The game sits in a weird spot for me, I've had it since day one when it launched in early access and I've watched and played each update of the game as it has progressed but now that it has finally released its time for a review.
I wish there was a middle ground option between yes/no because while I recommend it to an extent I feel like I need to vote it down just because of the straight up lies the most popular positive reviews are saying and with it being 90%+ positive I feel this game doesn't deserve a 9/10.
First of all the game has bugs. I mean LOTS of bugs. I put up with it in the earlier releases and was constantly saying "its in early access" but here we are and MAN does it have bugs.
Clipping
Despawning
Physics inconsistencies
AI getting stuck
Spawn rate inconsistencies
Fall from a few meters nearly die
Fall from hundreds of meters take no damage
Chop a tree and have it fling you across the map
Kill an enemy in the wrong spot and watch your boat fly off into the sunset
Drop a log on your boat and watch it sink
Playing multiplayer if the connection isnt perfect people will fall through boats
People will also appear to be downed on one persons screen and alive on another.
Ai get stuck on logs or pebbles but can jump up into trees and onto treetop platforms
Watch enemies run up cliff sides to chase you and then not be able to climb up the cliff 10 seconds later
The Ai is terrible really, getting stuck probably 50-60% of the time you are getting attacked. Really easy to game it into spots where it cant attack you or just stands still to get killed. Ai often follows the same route each time so putting 1 or 2 traps in it's route will guarantee enemies die before even attacking you.
Combat is loose as hell, swapping between feeling great and feeling really terrible, it feels like skyrim just slashing away at an enemy with an axe/katana/machete over and over and over until eventually they die one time and then feeling great crusing someones skull or getting an instant kill headshot with a bow another time.
Enemies are a complete nothing force unless you are playing on highest difficulty and even then pose absolutely no threat until day 18-20 and then only pose a minor annoyance.
Weapons are extremely limited by comparison to other survival games, and the progression curve is way off.
You can easily head to the cave with the katana at the beginning of the game and just instantly have the best weapon in the game. Leaving all other melee weapons in the game pointless.
Respawn rates for rocks is insane, never stepping more than 1 metre before finding another rock even in an area you cleared less than 10 seconds ago. Cloth respawning in areas only when you reload the game. Key items only spawning once so if you die it is possible to permanently lose the ability to finish the game.
Birds spawn in the same spot over and over and can be farmed to no end. Same with turtles. Exact same spot every time.
Traps are inconsistent and may trigger due to player collider clipping through walls/floors but wont trigger when enemy walks directly over the top of them.
I'm not saying the game is bad because it's not I enjoy it, but it has issues that people should be aware of and since one of the top reviews is saying how good the AI is when it's really buggy, really broken and really easy to avoid/trap/kill/game I had to write this because if I read that persons review and then played this game I'd be getting a refund.
Also store page is misleading IMO talking about the enemies having families, beliefs and morals. This is all non-sense the game does nothing to show this. Having enemies run around in groups and aggrevate when one of the group members dies does not indicate family ties, morals or beliefs and since they attack you on site no matter what I wouldn't really say they have morals at all.
TLDR; The game is good but has tons of issues so be prepared to get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by bugs
