UPDATE: Game works now, 10/10

I played the Server Slam and other prior betas for this game absolutely no problem. Full release rolls out and I can't even load into the game after the first initial cut scene, I'm on the exact same hardware that I was playing in the betas on as well. Running the game as Admin makes the problem worse and it won't even boot up in that instance. Left a support ticket with Embark on launch day and I've had no communications back from them either.

I have no idea what happened but I am bitterly disappointed by this outcome. I won't be touching another Embark game ever again, not that that matters to them.

Hardware Specs, just in case you're on the same hardware as me and you're trying to be a Lert about things.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Powercolor Red Devil 7900XTX
G.Skill Trident Z 64GB DDR4 @ 3600MHz
4x Team T.Force 4TB TLC NAND NVMe SSD's
SilverStone 1300w Platinum PSU

Collected a half a billion yen from my real estate manager whoms't'nt human and is in fact living poultry.

Definite must buy. The Narrative is incredible.

Just give us a Datacenter menu to select our own regions and the game would actually be playable. Game is dead in AU and I don't want to play 350ms matches to NA.

I've found my cozy game

TL;DR Good game, needs performance patches and balance tweaks.

This is a good game that anyone whose into Immersive Sims should play. So on that basis I recommend it.

Wait for performance patches and for them to iron out some of the weirder kinks in the game though. I can understand not being able to sell my starting pistol because of whatever the characters sentimental ties to the gun are for lore purposes. But for the love of god at least let me stash it so I can use any other pistol weapon or the MAC-10 without hampering my carry weight. Very silly decision if that is a decision and not a bug.

You'll also walk into some camps that have no zoners in them at all and suddenly you'll cross a tripwire trigger for them to spawn behind you. The most obvious example from my experience is coming into the obvious entryway into The Sphere from the most direct direction first Hub Town. I got the achievement for clearing an entire camp without raising the alarm by headshotting one guy on overwatch in a guard tower, only to walk about 20 steps into the camp, trigger a tripwire spawn trigger and have 7 dudes spawn behind me, some of them pouring out of a little sub building I already cleared and looted.

There's also a hunger degradation mechanic that is entirely obliterated out of being a worry by the sheer abundance of food items in the game (don't hoard bread, it's the cheapest food item to sell in the game, does the least hunger recovery and is also the heaviest somehow) and the only real risks to your health in the game are anomalies and just playing like a goober in combat. By the time I left the lesser zone at 9 hours of gameplay I had more than 110 bandages and 90 medkits in my stash.

Garnades go boom

Somehow the sweetspot between my OCD stock management from working retail for so long and my crippling gambling addiction has been absolutely nailed on the head.

Contrary to other reviews, I love Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal, and also think this game blows chunks.

Massive steps backwards in quality from Shadow Warrior 2. The writing that went into the dialogue is abysmal and can't decide how crass it wants to be, which is a shame because Lo Wang as a character is supposed to be almost maximally crass 99% of the time.

The gunplay lacks impact and polish, the animations are stale and rigid, and on the whole no matter what the FoV is set to, manages to make the viewport feel like your head is in a fishbowl.

A hyper saturated colour pallet with such crisp model design only for all of it to fall short under the surface definitely feels like the games budget was squarely placed in the wrong areas, or was way over-allocated to the art department whilst also giving the animation team three eighths of sweet F A to work with.

Very disappointed they did my man Lo Wang like this.

This is Democracy, manifest.