Recent reviews by Darkfeather

nice idler

Wonderful fun times. I didn't like ark all that much but i love this game. Its got a few bugs to work out but otherwise sailing the oceans and taming animals and making stuff is awesome. Its like Valheim, Ark, and Sea of Theives had a baby.

fantastically built, smooth running, diablo-esk click and cast , loot em , quest and explore, coop is functional easy to use and works nicely during gameplay
only down side is no char customization, but your gear and illusions over your gear defines your characters uniqueness. fun game to play while doing other things, or get really into it and it will take your full attention if you want it too.

A lot of love and detail went into this game. The bosses the mobs the weather the backgrounds the loading times. I want to be clear, i've never played any "souls-type" games, but i felt nostalgic like it was back in the day playing Diablo 1 and being sucked into the game. I still have almost no idea what the story is about but i have just been wandering around leveling up. The Co-op is as talked about, kind of weird and awkward its not super effective plus one of the players stays red tinted while being a guest in your game or reversed. I do like the fact that you can kinda make up your own fighting strategies, however magic use is pretty overpowered and a safer route to go. Learning spells buying gear and leveling up all cost Runes which is interesting because you can basically harvest and sell stuff to level up and then buy gear and then go about the game without much difficulty. The bosses stay fresh though no matter what level you are though because of their movements and variety. I will probably finish the game and subquests and such before editing this review but thats what i got for now at 36 hours of gameplay.

if there was not hackers constantly ruining the gameplay i'd probably play this game more than any other.
however most people who have played for 1hr or more will know that its just hackers. i don't know why these kids don't have something better to do than spawn dynomite under peoples feet but it completely ruins the game. rockstar. you suck so much for not having anti-cheat stuff.
still recommend the game because if somehow you manage to play without hackers ruining it then its very nice , very detailed and fun.

almost 700 hours in, with almost 200 hours of Beta play, I can say this game is one of the best ever , the complaint reviews are mostly from people who's computer wouldn't run the game or they just didn't adjust settings or wait for the first patch for settings adjustments. The other half of the complaints are about getting totally wrecked in the game by bears or wolves or falling off of something.
So i'll say 10/10 if you have friends and/or meet people on Icarus discord to play with.
Solo i'd say , Now that the specs have been balanced for solo play its totally fine, you probably want to spec into speed builds because dodging is more effective than fighting when it comes to large enemies especially bears.
I've met lifelong friends and multiple international crews that i play with regularly and the devs really really look into what people submit and they do their best at the fastest rate they can to update things that are reasonable.
I hope they more character customization and habitat building or something like that to customize the area where your pod is launched or at least customize the color of your pod or something.
That being said i can't start making wishes for a game i didn't make or conceptualize.
There are plenty of bugs but they patch them out constantly . Which i like more than a few bugs that are never addressed.
backgrounds, music, background story (hypothetical lore included), building models, water and fire are all very nice looking.
fire=lag
too many players spread out=lag
characters run bowlegged half the time, and all the customization models are exactly the same.
outside of those complaints i haven't played a game this many hours in a long long time.
Teamwork technology adrenaline fun times. :)

Edit : Game just keeps getting better and better and smoother operating, i'm at almost 1000 hours not including the beta 200hrs so that should say something and there is no sitting idly in this game so thats 1000 hard hours.

meh

good game, getting better, would be more fun with friends.

online needs some work. but otherwise its fun to play around on especially with a few friends. don't let modders ruin your experience otherwise the idea is good.