Recent reviews by Sir Spoony

Well I tried it out, but lets be honest the pay wall is evident in more ways than one and more so than other games like this. In a way that is more $$$ required than SW-Sky arena; which I think I will just stick with that instead. I steer clear of railroad tracked auto-movement, everyone looks the same, everyone has the same armor, crazy paywall based, and non-open world MMORPGs like this usually and think I will just stick with that for now on.

This is more of an ARPG with towns just being Multiplayer. There is some out of town areas where you can farm things around other players not in party, but you are all in the same walled in map area which feels more like a cage and most likely its a bot or someone who AFK'd to farm. So there is no real open world feel because of all the very limiting borders and railroad track like pathways that you are forced to go through because there is no other way around it.

The true deal breaker is the need for multiple nat5s of the same type to make your nat 5s maxed out and valid is too taxing. I mean they give you enough rewards to start out with a couple nat5s maxed, if and only if you use all rewards towards them, but its not versatile enough to help in all aspects of the game (due to attribute differences) unless you got lucky with a couple nat5 LDs and also got another copy of them each; which the majority will never is close to achieving in months or years down the road, but money spenders are guaranteed this of course! So even with 315 hours and being great at the game I find most of the max end game is unachievable due to the inability to have fully maxed nat5 teams per attribute with the best runes as well.

The argument spend more time to get to max is a valid argument, but when I compare it to Sky Arena is fails by comparison. In Sky Arena with 315 hours you can be level 100, 50+ maxed 6 stars in all 6 starred runes and have completed all aspects of the game 100% completed dungeons, Rifts, Dimension, and TOA! You will be able to start concentrating on farming better runes for RTA and top arena content right away!

So I guess in short I was hoping to have more of a climb in growth similar to Sky Arena and that would've made this a better experience for me. I like the climb to be quicker to achieve so that its all about perfecting the skills once you have the tools for the job. Not being lazy or asking for a handicap, just wanted the game focus to be more of learning skills over money aspects to be able to jump right in...


So for me it felt like a 4.5 out of a 10.0

Great idea! Poor execution and UI is not optimized for PC! Or at least very poorly. I cannot recommend as-is, because nothing has changed from phone version, but more of a hassle on PC.

Even Bluestacks allows set buttons on keyboard for menu options, but you would think Com2Us would come up with a better system, so for now Bluestacks is leading the PC version race. Bluestacks is less stable, but reliable with the ability to set quick keys, rotate, and just have greater personalization!

Com2Us was very LAZY for this STEAM release. It feels like they just bought the rights to use or just copied Google's horrible BETA launcher for this game with no rotation or customization. I will give them a chance and see if they optimize with update, but as of now I will be moving forward with elsewhere to play.


SirSpoony rating for Steam Version at launch: 4.0 out of 10.0
10 possible points______
Gameplay = 3.0
Stability = 1.0
Rotation = -2.0
Quick Key = -3.0
Changes for PC = -1.5
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3.5

Well I really wanted to love this game. Too many things that need changed before I could recommend it. Long review so most won't even bother reading this so in short = This game's progression does not match the Cards you get and needs a CoD MW like load out system where you can customize guns with upgrades and accessories found in matches or match rewards or also supply line unlocks.
I will get right to the PROS and CONS...

PROS

1. Ok Graphics, but just ok
2. Expected Music, so ok music
3. A decent shooter, but not permanent looter.
4. Zombies are cool, but they come from out of no where 100% of the time, so there is little to know method to the madness you encounter, unless you are in a building.
5. Weapons are rather believable and sounds are ok.

