Recent reviews by rat

Since the game is fresh out the gate, I'll be rating the game on a per-patch basis - as long as I feel the game is moving in a positive direction, I will recommend this game, otherwise I won't.

RECENT POSITIVE CHANGES:
- Aim assist nerfed in all the right ways, seems they listened to community feedback about the most significant pain points & addressed them.
- ReWASD usage at very least reduced, hopefully more programs of similar nature will be detected soon.

CHANGES I NEED TO PLAY THE GAME LONG-TERM:

- Improve ability to play the game solo without being at a major disadvantage (new modes, group queue would be helpful). Based off of my own experience, I can get an ~80% winrate with a 3-stack, ~50% with a 2-stack, maybe tops 20% as a solo if i play my heart out. Either my randoms are just that bad, or the low-level team coordination me & my friends have as a stack really matters that much. Either way, playing solo feels like putting your hand on a max-temp stovetop.

- Reduce the number of ways a teammate can troll the team (ie throwing a gas nade at a teammate capturing obj, goo gunning teammates, breaking ziplines/bridges a teammate is currently using)

- Make light class a glass cannon instead of just glass (or at least add better team util so they can be useful in other ways)

CHANGES I WANT BUT DON'T NEED:

- Reduce the number of instakills, especially the ones that can be used at no risk to the person using them (ie double frag mine at the top of a ladder near obj), and/or make counterplay to these much more consistent. Getting instakilled in a high-ttk game feels absolutely awful.

- Remove SBMM or improve it so that a low-rank player can't be in the same match as someone significantly higher rank than them (or low-skill paired with high-skill for quickplay modes)

- Add role queue (so one class being weak doesn't matter; you can always play your preferred class without being at a disadvantage to other teams)

- Improve audio clarity in general, especially footsteps

24/7 locker 90hz is the peak of humanity

more fun than all other 2022 games combined - for 1/20th the cost. Worth a buy, then 19 other buys for your friends.

-16 hours in and still true update-

this game is bad bc im bad and therefore the games is bad and it's bad because the game is bad (because i'm bad) (that's why the game is bad)

pros: wattson
cons: everything else, horrible game, devs don't give a ♥♥♥♥

the finals nerfed aim assist in less than a month off release, this game took years already & now are saying "2 more years please!"

10/10 op game for playing with friends, online isn't toxic either :D

4 days in and i've played nearly 30 hours - simply good

EDIT: 14 days in and 73.6 hours LOL, plus there was like 3-5 days where I didn't play due to a long work day. I'll be at 1k hours in no time B)

edit 2: 612 hours deep

As for an actual review of the game, it's essentially a 2-D top-down survival strategy game, with resource management and technology trees, combat, diseases, animal taming, mutants, space technology, organ harvesting, energy weapons... - the whole shebang - and that's just vanilla. The mod support here is incredible, with an incredibly diverse selection of mods ranging from quality-of-life improvers to mods that add entire new mechanics, items, etc. to the game.

+rep

For fans of factorio - this does it better, I'm able to follow along and move at my own pace better it seems.

2010 game go brrr in 2020