Recent reviews by Kawaii-Masta

A very nice puzzle/turn based game ala doorkickers with a surprisingly good story too, well worth the price. Around 10/15 hours to clear the main campaign, 20/25 to clear all the side content, hell, even more if you go for 100% achivs and hard mode completion.

One of the best interactive story games out-there and it's not even a contest, from the art style to how deep choices go, it's honestly too good to pass if you enjoy interactive stories ala telltale games. There's even a DLC for it, go for it, i sure as ♥♥♥♥ will after writing this.

This game will eat your time and sanity like no tommorow if it manages to get under your skin. One of the best PvE coop shooter in town, best bangers, best art design. High entry price outside sales, devs are cool, pete parsons can ♥♥♥♥ off tho.

This is a 40/100 euros Early access, simple as, and while gameplay is solid, more back to the roots of PD:TH, it lacks critical features that was present on DAY 1 OF PAYDAY 2 like multi-days heists, a working UI both in and outside the game; actual replayabilty to name a few.

Everything is made in order to make you play as long as possible from account leveling based on challenges rather than flat xp payout, weapon leveling that seems to take on average around 30 hours PER GUN to max out, heists being retweaked Payday 2 levels (Gold&Sharke is litterally 1st world bank, 99 boxes election day day 1), none of the grandiose that made payday 2 great is there, no big money shot moments like the benevolant bank piggy beast drop to name just one.

Online only is only there to shove down MTX and FOMO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, it's unnecessary and quite frankly, just hilarious to see how Almir was pumping the "no servers are gonna be down" but that's just me.

Wait for a fat sale after a year.

I've gave it a honest try and as it stands, Ai Bots are unironically the best part of this game, PvP is a joke.

- TTK is insanely fast and weapons are laser beams. I'm playing battlefield, not Modern Warfare, that ♥♥♥♥ needs to get slowed the ♥♥♥♥ down, horrid netcode and low tick rate servers doesn't help at all.

- Maps are bad, no flow whatsoever, wide open fields with little to no cover.

- Portal is cool but it's abandoned except for farming medals and ♥♥♥♥, damn shame really cuz it's quite a cool concept.

90 minutes to Compile Shaders. i79700, 32gb RAM, 3070ti, running on a NVME. Wtf

It is clear that as of writing this review, this game isn't completely dead yet however it probably will be within the next 6 months, from a whooping 15.5k players to less than a thousand[steamcharts.com] in less than 5 months is downright sad, want to know the three main reasons?

- No Core Content since Launch. : For what it's worth, they did add side activities like point defense and horde mode but for real, that's not why people play that sort of game, people play it for the Missions. It's been 5 months and even tho they've did said that they're working on stuff that isn't part of the roadmap [www.aliensfireteamelite.com] it clearly is too little, too late.

EDIT : New class and OMG LOADOUTS, THE THING THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE IN THE 1ST PLACE, HOW DEPRIVED IN CONTENT DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO PROMOTE THAT SORT OF STUFF. HALF A YEAR AND YET NO NEW MAPS, WTF.

- Devs unwillingness to Balance off-meta kits and weapons : what's the point of having a huge arsenal at your disposal when about 50/60% (and i'm being generous here) of said weaponry is litterally useless in T4/T5 (Extreme/Insane) Difficulties?

Kits like Doc that gimps you of a 3rd DPS/CC for what is basicly two health kits and a half with a extremely long charge up, a Speed boost every 30 secs and 30% passive recharge rate provided you stay right next to both of your teammates? The thing that the Recon class does better just by killing fodder? Couple with free CC and Ammo Generation? And don't get me started with Phalanx, this class is just a bad meme it needs a full rework at this point.

- Devs being actively anti-modding : That's the one that stings the most. As of writing this review, if you install any form of mod, may it be a FOV slider (yes, the game still has no FOV slider. In 2021.) You're locked out of matchmaking, basicly cutting out what could have been a easy way to keep the community engaged for basicly nothing.
hell if cheating truly is the main reason for this then 1st off guess they don't know that mods aren't the problem, it's cheat engine.
the 2nd thing is that they could have made a list of mods that are sanctioned and updated on the regular like how Vermintide 2 does. Need i say more?

EDIT : In a Recent Discord post From Cold Iron[imgur.com] they are working on a potential fix so as it stands, i'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on that one. We'll see how it turns out.

I'm adressing this final note to the leads at Cold Iron. Stop what y'all are doing, reflect on what the community want and more importantly, balance out the outliers and give us more mainline content (ie : Chapter 2) may it be paid or free i don't care. Give us a bone. I'd be a real shame if this game dies.

A very good Twin-Stick Shooter, set in a Spacepunk universe. Gunplay feels satisfying, the sound design and music is top notch, gritty and impactful, gives you the power fantasy vibes you want to see, the visuals are top-notch, graphics are decent but it's the art-style that carries more weight. The story is surprisingly good, we're actually just a merc doing his part in what is a big galactic corporate war, it's down to earth and it's very refreshing. HOWEVER.

We need End-game activities, badly. Horde mode, Dungeons, more activities that promotes coop play and the for the love of the Ascendents NEW GAME PLEASE

Other than that, it's been a bug-free ride although there is game-breaking bugs at the time of this review so keep that in mind.

A very good idea on paper, terrible execution.

Chaos wastes is what happens when you mix Vermintide and your run of the mill Rogue-lite. You and your mates runs 5/8 missions in a row, however every item that you grinded for is set back to basic rarity, meaning that you'll have to gain boons and high level gear throughout your run.

Let that sink in, a End-Game activity that doesn't let you use the gear your farmed your ass off for it. NO. IT DIDN'T WORKED WITH WoM, CHAOS WASTES WON'T WORK EITHER! LET THE PLAYERS USE THE STUFF THEY WORKED FOR FATSHARK!

The Expedition idea, on it's own is very good tho, the modifiers throughout the run with differant kinds of spawns for each run is refreshing and the rewards at the end of it is good enough so it's actually worth farming, just for the love of Sigmar let me use the stuff i worked for, remove the "White to Veteran" gear restrictions and you'll get what could possibly be a actually good alternative to regular missions.

Thankfully it's free, so in the end, it's just the devs loss, not mine.

Star Citizen, Simplified. (Soon with Space Legs™) Contains depth yet streamlined enough so it can be recommanded as your first space MMO. Hope you enjoy grinding cuz you're in for a mouthful.