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This game might as well just be a video. Interactive elements are minimal at best. Most of the time you just stare at a circle. The dialog with the fox is annoying. Guided meditation apps are better than this.

Edit 06/04/2018: Seriously ♥♥♥♥ this game. The developers waste time on ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ like microtransactions and stupid-ass event modes while the game gets progressively buggier and less stable. There is so much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lag lately the game is basically unplayable right now.

I enjoyed the game during early access and accepted the myriad bugs that came along with playing a game that was still in the early stages of being released. Now, several months after release, I am much less forgiving of one of the most successful games ever. And it's headed by a team of experienced developers so the pedestrian approach to this game is impossible to understand.

Why, after nearly half a year since full release, are your servers still constantly overloaded so the only way to enter a game is repeatedly (50x) refreshing the painfully old-fashioned main menu?

Why are you unable or unwilling to address the matchmaking system constantly forming incomplete squads?

Why aren't you actively fixing the areas of the game where you can get stuck (almost any wall next to a building, under the slanted shelf in the airport warhouses, etc.)?

Why does my game randomly connect me to the asian server for no reason?

Why can't we selectively mute players? One toxic German is enough to ruin an entire squad game.

Why does my parachute desyc from the server so often?

Why is the motorcycle so prone to desyncing from the server and randomly flying through the air? Why is it possible to fall beneath the map when the car desyncs?

Why is there no automated punishment for team killing? Why no punishment for abandoning games?

Why is there no commendment system so we can weed out the toxic/worthless players?

Why have you gone ahead and added emotes and microtransactions without actually fixing problems that have existed since EA?

oh my god this game is ugly and the gameplay is bad.

i'm the first to admit my gpu isn't the best or most current, but compared to other games the graphics in this game aren't that impressive yet somehow render at terrible framerates on a 2gb card. runs smoothly for me at low/medium settings, where the graphics resemble games from 2003.

really stupid game mechanics, like being able to drug people and keep them alive just for the sake of trolling while the drugee has absolutely no ability to do anything. Not even suicide. Just wait, listen to the Russian chatter, and hope the miscreants get bored after a half hour.

idiotic spawn mechanics where you'll spawn in areas full of level 50 enemies and be killed immediately. this literally repeats several times.

ugly characters. literally every combination of parameters possible produces ugly characters.

this game sucks so much.

Rehash of DuckTales for nes. This is really dumb. Downvote

Good game if you want to meet Russians.

New update July 2017: There have been a lot of updates lately so I tried it out again. Well, it's even worse now than it was before because the game keeps desyncing with server. Deleting and never installing again.

I've now spent a little over 100 hours playing this game and there are a few things to say about it that are positive:
- The graphics and the landscapes are sometimes beautiful and render efficiently on even my somewhat aged machine
- Driving vehicles in the game is a very fun, though fleeting, experience
- There is definitely a rush of adrenaline when you're fully equipped and looting Hayward in the dark of the night. And it's quickly followed by desperation when a group of strangers sees you, anger when you are one-shotted, and disbelief when you convince yourself you can run back to your death spot before the 15 min despawn period has elapsed.

But there are a lot of bad things about this game as well:
- There's not really anything to do in the game. Sure, you can run around and loot. And fix cars. And kill people. But that gets really boring, and the lack of any real objective just leads people to roam around in groups and kill you for no real reason, even if you are obviously sans weapons.
- The introduction of the female character has been a disaster. While I'm sure the developer meant well, the introduction on Valentines Day (i.e. forced sexualization of females) coupled with the fact that the female char is nerfed (punches, kicks are weaker than male, jump height was decreased) make me question who is making decisions at the company.
- Lack diversity. If the developer is interested in being inclusive, they would include additional races and a transgender option from the character setup. I'm not sure whose utopia a bunch of bald white males running around in army boots reflects, but it's disturbing to me.
- Mutants have very poor AI and are extremely easy to defeat.
- Few vehicles which require a lot of dedication to fix (average is probably over 1hr to find all components). Once fixed, their health will decline for running into things, but they can supposedly be repaired with a lug wrench. But it doesn't work, and even if you get the vehicle health back to 100% it will still explode for bumping into a sidewalk.
- That coughing noise: Sometimes there is a random coughing noise when you are running around in the woods and I don't like it or understand why it is in the game.
- The Voice of God: This should be self-explanatory, but when you ascend the skyway bridge to heaven you are greeted by what I assume is the voice of God. I don't know if this is some kind of joke, but I used an app to identify the speaker and, you guessed it, it's Pol Pot. Not funny.

Basically if the above points are addressed I will change my recommendation of this game.

Edit: Now that Playerunknown's battlegrounds has been released I guess the Miscreated developers can go ahead and begin filing for insolvency.