Recent reviews by Vandrick

Fun with friends

Few games are universally worth it to play, this is one of them.

The in-game voice system is absurdly well implemented as both a functional mechanic and a medium for some of the funniest horror/comedy moments you could ever have with friends.

It is wild how much content there is

It's a good game

Update #2: After almost a full year I'd say the game is probably now in the state it should have released at. Being that most gamebreaking bugs have been resolved and while the crafting/progression system still has no respect for your time, it has improved, largely in regards to curios. Auric maelstrom missions are fun and there is supposedly a massive subclass update coming in a month. The only problem is most of the players, including most of those who stuck around even despite the negativity have burned out and left, and it is quite noticeable when just queing into quickplay or random matches.

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Update #1: It's been roughly a month since they claimed they would have crafting implemented. Not only has that not happened, but the company has gone completely silent, no communication, no updates, no responses. Instead they have gone nuclear on every discussion/forum they have moderation rights to, locking, deleting, and wiping any questions or complaints relating to the silence or problems in the game. I have no clue what psycho is in charge when this is their response instead of just saying "sorry guys, we gotta delay stuff".

Absolute massive loss for the game and its hopes in the future

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Gameplay loop is very good, and if you enjoyed Vermintide 2 it is still quite fun. However it was pushed out far too early in terms of performance, somewhat egregious bugs (unable to even change basic keybindings) and straight up missing content (Missing 2/3rds of classes, crafting system removed and won't be implemented fully for months to come).

Without the intended crafting system there is essentially no progression apart from randomized items generated in a shop every hour. Relying purely on random number generation places the odds of getting a near perfect at close to 0. Some people and even the developers did some calculations and realized it would take hundreds of years of hourly shop generations for people to get sets of gear with their desired stats. In that sense, there isn't much loss in waiting for these features to come to live before buying since it won't place you far behind gear progression.

The game will certainly become as good or better than Vermintide 2, it just isn't there now and the shear amount of missing content, bugs, and performance issues keep it from being recommended as of today. Hopefully we see quick improvements, although since so many people already gave their money the incentive to rapidly improve is likely gone.

Spend 30 hours playing to have their "choice matters" faction system to break and not give crossbow blueprint. Checked online apparantly a widespread bug they won't fix for people who already got their playthrough killed by it. Uninstalled and ended. Also coop is broken and progress in their world locks you out of rewards on your own and you don't even get them in coop.

Simply an upgrade of dark souls

Good game, I like tetris with 4 people

Played the game twice, never got past 2/3rds of the main game before burning out. Somehow still took 60 hours each though and it was enjoyable