Recent reviews by Polymorphic Turtle

It's alright

AH-1F and Mi-24V are quite good, Volcano system is nice.
Would like historical Mi-8 with NSV/DSHKM/SGM and AGS-17V instead of GPMGs.
Some assets need some work, it's neat to see small details like ammunition "sinking" in a box, knowing the limitations of A3 that's better than nothing. Decent companion mod for GM.

Devs claim to be "og fans" despite not knowing that stalker was about gameplay and the technical advantages of the xray engine.
Entire game is designed around padding playtime, there's no fun.
Every single patch has consistently been about nerfing gameplay further and further.
Instead of edging to UE5's ugly graphics maybe you guys should learn how to balance the game, how about you actually play it instead of making conclusions in an echo chamber revolved around how much more playtime you can squeeze out of people.

The animations are good, the textures are alright, the sounds are alright for the most part, nanite is terrible, lumen is terrible, the game feels like it was initially designed around a much much much lower difficulty with damage resistances, weaker stamina and other nonsense added after. The arena fights before the patch to fix them were a really clear indication that sometime along development mutant health and armor was increased heavily.

Please actually test the game by playing it instead of making minute changes and trying them out in the test section of the map. It's supposed to be a game, not a job. Stop trying to pad out playtime.

Walking simulator, it does not "get better in the next expansion" ^ 5

The game has had a comprehensive QoL update, While I recommend the game, you need a friend/group of people or a lot of time to have fun, there are quite a large amount of issues in this game.

Specifically the amount of cheating, which I admit isn't as bad as earlier, is still a problem. By the time you get to veteran gear you will get accustomed to dying to speedhackers and on the rare occasion a flyhacker, aimbot is prevalent though it doesn't matter much when you can melt most people with incendiary.

Along with that the main story is quite difficult to progress as many of the quests require either cheesing them or coming back much later when you have far better gear.
The problem becomes worse due to the amount of camping in this game, the exits for bases should really be reconsidered, especially bandit side bar as it is extremely easy to camp it.

Other places with problematic camping: Any exit of forest, roadside middle, agrocomplex and dead city.

Other than that, the asset and programming team should reintroduce removed weapons like the DP-27 and cobray. There isn't a large enough variety of weaponry, especially when it comes to machineguns. M249 should probably be put into the EU/US/SEA client's machinegun tree instead of having them branch off to G36. Ideally a M60E4 would be added down the line.

Developer company bullied one of the best content creators for the game into suicide.
Also fights look lame
gross

Don't waste your money on this, Bungie consistently violates consumer rights and flat out lies in order to generate more money. The ToS doesn't mean anything, if they've caused monetary loss or charged your CCs for something you never ordered you can sue them.

Positively reviewing this so everyone on my steam friends gets their store recommendations ruined

Have the devs ever driven an AWD car? Because it doesn't feel like it.

Fix the controls, half the time inputs don't register on keyboard/mouse.

Stunlocks last too long. Game was obviously not balanced around the current length, evident by beta footage.

Terrible ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ camera controls

Horrible assault boost binding for kbm, why doesn't letting it go cancel it? Why do I have to clunkily hold S and hope it doesn't instead try to rotate stupidly?

Other than that the game can be fun.