Recent reviews by Zergged.XH

It didn't need a rootkit antivirus to begin with, didn't need third party account to work before. Still going to play it, wonderful game, wish the current firestorm would go away.

Should you buy it? - Mixed feelings. Definitely watch gameplay. If you do play, lean toward a private server.

I started the game at the start of the Season 5 Rarity update after owning this for years. I thought it would fix a bunch of things that were apparently worse closer to the original Early Access release. Instead of being a cool feature that split up items in a more RPG-esque color coded statblocks, it has become a miserable mess of grind in order to properly enjoy the game.

On top of that, the concurrent playerbase has been blackpilled to the game's prospects with thing after thing being added and breaking other things. This is a "Survival MMO" without a base. God help you on a PVP server, I can't even play with my two friends without burnout. It's not meant to be soloed, there's plenty of activities to do that goes faster with many hands.


The Rarity update was supposed to expand PVE content by adding more NPC enemies to go after in order to obtain single-use Schematics required to build better things. PvPvE sounds good in an RPG setting, right?

Well the problem is that each item AND THE MATERIALS present on a map can be:
White - Common
Green - Uncommon
Blue - Rare
Pink - Epic
Orange - Legendary

The system is so poorly implemented that the highest level of materials can be used for the lowest of schematics. Color dots for icons are literally underneath the layer of the item art. There's no QA or either deployed content or in testing.

This reminds me of Mass Effect Andromeda's decision to split a weapon drop into four different card trees, massively inflating drop pools for absolutely no reason whatsoever except to bloat.

If there's a takeaway you get, this game has potential. The developers just need people that actually play games to give feedback before they go off and overcorrect previous issues by creating new ones.

7/10, not anything particularly new but an excellent look into the not-often explored 40K universe. Pick up on sale, maybe.

A poor man's singleplayer Darktide until Fatshark releases the Warhammer-Vermintide-in-space game later this year. I don't like how it has non-story DLC, but I got this from HumbleBundle so meh.

Don't get me wrong though, the game is fun once you find out the controls and your favorite weapons. There's nothing groundbreaking about it. You could even say it's a reskinned DOOM in that it's ultimately an arena shooter in which you kill everything, move to next room, solve odd puzzle, unlock secret areas. Character progression can be grinded out in a few hours in order to max out your skills, which can trivialize Normal.

Every fight is like an MMO raid boss after a fashion. It's clunky or at least difficult for Mouse and Keyboard to start learning controls, but once you get into the swing of things you don't really want to get out of them.

Definitely recommend playing with others/friends however. It can get stale at some points just listening to the annoying Handler 24/7.

It's okay.

Nah but seriously, if you've been looking for that CoOp void that titles like Mass Effect 3, Left4Dead 1 and 2, Killing Floor 1 and 2, Titanfall Frontier Defense, this will definitely fit the bill. Objective based Point A to Point B, four total difficulties, mutator quests in the works to adjust difficulty and rewards. And the lootboxes. Oh thank god for the kind souls at Fatshark. There is no microtransaction ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, just playing the game.

Make sure to visit the guides first for general overviews of what to expect! Your first few matches might be horrible but communicate and don't follow St. Leroy Jenkins and you'll get the hang of it.

There's definitely some clankiness under the hood and networking can be a fickle daemonspawn but it's overshadowed by the fun I'm having.

A word about said boxes though: like many things the mechanics are weird and sometime convoluted but you will get used to them. One is that boxes will Record the highest item level you have opened and then make the next roll based off a +/- range of 10 until it sees the next highest number. Item rarity (color) is gated behind the level of a character as well. Also, save your commendation level up chests for later as they can scale up to ilvl 300 and possibly be opened earlier to max out the cap of your difficulty tier.

It's a great game. Truly is. From the ant farm strategy layer you need to plan out ahead and curse the RNG gods in their setup, or cursing the RNG gods for a missed 99% chance to hit. It looks pretty, very pretty. There's also dozens of working mods out there for the base game.

When it works.

XCOM 2 has been plagued with performance issues and random bugs from release. A few, of course the largest, have gone unaddressed, while others are intrinsic to the game like framerate drops and lack of optimizations. Firaxis/2K's biggest release with War of the Chosen brought some fixes but in a press release they stated that they would not bring said fixes to the vanilla game. Now, I don't mind getting the expansions, but to keep certain patches and optimizations behind a "pay wall" for lack of a better term? Really?

After starting the game up after 2 years, when I first beat it and left it on the shelf, I've started and lost about 12 Ironman saves. For those that don't know, an Ironman playthrough is where progress is locked into a single save file. It keeps a person honest, brings a level of adrenaline knowing you can't reroll the dice. There's a huge feeling of terror when the game decides to do something that jeopardizes the ability to access those saves.

For the last week, after finally dealing with poor framerate issues that left XCOM 2 a choppy hot mess stuttering worse than a broken record, each of my saved games, even non-Ironman, have been locking up on the Loading screen. I can't get into them. Kicker is, after hitting Save and Exit for the Ironmans, they also get stuck on the load screen.

Going to google there's multiple threads, on Reddit and on 2K's forums and on places like GameFAQs, asking for assistance with this problem but as of yet there has been no reliable fix. 2 years as of a few days ago. Blaring hole still in its side.

Do not get me wrong, I love the game, want to get more of the expansions to open up further mods, but lack of acknowledgement or releases by support to address these problems are a reason to keep staying away from XCOM 2 and until then I can't recommend the game to anyone wanting to get into it. Be content with XCOM:EW if you have it or find the entire package on sale, which it usually does during larger ones. I'll be ready in the wings to change my tune once the vanilla XCOM 2 game gets some overdue love.

If anyone happens to know the mysterious magical unicorn of arcane tricks to get the game to work again, please feel free to comment.

Astroneer is a relaxing alternative to other survival crafter games similar to the big daddy Minecraft. Here you just have to worry about not getting too much crap for stealing the rocket lander and stranding your friend to die... and watch your back around them on the next playthrough.

PvE, mainly the dust storms, forgetting Oxygen, sliding down ravines and losing your precious rare elements. There's no manual and they don't have sources recognized in the keybinding section for what could be considered Mouse3, Mouse4, etc. thumb buttons.

Only place they can go is up unless microtransactions are added like how AAA companies are making a trend of it.

Just go play Titanfall 2 after experiencing broken gameplay. Better all around, movement system is smooth, and big stompy robots.