Recent reviews by Chartos

Just bad, first one is much better imo.

Gets very repetitive very fast, transitions from a city builder to tower defense by day 10 if you want to beat any map.
Still very fun for first 15-20 hours or so, but when you start pushing back and walling up, monsters scale up and then its just a numbers game, who has more golems, charmed stronger monsters etc.. Then you send envoys to a new map and do it all over again...

Seems nice, lots of stuff to do for new players, but can be overwhelming when it has 15 events running at the time.
Combat is fun as well.

Good game to play for a few hours a day, or whole day if you go with full roster of alts.
one of nicer MMOs out there at the moment, nice raiding endgame, though can do raids only 1x weekly per character outside of hell mode.

Nice story, don't minmax^^

Just started, seems good.

I've followed and played this game through all betas, been one of the top players, and left my feedback along with countless other players many many times...
I cant recommend the game at this state, even though i want to. Things would need to be changed first before i get into it again, i will be taking a break from this CC fest until things get fixed. At the time of writing this i have spent about 300 hours playing shadow arena if we sum up my steam activity and activity during beta testing.

Things i like:
+ Character based gameplay, they are unique and have their own playstyle.
+ Unique and fun approach to battle royale genre
+ Great graphics and a nice map
+ Ancient weapons, even though most players don't like them i think its a fun addition. Though i do believe there should be some sort of reward for destroying a laytenn to give players more incentive to gang up or engage him. How about ancient relic buff for the laytenn killer?

Current issues i have with the game.
- Projectile collision, randomly miss certain hits... Good luck being a ranged class. Might as well just play melee since everything does AOE damage and you don't need to aim for anything with them. https://streamable.com/usvw87

- Desync, how is this happening in a battle royale? https://streamable.com/jq3477

- Unable to edit or resize UI. Guys we are in 2020, how is this not a basic thing? Good luck playing the game or seeing anything for that matter if your resolution is anything other than 1920x1080.

- Autoattack stagger...... Whose idea was it to even do this to tge game, fast classes just hold lmb, and if you try to use a skill it will be canceled and go on cooldown... At least add some brain to this and make lets say first autoattack every 5 seconds stagger while the rest ar ejust filler damage to allow some counterplay.

- Infinite CC chain... What kind of BR game does this, there is no room for counterplay here if you don't have dark shift on. It does not matter what kind of CC the enemy skill will do to you since they all disable your character completely, only hard CC is in game. This needs to be cut down a lot in my opinion and introduce soft CC: root, cripple, disarm, silence. Game currently plays to first to hit the enemy, when you hit him you can outright go and kill him with your combo. I mean, how do you counter this, and this is just a jump attack.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb-WVK-n7eM

- Random pinging every 0.1 seconds when fighting an enemy!!! LET ME DISABLE THIS, i know how to press Tab myself...

- Pricing model. Its just too much. They are just copypasting skins from Black desert back in here and putting 20€ tags on them, wtf.... And in PUBG, Apex, Fortnite i can get 100+ levels of skins for 10€.... Not to mention, if you want to own a character each one will be costing ya 10€, good luck grinding for the character though, an average game will give you 40-80 silver, and you need 30.000 for a single character. Unless you go braindead and go looking for silver chests and goblins for 15-20 hours instead of playing the game...

Best. Game. Ever.

Really an awesome game, the best thing is that its free to play, and its not pay to win (you can get all the items by simply playing the game). it's also one of the best first-person shooters I've ever played. If you meet the system requirements and like the infantry only combat i recommend you to try out this awesome game.

PROS:
- Free to play, the payed content is mostly aestetic,
- Total Customization (you can customize literally everything),
- Low System Requirements,
- Really Good Graphics,
- Good Combat Mehanics,
- Good servers, low ping (i hae 50~ ms ping on europe servers),
- A lot of content (a good amount of maps, game modes, and equipment).

CONS:
- The payed content can be a bit costly, but it doesn't matter to much imo,
- A low playerbase, the game had a good playerbase in the start but has started to drop,
- Lack of updates,
- You will see the most of the players running with the same guns and gear,
- A LOT of grenades, close quarter maps become a nade fest,
- Most of the players play the same maps. a lot of the servers are Metro and Helodeck TDM servers.

Edit:
Set the game to Not Recommended.
The game is still great but the developers have stopped updating it, it only receives small updates every 6 months or so. I was heavily addicted to this game but the devs simply do not care anymore, The game is still great and if you dont mind the lack of content i definately would recommend you to check it out.
The PS3 Version is still regularely updated...