Recent reviews by Renzo the Sergie

fatshark should half the prize of that dlc, althou i enjoy the Weaves game mode, which bring real great challenge, that you should remember any esential bit of parts on the map to complete it. if you messed up, you know that is comming and prepare for it.

BUT, to be able to play it, you need to have to play it with SOMEONE, you can wait for ages to have one player join your lobby, or be psycho and try it solo ( yes you can bring bots with you, but that doesnt fix the problem about some difficulty in some maps, you need humand thinking)

how to fix it?
let everyone collect esseance , forge weapons and upgrade those with it. BUT let only owner of the dlc to actually pick the Weave mission.

with that, i can play it with anybody who will want to join, but only owner of that dlc can start it.

did you really think fatshark, that we will spend 4* 17€ to just play it together? no way you get that greedy.

its getting better,

buffed underused weapons,
they gave sharpnel back
AT missles are usefull now
thermite granade is usefull
annoying enemies are less annoying now.

eventho we are not at the best state as i would love to be (still some weapons tweaking are needed and some enemy rebalance too),
we are now on the good path, and now we need to get to the destination of satisfaction in this game.

But still you are unable to play that game in several countries with no crutial explanation. just playstation is being greedy and shi**y as always. If this will not get changed in this year, its getting back to bad review.

my old review:

I was there when we won the war over Malevelon Creek.
I was there when we drove the bugs out of our lands.
I was there when we completely destroyed the automatons.
And I was also there in the war against PSN linking, in a battle that we also won.


This review has been updated from negative to positive after the PSN change.
eventho the restricted countries are still there.

and now, I updated again from positive to negative. here is why:

i like the new buffs for the weapons. but it doesnt feel like it, it just feels the weapons are usable now. at least a lot of them. there are still useless weapons, broken weapons, but its better now i would say.

but the enemies got buffed... again. now titan tracks bile spewing and made bigger spread, so avoiding it without taking DMG is now challenging, good luck if you get hit by hunter or get ragdolled.

automatons are stronger too. more accurate.

also broken stealth mechanic, it is not working now (you will throw the knife, whole map suddenly know where you are (did they even test it?)

broken stuns, EMS strike is now useless because its broken, encouraging player to stick with stun granades.

also EMS no longer stuns titans

they buffed stagger resistance of the enemies too. so Pummeler is useless now.

they disvalued the new and future warbonds to get only 1 weapon and 2 armors instead of 3 and 3. (i get it you ran out of ideas and it is hard to balance 3 new weapons each month. but i feel i get less value for same prize, new skins are not as great as new weapons and armor)

and then i just saw gameplay video of the game when it released from OhDough, the video will be in comment section. and i just got so angry when i saw, that the game is not that great anymore as before. yeah the weapons and some mechanics were not functional as it should, and works now. but the game had no frustrating features like it has now. IT WAS FUN.


its not fun to get instakilled by enemies.

its not fun to constantly being attacked by enemies and having no room for breathe

its not fun to fight with mechanics what was working before and are not working now

its not fun facing silent/hidden changes to enemies, what just makes players feel stupid

its not fun nerfing or changing your fav weapons (eruptor for example)

the game is just not fun anymore, and feels more broken than before. cannot enjoy it as before. the devs are fixing problems, which doesnt exist.
like buffing weapons is great. but i still lose 1/2 HP when i got hit by smallest enemy, and bigger armor will not fix the issue.

you used to fight the horde. now its just better to run away. which again... is not fun.

devs needs to make enemies weaker, not us stronger. and also fix theirs ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game.
but i cannot see bright future of the game anymore.

it is just sad.

after 14 months, it is worth the money to spend for this game. I hope they will continue improving it, like they do in vermintide 2

Gameplay, gunplay, visuals, music are perfect.
map gameplay design is meh
optimalisation is not good, but its getting slowly better.
SSD is recommended.

Lets say, the game in now in that stage, what should be in the beginning.

at this stage I would not recommend this game.

Bad vote system of gamemodes and maps. i understand the point of democratic votes for choosing what to play, but gamemodes what players play are only domination, rush, or conquest, nothing else. so no change playing frontlines or Capture the flag.

I feel there is huge weapon unbalance. for context. there is LMG with 29 DMG with 600 firerate and huge recoil. and then ther is SMG with 22 dmg double firerate and low recoil. huge SMG meta is in this game and it works for medium range combat well, which makes a lot of guns useless except for recon guns. I amost forgot to mention something about LMG. bipod will not improve recoil of your weapon. it even make it worse somehow. only change is that you ADS is not moving when bipod deployed so it is usefull only for sniper riffles. such a waste.

the biggest problem what i feel is the medic class. its supperior compared to other classes. because of its high running speed with SMGs and with more than 5 times more bandages and medkit. It is lamost necessary to play as medic because of lack of sustainbility of other classes. yeah you can heal now via bandages. but still assault have only 4 bandages, recon 3, medic 20 and medkit which medics only use to heal themselves, not others, there are some rare exceptions of course.

lack of scoreboard and squad information. I would like to know which map i am playing. you will know map name only at the start of game, or in loading screen. nowhere else. almost noone knows who is squad leader. its hard to tell even for squad leaders itself, unless you notice you can aparrentelly mark objectives. because of that, game is marking same objective for whole team, unless squal leader mark different one. so it always looks like whole server is contesting one or 2 objectives, except for individuals flanking other ones.

movement is clanky in here. cannot toggle bandaging and such. need to hold 3 key to bandage yourself. I know you can click that and hold M1. but i want my character to swap to weapon imediatelly after bandaging. and I could move to the right while patching myself up. also I feel that my character dont respond everytime as it should be, like input lag. sometimes will not ADS while sprinting, throwing granade, changing seats in vehicles, no swapping between weapons and gadgets and so on.

when I started playing this game, i thought it will be working like simpler squad game (simplier version of squad or hell let loose), but instead, it feels just like only another simplier battlefield. there are a lot of game mechanics, classes, weapons, gamemodes and maps. but people only play the same mode, on same maps over and over again. just mindlessly running and shooting. no team cooperation, no team communication, no strategies, just run and shoot from point A to point B and whatever else objective what you have been told to go.

if you want mindlessly running with your SMG and shoot. this game is made for you. but if you wanna try new weapons and try some roles, you will suffer in this game. you will feel team cooperation only when playing with your friends. I have been forced to play as recon to avoid this SMG meta BS. (recon is not bad class, but sometimes i wanna play with LMG for example. but those are in this game useless).


but hey,

Maps are great. a huge variety of weapons, a lot of gadgets to play with, great servers optimalisation and active figh against cheaters so there are frequent ban waves. its worth of the cost. i just hope devs will fix those issues soon.

Get rid of that kick barrel cooldown and I will change the review to positive one.

This change made"get barrels in pod" achievements, and kicking barrels from the launch field back up on ground almost impossible. And it restricts fun element in lobby.

edit:
they have changed it

so i just now lost all my 500H progress because of their decision changing function of family sharring. now, i have no payed charackter available, lost all my perks and only have free ones. thank you devs for giving me reason to stop playing this game and never coming back to play it again.