CONS

1. Ok Graphics, but just ok
2. Expected Music, so ok music
3. A decent shooter, but not permanent looter.
4. Zombies are cool, but they come from out of no where 100% of the time, so there is little to know method to the madness you encounter, unless you are in a building.
5. Weapons are rather believable and sounds are ok.
6. Progression does not match the increased difficulty when it comes to gear. Difficulty will always make you feel like your weapons are pointless after the first couple difficulties... Even with the best cards!
7. You cannot start with the character you chose until the end of the current match and just assume whatever BOT character is unused (VERY LAZY DEVS)
8. Load outs are a complete joke! You do not change to your setup once you are able to switch to your preferred character from the "supposed" load out you setup. So do not expect to switch to your favorite weapon type as per the character you setup with skins and weapons.
9. No personalization. As stated above your LOAD OUTS are completely useless! Only thing you get is the Custom Skin and Cards! Only way to satisfy your load out is to find them in this RNG world...BAH!
10. No wander or AFKing penalty and Kicking feature does not work! Players are so bad at this game and literally wander miles apart. I asked people I play with their age when I hear a little kid and I come to find out almost every grouping, if not every other grouping there is a 10-12 year old playing this game! Also I encountered an 8 year old, yes an 8 year old hanging out with a group of adults...cringe worthy in the least! There needs to be proximity penalty because 80% of the player base AFK or just never stay with the group. They can get kicked and just rejoin the game they were just kicked from! Lets call it the "BABYSITTER-TETHER"! If players are a certain distance from group, have the game auto-kick with like a 10 second timer to boot and while that far away will also receive -50% all loots/currency/exp. (LAZY DEVS once again!)
11. THIS GAME IS NOT LEFT4DEAD feeling at all. Coach, Ellis, Nick, and Rochelle are not in the game! Not even older versions of them to make this iconic and believable while attempting to be a continuation! They have similar characters but Ellis is now a Female named: Holly. One weird character is named: Mom who you can turn into her teenage possibly low 20s self which really creeps you out cuz the character selected portrait does not change to the new skin....ummm yeah your character skin does not match the portrait bottom part of the UI! (LAZY DEVS AGAIN!)
12. Matchmaking is a complete joke! Anyone at anytime can play any difficulty they want and do not need to beat previous difficulties or acts to progress. Thus first day and first match in veteran and dying endlessly because they didn't have to earn up to that difficulty at all!
13. You restart all over again with weapons and possible weapon upgrades every time you play. So it is just like Perma-Death! You keep nothing that could help you do later difficulties. Good cards are not nearly enough! This game needs to allow you to make custom weapons with upgrades that improve over time as you progress to even start to attempt to keep up with this crazy difficulty that this game offers! So referring back to #8 and #9 that we need custom load outs that actually switch your character to at the start of new level. Just like in Call of Duty MW I/II/III. Otherwise 90% of the player base will never have a chance beyond recruit or maybe, just maybe veteran...


CONLUSION:

Notice that the PROS are also the CONS #1-5 ....this is because they are both ok and very bad at the same time since BACK4BLOOD is supposed to be the better and newly updated next step in the Left4Dead series and it pales in comparison to the previous versions! Its all just ok or worse; which as a next in the series failure just makes it disappointing most of the time.

This is a playable game and you can have fun like 20-30% of the time, but the next LEFT4DEAD? I would say no and this is coming from a long time LEFT4DEAD player that still plays L4D2. So sad as it is, I cannot recommend. The game feels like there was no love and passion put into it and just a another game that is shelf worthy after one run through.

Hopefully in future DLC, they will have way more powerful CARDS to match the impossible later difficulties. B4B operates just like a perma death games do by starting all over again to attempt to get your favorite guns and there possible upgrades and accessories. This game needs to let you fully customize weapons with keeping upgrades and accessories found that you can switch to in order to do the greater difficulties (like CoD MW custom load outs); otherwise it is literally an impossible game! Most of the community really struggles even at RECRUIT difficulty due to AFKing, Wandering, and just because recruit in this game is more like Hard mode in some other games; which means Nightmare setting is Impossible and Impossible setting is actually beyonf impossible! This game is only playable and fun If and only if you can play with people actually on your friends list while communicating on Discord or at least in game!

SirSpoony Rating: 2.5/10.0

"If STEAM actually had a fair return policy I would've never purchased this game!"
"I accidentally left this on while at work and while sleeping so play hours are actually more around 20 hours, but even in that time I got all of the best cards the game has to offer and feels completely worthless and the game is completely unplayable!"

Well, I played this enough to know a few things. Its disappointingly almost the same as DW9, but actually has less going on in the open world. I personally was hoping that open world would be more than DW9 with being more full of life and the ability to single-handedly conquer a castle or important location via open world map that actually made a difference. You have all the same skins and extras for the most part.

There is a little more of this & that, but at the end of the day DW9 Empires even for KOEI's #1 fan, is very disappointing.

