Recent reviews by ploopploop

Played it for 31 minutes, screamed like a high school girl for like 25 minutes.

Idk what's creepier, the invisible old man breathing down my neck or my teammate breaking his back just to look at the ceiling

This game learns you life lessons.

Even if you are vibing, even if blue seems like your best friend, in the end he will shank you repeatedly after you have vouched for him several times.

Never trust anyone.

Most satisfying feeling in the world?

When a person is camping near the finish line trying to be the last but you manage to sneak through the second finish line so that he drops out and you become the last.

The 7 hours I have was in 1 session on stream and I can tell you one thing, it was great.

This game runs stable on my system with maxed settings at 1080p 120fps (while streaming!). Not once during my playsession did I experience any performance issue, so do know that performance most likely varies per system. It is a very cpu heavy game, if yours doesn't meet the requirements then you are in for a laggy ride.

The graphics look beautiful. I just had moments that I had to admire the landscape. It is far beyond what it looked like on PS4. I am truly curious how amazing it would be in 4K. Unfortunately my monitor does not support that and I doubt my gpu would be able to keep it at 60fps as the bare minimum.

The hunting itself is fantastic. It reminds me of some elements like Monster Hunter World, some elements from the Witcher 3 and some elements of BDO. All in all, the good elements. Observing the creatures and learning about the weak points to use to your advantage whenever you fight them again are one of the things I generally enjoy. Also the enemies definitely feel and look extremely threatening. They did a good job with this game.

The story is so far very good. The first hour was so damn sad and wholesome. The story starts off far from being a feel good one. The world is completely against our main character except for select few and she can not do anything about it until she becomes an adult.

Gameplay wise I absolutely love the amount of missions you can completely stealth. Not only that you can also force your way through some missions if you wish to.

The world is crafted in a beautiful way with a large map. I can not wait to discover more of this game. The hype was on point for me and I can't speak for everyone, but I absolutely love it.

If I had to pay the full price for it, I would still love it equally as much.

Edit:
System specs:
Ryzen 3900x
Evga 980ti
32gb ram

Edit 2:
Completed the game twice now, once on hard and one time on ng+ ultra hard. Going for a 100% right now because the lore is just amazing.
Based on which missions you do when you unlock additional dialogues. I am in love with this game.
PS: 55 hours in at time of edit 2.

Run around with crowbar, get killed by a bot.
Run around with crowbar, get killed by the other 2 people in the server.

It's has a lot of potential, definitely not for everyone at the given price point though with the current content it has to offer.
Playerbase wise it is basically dead. In the 3 servers I played only 1 had players at it was just a group of 2 that kept killing me over and over again.
Gameplay gets repetitive very fast (since it's still early access).

The existing game mechanics are fun. The crafting, survival and theme of PvPvE is fun. If there comes a bigger variaty of enemies it will be even better.

As of now you don't get the value for your money, but the reason I recommend it is because the devs are heading towards the right direction and they have a solid foundation to work on. I definitely give them my support for that reason alone. Looking forward to many great updates until the full launch!

I started playing this game in season 3 and have spend roughly 1000 hours ever since. EU server is where I am mainly active at as "I AM UR DADDY", so you might or might not encounter me. Either way I do think that I have a healthy amount of knowledge about the game in order to put a clean review.

First of all, although not easy, NetEase does listen to their customers as long as it gains enough attention. Therefor I have made countless threads, posts, videos and much more highlighting issues about the game that got fixed over time. That being said as a company they are at least trying and for a free to play game without pay to win mechanics, that is more than plenty.

The game itself is mainly Battle Royale. It is creative and fun. It takes on some of the bigger titles with its own unique charm and capabilities. This is because the game is set in the future. That means that technology is a bit more advanced allowing players to use "skills" in the battles in order to win.

Not only that, but the maps look great as well. As of now there is only 1 battle royale map, but we do have a lot more maps for the other game modes!

