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I have no idea what is happening in this game. 3 Hours in and I'm not sure how to heal, what items do what, where to go, what the purpose is. What is happening? The friendly PVE mode is in total darkness - that was a big miss. Anytime you do anything that seems important - a million enemies show up and destroy you. Should be a F2P game.

This game was amazing but they are following the same mistakes arrowhead made with Helldivers 2. Making weapons weaker against a.i. enemies. Making it more realistic vs Fun.

The fun is getting nerfed out of the game.

Weapon costs and requirements have gone up. PVP is toxic as hell. No separate profile to have a PVP account. No separate PVE mode. Only solo mode can be friendly so my friends won't play the game because trios are full of PVP. My friend DID buy the game, but what's worse is we can't play in friendly lobbies together! Solos you can get 80% friendly lobbies - but as soon as you play duos or trios, it's a shoot fest. So WE CAN'T PLAY TOGETHER - So STUPID!

No saved loadouts if you want to PVP so building out your kit is a nightmare.

Expeditions rewards are bad and not worth it. No way to save Blueprints. (This is supposed to change next week - we'll see!) BP drop rates are way too low. No way to trade in duplicate BPs for unknown BPs. Loot is specific to map conditions and areas - Now it's a race between every raider in the match going to the same few areas to find the rare BPs. It needs to be more fair and random.

Trials are awful and unfair. They aren't balanced well and instead the devs nerfed all of our weapons. Trails also push a stressful and unfun FOMO experience.

Want the endgame weapons? Tough. they need boss parts to build - good luck trying to loot them when 20+ raiders are all going after the same parts. (Their amounts where also nerfed into the ground)

One weapon might as well not even exist in the game. There's one BP hidden inside the center of the boss arc that EVERONE is rushing to grab. You aren't rewarded for doing damage or killing the big arc.

Inventory management is a huge slog. Stacks are low. Inventory is small. Takes up so much time. Half your playtime will be selling and recycling items after every match.

Aiming on controller is rough. Aim assist doesn't work well at all. Flying robots are hard to kill without perfect M&K aim. Good luck controller players. The last update has increased all the flying enemies by 100%. No more casual solo games. Now it's endless enemies that aren't easy to kill on your own.

They just added a vendor and it's killed the vibe of all friendly lobbies. No more sharing - everyone is just rushing around and grinding cores to buy stuff from the vendor. It's sucks and it's perpetual and forever now yet also has the stench of FOMO because he resets every week.

They ruined the game.

For me this game went from being my favorite and playing it every night to I'm now going to break and stop playing the game instead.

Embark just announced they won't be doing big updates monthly anymore - it's now every 6 months? Expect player count to bottom out. The last update gave up a map. We were all STOKED for it based on the concept art that was being passed around. The map was not based on that concept art. The map we got was super small and very lackluster. So boring and empty of actual loot. (And WAY too many bots on the map) We won't see a new map until OCT 2026.

Don't blow it Embark. You're blowing it.

Beware - Game does NOT have controller support!!

New players will get stomped since there is no proper match making system. Veterans vs us new little potatoes. There's also many cheaters since it's a free to play game. Not fun.

People aren't serious or invested in the game. You'll start a game just for your teammates to not even be present and die right at the start. I muted everyone's mics because you just hear 6 year old's talking and peoples TVs. I think it's another issue with being free to play.

4 out of 5 matches are awful. Teammates not sticking together or not sure what to do at all. The fifth game would be great when you get paired with someone that is actually trying.

The progression sucks. The game is here to sell GUN coins,memberships, and cosmetics. Earning them to buy cosmetics is slow. There are random loot containers so you never know what you'll get. You can't keep any weapons from the match. The HEX cubes (loot containers) must be extracted and other teams will make sure you don't.

There's so many store / merch / membership pages to click through before and after matches - it's exhausting.

HUD is confusing and tiny.

The big concern I have is optimization. It's rough! The game runs OKAY - 60% GPU load but in the lobby menus it's AWFUL. Like RUINING my computer awful. 90%+ GPU load! My fans are going INSANE while waiting in the lobby. WHY? This makes me not want to play the game as it's breaking my computer!!!!

Some games it works great - Some games it will not stay open! It's works for half the time - then disappears. It keeps switching to disabled.

FYI : I have a LOT of hours in this game and I played with a controller.

This game WAS very cool and it looks amazing! Unfortunately devs keep adding so many unwanted features that have ruined it IMO. It keeps getting worse with every update now. They are artists that are out of their depth with game dev.


They keep making really bad decisions and it got so frustrating I just uninstalled it.

The new pipe system is awful. Basically all maps are now locked from play and you are forced to do boring runs in a sewer system. It's like a different game now.

I almost returned it immediately after buying it since the character's movement is so awful. Clunky and unresponsive. It's not fun. Like driving a big boat. It's frustrating. Got used to it - it's still not enjoyable.


Their water system killed the launch of the game. It was unnecessarily punishing for no reason. Instead of them making it an interesting mechanic and a cool part of the game’s journey - instead, it basically nuked all of your progress just because they really want to make a “hardcore” game…. They threw a fit and lessened the reset but it still sucks. Now you have one chance to win a fight to not lose everything.
A tone deaf response to a problem that should not have existed.


Now they are adding quests that are multiplayer mandatory so all of us single players are left abandoned and concerned for the future direction of the game.

Controller support isn't there. Lots of features are straight up missing for controller users. Most buttons do double or triple duty since there's too many functions to juggle. This is a hassle and leads to confusion.

There’s no sneaking or hiding in the scavenger game where you’re meant to rat around and loot dead bodies. There’s one tool in the game - GUNS - yet the game keeps punishing you when you use them.

Repairing and modding weapons could be so cool (and was cool, by accident, and it got removed!) It’s so boring now. Click buttons in a menu and then real-time waiting (for hours/days) for your gun to be ready. (Only one at a time!) All the magic of a slop mobile game.

Download the demo and see if it’s for you.

Sucks. Not fun at all.

No controller support.
Fail.

5 hours in and I have no idea what's going on. I did the excavator level 3 times now and I can't complete it. I've tried by myself and with a random person. How many are you supposed to do? I got up to 6. my teammate died around 5. I feel like this game is a grind. The game is packed with cosmetic for purchase. Nothing cool can be earned with the credits you get during game play. We you finally get a new gun - it takes 12 REAL hours for it to be added to your inventory. Or you can pay real money to get it immediately. Maps are all the same. The tutorial levels are easy - the next level it gets way harder and so long. These missions are just meant to suck your time. I think they are bugged or something. clunky nightmare of a game. skip this.

Easy to learn / Hard to master. Even if you're new to poker this game is great at teaching you. It's super easy to pick up. Very fun and you're rewarded with new cards and decks as you play. Check it out!