I feel KOEI just stop trying. DW9 Empires feels more like 50% of a game, like an Early Access at most!

Heartbreaking a bit but I cannot recommend this.

Well what can I say its possibly a great game and I would've bought the Deluxe Pack for this if I had no issues, but there was a decision changing issue/bug. This game does have the things I look for in games like this though. It is stable, class changing during matches, gear swapping, and it has tanks! The usual things I look for in a game plus its responsive. There were some minor time delays and hesitant game play with FPS drops in some spots, but mostly smooth. The one thing that you would not expect killed it for me is if I m going to invest into a game then I need a protagonist that I can get to resemble me and I can relate to the most. Basically looking as close to me as possible. Just like when I used to read books (yeah in ancient times like 20 years ago) and pretend I was the main character and imagined what all the other characters looked like as well. I do this for the games I plan to invest in the most. Some games do not have the option but this one did and failed at the one very starting thing I needed. I "set" the Irish looking face with green eyes and it just asked to save it didn't save what I set it to at all and reverted to default prior to selections.

If I cant even get character setup to work, not looking too promising when it comes to cut scenes for the rest of my life. Character slots cost money but I was going to buy the Deluxe Pack so I didn't want to invest further at this time due to still feeling out the game. Also, today it stated I had 1 hour left to play as soon as I logged in I checked and it canceled out after 10-15 minutes...So even their free time didn't work properly.

Maybe they will have character creation perfected in the future. I will maybe try again if that happens and start making YT content and stream on various platforms, but until then cheers to hoping. Oh and I saw the outfit option. Not sure if it costs money or not but I was going on first-impression and for now I will wait a couple updates and see how the dust settles on things. Hopefully the Deluxe Pack stays around because if it doesn't then I won't bother.

Well here we go...

I was forced to change my recommend to Not Recommending. the reason for this is you don't get what you purchase. I was so into the game I went ahead and bought Season Pass and in addition to that I bought The 30 day login rewards Pack. Well I got 16 days credit out of the 30 days and that is it! They have a mail system and nothing went to it regarding the missing 14 days worth of Jagged Primocryst like all other games do. So I can no longer Recommend a game that does not honor what it sells.

Game was fun, but it is dying due to Lost Ark and Diablo IV being more reliable...and yeah I know I am stating Blizzard is more reliable, which to me is total nuts but true when compared to XD! SO as of now 30 days of rewards = 16 I guess...


So my once 6.5/10.0 rating is not a solid 0.00

I can't even rate a company that does not honor your purchases! ...but I can stop playing!
Also, these days no chance of Steam honoring such a refund, even though I was completely robbed. Good thing I was not more invested in this game...

BEFORE YOU BUY THIS INFO:

Ok I bought this to find out because BL3 DLCs are not too clear on this. So hope this helps others' into understanding how things work! I am not suggesting you do or do not do what I did for purchases, that is up to you alone. This review is to tell how it works in very simple terms...

SEASON 2 includes

Full DESIGNER'S CUT - no need to buy separately
Full DIRECTOR'S CUT - no need to buy separately
Multiverse Final Form - Season Pass 1 gave you this
Multiverse Disciples of the Vault - Season 2 exclusive skins

#1 misunderstood part about season 2:
I thought at first you needed to buy Director's cut + Designer's cut and then and only then could you get the full effect of this season pass, but that is not the case. This season gives you both DLC: Director's + Designers fully and the 2 skin packs.

Season 1 Pass offers way more content with its new areas to explore, but I got Season 2 Pass on sale for $17.99 and Director's and Designer are both normally $14.99, so in this case it was worth it to me, but you make your own decision.

Lastly though, I am a ULTIMATE PACK purchaser and I think its totally unfair that ULTIMATE EDITION or even Collector's purchasers have to buy additional season pass beyond the first. If you buy the most expensive pack or edition possible then it should come with future season passes!

So to GEARBOX you have lost my greater respect that you used to have during BL2 days and prior. You are not a company we can trust at all times anymore and that craps on it's playerbase just because you know you can get a quick cash grab = so you trying to be Blizzard Entertainment with their Diablo Immortal tactics???

I will be careful in the future with GEARBOX and not pre-order ever again so I can safely dodge these dirty-tactics in the future! Best bought while on sale, but you decide for yourself!

