💥 TRENDING: Id/weegee/recommended/ - Collection

I want to like this game. It has the underpinnings of a great WW2 arena shooter. With gameplay mechanics somewhere in between Call of Duty and the Day of Defeat series, on mechanics alone it has a lot of promise. Time to kill, movement speed, and weapon feel is all very good and stands out a bit in a somewhat saturated setting.

Yet only a few hours in the cracks begin to show.

Map design ranges from alright to horrendous. In arcade mode, some of the larger maps, such as Vanguard and Coastal quickly become unbalanced based simply on what game mode you happen to get on that map. Other maps, such as Liberation, are solid competitive choices but are too small for all weapons to be viable, and are small enough that once you learn the spawn system you can easily camp the other team.

Competitive's Wartide mode is promising and fun, but sullied by a toxic community and poor matchmaking. FaceIt is notorious for being one of the worse matchmaking systems available, and it's the only option for playing Wartide. On the toxicity, it's far worse than normal for a competitive game of this type. If you take the average toxicity in CSGO and label that as a 5 on a scale of 1-10, this is clearly pushing 10. This level of toxicity is unsurprising given how poor the matchmaking system tends to be. It's easily to be quickly frustrated if you're an experienced player being ranked with people who are still learning Wartide. Since there is no way to play Wartide outside of competitive, the only way to learn the mode is to keep playing and being ranked across a wide gamut of players.

Worse yet, it's clear that they have several serious deficiencies in the networking and hitbox departments. Hitboxes are inconsistent and the network compensation system does a poor job compensating. Players who have slightly higher pings (80+ range) get a clear advantage compared to those with average pings (30-60 range). This is easy to test for yourself and it shows. While I understand the devs behind this are new, they're using Unreal Engine and some excellent networking stacks exist that don't have these problems.

I will probably get a few more hours of playtime out of this purchase, but I absolutely cannot recommend this game in it's current state.

I want to like this game. It has the underpinnings of a great WW2 arena shooter. With gameplay mechanics somewhere in between Call of Duty and the Day of Defeat series, on mechanics alone it has a lot of promise. Time to kill, movement speed, and weapon feel is all very good and stands out a bit in a somewhat saturated setting. Yet only a few hours in the cracks begin to show. Map design ranges from alright to horrendous. In arcade mode, some of the larger maps, such as Vanguard and Coastal quickly become unbalanced based simply on what game mode you happen to get on that map. Other maps, such as Liberation, are solid competitive choices but are too small for all weapons to be viable, and are small enough that once you learn the spawn system you can easily camp the other team. Competitive's Wartide mode is promising and fun, but sullied by a toxic community and poor matchmaking. FaceIt is notorious for being one of the worse matchmaking systems available, and it's the only option for playing Wartide. On the toxicity, it's far worse than normal for a competitive game of this type. If you take the average toxicity in CSGO and label that as a 5 on a scale of 1-10, this is clearly pushing 10. This level of toxicity is unsurprising given how poor the matchmaking system tends to be. It's easily to be quickly frustrated if you're an experienced player being ranked with people who are still learning Wartide. Since there is no way to play Wartide outside of competitive, the only way to learn the mode is to keep playing and being ranked across a wide gamut of players. Worse yet, it's clear that they have several serious deficiencies in the networking and hitbox departments. Hitboxes are inconsistent and the network compensation system does a poor job compensating. Players who have slightly higher pings (80+ range) get a clear advantage compared to those with average pings (30-60 range). This is easy to test for yourself and it shows. While I understand the devs behind this are new, they're using Unreal Engine and some excellent networking stacks exist that don't have these problems. I will probably get a few more hours of playtime out of this purchase, but I absolutely cannot recommend this game in it's current state.