33 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
27.5 hrs last two weeks / 4,885.7 hrs on record (1,363.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 29 Jul, 2021 @ 11:51am

I've played this game for many hours and I've had my fair amount of fun out of it for the money I've paid. But I could not recommend anyone new to buy this game.

The meta has been broken or gimmicky for the majority of the updates I've played it. And with the new soviet maps it's only going to get worse. I can only concluded the devs having given up on fixing the issues with the game and it's meta cause they don't know how too. And instead are just pushing out the content they promised they would from the kickstarter.

It's a genuine shame though, cause the game had some great potential (and maybe still does). 50 v 50 gametype with artilarry, armor squads, recon squads, and commander abilities. All player controlled. Where communication (both in your own squad as in between squad) is just as important as shooting the enemy. Bad sadly update after update the devs stray further away from what the community asked for. And feedback in their discord generally just gets treated as if all of them were trolls.

Update 10 has been particularly bad:
For the armour reworks:
- the input from the community was that there were some bug spots and that tank fights were mostly won or lost because of those. So tanks were completely overhauled but they made everything regarding tanks slower. Making it just more boring to play. Switching seats now takes ages, encouraging people to play 3 man tanks. But with just having 50 people on your team it logistically just doesn't make sense to have that many people in tanks.
- the maps....:
The new maps in update 10 are BY FAR the worst maps in this game. Stalingrad runs horribly and the most important strongpoints are pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Meaning the objective is to just rush into those points as fast as possible and then just gun down everyone trying to get close from a great distance.
Kursk is made out to be a tank map, which is fine, but it's ridiculous how far you can see on that map. From the middle of the map you can pretty much overlook the ENTIRE map including ALL HQ's. Meaning that if your tanks can get set up on the middle of the map, you can just spawn kill every enemy tank over and over.

Clearly all these new changes have been made by people that:
1.) don't play their own game
2.) refuse to listen to genuine input from the community that does play their game

Despite it's small but growing community that really had a special place for this game, most veteran players have completely quit or have been fed up with this game.

And with the increase in price now even I genuinely can't recommend this game to anyone anymore.

It's unfortunate the devs gave up on this game is all I can say

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5 Comments
Farinha 5 Aug, 2021 @ 8:05am 
Good review, I disagree on some points, but I started playing the game recently. I think they want to make the game more dynamic than Squad.
ZOO × QuickNickz 4 Aug, 2021 @ 2:00pm 
@sid meta pretty much means the "default strategies". The most basic "rules" to win the game sort of speak.
Beuys D' POLTERgeist 4 Aug, 2021 @ 10:14am 
shiny OP = remove from game ty
SID 3 Aug, 2021 @ 8:42pm 
okay, but wth does meta mean?
Ramp 2 Aug, 2021 @ 4:19pm 
I'm right there with you bud. Not nearly as many hours as you but between the meta and the optimization, I've played less and less over the last 2 years. Good write up.