I've played most AVA version, from the OG one of IJJI, to many different version that lived and died in many countries. I've played it when it has P2W guns, expensive micro transactions (For a guy in a 3rd world country). And I'll keep playing this version even though im giving it a negative review. The game has a fk ton of cheaters, especially in Asia 1 server which has the highest player counts and most of the players is from China. Just like in Apex, Pubg or any free games when devs dont take anti cheat seriously, cheaters dominate any kind of ranked/ladder game mode and destroy all public matches. The lack of modes, guns, custom lobby exacerbate the problems. Neowiz refuse to release older guns cause they want to "rebalance" it 1st but the MP7 a smg is now the best rifle and smg since release and it still isnt nerfed. M4 in older game is a decent gun with good recoil and long range consistent damage but in this version it's a bb guns that cant kill stuff if they are far away, their buffs to it is so small it doesnt change anything at all. "Events" created by Neowiz are horrible, some only available for a few hours and for 1 day only, some "events" that require u to spend $ run for days, even weeks. Hit reg is bad, it's like server run on 30 ticks. The amount of AFK bots is huge, idk why but it's there and again especially on Asia 1. Reporting them doesnt do anything cause they keep coming back. This is going to be my last AVA, i'll keep playing till this game is dead, which from the look of the amount of players online it will be soon, down to 2k from 11k at launch. New player isnt coming in while old player leaving all the time.

4/1/2023 update:
The Battle pass season 2 come out and with it some new gun, the mp7 got nerfed a bit so u wont get insta gib anymore and now u have a second or 2 to look at the mp7 before u die so that's good i guess.
The server went to ♥♥♥♥, no reg happen a lot more, especially in the new mode where chinese cheaters just kill everything to farm for boxes. There's some weird ass performance issues, graphic glitches etc...
$10 for Arena, and it's only for 1 year. A free to play game become pay to play game, what a joke, im 100% against this ridiculous "solution" to curb cheaters and i will not be buying the arena pass. NA is dead,EU is barely alive, only asia remain as where most of the population reside, if u cant find an arena match on NA before, you wont now cause who in their right mind would pay $10 for arena.

24/08/2023 update:
So 1 year anniversary update, the old DSR is back and it's ♥♥♥♥ just like everyone who can see how incompetent the devs are has predicted. Most of the content creator is either quit the program or just dont bother about the game anymore. Player base keep reducing slowly, Neowiz keep adding more and more skins with BS prices, 1 DSR skin, i repeat 1 skin is sold for $40, these pricing is insane. Neowiz also do some really confusing changes like increasing HP of Rifle and smg user but they also increase sniper damage and range so that only sniper vs sniper is a 100% 1 shot kill. They also remove all the Medal ( premium in game currency) from the daily and monthly login. I wont be surprised if next battle pass neowiz remove the Medal reward from the next free battle pass too. The community still got no news when or if Custom room will be in game, the combination system is still broken as fk. Lasty Mythsky vid about how the dev deal with adding or changing guns on the back end is horrendous and i have no hope for this game anymore, probably will uninstall it in the next few weeks.

8/12/2023:
So November Update come with NFT sht, Pay to win is officially back to the game. Devs revert the HP changes but they didnt take care of all the guns that was released/buffed during the fiasco and now DSR is back as the king of Sniper. I've decided to quit the game with the NFT sht coming.

24/10/2025:
Pay 2 win guns have been back for a while now, you have to pay up to $2-300 in order to get the guns but it is way better than any guns that you can buy with free or earnable in game currencies.

NA and SA is a barren wasteland, there is simply nobody playing on those server. EU got maybe 2-3 custom rooms. Most of the playerbase is on Asia 1. Where the majority of the whales remaining. As soon as the whales stop buying i guess this game will die for real.
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Allwynd Apr 7, 2023 @ 12:19pm 
This version is hopeless, I stopped playing in October 2022 and will never return again. Sadly, A.V.A is dead for good.