Recent reviews by Kroyer

The game itself is GOOD but it has 2 glaring main issues that can be dissuading:
1: The first hours of playing are gonna be PAINFUL (for me about 30-40 hours). The game has a very steep learning curve, even as a moba veteran it is hard to learn. Play this only if you are willing to lose and learn for a while, but once you understand the mechanics, strategy and meta it is an extremely fun game.

2: The playerbase is small which means you will get matched with veterans that will stomp you and the queue times outside of afternoon and evening can be long (I waited 40 mins during night around 3am). During afternoon and evening you can find a match in less than 5 minutes, usually within 1-3 mins. With the official full release stated for late 2022 and Kakao games taking over publishing rights in autumn of 2021, there has been more promotions recently (spring 2022), so hopefully the playerbase will increase.

Balancing can be a bit wonky, but let’s be honest no moba is perfectly balanced.

Now to the positives.

It’s an anime themed moba battle royale, if you like anime style art, you will like the art direction of the game. Character styles are limited by the anime style but there's still variety.

The moba battle royal genre should be self-explanatory, you can play either as solo, duo or trios, with the option of automatically finding teammates but I do not recommend doing that, since proper communication is vital. The 3 mentioned modes are completely separete, each with their own rank. Game has max 18 players per match and the last player/team standing wins. You search and loot for materials in the world, from which you craft your gear, consumables, traps, vision items. Any epic (purple) tier gear or below can be crafted by finding the materials in the open world, but legendary tier items need material from specific bosses or you can buy them. These legendary items are a game changer and everyone contests them which forces you to fight. The safe zones gradually becomes smaller, instead of taking damage inside a bad zone, there is a time counter, if it reaches zero you will instantly time

If you are a moba veteran, here are good aspects compared to other mobas (especially to LoL):
1: Games are shorter, games can take max 25 mins. If you die early, even shorter.
2: Since it’s a battle royale, there isn’t a clear hard lose situation unless you or your team die first. You know that you will not always end 1st, compared to the 50/50 win or lose in other mobas. Ending 2nd or 3rd or even 4th in ranked can still gain you LP depending your own performance (kills and damage).
3: Itemization is less “wide ranging”, there’s no pure unkillable tank items or pure damage items, most items have some defensive stats on them. This means there's no super tank that will counter everyone but surviving everything.
4: Because of the itemization as pointed above. The burst damage potential is lower, you can’t get oneshot in less than single second in solo or duo games, though it is possible in trio games. Realistically it takes 1-2 seconds for you to die if you get jumped on by an assasin, which feels nice and gives you an opportunity to counteract.

This is a title that's really hard to recommended. The game is ♥♥♥♥ but it can have enjoyable moments.
If it's for like 10 bucks sometime in the future, buy it, but over 10 bucks it's not worth it.

The shooting feels really bad, it's not snappy, responsive nor smooth. Being super realistic and slow doesn't work well in video games.

RNG of loot can really mess you up, if you are not lucky with loot, you're in a bad spot.

I mean, I guess they wanted to go for realism but when there's someone shooting at you proned with a scoped rifle from 300m range you have no chance to spot him back and it makes you feel so bad.

Driving physics are just silly.

But on the bright side, if you learn all the tricks of the game. Winning as a squad through good teamplay feels very satisfying. Do not play this game alone.

I cannot recommend this game to casuals who never played asian MMORPGS, like those who played only WoW.
If you are ready to grind, accept some pay to win shop items and want to look good while killing monsters, BDO is for you.

Cons:
-As a typical asian MMORPG, BDO involves LOTS of grinding after reaching a certain lvl. I personally didn't mind it too much but players new to grinding might hate it.

-The shop system is getting worse and worse, items are so expensive and it's not pay to skip or pay for conveniance anymore but pay to win.

-Douchebags keep player killing you even when you're just walking by.

-There is a lot of RNG involved in gear progressment.

Pros:
-In depht and skill rewarding PVP and class mechanics.

-Beautiful graphics, effects and armor/costume design.

I personally enjoyed my long hours of grinding, afk fishing, doing really long and interesting story quests and RNG working out for meon first try with 10% chance while it didn't for my friends. The game is flawed but I already invested a lot of time and also money into it, so I might just keep playing it from time to time, but for new players, the game isn't newbie friendly.

Easily one of the most emotional games out there.
I cried 2 times during the game, the story is great.

The music fits perfectly into the game.
The way how they express the character's emotions is just amazing.
It is an emotional ride that you have to experience yourself.

Gameplay-wise it might be kinda boring but you're here for the story.
15/10

The game has its flaws, for example inviting a friend into lobby not working, multiplayer servers not stable, some skills not working properly.

BUT the game does justice to WH40k, it depicts everything perfectly, the visuals, details, audio, everything is lore compliant.

Although the game is missing some features like end game stats, party system, it is still very enjoyable game and hopefully in the future the game will get better through updates

If you're a 40k nerd and love strategy, this game is for you

The business model is more friendly cause you don't have to spend real money on basic cases and those cases have stuff that you need. It is still really random though, cause you might get stuff that you don't want.

It definitely is not pay to win,
movement is like Quake, really fast paced and higher FOV is recommended,
Overwatch system with classes/characters with each class having an ability and a role.

Solid and a good game, it's not excellent but it's safe and good

Quite different from the other CS games, but easy to learn if you're a CS veteran. The competitive scene is very active with lots of good players. But the bad/toxic players ruin the game.
Skin system can be both frustrating and pleasing, the game has its flaws but I still enjoy it and it's my everyday shooter game

One of the silliest games ever, you see so much crazy stuff, lots of side missions. Coop campaign is the best.

It's a low budget game and it's visible on game models, map details, AI. But the idea itself is great and it's very enjoyful. Like always, best with friends with whom you can cooperate properly. Only bad thing is that the reward system is compeletely random

Feels very great when you win after a full 8 hour long game. You can either play the game simple or go in-depth and micromanage a lot. But don't play it without the expansions. Best played online with people you know on voice chat, so much comedy can happen