BL3 : 8.25/10.00 - Still a bit buggy (inventory) and not good as BL2, but enjoyable somewhat
Season Pass1 : 9.00/10.00 - Great content!
Season Pass 2 : 5.00/10.00 - Rrecommending this but could easily be not recommending this at the same time!
Season Pass 3 : -5.00/10.00 - If it happens and provides no new areas!
Season Pass 4 : -10.00/10.00 - if it happens and provides no new areas!

First of all, don't let the world's worst voice narrator in the first video deter you from trying this game out. I's very badly done and his voice is horrible, but the game is good!

I stopped playing on Steam awhile ago and preferred playing this outside of steam. The game introduced world rifts of different elements in such a unique way that other games like World of Warcraft directly copied it and used it for themselves in their own vision of rifts in their world events. The game is actually quite stable and the mechanics are a bit outdated but still keeps up with most of today's games! There are many mounts that you can achieve and various mix n match armor sets that you can collect. Some linear, some not but level rqs. There is gathering and crafting professions that grow just like they do in most other MMORPGs. Music is ok, but not a blockbuster hit. Dungeon runs and things like it in the game are actually fun, and skill mechanics are rather interesting as well. Dual-classing and Multi-classing is possible, but not necessarily needed to achieve success! Character customization is rather exciting and character creation isn't too bad either.

Only downfall is the community is a very small cult following and are mostly hanging out in more end-game relating areas of the game, so if you are just starting out there is not much opportunity or help along the way. The game is mostly soloable, but obviously there are group runs, but you out level gear quite often when starting out so living off of found items, quest items and drops can be enough but not so easy.

All-in-all not a bad game but its one of those games where the DEVs did what they wanted instead of listening to the community and well this is what is left.

I'd still rate the game a 8.0/10.0, but due to the lack of community its more a 5.5/10.0

Great game!, but Multiplayer is a bit lacking and connections to the server are never working and keep stating poor connection even though I am on an amazing connection and my firewall is allowing and I even tried it with no firewall. Single player can give you more replay value, but not the reason I bought the game!. Not recommending until multiplayer works once again. This is PC bought version so no game PASS or GOLD are needed to play. Was working last year no issues, but this year online never works! Asked support and no help at all.


PROS
1. Good Graphics, but not as good as GT
2. Good music
3. Horizon 4 always has twice the players active than Horizon 5 ever does!
4. Auction house is fun and you can get some nice stuff for cheap sometimes, but easily manipulated to trick a purchase to lag so players can't bid when they should be allowed. I don't do this, but know some that do unfortunately. It's on YT.
5. Not too hard to make money, but for the best stuff takes months. So if you like grinds this is your thing!

CONS
1. WAY Better than 5!
2. Engine sounds a bit lacking when compared to similar level of games!
3. Controls not as good as some of the other games rated around same level of popularity. Meaning lower response rates!
4. Best played on controller, not wheel setup or keyboard.
5. Bad servers = I can never connect and stay connected to servers 100%! I am always forced to have to sign out and sign back in just to play LIVE.
6. Players learn to LAG out BIDS in AUCTION = Making it impossible to bid for the last minute and trick it into an instant purchase without buyout!
7. Players learn to LAG out BIDS in AUCTION = Making it impossible to bid for the last minute and trick it into an instant purchase without buyout!
8. Players learn to LAG out BIDS in AUCTION = Making it impossible to bid for the last minute and trick it into an instant purchase without buyout!
9. Players learn to LAG out BIDS in AUCTION = Making it impossible to bid for the last minute and trick it into an instant purchase without buyout!
10. Players exploiting not only the AUCTION but racing speed all the time!


CONCLUSION:

Love the game but just can't keep me very interested for too long before I move on to other things. Mainly due to all the exploiting going on. I know this is not Motorsport, but I always compared all Forza games and other racing games to FORZA 2 and they mostly fail by comparison! I never had as much fun as I did in FORZA 2 on xbox360. Those were the days I look for once again, but Forza games don't feel top 3 or even top 5 in racing games anymore and more like ranked 11 or 12th. I will still buy a Forza game here & there but guess I am more of a iRacing and Assetto Corsa player these days and racing games that require wheel for the best experience! Forza Horizon 4 is the best Forza I have played since FORZA 2 days, so that is not saying too much. I might even play FORZA 2 again on xbox360...I know thousands still play it!


