Recent reviews by Cloudwalker

This game is so much fun if you like to think into others perspectives and their psyche. Learning who to trust and how to make others think you're innocent is a skill not everyone's gonna be capable of. I guess that's why some people may be disappointed by the game. It's also an FPS, so if your aim is good, you'll definitely have an advantage as well. You have to be very careful with your decisions. Good teamplay is important especially as an infected. It's definitely a game that requires you to use your brain. It's not hard to learn, but it probably never gets boring. It's a really interesting game concept.

I played this game for more than 100 hours. Yesterday I had a DC during a game. Stuff like that happens, I didn't really think about any big consequences. After I started the game again, EVERYTHING was reset. Not just my rank was reset from rank 1 to rank 15. The level of ALL characters was reset to level 1. I literally would have to start over again. 111 hours of playtime wasted because of a simple disconnect. I looked it up in the steam forum trying to fix the issue. Apparently there isn't a fix. "It's a bug" they told me! Of the million bugs this game has, this one is by far the worst. Killers get stuck in pallets (uploaded a screenshot of that incidence), invisible objects survivors sometimes run into, bugged items which have to be dropped and picked up again to be able to get used, random game crashes, bugged lobbys etc. The devs are doing nothing about it... They only release new content which leads to new bugs. I was extremely frustrated. I found a way to solve the problem: I replaced my savegame with a savegame of a friend. Yes, that's possible. That means you don't have to play a single hour to get all perks and all characters to lvl 50. I consider that as cheating, but hey! The synchronization with the Steam cloud seems to work differently in this game! The Devs have to do something about it, which they don't.
UPDATE: Three days ago my whole progress was reset to 0 AGAIN. I had a prestige 3 lvl 50 nurse and a prestige 2 lvl 50 Bill. I am going to request a refund for this game now, because I literally wasted over 500 hours of my life. I just disconnected from a lobby and everything was gone. It's not a new bug btw. It happens a lot, but the Devs don't care. All they do is realeasing new content and creating more and more bugs. I want my money back, because I am never going to touch this game ever again.

GRID 2 is an arcade racing game made for players using a gamepad or their keyboard. If you want a realistic racing game, you should not buy GRID 2. I was very disappointed... I preordered it for 35,99€ and I have to say it was a waste of money. Because of that preordering I received a free copy of GRID 1, which was a big reason for me buying the game, because I really liked the car physics and graphics of GRID 1 at that time. Do not get me wrong, I still think GRID 1 is an excellent racing game! Actually it is the best I have ever played. I just can't understand what codemasters tried to do with GRID 2, I just don't get it...

I played the first part of GRID and GRID 2 is a totally different game. GRID 1 had a cockpit view, which does NOT exist in GRID 2! For me personally the cockpit view is one of the most important things to make a racing game realistic. The developers said they invested much time in making the cars behave realistic on the asphalt. They failed miserably... Every car feels the same. There is no real difference. Drifting is totally unrealistic. If you want to drift you just have to fastly turn the wheel to one side, then turn it back to the other side and you are drifting. Normally when you're drifting in a realistic racing game or in reality itself you should lose time, but not in GRID 2. It feels like you always have to drift to maintain your speed. So many good game modes (drift-challenge, touge, profi-touge etc.) from GRID 1 are just left out completely in GRID 2. They tried to put a story into the game, which is actually a good idea. You have to show your skills in different racing leagues all over the world to get their appreciation and win them for the WSR (World Series Racing), a league where the best drivers of the world meet each other on the racetrack. The idea is great, but the implementation didn't succeed... It's always the same: Win in leagues, unlock new leagues, win against those leagues, win the WSR, win in new leagues, unlock, WSR...

If you want to play a realistic racing game with great game modes and a cockpit view, buy GRID 1 instead of GRID 2.
If you already played GRID 1 and think about buying GRID 2, because you liked the gameplay, do NOT do that. You will only be very disappointed. It has nothing to do with the previous version of GRID.

If you played CS 1.6 or CS:Source and liked it, you should try out CS:GO. The game is still improving and the community itself influences the game a lot!
Valve implemented a matchmaking-system, which allows players to compete against other players of the same skill level. It doesn't matter if you just started playing or if you are an experienced player. The pros sometimes also use that matchmaking system, which delivered Valve the idea for implementing a GOTV-theater, which makes it possible to watch other good players competing in a skill-relevant 5v5-match.
Valve also invented a feature called "overwatch", which allows experienced CS:GO-players to judge about potential cheaters. If they are evident, the overwatcher can give a report about his suspicion which will be compared with the reports of other overwatchers. If the suspect is guilty, he will get a 365-days matchmaking ban.
There are also some optical changes like the new weapon skins. You can personalize your crosshair know, wich is a very great feature! There are drops at the end of every game like it's known from any RPG. You can buy keys for weapon cases or be lucky and get a rare skin drop. The keys are expensive and I would not recommend to buy them, but if you are very lucky, you can get skins worth thousands of dollars. Some of these guns have a feature called "StatTrak" which is nothing less and nothing more than a kill-counter. You can personalize your guns by using different skins, putting stickers on it or even renaming it. If you think you don't need these skins and just think it's a complete waste of money, you can just sell your drops and even make a little bit of money while playing the game. You can sell all these drops on the steam-market. You are of course not supposed to use these skins and they don't give you any advantage despite the chance of boosting your self-confidence.
Valve used to run many different operations over the year. Buying the pass for the running operation allows you to play new maps on official Valve servers. The operation is limited to a specific date, but you will get some preferences like operation-exclusive case-drops and of course the abilty to play competitve matches on the new maps. Sadly this feature doesn't exist anymore.