>Take off in my plane
>Bomb defenseless convoys of armored vehicles designed for a war forty years ago
>Destroy air defenses by overwhelming them with cruise missiles
>Expend my remaining bombs into a residential neighborhood because the explosions look cool
>Land back on the carrier
>Go down to my quarters and boot up Nuclear Option

This month is a good month to be in the Middle East (and put the Ayatollah in a box).

Tech demo dev loses it when people play games other than his, we love to see it.

Edit: Ragebait worked in only an hour, mission accomplished. We love you and your various legal threats towards content creators who agreed with me. Have a wonderful Christmas <3



Edit 2: I originally posted this review at 2 PM on Christmas as a joke and never expected anything to come from it. Given the pissy response from the lead dev, I decided to play more of the game to decide whether my hate was unwarranted, and I actually changed my mind. I didn't hate this game enough.

The gunplay is bad, incredibly so. All the guns are weirdly set up, it looks like something out of a Roblox asset flip. It's so barebones that the devs don't know how to attach a grenade launcher to a rifle. Rather, they opt to have it as a separate weapon so that you have to put away your rifle to pull it out again, this time able to fire a grenade. Speaking of asset flips, that's what this game looks and feels like. There's no customization to the downright horrific kits on players and AI, I suspect that's because these aren't their assets. Rocket launchers fired by AI lack any audio or effects, a tiny puff of smoke coming out the back being the only sign of it having been fired.

Vehicles drive like ones in Roblox, this time lacking any suspension and just snapping all over the place. Not only are they horrible, they aren't even useful in actual gameplay. That begs the question, why even add them at this stage in the game if they can't be used even to a partial effect? This game touts their vehicles as being used in "combined arms warfare" but can't even integrate them into gameplay well enough for players to use them.

Another issue is the AI which are dumb as bricks and will bunch up together as they get stuck on walls and stop in the middle of roads to engage a lone enemy they can't see. Their voice acting is so horrific that I suspect text to speech AI may have been used but I wouldn't be shocked if the VA's are just that bad. AI are only capable of doing one thing in gameplay; charge forward. I remember loading into the Omaha Beach map as the Americans, the AI all clumped together in a massive line before running up the beach completely uncontested. Upon reaching the top of the hill, they all snapped to one direction in unison and began wildly firing on one lone German on the capture objective.

Before someone tries explaining that this is technically early access and still being worked on, I get that. What I do not get however is the lead dev (who prowls for negative reviews on Christmas at 3 PM) has legally threatened people who call this game what it is: unfinished slop. People would be far more forgiving of this game if the dev didn't crash out over constructive criticism. This game has been in early access for THREE YEARS and shows no sign of improvement. It does nothing new, objective based teamwork can be done on Squad. Base building and modding can be done on Reforger. And the core gameplay can be achieved by playing a Roblox game that won't make your PC want to ♥♥♥♥ itself trying to load the game's terrible graphics.

I encourage everyone to play this game with a couple friends doing a blunt rotation in order to actually enjoy it. I forced myself to play three hours of it and I had played enough by the first hour to be able to write this review.

The blatant issues for PC players in regards to how the game performs have been ignored by Arrowhead. This is COMPLETELY unplayable on PC.

Most people substitute a social life with this game, especially people who go to the virtual bars. So as a bit of an experiment, I thought I'd compile my experiences going there and not acting like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ looney.

Times I've been kicked: 97
Death threats: 7
Told to "get a life:" 8
Dragged into a lengthy political discussion about the future of Slovakia: 2
Groups that have me on a "watchlist:" 2
Threatened by wannabe e-thugs: 10
Witnessed ERP: 18

Yeah, this community is overtly depraved and mentally ill.