Recent reviews by Valcrye

I think this is the most exhilarating, terrifying, and funny game I have ever played. Everything in the game was designed to be fun, from the goofy horns and running animations, the boombox, or the installable toilet, there's so many things that were just clearly put in for the players to just have fun with. The atmospheric proxy chat is also just the icing on the cake, it really drives the experience and how funny or terrifying it can be at any moment.

I regret not refunding this game while I had the chance. I gave this the benefit of the doubt and played some with friends, but the second I don't have a premade lobby, I can't find any other players. Their first week of launch has been nothing but them tweeting out about server maintenance, and then killing the servers for 3 hours only to make the problems worse at times. And unlike Payday 2, there's no offline mode, even solo play is connected to a server, so you can't play if their servers arent up. Aside from the critical functional issues with the game, Payday 3 feels uninspired and highly derivative of Payday 2 with no meaningful improvements aside from graphics, and most of the changes are in fact, downgrades from their previous title. Serious polishing and rework is necessary before this game will ever become a true successor.

First off, I love how much this game embraces the Starship Troopers atmosphere with the propaganda and everything. The game is a ton of fun just goofing off with tons of teammates and everyone panicking as they are facing an onslaught of bugs. The only issues I have with it is just the limited inventory and game performance during more hectic points, both of which will undoubtedly receive updates, but the core game... they nailed it and are on the right track. Stability-wise, I've experienced very few bugs or errors and only 1 crash so far with 9 hours of playing.

Performance-wise, I'm sure you already know of the horrendous performance. I often struggled to reach 50FPS with a 3090 and 5950x. Content-wise, however, this is a great game. I completed it before the most recent update which was about a week ago, but unfortunately that update made the game virtually unplayable. I now can play no longer than 30 mins at a time without it crashing, and when I spend lots of time customizing, it crashes when I exit so it never saves my changes. I might change my review later but as of right now, the most recent update has bricked the game for many members of the community (just look at discussions surrounding the DXGI_DEVICE_REMOVED error) and EA is silent about it. Wait for it to be fixed or go on sale, because chances are anyone who picks this up as it is will have their experience tarnished by a company's failure to qualify their product.

Edit: They just released the second update dedicated to bugfixes aaaand... it needs an entire 150GB of extra space to install a 4GB patch. Both updates had this problem, so if you don't have an extra 150GB, you have to fully reinstall the game.

At the time of writing, I can't really recommend this game. It has so many bugs that just break saves and stop all progress, ships randomly blowing up, their positions changing entirely and teleporting, time warp breaking thrust, and sometimes it doesn't even let you leave the VAB with a single ship. Maybe later I could say I'm enjoying it but right now a significant portion of the game is needing to troubleshoot the game itself.

Honestly an outstanding game, extremely fun and unique mechanics that are intuitive and make for some great puzzle work, all surrounded by a great storyline.

This was an outstandingly tough, fluid and fun game to play, there are very few points I reached where I felt like I hit a bug in the game, and those bugs were quite minor and didn't occur again. This game makes you think about your approach and forces you to consider every element of your surrounding at all times and was quite challenging from time to time. This is a relatively short game, but I went gung-ho for the campaign and didn't stop to grab any collectibles along the way which would have prolonged it a fair bit. But overall the level design, enemies, combat, sound design, and overall aesthetic fits the theme very well.

This game is honestly really well made and fun to play, the only downside is there's just not many players online so you end up fighting the AI most if not all of the time

Great story so far with excessively fluid gameplay, the puzzle solving isn't cliche at all when attempting to do it, so i would say its definitely a pretty good original story through what I've played so far

Personally, I was very hyped by this game, I thought it would bring something cool and something new to the table, but in all honesty, it was a let down, it feels just like Just Cause 4, how its simulated open world density, not with interactions and cool things like GTA, I mean like random enemies just on the side of the road. one other thing is that there's only ONE VEHICLE you can customize, nothing else. The campaign is very short, only a handful of short missions, and there's been a lot of bugs that honestly should have been very easy to spot before the game even launched, stuck effects, sound errors, etc. that occur very frequently. TL;DR, this game is very hollow, and isn't worth $60 as such a highly ranked title, as it seems like an empty game