too much concept and not enough execution.
released far too early and it's just kinda been sittin,
gettin more Q/A vids than updates and i don't see it getting good at any reasonable pace

come back in a year

Was very excited for EA but have no desire to get back into it with current mechanics and the fact i work all week i did the grind to get fun stuff and now its all gone. I value my time too much to do that again

Game releases more Q/A than updates...

Water system on real time (you lose everything if you don't grab water).

Enemies will spawn on top of you, nonstop sometimes.

This game is really fun with friends though, grab it on sale.

The water mechanic is extremely bad. i want to play this game, but cannot because i don't have time. i work 6 on 6 off 12 hour shifts. i'd essentially have to start over every week. its dumb as hell.

As someone who is too busy to play games every day, this is one of the worst concepts I have seen. One of the big parts of the game is finding water, which goes to the camp. If you only have two days' worth of water, then you have TWO IRL DAYS TO GET BACK ON AND FIND MORE WATER, or else you will lose all the loot on your person and have to start from the bottom. I love everything else, but this game's extraction part is straight DOG WATER.

I want to love this game, I really do. However my current biggest problem is the very basic game mechanics. I love what the developers are doing I'm very happy that they are trying to make a game that they themselves want to play and stand by forever peer to peer play. This comment is not out of spite but rather from several core issues that I have with this game in it's current state.

1. The water mechanic- I understand the core mechanics of how everything works with water being the lifeblood of the hub and all things scav related. However, I don't like that I am getting punished for having a normal life. When I first started this game I was playing very frequently and got about 3 days worth of water stored up. I went to work and at the end of the week when I went to come back to this game and play, I got ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up by raiders that invaded because I didn't have enough water. To someone who is constantly online this should never happen. I can't shake the feeling that I'm being punished for not playing the game enough. Currently I'm stuck in an uphill battle where everything is super expensive because everyone is pissed off at me since I couldn't defend the hub. So I go out into the wastes to try and scav literally anything so I can get some credits, and this leads me to problem #2

2. Game mechanics- Inconsistent enemy movement patterns, inconsistent view ranges, inconsistent engagements and inconsistent behaviors. When I get out into the battlefield to begin my scavving I can't even properly evade the enemies since they move about so erratically that there's no way to figure out how or where the patrol is headed next. Entire patrols are aiming at air even when not close to other factions hostiles. No rhyme or reason to bodily movements. Sometimes I get spotted from 100 yards. Sometimes I have an enemy with 5ft and they can't see me. If I am forced to defend myself sometimes the rest of the enemy patrol leaves the man to die, sometimes they call in the super heavy ♥♥♥♥ you guns and I get roflstompped into the ground. How the enemies behave is inconsistent regardless of faction, location or current engagements. Even if I keep to myself and don't take any engagements it means nothing since a patrol of 50 can very quickly (inhumanly so) roll up on my position, encircle, and kill me. Which leads me to my last point

3. Enemy spawns- I have lost count of how many runs I have had where I was doing okay only to be standing in an area where the enemy spawns and I loose the mission because enemies spawn on top of me and kill me. It's not just on one map. It's on all maps. Some maps if you have the wrong spawn point selected you die right out of the gate. I won't sit here and say I understand the difficulties of programming a game. However, there is no rhyme or reason to where the spawn points are. I have had enemy patrols spawn out of thin air and unload on me killing me instantly and ending my run.

I want to love this game, I really do. Please, do something to fix the core gameplay issues here. I can't recommend this to anyone in it's current state. There's a lot of people that are here for the progress of the game and the community, I really haven't felt any of that from this game. I don't want to ask for a refund, I just want this game to function as intended.

i want to preface this, with that this is the first game, i have ever negatively reviewed on steam. The dev team has recently put out a new update, that if your base runs low on water, (Which drains while the game isn't running) Bandits will raid your base, and reset your save file if you fail. So, after a few months of not playing, combined with me not ready for this change. I lost everything, all my hard earned loot, gone. Sorry, but I don't want to support a game that punishes me while i'm not even playing it. My save file should never be at risk because i don't play the game once a week. Plus, 2 paragraphs of a warning, isn't enough to prepare you for that powerful of a raid group.

