Recent reviews by Eleros

The game is fun, it has great ideas and cool mechanics similar to other titles I personally have previously enjoyed... BUT...
The team behind the game is green, and it shows.
CO-OP is completely unplayable due to de-sync, this might as well be listed as a solo game.
80% reduction in healing on first time boss clear - what is the point in playing as a healer to prepare for the unplayable CO-OP content due to de-sync if you can't even use the benefit of being a healer in the campaign missions in the first place, that's just a stupid design choice.
Being Gacha, not having to pull for characters is a great idea, since it seperates the playability of the game from the content available to those who don't want to spend thousands a month, but the prices for rolling for aesthetics in this game is an absolute joke, definitely not worth the price.

Great game, terrible server and gateway connection.
Constant rollbacks and disconnects that are seemingly endless, somehow just as bad if not worse in off-peak hours (middle of the night through to 6am).
Would recommend the game in previous leagues, but this league I wouldn't recommend it due to server instability

Don't get me wrong, the game is fun...

But have fun waiting 10+ minutes at a time when you want to extract after completing a mission because "all available choppers are in the air"
Everyone is fighting over summoning helicopters because only 4 can be active per faction on the map per server at a time, the game just becomes a waiting simulator
I have watched more Youtube playing this game than any game I have ever played before, it gets boring fast!
Especially when these helicopters can take up to 6 minutes to reach a location to pick someone up, and 6 minutes back to drop them off, 4 helis doing 12 minute round trips followed by you then calling your pickup (if you're lucky enough to call it before someone else) and then waiting 12 minutes for the pickup/dropoff round trip to get back to base...
The alternative is to run back to base, but anywhere besides the starter town is going to be a 20 minute run minimum in the first place, so either walking or waiting simulator between short burst missions.

Oceanic servers are constantly crashing, there is a queue to get back into them (which sometimes you'll be first in queue but suddenly bumped to further down in queue which doesn't make sense) but if you swap to servers like "US Central" then this issue goes away, we need more stability for Oceanic servers!

Stash can only be increased by spending money and you can't earn the increase in-game through playtime, this is a big no from me, this content should be earnable.

It's fun but it's a buggy mess and the endgame is a boring repetitive grind
DLC should have been included in release, but instead is a $55AUD load of hot steaming garbage.

DLC should have been release content, not wasting $45 AUD on what should have been day 1 lol

Trash

This game is fun, has a great story and in the short time I've owned it I've put an unholy amount of time into it.
That being said this game is just as infuriating as it is enjoyable due to the bugs when it comes to conversation and looting, 2 major aspects of progression in the game.
I waited for this game to come out of Alpha to enjoy it in release state, but it feels like I'm still playing an unreleased Beta with the amount of time I have to spend reloading saves to redo work I had just done in order to fix access to items I otherwise can't see or touch due to looting bugs.
Not to mention the amount of reloading due to character interactions just showing "continue" instead of the 4+ response options, of which quick save reloading fixes instantly, but wastes time every time I have to do it (which is too often).
Paired with Multiplayer causing these bugs to be even more frequent than playing alone has infuriated my trying to play with friends.
Considering this game is "release" and has had to major patch/bug updates since release I honestly can't recommend it at the price point it's currently set to, not without repairs.

Game is mindless fun (emphasis on mindless), if it could be rated it would have been 2/5 star (which is why it's thumbs down)A lot of bugs over 4 years old that haven't or will ever be fixed, terrible networking for COOP along with missing features like passive medical treatment for anyone who is not the lobby hostIf it's free (or =< $5) give it a go but don't expect COOP to bring it together, make sure it's a game you like because you'll need to finish solo or struggle.

Game's alright, I can't recommend in it's current state though,
There is a couple bugs I've encountered but the biggest issue is network connectivity making it actually unplayable, the disconnects, world rollbacks due to world crashing (for all users in lobby (survival)), world deletion on season update (survival included) and lockup causing you to be unable to attack, interact or do anything else except save, quit and rejoin (this has caused me to lose loot when trying to return to a previous death)
Just not fun right now, maybe later if they decide to work on playability over content :)
Game was given to me so can't really complain, wouldn't pay for it myself though.

Edit: 02/07/23
Coming back again after getting a new PC to see if the terrible frame rates might work better on newer architecture only to be med with error code 0xc00000005 and being unable to even launch the game on a newer better PC than before
No info on forums only players offering their own attempts at repairs, nothing of which worked.
♥♥♥♥ game.

Edit 27/10/22:
I came back to check out the most recent update and finally hit endgame but it just becomes another wall of boredom,
In open world life skill systems they're a joke with endgame resources being in such small volume you have to afk on a piece of ore to farm it, other games do this better by not requiring this dumb consent PvP system that requires both parties to flag just to be able to fight.
Add more resources, or remove the dumb consent system so I can try to defend what I'm gathering from, instead of just watching people come over without repercussion and just take a swing because "♥♥♥♥ you I can"
And really, a 30% gathering bonus for PvP is not enough incentive for people to farm with PvP on because there is no repercussion to just farming without it, just takes a bit longer but no one can stop you.
You've done the scale of the world wrong, this reflects in the so called "economy" (non existent) in the game, simple easy to access items like motes go for ridiculous prices, while players not understanding the worth throw up triple luck orc gathering tools for 500 gold (that was a good buy lol)
Why is there tax if you can't even figure out a scale of economy, might as well just print money indefinitely and take out removal systems because it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ as it is.
I can't be bothered to get any deeper into how poorly designed this game is, I still leave my original recommendation of $5 or your wasting money.
EditAfterPost: Checked the reviews, you monkies have way too low of a bar for what you should expect from a company like Amazon, YIKES!

Original:
I gave this game an honest try recently after everything that went spectacularly wrong on release, while some features and QoL improvements have been made there are literally bugs from release that still haven't been fixed.
You can still be indefinitely stun-locked by AI lower level than you which I find funny but it is dumb,
not to mention if you're a bow user get ready to spam left click because after nock'ing an arrow using an ability key, you may have to press up to 5 times before the arrow actually leaves the bow (but the sound will throw you off because it makes the firing sound even when the arrow stays nock'ed)
Not to mention the combat de-sync that can cause abilities to go on cool-down without a use if you use them at the wrong time before being struck, not because of stun on strike, but because the server assumes the ability was used because it was on the client, when in reality the server never saw the cast go off due to the hit received by the combatant, causing a cool-down without ability use.
I tried and now that I know that the focus is not fixing what is broken, I honestly can't recommend this game or the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ company that made it to anyone I could ever possibly interact with :shrug:
Edit: I've had to take a book from another review and mention this game is worth maybe $5AUD, any more than that and you're literally just burning cash imo