Recent reviews by ZyklonBEAST

I've played this genre or this type of game rather since Arma 2. I was at the beginnning of DayZ and have played Tarkov since the day US Servers released. This is a very good game and I do very much enjoy it but it has some serious problems. I have a conflicted love affair with it.

For people calling this a Tarkov killer.... Tarkov is a looter shooter. You feel reward from completing the task and engaing in PVP and actually looting. There isn't really anything to loot or get excited about looting in this. 90% of the key rooms are garbage.

You have to complete over 100 task to unlock level 3 traders and each tier unlocks very few new items. For Example lvl 2 labrat to lvl 3 only unlocks 6 new items lol.

While the task seem plentiful they only give you a max of 5 or 6k payout each which doesn't replace the money in gear lost trying to complete most missions. No matter the mission difficulty the rewards are pretty much the same and unrewarding.

Travel system is complete garbage. Slow and laggy. Annoying. Was fun first 4 times with Vietnam era music playing in the background. THAT IS IT.

THE BOTS - Look I get this is another Alpha game on steam but my God. They can shoot through walls, trees, bushes and rocks no problem. You can't do that. I've had leaves deflect my bullets multiple times. They can also shake off headshots like they are nothing. Even using the best ammo in the game you might have to dump an entire 60rnd magazine into a cracked bot. They all have Sanitar(Boss from Tarkov) like ai and can just 180 turn around on the spot and one tap you the sec they see you. Like I've been one tapped through walls well over 20 times.

Like if your creeping up on a group of bots... they will just instant turn around and plug you without even shouldering their rifle. They just tap you from the hip.

Another example. If your 600 yards out sniping on a ridge covered by grass. The second you drop one or 2 bots. The rest of the bots in the location you are facing will all start accurately full auto firing your location lighting you up. Tell me it's a skill issue all you want. It's dumb and unrealistic. I'm not crying to make the ai easy but at least have them all hold cover or try to flank you instead of just shooting through the cover you are holding. They don't even have to scan or search for you. They typically know your exact location the second a single bullet leaves your barrel.

Weapons - I like how the M4 goes BRRRRRR. Best guns in the game are the M4a1 and Daniel Defense MK18. The AK74 is't too far behind but still no point running anything other than the AR style weapons. They slap harder than the rest. The AK's need some serious re work. Them and the Shotguns are almost unusable. They probably did this on purpose since these are the weapons the bots are equipped with and the bots are already broken.

Performance - I have a 5800X3D, 32gb Ram, and a 6950XT. I get straight butt performance on this game and there are very few titles on the market I can't max settings @ 1440p. Optimization is very bad. I'm hoping it will continue to improve.

I still however very much enjoy a lot about this game. It feels like a fresh start to this genre or type of game and I will continue to play it.

I will change my review once they fix these issues. Many of my complaints they have already mentioned as being polished over in the hot fixes but I have seen little to no difference on my end.

The best in the field so far. I really like the tarkov style scavs. The ai is far from perfect. I've been spotted by them 150m out but it beats the cracked zombies in similar titles. This game feels further developed than both DayZ and Scum which are filled with "hardcore" survival annoyances surrounded by emptiness. Those games are super empty and the official servers are whack. At least DEADSIDE has an interactive map with events and missions to go do. You can also easily find and group up with friends. I've been waiting over 10 years for a base game to give me what modded Arma 3 did. Only thing missing is vehicles and I feel more weapons need to be added. Also highly need more options for food and water cause you have to really grind to obtain food/drink currently. I 1000% regret not buying this back when I watched Eroktic play it but I was over how poorly implemented similar titles are still till this day... so I avoided this for a long time. This game still needs a lot of polishing but is far ahead of it's competition. Scum and DayZ both lied to me and filled me with false promises. Social interaction is better in DayZ while Deadside is much more PVP based but i'm telling you what you see is what you get with this game.

I went into this thinking I wouldn't enjoy it because i'm not a huge MMO nerd but it's actually kept me coming back week after week. Feels like first person RS. The combat feels alright against enemy ai but in general it's really janky. I could't imagine like a "Guild War" with this combat system. No way it's enjoyable but the community is actually quite helpful. Many are "based" politically which is where I fit in. Overcoming obstacles feels rewarding though. The overall world looks great for a first person open world MMO. The game is very unoptimized so this could give you grief if you are on lower-mid level computer components. I'm on a 5800X3D, 32gb Ram and 6950XT. I average 150 FPS @max settings 1440p but get very low dips and stutters.

This game could have been so much more. I hope they continue to grind out content for this game. It's for sure filled with flaws but what game isn't? She ain't perfect but I enjoyed this a lot more than the last dragon age, mass effect and the outer worlds. We live in a world now of a bunch of coomers who sit around and slander everything in front of them. Maybe... just maybe we should let game developers make games without having to worry about offending everyone. Stop worrying about how "Alt-right or Reich winger" one of the dialogues in the game is or how one of the characters isn't LGBTQ enough to your liking. THEN maybe they can put all their effort into making a bug free experience with good A.I. ...

I have the same issue with the Game SCUM. WHY DO I HAVE TO CUSTOMIZE MY CHARACTERS GENITALIA??? Like why? If your so disgusted that you can't make a video game character a sexual reflection of yourself then you will literally never be pleased by any mainstream video game. EVER.

GREATEST VIDEO GAME ALBUM HANDS DOWN.

I'll change my review once they implement Bandit Ai. Scavs.. something. Game feels empty and boring. Especially the single player. I can pick how big my PP is though.

Real love hate relationship with this game. I bought it for me and a friend at time of alpha release. Now that the game is out officially(has been for awhile now)... Idk weapon ballistics and matchmaking are pretty awful. All the weapons take a few moments before you can fire them again. Lever action, pump action, bolt action or semi auto it doesn't matter. Weapons don't feel very graceful. It's really not an easy game to master. That part is fine a big part that plays into this which isn't fine is the very wonky animations and player movement. No matter how much I play with actual mouse settings or in game settings. It never really feels quite right. Leveling used to be challenging but now it's rather fast and steam claims only 6% on average of players reach tier 3 according to the achievement . Meaning by this point your playing against the cream of the crop and will likely die one shot every single encounter. I have never seen players cling to stats like they do in this game in several years. Like I haven't heard of people having mental breakdowns over K/D ratio since like 2015 but people really do flip in this game if you can't make it out of a fire fight which makes for a toxic multiplayer community and down right ruins all the fun. There's also all the meshes/textures popping in and out, screen tearing and players glitching through walls and such but it's not as big as a problem as it was on release. Servers still lag out also. I can tell they have tried to polish this game the best they can and seem to be a rather decent game company. I ultimately would like to see this game in a WWI or WWII setting so the weapons and ballistics may improve and make PVP feel a lot less lackluster.