I will try and keep this brief but I feel that in it's current state this game is at best not ready and at worst a scam

The negative:

Bugs - game is unplayable for many matches due to numerous bugs such as: chat not working, being unable to loot, aim, or even fire your gun.

Lag - I am from Western Europe and have matched with only Western Europeans and every single match has been so laggy that my gun can barely fire and when it does it fires 3 bullets at once

Features - The game is bare bones at best and has essentially no mechanics at worst. You spawn in, grab a thing and leave, that's literally it over and over.

Animations - Character and enemy animations are INSANELY broken, there isn't a single accurate reload animation in the game with every gun including LMGs currently just using a stock Ak reload animation. Shotguns reload multiple shells all at once. Enemies look hilariously goofy and will often just slide past you humorously without reacting

AI - As I just said the AI is barely functional with most enemies just running past you within touching distance if you crouch. Enemies exhibit almost 0 unique behaviours other than "run towards player and attack".

Exploits - Most players are currently just spawning over and over again on Scrapyard nexus lift to grind the enemies that spawn right in front of you at extraction to basically gain infinite loot

Movement - As mentioned prior there are 0 movement mechanics or design choices, you cannot even lie down. Only vaulting, crouching and sprinting is currently in the game.

Aiming and combat - Aiming and recoil are incredibly sluggish feeling and not in a satisfying or well made sense, it feels like faux difficulty. Shooting all feels the same with guns sharing relatively similar characteristics and sound effects.

Other small minor stuff - healing is just spamming a button to use health items without any animation or mechanic attached to it whatsoever, no bleeding or anything of that nature. Artstyle of humans is weird and I feel clashes with the more realistic style of the environment, voice acting is awful and immersion breaking with characters quipping like marvel characters at the end of missions. Eurasian enemies will crowd you in a way that feels unintended and make it impossible for you to shoot them as your gun is clipping thru them.

The positive:

Literally just the maps and artwork. That's it, this game in it's current state can be summed up as "we saw cool art on twitter and wanted to make a game out of it but essentially bit off more than we could chew". This game needs more than updates, it needs a TOTAL overhaul and redesign in many areas.

This needs a LOT of work. Janky controls. Your character moves like a sloth. NPC's spawn in literally right in front of you and will start shooting within seconds. You're not playing the game incorrectly, they just spawn in front of you sometimes while you're traveling.

You need a TON of patience. Which I was ok with, its the jank controls and AI that are the problem. This is a beautiful proof of concept. Groups of NPC's getting into large scale random battles and you just sit there and watch. However, the AI needs work. It will get stuck on the ground, go into the ground, run around in .

You will experience so many deaths due to bugs or poor AI it will make you rage quit several times. I eventually got good at the game then had a string of bad luck and lost alot of stuff.
The AI will not only spawn behind you, but change their pathing as well. So you can never take your time and learn a map OR, even just be cautious because the ♥♥♥♥ AI will magically find itself right on top of you.

Everyone moaning about the water mechanic...it's not that terrible. You can find water plenty. However, you have to keep playing this single player game like its a live service and log on every once in awhile. . The mechanic is tied to your computers time and ticks in real time. Very terrible, ♥♥♥♥ mechanic. It should be tied to the ingame clock when you're playing the game, not while you're offline like this is some sort of MMO.

Once the terrible AI improves and more content gets released, I'd recommend this. It's actually quite addictive once you get the best rig's and upgrade them. Needless the say, the rack, is the best rig hands down right now. Being able to carry 8 large items makes earning money a cinch.

I enjoy the game however the bugs with pop in of enemies is so awful I have to leave a negative review until it is somewhat worked on