late 2018 - early 2019: Game Acquired

August 12, 2022 | 556 hours: Game go brrrr

2/10/24 | 2586 hours: Game still go brrrr but slightly worse

they're turning this game into COD to 'save' it or otherwise keep making profit
it makes me physically and mentally sick to play this game
details spared it suffers from power creep, an oversaturated and samey weapon pool with new weapons regularly added that are just better in 90% of every way making the TTK shorter and shorter, inconsistency in balancing and other design choices in general along with several long standing and ignored bugs and regularly introduced fresh game breaking abusable bugs
it's certainly a great game as is and is enjoyable sure
but they took that melon baller and scooped out the soul of the game
they're butchering the differences that made it something other than a reskinned COD game
but ultimately it's due to the beauty this game had that it didn't succeed because it wasn't another COD game
all the mainstream wants is their next COD and i'm damn sure a certain dev is damn ready and already in process of giving to them
I cannot fault them though they may just want their game to succeed and maybe they truly believe that it's better now.. or maybe it's just the money

I'd ask for a refund if I could because the game I loved to play 12 hours a day is now is all but a shell

To quote another review done by: https://steamproxy.net/id/lawlite07

"Imagine an 8 year old game which you are pretty much addicted to playing, being in a worse and worse condition with every "update" they do.
The game is poorly managed, the people making it make decisions which are completely disconnected from what their community does or how they play the game, and it's obvious that no testing is being done on what they are putting out.
And don't get me started on what you do for the creators.
Instead of enabling them further to promote your game further, you push a sensless narative that you will kill the part of the game they enjoy the most and promote the most.

8 years for the game to put in a position where i need to restart the game because a bug after bug keeps happening, and that goes on for 20 minutes until finally the game kicks me out to the lobby and I lose my hunter.
And guess what. Nothing will be done about this. Instead we are getting changes which nobody asked for and what is listened to is "the community" which consists of children on Reddit crying about ♥♥♥♥ that they can't handle.
You ruined a perfectly good product through your abysmally bad decision making and game direction."

It brings me shame to have continued to support this game since certain new hires came on.. as in my memory since that moment the game has gone nothing but downhill and there is no hope left in me