Recent reviews by Smoocher

I’ve only done two races and Lance Stroll has crashed into me twice now 10/10 realism.

A sisyphean experience of making chairs and clothes for my growing population only for the french to buy them which angers my population so I make chairs and clothes for my population and Prussia buys them which angers my population so I make chairs and clothes for my population and Great Britain buys them which angers my population and I run out of fabric so I build a cotton plantation so I can make more chairs and clothes but there's not enough workers so I invent a technology which lets me have less workers making chairs and clothes so I make chairs and clothes for my population and the USA buys them which angers my population so I make make chairs and clothes for my population and Spain buys them which angers my population so I make chairs and clothes for my population.

If you're stressed about work or relationships, you should play this game because then you'll be too busy stressing over this game instead.

The review bomb is unwarranted. The game has cost $30 since its release on their own platform. I can understand the frustration of expecting a game to be totally free to play when they use that term, but to review bomb a game because you can't access every single feature, because you don't want to make a one time purchase is absurd. There is no battle pass system or anything of the like to monetize the game. Plain and simple you pay up front and you get the game and all the future content to be added. I don't understand what there is to be upset about.

People are saying its pay to win. That's false. You are limited to the "Normal" game mode which is limited in gear and makes it the most even playing field in the entire game. You can get out geared in "Highroller" matches, but not in "Normals".

I have 500 hours on their launcher and that is well worth the one time $30 payment for me. The F2P version is a good option for those who want to try out the game and see what the gameplay loop is like, or for casual players who just want to dungeon crawl and fight some other players.

My advice: Try out the game. If you don't like it, then that's totally fair, but writing a review because you feel entitled to a completely free game by a smaller studio is whack. The gaming industry has had all expectations changed by corporations like EA and Blizzard making their triple A titles free to play. Don't put these expectations on every studio, especially when that exact marketing tactic is exploited to make games MORE pay to win and cost the consumer MORE money to access all the content down the line.

MAKE ONE TIME PAYMENTS THE STANDARD AGAIN. I can't believe people are genuinely complaining about this.

Recommended: I would recommend this game for people who want to enjoy a journey, not a sweat-fest because there's not enough content for it yet. The race for season 6 does not exist, there's just a continuous multi season exploration.

This is why:
-Max level is 50 (you can reach it in 3 weeks out of the 6 total before the game reverts back to stage one while keeping everything important that you farmed for in the first run, if you play casually and if you spend at least 8 hours every day playing it)

-Tech tree is relatively cheap because every week there are challenges and commissions which boost you. This means if you have knowledge of the game, you can reach the high-end tech in less than a week or two (I'm side-eyeing the crafting-gear tabs).

- Grinding is super easy. You start with a multipurpose axe, followed immediately by electric tools that immediately cut everything giving you the full yield in the 0.5 seconds it takes to gather. (for referrence 1k of one type of resource will last for 2-3 days (1 or less in the case of tungsten or aluminium, and you can make 1k of each resource with the electric tools in less than 20 minutes).

- It is easy to farm. If you think of dungeons (monoliths) and mini-bosses (silos) and extra-mini bosses (elite units)...they are semi-balanced, and guarantee what it says they drop in at least 6 runs. And if you want the best gun parts like optics or magazine...they are one simple puzzle away that takes maybe 5 minutes to get there and 1 minute to do what is necessary. Puzzles are unique and fun, sometimes as simple as shooting balloons or posing for a picture.

Now an intro to the game:
You can shoot in 3rd person and in 1st person. Most enemies are slow and easy to take out until mid-late game. It is also both PVE and PVP based on preference.

You can build a house anywhere, edit it personally or in edit mode and transport it fully built to any other desired location. Houses can be: nomadic (truck-van), base (fortress looking with guns), modern, basic or castle (yes you can build a mini castle). And where you settle...matters. Every area (3 main based on difficulty with a total of 6 regions) has resources based on the necessity of each difficulty. Some areas have petrol (black ground) that can produce oil for cars, jeeps, trucks and bikes (the only transportation so far) or running rivers, pollution or waterfalls for electricity. The most resourceful are usually occupied by tryhards while most beautiful and unusual by casuals. In terms of variety you have mountains, beaches, islands, mainland, desert, jungle, swamps and valleys.

