf Left Behind. Rock And Stone!