Sirspoony rating: 3.5/10.0 = due mainly to poor connections sign IN/OUT and players tricking the AUCTION to LAGOUT possible bidding and players exploiting speed with invisible walls to make sure they never leave the track.

with multiplayer working without needing to sign IN/OUT = 4.5

AUCTION fixed and no more player manipulations allowed = 6.5

FORZA 2 rating: 9.5/10.0

Well I really wanted to love this, but I found the game being way more dependent of RIG performance than it asks for... Only main-stream game I play that is so unstable but claims full release. Even beats New World in it's connectivity issues.

PROS

1. Red Dead Redemption nostalgia
2. Still great music
3. Graphics overhaul is amazing
4. More horses
5. Somewhat nicer community than GTA V's 95% cancel-toxic community. Like 40% cancel-toxic players...
6. Some of the Roles are fun but CRAZY EXPENSIVE in Gold to really participate in

CONS

1. Nothing really new here... Its just feels like better graphics with all the same old stuff... Rather boring and very lackluster
2. Same weapons
3. Lack of vehicles and their variety
4. More horses, but nothing really special to note = P2W horse possible
5. Defensive mode is a joke that aggressive-troll players manipulate around it when they want very easily = Passive mode from GTA V should be added instead
6. Hackers everywhere - Black water 100% devastated by a player with a improved bow that shot unlimited dynamite as ammo....bah
7. Players compared to GTA V are by far nicer to be around, but the horrible griefer/hackers still are among us and will take and destroy your camp jobs every time; just like MC, businesses, and CEO runs in GTA V, but they don't want to reward, just the satisfaction in making sure you don't get it and will camp the reward until it despawns
8. Feels like the DEVs for this game are very very lazy bunch as far as new creative ideas for items and rewards in game
9. Occasional crashes due to unstable servers and FPS spikes from out of no where. Guessing the hackers trigger some of this, but not all of it
10. Overpowered random stranger NPC
11. Overpowered Animal encounters....I encountered a pack of 8-12 wolves more than a couple times now that also have unlimited aggro range or a Grizzly Bear that required 60 Lancaster Repeater (100% condition) shots before death and chased me from the mountainous areas to completely across the Great plains? ...I mean really DEVS? ...and yes I could tell the total ammo used from ammo counter and was not using free aim
12. Dynamite spamming players in every session, trying their best to grief as many people as possible
13. No Private Sessions allowed with same rewards possible or otherwise....Single player mode on;ly way to avoid all above horribleness
14. Gold currency for ROLES is a money trap/grab that is a bit setup unfairly
15. Roles in-general and especially BOUNTY HUNTER should have non-gold bounties for lesser rewards at least and if not same rewards possible.
16. Smaller world map - expand on existing world from RDR would've been best
17. No more Fort Mercer + Gaptooth and a few surrounding areas around them to spam anymore for experience and free weapons = They are queues for survival modes that no one even plays that much
18. No free weapons in map areas anymore, just temporary use weapons in queued instances.
19. Night time is very unrealistically dark
20. Daytime sun beams are blinding and actually hurt the eyes...Very realistic but a X10 version
21. Does not support DLSS very well for the new 30 series GPUs FPS spiking like NEW WORLD can happen for certain Motherboards. Luckily not mine due to it being the up and coming GEN ready technology.
22. Very, very, very SSD speed dependent for best possible performance. 7Gb/s or higher suggested
23. Very clumsy and fragile Horses....they can trip and die over a pebble on flat ground....

Conclusion____

I gave this game a chance, but seriously if I knew what i knew now, I would've just continued playing RDR. Feels like a complete waste of money even though I bought it half off. It's a remastered/enhanced version of RDR + a few new features + items and nothing more... Like RDR with a major update.

Sirspoony rating: 2.0/10.0
- Due to the game feeling more like a RDR2 Early Access that we are still waiting for more new items, features, and content for...

More weapons: +2
More Vehicles: +2
Re-add southern part of map from RDR: +2
Less fragile and clumsy horses: +1

Possible 9.0/10,0 ....guess time will tell if DEVs stop being Lazy...

I play crazy-higher-demanding games with zero issues...

I still love the idea, just very frustratingly-disappointing