Are you a hoarder? Great, grab everything, dismantle, and be amazed at how you will always have everything you need.

You have a tech tree to unlock different building necessities, gear, munitions, farming, weapon tiers, electric panels and wires, tools and even the gatcha that people talk about. The farming can be done in boxes or naturally on the ground in soil (that you also have to craft). It requires light, irrigation and fertilizer. This is pretty complex at first or it might seem intimidating but the further down the tech tree, the easier and better to care for crops is.

Weapons and gear are of 2 types: obtained from drops and crafted. What's dropped you have to disassemble, what's crafted is what you invest in.

The only thing worth investing in is the battlepass, as it isn't as reapy as the others, all you lose are cosmetics if you don't pay the monthly 10$ for each battlepass.

Character customization is not as impactful because the fashion of the gear and mask cover most of the character.

In terms of story-line, 99% is skipable but the environment tells more about the story and what happened than anything.

There are familiars that you can own to farm for you resources or crops or animals while offline or online or even to use in combat.
They can range from a bowl, to an onion bulb, a teddy bear, cats, baloon dogs, dolls, maidens, fairies, black holes, energy orbs, to secret agent looking bunnies who kill around for fun to get you food.

Another major turn-off, aside from how horrible it is to build up-hill or down-hill, is the trade system. The price is up to you, there's no global market nor need to trade due to the early energy links from rewards and late crafting and farming that can get you to 240k Energy Links a week. The in-game currencies are starchrom (gatcha, buying blueprints and house cosmetics from shop), energy links (teleport, crafting, tech tree, upgrading), stelar planula (special shop stuff), cosmetic tokens (certain cosmetic shop stuff), crystigin (in-game real money for general shop purchase) and mitsuko marks (other special shop stuff).
Trading is mostly with strangers (it can be done socially or introvertly through vending machines). Between friends, you can share everything and even in crafting, you don't need to sit with items in your inventory, everything that sits in your territory's chests, can be used from any position and bench and person that you allowed.

The gatcha DOES NOT use real-life currency, it uses a rarer in-game currency. And if you do not like gatcha, you still have to / opt to build it for blueprint shop which can give you directly the blueprints for the legendary gear and weapons you desire.

This is literally everything important that you need to know about the game before you try it. It's not perfect surely, IT STILL has many bugs from territory to bosses missing, But their team as I've seen is very dedicated, they give rewards each time they ♥♥♥♥ up, communication is great between them and the community and the players are super-friendly at least in my world (there's a world and server system).

The rest I leave up to you to explore to decide if it's what you desire to play or not. For me, they did what million dollar companies never did and for a free to play game, it gives way more quality than others that I paid 60$ for.

Me and my wife got gifts for each other, i got us this game, and she got us a divorce.

petition to be able to serve the dead rats

The longest I survived was 12 days. 12 days! Just as I reached mithril armor, the 4th day happened and the golem of death spawned. I did not have a bow and the only logical thing I could think of was to run. When I had the chance I tried to make a bow but realized I did not have the materials for it and thus I had to evade a giant golem who chased me day and night while trying to find materials. Just as I finally got my materials to craft a bow...... another golem of death spawned...... Now I had to fight 2! I fought and fought and fought and ran and ran and ran and eventually, there was 5 golems of death who walked the earth. I fought till the end with their little minions who also chased me for days. On the 12th day, I turned around and accepted my doom. No more running, No more hiding or picking up mushrooms. It was either me or them. It was glorious! I ran in and instantly stomped by 5 golems. Instant Death. 10/10 for the thrills!

Payday 3 if it was good

My friend who I play Black Squad with said if I post a review on this game and it gets 100 likes and 50 Awards he will buy me kebab and a 6 pack. So I'm just gonna leave this here. Help a brotha!