Recent reviews by Piicrow

I'd rather sit on my own balls than play this game.

Game's a slog. Runs poorly for no good reason when playing multiplayer. REQUIRES mods to be even somewhat enjoyable. This game's been in development for over a decade, in the time this game's been in development, I've graduated highschool, went through college, started a career, started a relationship, married a girl, and had a daughter.

Walking dead released 11 seasons before these guys added NPCs which they promised a decade ago. Supernatural made 10 of their seasons in the same time frame and ended their series. Minecraft got bought by Microsoft and has been a fully fletched game getting massive content updates. Call of Duty released like 12 new games in the time this ONE game has been developed to a point of even having some semblance of actual content added.

What content is in this "game"?

Let's start with your first day. Water, food are plentiful. The power grid is still on. Everything is manageable. You'll probably die without ever seeing day two.

Day two of playtime: You'll likely figure out avoiding the zombies is a good idea, then die from some other situation you didn't think about or know about.

Day five of playtime: You'll have figured out practically everything results in your death, likely won't have a good grip on the game's mechanics for a while still.

Month 6 of play time: You'll likely understand most of the baseline mechanics of this game. Such as; Books boosting XP gain/teaching recipes, building is a horrible, slow, annoying slog (unless you're playing modded), clearing buildings is nigh impossible without 20 hours or so on a single character, skills take literal hours to level, to the point of almost making Runescape blush.

Year 1 of play time: You'll likely realize the devs don't give half a ♥♥♥♥ about the community they, and their far and few ultra fans claim they do. You'll likely lose your save at least once, maybe more. Chances are, you'll start noticing the updates releasing make no sense when YEARS ago they announced gameplay mechanics that, if added, would give MANY people a reason to play (NPCs) while they add content nobody asked for. (Realistic grass growing mechanics)

Year 10 of play time: You're probably bitter, after owning a game for a decade you likely have ~1000hrs or less due to the sheer lack of content this game actually has. Chances are, you'll realize the time you spent in this game could have been spent making you $17,000 if you work minimum wage in some states of the US. You'll realize in that time you could have done what I did, and started a family and gotten married. You'll likely realize that this game is being developed so slowly that the devs will likely move on from game development before the game sees it's release. The game will probably be sold off to another dev team before it sees a full fledged release.

The only dev I think can do worse than this company is the one and only; PirateSoftware.

Sony is making a movie from Ghosts of Tsushima. Too bad it won't be played in the 180 countries delisted from Sony's wonderful umbrella of approved countries.

Sony has a great business model though...
Sell the game in every country for 3 months
Revoke access to millions of users (Because ♥♥♥♥ them amirite?)
Release terrible account link
Backpedal on account linking to gain some respect from the community
Revoke access to more users
... Profit?


I smell a lawsuit incoming.

♥♥♥♥ Epic Games.

The amount of hours I've got in the game is about what you can expect if you're good at racing games.

Do yourself a favor: if you want this game to last you a while? Buy any random car and enjoy building it. Avoid the Porche 911 RSR. It's incredibly fast, super good at cornering, unlocks early on, it's cheap, and is the best car I've seen in the game period.

I say avoid it, because after you get it, you've trivialized the entire game. This game doesn't have much for an endgame, other than racing PVP races. You can max your heat out and run heat 5 races for ultimate+ parts once you're level 50, and level up your crew, but that's about it. I never even touched the campaign because it's not necessarily needed. You can complete every race, become the fastest racer, max out your cars, your money, your rep, your crew, all without touching the story past the intro mission.

I'm gonna go through and complete the campaign, but realistically this game doesn't have much for replay value. For $7 on sale, fun racing game. For $70? Avoid it like the plague. The cops are impossible to outrun without a really fast car, and you'll essentially be forced to lose money, and progress because of the cops rubberbanding system.

Once you get a car that out runs cops at heat 4, you've trivialized the game entirely. It's kind of upsetting this game retailed for $70, but I'm glad I got it for $7.

Let's piss off the fanboys.

Every negative review gets dumpstered for not liking the subscription model for online play, and allowing access to all the features of the game. One review had people pouring in calling the OP poor for not being able to afford "$10 a year" or "less than $1 a month."

Let's dive into that, shall we?

$10 a year gets you access to hosting your own local server. LOCAL server. Meaning not in the list of servers that can be joined by anyone, but can at least be joined by your friends. That's pretty nice for $10.

Car customization is free is another thing I've seen thrown around, except it's not. In fact it's not even included in the $10 a year subscription. If you'd like to CREATE (pay attention to which words I'm using, Ubisoft fanboys, it'll get complicated soon.) skins for cars, you can for free. You cannot upload them for anyone to see, you can export them and upload them to fan sites more than likely, though I haven't personally found any.

