Recent reviews by Artifax EST

This is my (biased mostly positive) view of the game so far.

Now there is a lot of hate and alot of love for this game so it's somewhat hard to come to a decision wheter or not you should buy this game.
The main talking points so far seem to be performance, cheating, game crashes and more recently the whole stream sniping fiasco.

Now this game is in early acces and has been in development slighlty under two years. For that type of time frame I'd say we have been given a fairly well functioning, despite not being fully optimiced game with tons of replayability. Lower end PCs tend to have recurring problams like textures not loading, stutterning and fps drops but personally if your rig is similar to my own those type of issues should crop up rarely (If they do, the issue is more likely to be at your end than the games), I have spent time playing with a ton of people with different rigs and for the majority of them even on low end PCs the experience has been enjoyable.
Sure there are times when you get frustrated because you dropped frames or the server lagged and end up dying, but hey it happens. The experience I've gotten so far is still a ton more enjoyable than any other battle royale game out there.
And guys give the devs a few breaks will ya, you can tell just by seeing they're interviews that they have a whole lot of love for this game and they're doing theyr best. Sure thy've made boatloads of money so far, but that dosen't mean that they can just throw it the at servers and expect them to run faster or better. Besides they are entitled as creatores to slow down a bit and take a few breaks here and there. As long as the passion is there you know they will be working on the game to make it a greater playing experience for all of us, sure there will be stuff we don't like but that's what early access is for: to test stuff, see what works and what dosen't, at the end of the day though you can't appease everyone.
Have a little patience =)

As for the cheaters, look we're on PC and with 10 million copies sold there are bound to be people who just can't get by without cheats. But in the 450 or so hours I've put into this game I've had perhaps 4 or so instances where i thought something was fishy. Rest of the time I'ts just been my own stupidity and lack of aim that has gotten me killed.

Now the whole stream sniping thing has been thrown way out of proportion by rumors and here say. Ending up in the same lobby as a streamer is highly unlikely not to mention killing them. Some of the people that have been banned so far is because they choose to do♥♥♥♥♥♥like this https://clips.twitch.tv/InquisitiveCorrectManateeKappaPride instead of just playing the game normally. Granted they paid 30 bucks for it so they are entitled do play the game how they want aslong as they don't cheat or use gamebreaking exploits (wich are the devs fault). But queing up to same the game as the streamer round after round to follow them around is a bit idiotic. Granted there are steps on the streamers side to avoid this like hiding the server ip and putting on a stream delay, but looking at it from their perspective they're just normal people who want to play the game and entertain us.
In my personal opinion these bans should be made weekly or monthly instead of them being permanent as they seem to be so far. However I don't think it's unfair for streamers do have the opportunity provided that they have enough VIDEO evidence and have the devs look at the player logs to get these people banned. (They don't have the power to just call up the devs and say ''Hay I don't like that this guy killed me ban him'') Streamers have done alot to get this game where it is and I'm glad for it. I absolutely love it.
In the thousands of hours that my group of friends has put into this game on verious servers we have yet to run into a streamer that one us watches, nor has anyone of the hundreds of people related to our group been banned.
The people that kick up all this dust are the ones that want to follow streamers around and act like small children. A normal player like you and me has nothing to worry about.

With over 400 hours played some good some not so good I got to say this game has earned the money I've paid for it.

Oh and people whining about the whole crate and loot system ''market'', who the f cares, It's cosmetic, prob took a minimal time of coding. If a guy or gal wants to pay a hundred bucks for a skirt let em.

Love it!