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overall the game sucks. if you could play this for 5 hours for free you'd understand.

okay so i'm writing this after 90 minutes of gameplay. please keep that in mind because i'm not trying to act like a know it all. i'm only recommending this game because i believe jagex will be able to successfully create a fun game. but, i do have a few things to complain about. the first three are technical critiques. first the visual aspect, the colors in this game are way too vibrant. yes, i messed with my monitor settings and this didn't improve much. second the image is very blurry, no matter what graphical settings i tweaked the image was either blurry or pixelated. the re engine and unreal engine 5 just see to have this issue, and this will most likely be resolved once there are additional graphical options in the future. third is the fps performance, it's pretty bad but manageable for sure. i have a decent pc build, like mid-tier with solid overclock settings and additional mobo settings.

as for the game mechanics, i can't personally comment on if they are objectively good or bad due to my lack of experience with game mechanics of this sort. specifically combat feels like a simple tank and spank at this point in time. hopefully blocks will have a larger benefit, and i hope to god there is a sick parrying system added like in gunz the duel. but, again i need to express i have little to no experience with combat mechanics of this type.

the skill trees and exp systems, crafting, and building is standard. something i found obnoxious was the needing a roof for some of the crafting stations. the bed is understandable. what was obnoxious was building the station to then find out you need to build a roof for protection. i wouldn't doubt there was an indicator for this and i didn't read because i am after all a moron that just clicks buttons.

i have not played with friends or random players at this time. i just wanted to focus on experiencing the game itself before that shared experience that's objectively fun. oh, can i suggest not having almost every animal aggressive to the player. specifically the chickens and cows... the deer/elk are not aggressive, but the chickens and cows are? why? another suggestion would the rune alters not being a crafting station players build. i believe scattering these throughout the world would be a great way to encourage players to explore the environment. even though this is a different type of game that's just a fundamental in the philosophy of runescape itself. just fruit for thought.

so yeah i'd recommend buying this early access to support jagex. i believe this game will turn out fine.

thanks for reading the book. gl hf.

the servers still can't handle the large amount of traffic happening during waves. but hey, at least we're getting cosmetic items right? RIGHT?

the game could be fun if the performance wasn't atrocious. lots of people just just yap about ssd's and shader cache or gpu cache but really the game itself is just poorly designed and optimized. at least it's free.

This is a tool and it's great. Look up Voltaic.

Voltaic x KovaaKs Benchmarks & Rankings Sheet - Season 3 [docs.google.com]
Voltaic x KovaaKs - Fundamental Aim Training routines 2.0 [docs.google.com]

IMPORTANT EDIT: there is a serious security flaw within the game. players are still able to access other player's ip's.

the game is fun. this version of source engine is out dated and has some weird interp moments, but overall fun. just be aware that the multiplayer has a lot of weirdos. as the years go by the player base gets smaller and smaller causing the ratio of weirdo to normal person to go out of wack. the game is cheap and often goes on sale for under 1 usd so it's worth trying.

okay so after educating myself i've discovered all of the fault doesn't fall upon valve. i guess both windows and c is difficult to work with. but, how this transition happened is still disappointing and the lack of support for pub servers is lame. the game can be fun but there are still problems to work through. just try the game.

Update: March 9, 2025
the game still has awful performance. this is honestly the biggest issue i have with the game. like how much money do players need to spend on hardware for 300 fps average?? honestly i don't believe it's the graphics to blame for poor performance because they don't even look that different from csgo. this game engine just needs some serious work. valve, please improve the game engine and slow down on adding cosmetics. this is starting to feel like the tf2 situation.


My PC specs

CPU - i7-9700k 4.8 GHz (overclocked)
GPU - RTX 2080 ti (default clock settings, nvidia 3D settings manually set for performance)
RAM DDR4 - 16gb 1066 MHz (default settings)
DISK - Samsung M.2 NVMe SSD EVO 970 PLUS Read/Write speeds 3500/3300

august 2025: still terrible performance. still loads of cheaters. what a fall from grace.