This game started rough in the alpha, but since then I've come to consider this as the greatest shooter of all time. I could gush about it for hours, but I'll keep it to pros and cons.

Pros:
-Easily the most realistic shooter ever made
-Beautiful graphics
-Great dev who embraces the community and mods
-Least asinine DLC scheme I've seen
-Regular updates that greatly improve the game
-Mods. If you dream it, there's a mod for it
-Best soundscape of any game I've played
-Nails the feel of shooting and moving with firearms better than any other game
-Almost all flaws from previous games have been improved
-Large mutliplayer community
-Difficulty, interface, every control, visuals, and AI are fully configurable to your taste. AI too accurate? You can change that
-Gigantic maps that 400 hours later I still haven't even covered half of
-Unique moments and battles that can't take place in other scripted shooters
-Mission editor allowing for literally any kind of gameplay
-There's not enough time in a life to explore all official and user missions and mods

Cons:
-Extremely hardware demanding. Get yourself a good processor
--Core i5 4690k @ 4 ghz / GTX 970 OC'd gets 40 FPS on average, but regularly dips to 20
--You'll also want an SSD. Standard hard drives will give you occasional 1-2 second freezes
-You will run into bugs, mostly with how missions play out
-Commanding friendly AI is extremely clunky. Improvements have been made but total overhaul is needed. C2 Command mod mostly alleviates this
-AI is difficult to implement when creating missions
-Mission scripting is difficult and confusing. There is a full wiki and forum dedicated to it but they don't help much
-While the devs are wonderful, the community is elitist and less than helpful

Pick this game up. Seriously. It's worth every single penny.
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ScarPlay Oct 11, 2024 @ 5:02pm 
Wow,your review is on point! So much info and thought put into it. I'm seriously impressed. Keep it up! 💖👏