Recent reviews by Polymorphic Turtle

Devs claim to be "og fans" despite not knowing that stalker was about gameplay and the technical advantages of the xray engine.
Entire game is designed around padding playtime, there's no fun.
Every single patch has consistently been about nerfing gameplay further and further.
Instead of edging to UE5's ugly graphics maybe you guys should learn how to balance the game, how about you actually play it instead of making conclusions in an echo chamber revolved around how much more playtime you can squeeze out of people.

The animations are good, the textures are alright, the sounds are alright for the most part, nanite is terrible, lumen is terrible, the game feels like it was initially designed around a much much much lower difficulty with damage resistances, weaker stamina and other nonsense added after. The arena fights before the patch to fix them were a really clear indication that sometime along development mutant health and armor was increased heavily.

Please actually test the game by playing it instead of making minute changes and trying them out in the test section of the map. It's supposed to be a game, not a job. Stop trying to pad out playtime.

Walking simulator, it does not "get better in the next expansion" ^ 5

The game has had a comprehensive QoL update, While I recommend the game, you need a friend/group of people or a lot of time to have fun, there are quite a large amount of issues in this game.

Specifically the amount of cheating, which I admit isn't as bad as earlier, is still a problem. By the time you get to veteran gear you will get accustomed to dying to speedhackers and on the rare occasion a flyhacker, aimbot is prevalent though it doesn't matter much when you can melt most people with incendiary.

Along with that the main story is quite difficult to progress as many of the quests require either cheesing them or coming back much later when you have far better gear.
The problem becomes worse due to the amount of camping in this game, the exits for bases should really be reconsidered, especially bandit side bar as it is extremely easy to camp it.

Other places with problematic camping: Any exit of forest, roadside middle, agrocomplex and dead city.

Other than that, the asset and programming team should reintroduce removed weapons like the DP-27 and cobray. There isn't a large enough variety of weaponry, especially when it comes to machineguns. M249 should probably be put into the EU/US/SEA client's machinegun tree instead of having them branch off to G36. Ideally a M60E4 would be added down the line.

Developer company bullied one of the best content creators for the game into suicide.
Also fights look lame
gross

Don't waste your money on this, Bungie consistently violates consumer rights and flat out lies in order to generate more money. The ToS doesn't mean anything, if they've caused monetary loss or charged your CCs for something you never ordered you can sue them.

Positively reviewing this so everyone on my steam friends gets their store recommendations ruined

Have the devs ever driven an AWD car? Because it doesn't feel like it.

Fix the controls, half the time inputs don't register on keyboard/mouse.

Stunlocks last too long. Game was obviously not balanced around the current length, evident by beta footage.

Terrible ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ camera controls

Horrible assault boost binding for kbm, why doesn't letting it go cancel it? Why do I have to clunkily hold S and hope it doesn't instead try to rotate stupidly?

Other than that the game can be fun.

It's pretty good

Vaporware, just avoid it. The game had real potential that has been squandered because of an internal marketing plan. Don't waste your time with it. There is no real reason to keep playing after you hit max level and get the blessings you want. The game needs something akin to chaos wastes.

Old review:


I really cannot recommend this game, which is a shame because I really want to.

Some core gameplay elements are there but the flaws are impossible to overlook.
Cash shop is being prioritized when the game is barely functional.
Inventory is a mess and near impossible to navigate.
Crafting is still not out because the coding for "blessings" is dependent on the weapon file.
No mission select.
AI director is overactive. Very commonly spawning daemonhosts/hounds on-top of people or a room they were just in.
NPCs shoot through walls almost constantly and have minimal reaction time.
Half the listed weapon stats are flat out wrong when one looks at the code.
Countless graphical bugs such as polygon stretching and seizure inducing z fighting.
Current gameplay loop is getting online every hour to look at potential weapon base ratings in the armory store, then closing the game.
Grinding for materials requires you to sniff around the map like a mole looking for diamantite and plasteel.
There is no point doing scriptures or grimoires outside of weekly coins.
Weekly coins are worthless because melk almost always offers trash.
Penances (achievements) actively promote gameplay that sabotages other people.
Then there's the fact that the game can outright brick your windows install and mess with your graphics drivers, eg:
0xc00007b and oxc000021a errors caused by this game because of their insistence on forcing raytracing
Raytracing can only be turned off by going into the appdata roaming folder for fatshark and making the config read only.
The game might however refuse to let you boot and instead force a fake crashify prompt.
Constant disconnects in missions related to their laughably tiny desync window of only 2 seconds.

Has there been any feedback from devs to signal that any of these things are being fixed?
No. All that's been shown instead is how new cosmetics and maps are being made instead of core issues being prioritized.
The game is barely playable, don't get it. At best it will be an annoying grind, at worst it will brick your computer.