Recent reviews by Dagrond

It just gets uselessly harder to get stuff done. Not that it is hard to do, that it is stupidly pointless to grind until you get a particular drop. It gets worse as you progress. Too bad, would have been a game I played for years. Pointless difficulty does not make the game better.

Addendum: I still play it. Hell, its free. Not pay to win. It really frustrates me a lot of the time. I only really chip away at rapport each day. Don't know why.

COULD BE GREAT - NOT THERE YET
I can recommend only with heavy reservations. Between the terrible wheel support and the awkward and difficult UI system throughout, this can be very needlessly frustrating. If you are playing with a controller it may not be an issue for you. Maybe.

The game has a nice puzzle aspect to it where you need to work out what tasks to do first. And there is either a lot of content or it is just a time sync. Not sure just yet. Driving for half an hour to work on a specific task does add to the realism. At the time of this writting I have about 80% of the first area (They call it Michigan for some reason but it is really the Pacific Northwest). I have yet to touch Alaska, Russia and more.

Some of the physics are unrealistic. I drove IRL off road testing vehicles for years. But, if it wasn't a little over the top it would likely be boring. You get used to the behaviors and meeting the challenge becomes part of this game's charm.

I do wish they explained what they wanted better. Nothing more aggravating then making a deliver run of a certain trailer only to find out that you were supposed to pick a specific one already on the map to deliver. Named trailers would have eliminated any confusion, but I guess it is one of those things you learn the hard way. Do the tutorial or watch a starter video unless you are stubborn like me.

Modding community is HUGE for this game, you can get just about anything you can think of. Crazy right?

CANNOT PLAY ON OLDER COMPUTERS

You can meet all the specifications, but you won't work. There is an added requirement quietly hidden on the bottom that your processor has to support the AVX instruction set. Basically, if your chip is older than about 2011 then you will likely get a crash on start. They could have caught that error and put up an easy to read message but I guess that's too hard these days. Better to have thousands of people waste hours trying to get it working.

Its probably a good game. I hear its a good game. But an uncaptured crash on start is all I can get out of it. 505 won't answer a support request and Steam won't refund. Makes me salty.

UPDATE:
Spent $1700 on a new computer and it starts right up. Same hard drive, and previously downloaded files. Even though I met EVERY SPEC they had, it just crashed on start with the older PC. And support was not help, just boilerplate things todo when I had already told them what I did (they didn't read anything I guess).
Still wont recommend, still salty.

UPDATE AFTER 8 HOURS:
The only redeeming thing about this game is that it works better than CyberPunk. The content however is just too much 6 year-old bathroom humor, or some kind of potty fetish by the developers. Worst walking simulator with invisible zombies ever.

Played this when it came out a decade ago. Combat can be frustrating as hell because it is nothing that you would expect. Found a write-up by a player named Brain_Dead that was really helpful in reminding me what you have to do in this game.

Yeah, he looks silly with the sword above his head, but that is not a bug.

Now that I can play again, can recommend. Old schooooool.

https://steamproxy.com/app/20900/discussions/0/558754259977987044/#c540742579463142236

I had fun for the 15 hours that it took to play through.

I went back to older games cuz I ain't gonna keep pay extra for tracks I have elsewhere.

Update
Stopped playing it cuz they focused on just pvp/wvw and couldn't be bothered to even flush out the lore and story.

original review at 68 hrs:
Music, UI, Voice acting, Combat, A world to explore. And I don't have to buy a new graphics card to play (my 1050 runs 43-60 fps). They really nailed this one. Although obviously a PVP designed game, I play PVE exclusively. And its really a PVE game if you choose.

Runs smooth and lets me stay immersed in the game. Zero major glitches. Worst I could fine was a couple of minor issues that didn't affect gameplay.

Played the open beta for 51 hours also. Would start over from scratch again.

Rewards exploration. No surprises with mechanics. Sound, especially music, is really really good. Take your time and enjoy it and you'll burn ten hours too.

I really tried to like this. But the more I play it, the more it frustrates me. Who fishes with quick-time events? And worse, let a guy fish 100 times and get used to it but when you get a GOOD fish, go ahead and throw in a new quick-time event you never saw before. Game is full of that kind of "Screw-you player" kind of crap.

Wanted to like. Hate.