5089: The Action RPG

This is a great game. Right up to the point where you answer a question wrong. Then to continue with the main plot line you have the start the entire game over. I got to 130 hours in the game before that happened to me. The problem is that there are no save games (plural), but rather just one auto-save game. Which if it takes a while to figure out that you did answer the question wrong, for example when searching online to figure out what it going on, it is already going to be too late.

The quests are all randomly generated. I once got a quest to assassinate the same NPC I had to protect

When you die, you lose things from your inventory. Sometimes, this is a health kit, or energy, or ammo. Sometimes, it's parts. However. It can also be parts from fully constructed guns. You need all three parts of a gun for it to function. If you die, you can lose an extremely vital part of your weapon and become entirely defenseless. Buying a cheap part also won't work- You get an enormous 40% damage penalty if the parts have enough of a level disparity. just why

I had fun with 3089, but this version is a buggy mess (especially in coop) and the gameplay is starting to get really old and boring and the flaws are becoming too glaring to overlook. Bugs: Enemies often skip all over rather than moving smoothly, making fast moving enemies impossible to hit. I'm playing over LAN and even with that my coop partner also appears to jump around unsmoothly. Quests become unfinishable and unfixable (its so bad they added a way to report unreachable objectives, but even THAT doesn't fix the issue sometimes). Enemies appear inside geometry and are unkillable, making it impossible to convert an area or finish certain quests. You can get stuck inside geometry, such as when taking down a stronghold. In co-op, enemies sometimes "clone", where it looks like you are damaging an enemy but when you destroy it, it shows an animation of the enemy being destroyed but the enemy remains standing back at full health. Just check the bug forum, there's endless bugs. Combat is hideously boring. The core issue stems from the shooting - shots have travel time AND random bullet deviation. Why someone thought this was a fun thing to do in an FPS is beyond me. So, it's an FPS, but aiming isn't a thing, the vast majority of weapons you find have abysmal accuracy, if you are lucky enough to find a weapon with high accuracy in a little bit it'll become obsolete and you'll have to hunt for another or accept awful boring "roll the dice" shooting. If you move to avoid enemy shots your accuracy gets even worse, so you may as well just stand still and tank the shots while shooting at the enemy and praying the bullet goes where you want. For some reason I was fine with this in the previous versions of the game but it's just gotten so tedious and boring. What is even the point of giving shots travel time if you are so heavily punished by moving and there's so much random deviation? I finally rage quit after I needed to upgrade my weapon and after 30 minutes didn't find any with decent accuracy. I absolutely hate using the low accuracy weapons. It's an FPS for christsakes, shooting is supposed to be responsive and fun and satisfying, random bullet deviation should NOT be this extreme. Armor / chips are seemingly pointless. You can get an entire piece of gear's worth of stats just from completing one quest. You'll waste more time trying to find better armor than you would just doing a quest. Combat is feast or famine. Either you are OP and enemies go down in a few shots or you are too weak and each individual enemy is a slog to take down via repetitive, totally thought-free combat. Either way combat is just a boring, unpleasant grind. Going through inventory is painful, there's no "compare" feature making it really annoying to try to compare 2 weapons. For a game that's all about upgrading gear it's inexcusable. There is a really obnoxious type of enemy called a "floater" which can oneshot you even when you have so much armor that normal enemies hardly damage you. It suffers from the "jumpy" movement issue making it difficult to hit and it's a small sphere making it already hard to hit. It moves really fast, too, so you have to run away, turn and shoot it, run away further, and repeat until it teleports away and you have to go find it again. Combined with the awful accuracy of most weapons it's THE WORST. VR is abysmal, the game just does NOT work in VR. It's an afterthought. In short, it's a glitchy "FPS" game which fails to get the fundamental FPS gameplay right. EDIT: Found out MANY others have complained about the gunplay being no fun, but the dev INSISTS that they are "satisfied" with the current state of gunplay. So no hope of this ever being fixed.

2077 < 3079 < 3089 < 4089 < 5089

I've played this longer than I have on record. Anyways, the game is okay, it has the basics down and it is pretty simple, but it is pretty annoying. The stealth is a joke. The audio is way too loud. "Turn down the volume" Yeah, maybe I want to do something else at the same time, I shouldn't have to do that. Even when music is off and sound volume is low, the rain is so loud and so are other sounds. It's okay, not great, not terrible. I don't recommend nor not recommend the game, but lean towards a pass.

THIS is a very good game. PLEASE buy it. PLEASE play it. DONT gay it. JUST 5089 it upppppppppppppppppppppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An amazing game with infinite min-maxing, good progression, surreal/trippy environments and pretty smart AI. While I was playing the game I had Synthwave music in the background, and it really helped me to get more into the game. The weapon system is pretty fun to use. It has a slight learning curve, but when you master it, it is really fun to build your own weaponry. Same goes for the armor system. It also has multiplayer support!

it's lacking in every aspect

There are some good gameplay ideas, but the frustrations in the gameplay eventually wear my enjoyment down.