Recent reviews by nanonull

Great game! Easy to start playing and it has giga-tons of upgrades and turret builds. Perfect to play few rounds and unlock new things to improve future runs.

Also, game has great Steamdeck controls with multiple ways to control your character and 3! ways to interact with UI on Steamdeck.

My only suggestion would be to add possibility to buy slot when upgrade is selected in Upgrade phase. Because me as newbie bought wrong slot few times and it may feel lil bit inconvenient to firstly unlock slot, then buy upgrade into that slot. Ideally, I press on some upgrade and it not only highlights available free slots, but also highlight available slots-to-buy for selected upgrade.

"raw gem"

Cons:
- game can be crashing... there are unsafe video settings (like Frame gen available on mid cards)
- at first controls may feel clunky
- cant rebind Flashlight from L/Mouse3 buttons?... in the game with day/night cycle and stealth mechanics (there is mod for this)
- "Press R to loot all" action must close the container inventory
- weapon modifications should be explained more (like when you have to go to mechanic to upgrade Viper and only then you will be able to install scope mod from inventory. Realism or excessive complexity? )
- burrer and controller can feel unfair - you just losing your stuff and getting damaged through walls... counter-tactics are not explained

Pros
- audio, environments, immersion = 10/10!
- shooting 10/10
- graphics 10/?. Both impressive, glitchy and too over-confident, just as stalker sequel has to have.
- story/activities 10/10. 15 hours spent for 100% completion of the starting area (Lesser Zone).
- A-Life? 5/10. Sometimes you can have fun skirmishes with few factions involved, but simulation part is not very visible.
- RPG part: weapons - 9/10: a lot of upgrades and gun parts.
- you can mod the game (whatever bothers you) from day one
- stealth can render unexpected outcomes, sometimes enemies can see you through bushes, and probably no way to hide from mutants after they spot you.
- Mods are recommended, anything which reduces abnormal bullet resistance on mutants (anyone saw mutant in heavy armor?), reduce repair costs, increase stamina and so on. Tons of mods from day one...
- Radio: 10 Кіровоградів з 10 Пирятинів!

The game itself is OK (some map are great, some are meh), but EA launcher is a pandora box - you never know what you will encounter when press Play. LET PEPOL PLAY GAMES, NOT YOUR USELESS LAUNCHERS!

Cons:
- show details about tools and equipment when changing loadout in game, example: map is shown, I select Engineer... what is Recoilless M5 and what is Predator SPAW? What is the difference? Show descriptions.

Game has great visual and audio style. Gameplay-wise I'd say I'd like more TTK and more players in PVP rounds.

Very fun and engaging game. It's like Team Fortress but with full environmental destruction and dynamic objectives.
Some say it is unbalanced, I'd say every class has very powerful abilities. Nuked > Insta res > Zapped. So classes are balanced. Power can be still tuned and it is tuned btw patches.

------------------
Update:
1) season#2 and season#3 are even better than season#1. Developers still deliver unique experience.

2) Matchmaking is the weakest part: it's easy to get very unbalanced games and the worst part is that you can't know it's that game until your team got stomped.

------------------
Update Season#4:
Pros:
- amount of unbalanced matches is decreased;
- better weapon balance, new guns are fun and fair;
- banger OST, again

Cons:
- performance is decreased during destruction of large buildings

------------------
Update Season#5:
- better matchmaking and weapon balance
- few new unique gadgets
- OST from all seasons can be mixed up

The problem is that game can be very hardcore due to relatively complex gameplay and amount of seasoned players...

-----------------
Update Season#6:
- Game is in the most balanced state ever.
- Fixed performance issues during destruction of large buildings
- Fixed annoying rare network issue which was happening during the first game of current day!..

-----------------
Update Season#7:
- big update of meta - new healing gadgets for Light and Heavy classes!
- better matchmaking and server connection
- overall game is balanced around all classes

Thrilling and very immersive experience.

Edit: having few hundreds hours in the game the main cons of this game won the fight - it's about gameplay where camping is an advantage. I mean, it's defense should have an advantage, fine... But there are too many situations where both parties wait... wait... wait... Theoretically simple flanking moves take too much time. So it's great game, but it consumes too much time and discipline to be played "right"...

Cool story!
Likely feels too short...

Bugs. Guns. Fun.

tAKE BIG CAR, KICK THEM ALL

Refund until Amazon buy some servers for their game...