Now what do you get access to for $30 a year? (THREE TIMES THE $10 A MONTH TAG THROWN AROUND BY FANBOYS?)

Access to hosting whatever kind of server you want. Access to USING (equipping your car with, wearing, however you'd like to put it) car skins that YOU create, or that OTHER PEOPLE have created. You get access to playing with the best players in the game. You get access to the advanced level designer. You get access to pretty much everything community content related. That $10 a year price tag gets you limited content. The fact that I can pay a yearly subscription to change my car's color is already frustrating, but locking that basic feature behind a paywall THREE TIMES the rate that the base subscription costs? I'll move on to Forza Horizon before I touch this game. I'll go pirate Track Mania Nations and host a Hamachi based dedicated server. I'll go ahead and do ANY of my MANY options outside of paying a greedy horrid company like Ubisoft every year TO ALLOW ME TO CHANGE MY CAR'S COLOR.

Oh but at least there's free car skins, yea? One. You get one. You better enjoy that one. Because you can't even change to a skin based on the country you live in. Ubisoft ruined a good game. The fanboys in the comments are gonna try to dumpster me for not being able to afford a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ subscription, but I'm here to let you know: I don't pay for ANY subscriptions for ANY game for ANY reason. Any game requiring a subscription has better alternatives waiting outside of it's grasp. Go find them. Until then, enjoy your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ subscription.

Edit; 10/13/2023

Now the free to play version is being restricted EVEN FURTHER as the devs have claimed that they were being "Too Generous". This means now the 25 track campaign will be reduced to 10 tracks for free users. This "Free" title is a DEMO. Anyone arguing otherwise has a lot more evidence to argue against now. Ubisoft only cares about your dollar, not creating a community. If they did, they'd have made this game a permanent pay for option to buy the game outright.

Also changed the terminology used because somebody in the comments complained that I used "month" instead of "year."

Want access to having a skin on your car other than default? $30 a year please. Want to play custom maps? $30 a year please. Want to make your own maps? $30 a year please.

Edit; 03/16/25

Unfortunately the fanboys are slowly losing interest in responding to my review, so I figured I'd update it. Nothing to update, except Ubisoft is facing lawsuits in Japan, and slowly going under financially which is good to see. Still don't pay for any subscriptions for any games, so that's good.

To all those responding calling me poor, I'm glad you read my review which starts with me calling those exact comments out. Knowing my financial situation based purely off my decision to not support this company and their practices is incredible. If you can pull that off, you should be financial advisors, I'm sure you'll make a killing.

Love you guys, keep up the grind. I'm sure eventually you'll make me feel bad by calling me poor. Until then, keep your hatred going. At least being upset at somebody not following your decisions is something you're passionate about, so I'm glad you can follow a passion through me.

Y'all missing a second "i" in "Competitive"

You spelled it "Competitve"...

Come on boys, you created a pretty horrible, yet fun game, monetized the ♥♥♥♥ out of it, but can't spell "Competitive"?

Please. Just hired somebody to spell check for you. I'll do it if you'd like, and I wouldn't even charge much.

Look at the amount of hours I have. I hate Souls-like games, this one feels great. If there's a couple criticisms to make, it'd be that enemy variety ends up slowing down as you play further on, but they are mostly fun to fight regardless.

My biggest criticism? LET ME TURN OFF PLAYER MESSAGES. For ♥♥♥♥♥ sake. The player messages are the worst ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing in this game. You wanna sit at a site of grace? Too ♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad, a 12 year old wanted to be funny so he blocked it with an message that you can't choose otherwise on. Oh, and that message? Super, super useful information; "Grace."

Just add that single option, just the ability to have online turned on, and no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ messages showing up. That's all I ask. Also, PC performance can be abysmal at times, dropping down to 14 FPS from 60 randomly causing massive stutters, but meh, that'll hopefully be fixed as time goes on, so can't really complain.

Edit: 350 hours now. This game is fantastic after bug fixed came into play. The game is challenging, it's fun, it's worth the money, and the time it takes to explore. My first playthrough took 117 hours to get through killing all bosses.

Also; ♥♥♥♥ Lies of P. I don't own the game on Steam so I can't ♥♥♥♥ talk it in reviews, but if you're looking for a AAA title to buy? Make it this one and not Lies of Garbage.

Download Veloren instead.

This game is awesome, hopefully official mod support comes up, cause currently the only alternative is paying AzzaMods (A random Github dev) $20 a month for his badly coded ♥♥♥♥.