Review is subject to change as development progresses.

First off the good:
The vibes of this game are impeccable, never have I felt so claustrophobic in a wide open space, I've never played a game like escape from tarkov but the constant feeling of fear and dread from being a tiny little bug of a man skittering about between swarms of cyborg zombies, tweaking trigger happy soldiers and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ blood-feuled murder-mechs stomping around where the only saving grace is that all these hazards aren't solely on the hunt for you and will prioritize fighting each other over squashing your little bug-man ass. The tone, the aesthetics, the setting, absolute peak.

Then we get to the reasons this is a no.
#1 reason that will apply to pretty much everyone is the water system, almost every review mentions this, basically its some AAA brainrot meant to incentivize you to log on X number of days or lose all your ♥♥♥♥. Its bogus and needs to change and most likely will.

#2 reason that applies more strongly to me and probably many other people is the simple matter of hardware requirements. This game is super demanding, like most of the new fancy groundbreaking games (a similar issue I had with Space Marine 2), as much as the devs pride themselves for taking the game's design and aesthetics in a direction antithetical to standard triple A designs they still have fallen face-first into the other bog-hole of triple A design which is designing their game for a theoretical future where everyone's playing games on super-computers, ala the Crysis mentality, whether they did it consciously or not.

The fact of the matter is that the majority of people aren't playing on renderbeast 5000 computers, game devs and streamers are very much an exception, especially in this economy the average person can't afford a giga computer and in my case even though I set all graphics to their lowest point I consistently get 40-ish FPS at most. Luckily the raw design of the game means I don't mind the slide-show effect that much but its still something that needs to be accounted for. Even when graphics are set real low, the game is very demanding of CPU resources, especially when you boot it up the first couple times.

Review is subject to change as development progresses. First off the good: The vibes of this game are impeccable, never have I felt so claustrophobic in a wide open space, I've never played a game like escape from tarkov but the constant feeling of fear and dread from being a tiny little bug of a man skittering about between swarms of cyborg zombies, tweaking trigger happy soldiers and god damn blood-feuled murder-mechs stomping around where the only saving grace is that all these hazards aren't solely on the hunt for you and will prioritize fighting each other over squashing your little bug-man ass. The tone, the aesthetics, the setting, absolute peak. Then we get to the reasons this is a no. #1 reason that will apply to pretty much everyone is the water system, almost every review mentions this, basically its some AAA brainrot meant to incentivize you to log on X number of days or lose all your shit. Its bogus and needs to change and most likely will. #2 reason that applies more strongly to me and probably many other people is the simple matter of hardware requirements. This game is super demanding, like most of the new fancy groundbreaking games (a similar issue I had with Space Marine 2), as much as the devs pride themselves for taking the game's design and aesthetics in a direction antithetical to standard triple A designs they still have fallen face-first into the other bog-hole of triple A design which is designing their game for a theoretical future where everyone's playing games on super-computers, ala the Crysis mentality, whether they did it consciously or not. The fact of the matter is that the majority of people aren't playing on renderbeast 5000 computers, game devs and streamers are very much an exception, especially in this economy the average person can't afford a giga computer and in my case even though I set all graphics to their lowest point I consistently get 40-ish FPS at most. Luckily the raw design of the game means I don't mind the slide-show effect that much but its still something that needs to be accounted for. Even when graphics are set real low, the game is very demanding of CPU resources, especially when you boot it up the first couple times.