Recent reviews by Kotzaak

New World does not feel like an "MMO" at all. The servers are capped at 2000 max players, with massive login queues as a result. But that is completely understandable since the world map is so tiny. For an initial release, a base world has to be way bigger then New World's map to really give that "massive" sense. In comparison, the map of Guild Wars 2 was big at game launch, and it really felt like an MMO straight out of the box. New World feels tiny. You can never accomodate more then 2000 players and expect to have any healthy gameplay whatsoever with the size of this peanut. World of Warcraft had 20.000 players on one server in 2004..

Combat is good, and I like the talent trees per weapon. But like Guild Wars 2, I think the simple system will bore you out very fast like it did there. It's not an in depth system at all, like Guild Wars 1 had. I'm missing the entire feel with this game. Nothing is standing out at all.

My MMO stats:

- World of Warcraft: 6000+ hours
- Guild Wars 1: 2500+ hours
- Guild wars 2: 600+ hours

EDIT 04-06-2019 - After all this time, the ranked system is still in a state worthy of the title 'excrement'. Level 0 players in my team, why are new players even allowed to play ranked? Enemy team: level 168 and a lvl 123.

Uninstalled. Stay away from this game if you want to play balanced ranked games.

EDIT 29-12-2018 - Downvoted this game for now. Ranked play is in a very bad state. Level 0 players are allowed to play ranked games, bringing zero understanding of common basics. Very frustrating..

There really is no real ranking system. Players are teamed up based on average level, instead of actual rank. Additionally the "ranking system" itself is completely broken. You never rank up when winning a lot of games in a row. But when you lose 1 or 2 games you derank after all that hard work.

ORIGINAL 13-12-2018 - Another great addition to the Tactical Shooting genre. Be sure to pick this game up if you like realistic multiplayer shooters like Arma, Squad, etc. You won't be disappointed! Do keep in mind that the UT4 game engine is heavy on your rig!

Game is very arcady, full of hackers (speed hackers etc) and the company behind the game is reluctant to fix the big problems the game has.

At first the game had somewhat of a realistic feel to it in terms of weapons and their attachments. But they removed nearly all realistic combinations and won't allow you to fit for example an 8x scope on a M416, or M16 while it should be able to fit since it has a picatinny rail :')..

This made it even more arcady to me then it already was and was one of the reasons to simply uninstall and abandon this game.

One of the worst console ports ever, poorly optimized, constant crashes, pc controls suck and are not bindable in a satisfactory way, no native support for larger resolutions, around 30 fps for an old game like this.. The DSfix didn't add much to it as well.

Besides all that, it's definitely a game for me. But it just isn't playable.

Beats every single shooter around