Recent reviews by Wyvar_t

Rock and stone to the bone.

The dwarfs evolution starts with the lootbug. Thank you for listening my TED Talk.

Dead by Daylight. Dead by daylight. Where should i start?

Is it good? -> meh. mixed and even negative due to the ignorance of devs on certain problems.

Pros:
+ Asymmetric gameplay
+ A lot, a LOT of cosmetics
+ Balanced gameplay, if you know how to use EVERYTHING.
+ various killers with different ability...

Cons:
- ... Where some of them are not viable or are forgotten
- Devs not listening to Community nor their Streamers ( named Fog Whispers, streamers cooperating with DBD devs)
- Often deploying changes that are breaking perks and killers OR making game more competetive like
- Faked Skill (skill meaning you ability to play the game) progress view (ranks)
- MMR system is not.. good. It locks people if they pass certain threshold, they cannot fall down. Also IT IS CAPPED!!!
- Have lost a lot of spirit of Darkenss scariness and at the same time fun.
- plague of subtle cheaters and normal ones ( you can question youself if they were cheating or not)
- BUGS BUGS BUGS AND BUGS
- Not addressed DDoS and Dox issues.
- Ban system is kind of bad and due to bad anti-cheat implementation it doesn't work

Gray area
* Game is close to pay to win, if not for the high skill threshold required to play.
* System of unlocking perks, without DLC's is... terrible. Shrine of secrets have 4 perks that you can buy with in game currency from lvl up's. They are changing weekly and there is more than 250 perks, some of them were never there even if they are REALLY old.

Comment:
i was in love in this game 4 years ago and it was fun game to play with friends...
However,
side of the survivors is getting more and more and more boring and as for the killer it is getting more stressful. Frustration can be felt from both sides to the point that both are often (not always) toxic to each other. Just recently they added event modes to the game, however they are not good. Sometimes the Mobile version is getting more love than the normal one getting Prop-hunt, fun cosmetics new Mori (custom kill animation) Etc.

But it doesn't stop There. Game stopped being Horror-like. Of course there are builds and killers that might be, but you are not feeling this little fear.

Hitboxes are bugged for both sides. You can hit someone mid air, when in reality you have hit the window, but sometimes you cannot hit target that is right in front of you. Also fun fact. Often if the survivor is pulling pallet down, when killer wants to hit them, but the pallet is falling, the killer might the survs even if there was no chance, due to hit validation.

For people that played the game:
Maps are bright and often doesn't consider how much it can be dentrimetnal to Killers (more often than to survs). Great Example -> trapper. As the name suggests he is setting traps. However on some maps you can see those traps from miles away. As for the survs. Some of them have near to no pallets or are badly placed. Don't get me wrong -> both sides needs strong and week places however, new policy of placing pallets or map design is questionable. This is matter of discussion i am a little against it.


Summary:
Overall, i'm playing this game and i will be playing still in this game. Some of the community streamers are amazing, however i cannot recommend this for new players or returning...
Unless you are coming back after X years and want to see what changed.

I'm not the type to write reviews on the game... But.. Lost ark Is kinda Special, for how much time i have spent in the game.

Let's start with a positives.
- There is a lot of classes to choose
- Some Parts of the story are great, where when doing it for the first time you are feeling AMAZING
- Bosses are intresting to fight...

Negatives:
- ... and hard too hard for casual player to enjoy it
- ... and to learn them.
- Content is block behind "daily work" to get things.
- ... or Pay to have materials for "upgrading" your Stuff
- Everyday content is very repetetive
- Voice acting is on lower end.. It's not the worst, but certainly not on higher level - closer to 4.5/10 than 5. It is noticeable.

The only argument that this game cannot be called fully 'pay to win', is how hard is to learn and react to mechanics on bosess. Because of this, a lot actual "playing" starts to be more like a job. And don't get me wrong - i understand that grind is normal in MMORPG, however Lost Ark went far beyond, what we call "normal" in this ganre.

The worst part is that most of major mechanics is wipe for the WHOLE TEAM - and for gate there is 3 mechanics that can do it... And whole raid has up to (for now) 6 gates.

In addition as much as i am excited for new bosses... I am tiered of learning essays for every boss, grind and basically take this game as second job.

Oh and community bacame Gatekeeping so much, that it is imposible to join as a new player - even i became to do so and i am not proud of it.

I might be called rice-eater (like koreans calls person, which doesn't like players that don't like current state of honning and playing), but this is what i had to say.

So this is my goodbye before Algacia comes out.

Thank you all. Have a great day.

One of the best indie games that's gives you a lot of fun if you're playing with friends :D