Recent reviews by CISAC

I had two PoE accounts associated with my e-mail.
I linked my Steam account before buying the game on Steam, thinking their system would be clever enough to send the points to the right account I bought the game for. It wasn't.
My points got sent to the wrong account despite having bought the game on Steam, so now I can't access them on the actual account I want to play on.

I bought the game during a weekend tab sale since I wanted the tabs to get started, but because of this problem, I couldn't buy any.
Contacted support about this issue during the early morning on Friday to give them plenty of time to fix it but got zero response the whole weekend and the sale is now over. I understand not replying during the weekend, but it's now Wednesday and still no response whatsoever.
The fact this is still happening almost two months after Early Access release is ridiculous.
I feel scammed out of my money.

I'd say buy it on a new account with just the Steam account associated but you're better off not buying it at all when they refuse to fix critical problems that have been happening to hundreds, if not thousands of people for almost 2 months now.

You need paid Diamonds to buy anything with Legacy Gems.
lol.
lmao, even.
rofl, if you will.

The new UI sucks, everything is super unclear visually (you can barely see the minion and structure health bars) and the game lags immensely to the point it's unplayable in the European servers.

This could all be excused by the fact that it's an Alpha, except the separation of currency into paid and "free" currency.
That is just scummy beyond belief.
The Joki Loki skin from Smite 1 costs a whopping 2600 Legacy Gems!
That's more than $35 or 28€ in Smite 1 Gems.

And an Epic skin? 1300 Diamonds + 1300 Legacy Gems
That is 9.99€ and Legacy Gems only cover half of the purchase.

Legacy Gems are a joke and Diamonds are a scam.

As much as I would love for more people to get into what is supposed to be the successor to a game I love and put thousands of hours into, I just cannot support this type of anti-consumer business practice.

The latest patch buffed a gadget that stuns you for what feels like an eternity for a class that can spend most of their time invisible and has a shotgun that deals ridiculous amounts of damage.
lol
lmao, even

Rune Factory + Stardew Valley on steroids

Jeremy Donaldson my beloved ❤

No Que Sera Sera

I really wanted to like this game but I just can't.
As someone who loves Sekiro, I was hoping this game would scratch my itch for more games like it, but unfortunately, it just falls short due to bad game design and terrible decisions.

I beat 3 bosses and I'm already mentally exhausted.
The 4th fight is ridiculously unfair since the boss can stagger you easily but you can barely stagger them. When you manage to, they recover quickly and spam you with a flurry of attacks.

Pros:

• Free respecing at the thrones (bonfires).
  
  
• Nice plague weapon animations.
  
  
• Being able to steal enemy weapons is interesting.
  
  
• The talent tree gives the player more build options in a game that otherwise wouldn't have many.
  It's not without its faults however.

Cons:

• Colliders are janky, leading to getting hit when you shouldn't be.
  
  
• You'd think picking the blocking talent would just give you more defensive options but nope, deflect stops working if you do.
  You can either deflect or block, not both.
  Nonsensical and made to add artificial difficulty.
  
  
• Enemies don't get staggered so they can just keep attacking you, even if you're stuck in an animation like a plague weapon move or charged claw moves.
  
  
• The deflect is godawful by default and the game forces you to spend talent points to make it minimally viable, while reducing the damage it deals to enemies. Why?
  Sekiro had a generous deflect timing, why can't this game? It doesn't make it harder, it just makes it more annoying because it's 2 points wasted that could just be the default.
  
  
• Bosses are easier and take more damage than "elite" enemies which makes no sense.
  
  
• The Mikiri Counter-like move rarely works and is extremely janky.
  
  
• The feather counter sounds good on paper but more often than not I didn't have time to interrupt a special attack with a feather because this game forces you to be right in an enemy's face if you want to deal any damage, which means you'll get hit by the special move before you can even react.
  This wouldn't been an issue if enemies actually staggered but they don't so you just end up getting hit for trying to play the game aggressively like was intended.
  
  
• You HAVE to be aggressive or the enemies will just heal their wounds off, which heal far too quickly unless, again, you put talent points into two talents that increase the regeneration time.
  This wouldn't be an issue if the game didn't punish you for being aggressive with unblockable moves and enemies that don't stagger.
  
  
• Enemies will track you with their moves, making dodging them far harder than it should be.
  Unlike what the developer might believe, enemies shouldn't be able to change their attack direction halfway through to track you.
  
  
• If you knock a special enemy off their spawn area, they will be unkillable.
  They get a red forbidden icon next to their health bar and will heal off any damage you deal.
  They don't reset either. Kinda lazy lol
  
  
• Confusing level design that will just get you lost.
  
  
• Extra levels make you kill enemies to get key items you need to progress but don't tell you what enemy to kill.
  This wouldn't be an issue if killing enemies wasn't a total pain but the way it is, it not only takes forever to find and kill the enemy you need, it also is incredibly frustrating to keep dying on the way to it.

I honestly believe this game should have been a boss rush.

• The levels aren't anything special and are littered with enemies that just refuse to die or keep deflecting your moves when you attack them, forcing you to back off and wait unless you want to get hit since they don't stagger.
  It takes forever to clear a level if you actually try to kill every enemy like I do.
  
  TL;DR:
  What could be a great, simple game like Sekiro is ruined by unfair AI and talent trees that force you to put points into them to make the game minimally playable.
  Just play Sekiro.
  If you already have and are looking for another game like it, save your money because this ain't it.

The new character (Kestrel) has a drone strike that one-shots an entire team as her ability.
What were they even thinking?

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Fix your stupid interrupt system.
A fully charged heavy attack being interrupted by a light attack just makes characters like Amaterasu completely brain dead to play.

This game is great, possibly my favourite Battle Royale but the fact that the Squads mode is locked to a stupid, random Limited Time Event every weekend completely ruins it.
I want to play with 3 friends without having to play a special game mode no one will enjoy.
Just get rid of LTEs or make a regular Squads queue alongside them.
Also bring Duos back permanently instead of randomly making them available for a couple hours once in a blue moon.

Grenade Launcher = braindead 0 skill weapon, delete it.

UPDATE 21/12/2022:

The weekend had the dumb Iced Out Sniper mode.
Regular Squads were then available for a whopping 2 days and now they're gone again.
Duos are also gone; only Solo and Trios now.

We always found a match on Monday and Tuesday so why remove it on Wednesday? Beyond dumb.