Recent reviews by Women aren't funny

The game itself seems fine from the little amount I played it. It doesn't have the feel of your usual TES games though.
Decided to give it a try during free weekend event and immediately decided to cut it short as soon as I noticed a number of QoL features locked behind monthly payments. Not a fan of that sort of practice.

Sheltered 1 fan here, along with anything survival postapo-type games. I got SH2 on discount, because just like everyone else, I was worried about the reviews and the general state of the game.

However today I come to tell you, the game is just fine. The first 11h of the gameplay definitely made me question what are all those bad reviews about (though maybe I didn't stumble on any jarring issue quite yet).

What I did stumble on, is this:

People who play in this type of games understand more than others that some games are just JANK - buggy, overambitious, but fun. If you ever played in games like Stalker or Kenshi, then you know what I'm talking about.
And just like in case of Kenshi, Sheltered 2 visibly accumulates errors over long hours of gameplay, which then turn into bugs. And just like in case of Kenshi, all you gotta do is just quit the game and boot it up again as a break from your 6h marathon of playing the game.

If you can do that, then great! If you can't, then I don't know what to tell you, other than stick to triple-A studios, instead of expecting the same quality from an indie dev studio that just upgraded this series from 2D pixels to quite beautiful 3D systems.

Final note: For the current -50% discount it's a bargain. Though in all fairness it doesn't live up to its full price quite yet. I heard that devs are working on the game still so I'm having high hopes for it, but I'm also bracing for any possible issues that I may encounter later in the game.

Effectively scratches that itch left after Team Fortress 2.

The game improved drastically since its release. Adding NPCs doesn't feel slapped on, which I was worried would be the case.
Things like in-game currency and Fallout First feel more like an addition rather than a must. And trough +200h of playing the game, I only ever got attacked by another player twice. Everyone is so friendly and helpful, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Gotta be real with you, I have never before heard a game with a more annoying sountrack. Especially the last level.

When you start the game for the first time and go trough tutorials, you're met with a pop-up message that claiming and opening your free packs makes this game non-refundable on Steam platform. Despite that red flag I accepted and continued to play for 2 days straight, before being met with a cruel realization that this game has many more microtransactions than I expected.

You start the game with 5 tickets and 10 card packs.
How to get more card packs:

• In order to get card packs, you need to use tickets that allow you to play in special game modes.
  
• The special game modes are just a highly RNG based (minus one) PvP battles (Not to mistake with TES:L PvE Arena system).
  
• One of these game modes allows you to draft 2 cards out of 5 pools of 10 cards and keep them after the game, but to start this mode you need to spend 2 TICKETS and 5 UNOPENED CARD PACKS.
  
• after you start one of the special games that consume tickets, you need to win minimum 3 games against other players, with maximum of 2 loses to get anything at all out of it. And that is just a refund of a ticket. Otherwise it's 1-3 tickets and 1-3 card packs, depending from wins.
  
• In case you didn't win 3 times and already lost 2 times, you get absolutely nothing and your used ticket/packs are gone.
  
• Or scratch all that and you buy card packs for roughly $2, because it's simply unlikely to win anything with the amount of out-of-control RNG that is going on in this game (No joke, it even randomizes the direction in which your creeps/heroes are going to deal damage)
  
  Other ways of getting cards:
  
• Selling and buying them on Steam Market. However keep in mind that all the good cards are going to be much more expensive than any common board-filler. Many of them being more expensive then the card packs themselves.
  
  How to get more tickets when you spent all of them on the game modes in hoping to win card packs:
  
• You spend irl money, around $5 per ticket.
  
• Recycling 2 card packs worth of cards (20 cards) to get 1 ticket.
  
• That's about it.
  
  To sum it up - I really, REALLY hoped this game would be much better than what everyone else already guessed it to be. And I would lie if I said it wasn't a brand-based purchase.
  Even with the crazy amounts of RNG, the game itself is pretty good, but the amount of paywalls is indeed downright disgusting. Some articles said you can play this game without spending any money, but how do you even expect to fight people who actually bought/earned enough cards to build reliable decks?
  
  I do not recommand this game in its current state. The microtransactions are ridiculus. I only hope someday it will get a reasonable update with ways to get cards without spending money.
  
  The fact alone you need to BUY an online card game is crazy enough.
  
  EDIT: Isn't that just ridiculus in itself that people would need to come up with some plans and financial strategies to overcome the paywalls/make it worth your time?
  Instead of advocating such behaviors and thinking workarounds, it should be brought down to the ground level and call it what it is - a ridiculus amount of microtransactions.

Truly a Game of the Year.

I'm a woman and I hate this "historically accurate women" update.
Who's idea was it to have a beef with your own playerbase?