Recent reviews by Jidius

Another bait&switch game. They promoted an rpg like experience just to decide to take it away and make Evo just another sim in the sea. Why move from iRacing, LMU and original AC for this? There's zero reason now...

This feels like another incoming AoC situation.

Game is not a masterpiece
Game is not GOTY
What this game is: Just good. I feel I'm playing a game from 10-20 years ago, it's just plain simple fun without any woke agenda behind it trying to sterilize it or denuvo. It's almost like playing a 3rd person Doom.

I wasn't really in the mood to play but didn't want to waste my night on youtube, so I forced myself to launch the game last night for just 1 mission... 3 hours later... I had to force myself to stop.

Play it in Normal though. I normally play games on hard, but it seems that both difficulties above Normal are unbalanced. If I want to get frustrated while playing games I would play Dark Souls (Hey hey, I appreciate Dark Souls and find it to be a great game)

Negative:
- No ultrawide support
- Dodge doesn't feel responsive
- Difficulties above normal are unbalanced
- Freezes when exiting the game
- Using EAC as anticheat is like trying to put out a forest fire by peeing on it.
- Needs Epic, but well, I got Epic installed for the free games...

Game seems fun but crashing all the time and loosing all your gear is just not fun. Maybe will check it later with a few more updates but right now it's just not worth it. If you want to try it, just buy the standard pack, you don't need the extra space as you will be loosing everything because of crashes, so space will be made after it ;)

60 fps Lock. Seems devs new about it way before EA release but "wasn't a priority but will fix it... some time in the future". Seems to be an engine limitation but I wonder how are they going to fix something like that, either they new about the limitation or locked it on purpose, but if it's really an engine limitation, how exactly are they going to fix that?

Also, the game has a lot of optimizations to be done, but it's EA.

Wait and see if they actually remove the hardlock, unless you play on a 60 Hz monitor.

I will not refund it as this game has potential.

Great game to relax once you get the hand of it. Perfect to play with friends. We rented a server and had a blast!

For starters, people saying that the game was review bombed because of server issues and it shouldn't be this way, I'm sorry but if the core component of the game is not working, then it deserves the negative review. It's an online game guys, if the online component is not working, you can't play.

Then let's go for the positives:
+ Looks pretty good
+ Combat seems good
+ Dungeons for the moment feels good
+ Open world seems good

Negatives:
- Long queues
- Too complicated and time consuming to play with friends (needs to be at a waypoint -> press O -> Matchmaking, which fails)
- Matchmaking - fails most of the time and it's a core component to play with friends... Seriously? If I want to play with friends we have to wait until some instance is available, and if not, it fails and you have to keep trying.
- Controls feels sluggish... and in 2023 you're the one that have to choose the gamepad hud layout... man 1 dev games can recognize it automatically...
- NPCs are 99% static, seems like everyone is on a time freeze except you
- Nice, we got an apartment... but for what exactly? You can't even interact with stuff (no sitting, no sleeping, etc)... yo yeah just some static stuff to look at. Are there any buffs we get from it?
- Micro transaction - same ol same ol selling for a few coins than what a pack gives so you have to buy 2 or a higher pack...
- Limit P2W... Yes you can get the weapons and wayfinders ingame too, but they make it extremely grinding to get them so to try and push you to buy them instead
- Early Access... with a cash shop... If your game has a cash shop then it's live. Stop hiding behind "early access".
- Story - Meh...
- Inventory... Don't get me started
- Also... "Matchmaking.... Matchmaking failed"

Matchmaking for a postivie review... Matchmaking failed... Loading negative review instance.

The game is great but it just keeps crashing. Sometimes I can play a maximum of an hour and then crash or play 5 minutes and crash, then 10 min, crash, 5 min crash... and so on

Missing standard options and some bugs with different hardware plugged in:

Missing standard options:
- Mouse sensitivity option
- Camera sensitivity option

If you have any gamepad type hardware plugged in, like sim hardware, you might encounter the following bugs:

- First craft will start by it's own when you press somewhere on the craft window or (even changing tabs)
- Can't aim skills, it's it's like the game is fighting you where to aim and you're not able to change the direction of the aim cone.

Edit: After checking on discord, the bugs were due to my sim hardware, which is pretty weird as of 500+ games I have between different launchers, this is the only one where it happens. Modifying my review on it to reflect this issue.

Edit 25.02.2022: The issues are still there and now on top of that the game is infested with bots with make it worse queue wise. I have spent 5 min reporting bots each 5 - 10 secs... EAC is not working and there seems to be no admins/GMs. This bots are easy to see as they use speedhacks, tphacks and attack speed hacks.

This review dates on the 2nd day of the official release. I have a founder's pack, and before Friday the game worked really well. I had a lot of fun on it. So why a negative review? Well you see, my wife died a couple of weeks ago and was having some issues with my 14 year old son... Nah just kidding. Seriously, I'm putting a negative review because of how AGS is handling Lost Ark and specially on EU. It's the same as with New World: Server issues, not enough server, bad management, maintenance during EU prime time (or at least covering prime time - No staggered maintenance). Today, again, I'm not able to play, not even because of queues, but because the game autocloses with a message stating: "We're sorry. Cannot connect to the server due to heavy traffic. [10027].

The only thing that AGS needs to do with this game is to host it, translate it, maintain it and make a few changes here and there to make it more occidental. Even with only this "few" responsabilites, they're not able to correctly manage the game. They're even making exactly the same mistakes they did with NW,

Edit June 9th, 2024: After the announcement of the new patch I feel that the PC base was used to beta test this game and it still wasn't listened too. None of the main issues with he game has been addressed:

- No fix for the economy
- No fix for larger companies owning several fake companies to own the map
- No fix for botting (yes there might be less now, but this is because everyone left, so if people come back to test this new incoming patch, guess who will be back too)
- PvE seems to still be the boring dungeons/raids we had before
- PvP is still lvl and gear based. (The beta before the fake launch had the best PvP, where lvl and gear didn't mater but only your skill did, the perfect open world pvp but streamers pushed for gear based PvP and we got the sh*t that we have from the fake launch to today)
- Still nothing added to PvP

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False advertisement, too many bugs and issues, every other week there's a gold dupe and trade is turned off, etc. Cheating in the game only warrants a 1 day ban while being mass reported because some company didn't like that you killed one of them warrants several ban days or even a permanent one. Gold sellers seem to be immune to bans? Lately, everyting has been done to make the game as grindy as possible for no reason as the endgame is non existant (maybe that's the reason). Economy has been destroyed and servers are becoming ghost towns with one faction (out of 3) owning all the map.

It's supposed to be a PvP game but it's just some boring PvE game where the endgame consists on farming chests to improve watermark (gear score) so you can have the right to get higher loot. There is some PvP, but it consist on flagging to get ganked by higher lvl players or by teams. Wars are only for 100 seletec people and there's a one map battleground filled with exploits.

To come back to the grind that I mentionned before, one of their latest patch made it that any loot you buy or craft adapts to your own watermark once you put it on, which means if it's a 600 score loot, and your watermark is 530, the loot will revert to a 530 score with all stats reduced to that score.

To end, AGS are making everything they can to censor any bad feedback on youtube or other platforms. Why???