In total there are quite some game modes mainly themed around team deathmatch and capture the flag (by holding a base). One of the team deathmatch mode offers first person mode as well! And I hate to say it... but this is extremely good. It honestly blows my mind how smooth, simple and good it works.

This game honestly has a lot more mechanics than your average Battle Royale and for that I have created an entire guide supported by a 4 hour long video that delves into most (if not all) of the elements in the game. This is written cleanly and divided properly so that you can easily navigate through the video or skip some parts if they are boring/not interesting to you. For future references it is also easier to look up which part you need.

If you are new to BR in general then I do suggest checking the entire guide. If you are coming from different BR games/shooting games in general then only the weapons, droid skills and maps part will be interesting to you.
The guide: https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2164316168

Lastly, before we move to the bad parts, this game has a really nice community. Not only in game but also on social media. You will quickly notice that the people that want to communicate are very warm and welcoming. You are in for a good ride with new friendships and maybe even relationships (if that's your thing).

That being said... this game unfortunately have some major flaws that can be a dealbreaker for some.
1. Cheaters. Yes they exist and in great numbers. The high ranks (Legendary Bear+) are flooded with them. You will encounter them almost every game and the worst thing? They boast about it, they share it on social media. They show and highlight their cheats to everyone, because the Anti Cheat system developed by NetEase is incompetent. Reporting cheaters almost never works. Even if you back it up with video evidence (personal experience).
2. Banning system. The banning system is very flawed. It bans innocent players if your games are inconsistent. Now what does this mean you might ask? Well if you basically win a game, then lose a game by placing 90th or something, then place 32nd etc. The system thinks that every game is the same and that you will always place in similar places, which is extremely unlikely in BR. But this is not yet a ban, this marks your account as suspicious. Once someone reports you it will automatically ban you. Whether it is a report from someone that was angry or a legitimate report, both don't matter, you are banned (personal experience). I got unbanned shortly after since I always stream my games I have a lot evidence of not cheating and this was backed up by the community as well. It is good that you can get unbanned... however cheaters also get unbanned. Legitimate cheaters.
3. Updates. The updates to this game are always broken. If an update gets released be prepared for weeks of stability issues, such as freezes, crashes, high ping and much more.
4. Bugs. There are bugs in this game, a lot of them. Some exist since season 1 and still have not been addressed. You will encounter things such as: audio suddenly gone, getting stuck, falling through the ground and broken bots using godmode.
5. Linking. It is impossible to link Steam to any of your existing accounts. This means that you have to start fresh if you played on the pc client or mobile clients. All your hours, skins and progress gone. Not gonna happen in my case. You also can not link Android accounts to IOS and vice versa. You can link them to the pc client though (not the Steam one).

So if past the flaws this still sounds attractive to you then make sure to give it a shot!
Also it is extremely stable on mobile, so if you are into mobile games, this one is great to try on that platform as well.

Got any questions? Let me know and I will try to answer them.

If you came here from alpha you will be extremely disappointed.
If you are new to this game, don't have future expectations update-wise. Grab this on a sale.
If you plan on playing this alone, most definitely get this during a sale.
If you plan on playing with friends then it can be worth it full price, only if you didn't play alpha and your friends are remotely interesting.

This game is anything but noob friendly and dynamic. I guess once you've either spent enough hours or money into it it will hard to drop as it can be considered a sad waste, but that is the only reason to play it. As a new player, look elsewhere. You ain't getting into this any time soon. There are way too many unfair mechanics from which pros vs noobs is an extremely common thing.

China is watching you when run this game, whether you are playing it or not. And they watch a ton more than just your game play. According to ToS it includes and isn't limited to mic/webcam access as well as spyware for programs on your computer, active programs etc. Just give it a read, it is actually quite ridiculous the amount of data they pull.

The game on the other hand is okay. Matchmaking isn't the best in terms of waiting time, map is okay. It is pretty much what you'd expect from a f2p game.