No other game can truly replicate Dishonored's atmosphere. A whaling harbor city, architecturally and culturally similar to 19th century England, under martial law. Plague, religious zealotry, supernatural influence, the stark contrast between the quarantined poor and the lavish nobility. 10/10 game, will forever be one of my favorites

2014. You just had to be there. So many memories

As of right now, I don't recommend this game. Though fun and understandably somewhat laggy, we now have AS players taking over NA servers YET AGAIN, just like H1Z1 earlier this year. Tired of being one-hit by pistols across the map by "qun_8912738213912846218461284723847308947219784623576589109347723583124" over and over again. Get the stupid Chinese f*cks out of the servers already. The solo leaderboards alone prove my point. 10/11/17

Over the past two years, I've put in around 1.2k hours into this game and I've been as high as SMFC. If I've played for a while, isn't it kind of weird that I'm not recommending this game? I'll explain why.

TLDR: Extremely difficult to rank up in matchmaking due to terrible anti-cheat systems, making the game a horrible and not worthwhile experience for new players.


So, to start off, the hackers and smurfs. Hackers and smurfs have always been a problem, Valve being too lazy to actually put effort into a functioning anti-cheat system. They believe that by having Overwatch, you're an experienced player who can determine whether or not someone is cheating. Sometimes, this is true, while other times it's not. Any player can abuse this system and just check every box confirming that someone is hacking when they might not be, or vice-versa. The VAC system itself barely even functions, seeing as most hackers can get away with it for at least an entire WEEK or even more. Never once have I seen immediate bans. And now with Prime/Non-Prime, this can make the game a paradise or an absolute hell.
Prime matchmaking was a generally good idea. Though I say this, I believe not much though was put into how the Non-Prime matchmaking experience would turn out. To be blunt, it's absolute ♥♥♥♥. Streamer and YouTuber Anomaly has presented to YouTube how terrible Non-Prime matchmaking and CS:GO's anti-cheat system are. Even from experience myself, in the past three months in Non-Prime I've played against at LEAST more than ten hackers with blatant cheats, such as triggerbot and spinbot. In a recent video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0B3siLIfXI Anomaly showed that FACEIT's anti-cheat client IMMEDIATELY banned a friend for just OPENING his cheats, after he had already been hacking on CS:GO's matchmaking for more than a week. If Valve took one small hint from popular third party matchmaking websites, there would be an extremely insignificant complaint flow. Ratings for the game would improve, and my review wouldn't be a thumbs down.
As for Prime, there are still occasional hackers. Someone can make it to level 21, get Prime, download cheats, and hack in a Prime matchmaking game. Still, Prime matchmaking has not been riddled with hackers and smurfs as much as Non-Prime matchmaking has. The point is that there should be absolutely NO hackers.


Valve, fix this game so new players can have fun in it, too. Learn from FACEIT or ESEA.

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