Recent reviews by Regenics

WE STAND ABOVE SONY. DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN RESTORED. UNTIL WE FIGHT ANOTHER BATTLE.

Space fallout. This has been an absolute dream of a game since Fallout 3/NV my favorite games from Bethesda. I love this game.

These developers do not get enough credit for this incredibly fun game. The continuous updates and adding content has been incredible.

I love this game. Will be up there for Game of the Year with BG3 and Starfield(maybe).

Game took some time to be good + sales this is a steal of gameplay.

Outstanding.

Honestly do not know what everyone hates so much about this game. I am about 50% through the game in co-op with my buddy and we are having a great time. The only thing I am upset about is poor performance BUT I know my PC is below the recommended specs with that I am at 100 fps avg at 1440p (med/low settings). I think the game could be harder and the human AI less awkward / miss so much. Otherwise its been a good time.

Updated: On the 2nd map of the game, we have died more times in the first 3 hrs here than the entire 1st map. So it did get much harder likely due to density and the more specialized vampires around.

This game is truly a breath of fresh air as far as game play loops goes. A lot of the FPS genre has been a let down. I am really enjoying all aspects of this game currently. I also have never been so impressed by the first major patch notes release. The devs impressively are very much listening to players. The community has been a joy to play with in the discord. I am very excited for custom games / private matches in the future. I hope this game can find itself in a bigger streamers variety game session as I think it needs more exposure.

You will find A LOT of complaints about things that the developers have already addressed in the upcoming patch

Ie; gameplay is too fast in trios for XYZ reasons. Every thing that makes the "speed run" meta of trios has been taken care of...no intel sharing, negative impacts of killing NPCs (heat system). I highly recommend reading the upcoming patch notes https://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/index.php?threads/deceive-inc-catalog-1-update-brief.2339071/
This will bring a lot of clarity to what the main issues are and how they are already visible heard and addressed. The devs are very much in communication with the playerbase in the discord.

Playing on Hardest difficulty

Worst melee combat I have ever experienced in my 24 years of life.
Specifically the melee - starts off okay-ish then turns brutally bad when you begin to deal with more enemies over the course of the game. The dodge mechanic is literally just quick time events repeatedly.

Guns make this game far more enjoyable + GRP (Kenesis)

Everything else is really cool though - environment, sound design, visuals etc. All amazing.

Edit: "Boss" design laughable - you quite literally CANNOT melee it or you WILL die.
ALSO GRP is the only weapon that makes any sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHVZK6dcxf0&ab_channel=gameranx

At $40 you absolutely get the value out of this game.

Fortunately I have not shared the experience of crashing or severe issues that others have had. At best I have poor FPS on some of the newer maps attributed to RTX being forced on despite it being disabled. I also recommend using the official discord to find some people to play with makes the experience so much greater.

Updated: The course of this games' life it has only gotten better and I am still having fun. This is the only game next to CSGO that I have multiple friends past 2000 hours.