CDF Ghostship

UPDATE June 12, 2015: I have been asked to update my review. Ok, I finally got around to it. Unfortunately it's not going to improve things. When I tried to play to update my opinion I found some insane things that simply stopped me from playing. Here are the most important reasons I quit playing after only a few minutes. I will leave it at that: * The popup tooltips do not have any support for controllers. So I can run around in the game with a controller but have to switch to my mouse and keyboard when a tooltip pops up? Right... * The guns are placed in THE WORST way I have ever seen. EVER. Why, WHY, would a person hold a gun like that? Take the handgun, when I picked this gun up the game character holds it way up to the right blocking a big portion of the screen. When you aim it moves it way over to the left and way back in a way that makes absolutely no sense at all. It feels like the character is somehow holding the gun beside their head, and behind it at the same time. Soon after picking up the pistol I picked up some sort of a rocket launcher. This gun took up more than HALF THE SCREEN. Simply unacceptable. That was when I shut the game down. Read the original review if you like. I'm out. Original Review: Keeping in mind that this is an early access review (although when it is this short I have trouble calling it a review), I can not currently recommend CDF Ghostship. The game seems like it will be really cool when some more work is put into it, but at the moment there are things that make it too frustrating for me. [h1]Shooting[/h1] Shooting can be painful. [list] [*]Guns that do not reload but recharge instead are nice, but there is no clear indication of this which can definitely be a problem in battle. [*]Hitting what you shoot at is often difficult because the enemy hit boxes are too small or oddly shaped, and the guns are horribly inaccurate. [*]The UI is not well designed (yet?) and does not indicate well your reserves of ammo. [/list] [h1]Enemies[/h1] [list] [*]Having a few enemies be annoying is fine, but when the majority of your enemies are based around being annoying you have a problem. [*]Tiny enemies with tiny hit boxes moving around fast with inaccurate weapons = This is dumb, I'll play another game. [/list] [h1]UI[/h1] I know, it is Early Access. I get that. I'm a game developer, I know what it is like. That said, I'm also a gamer. [list] [*]I would not recommend you go into the inventory screen ("I" button). The mouse moves so fast I can hardly find it and it almost always causes the game to do some of the weirdest glitching I've ever seen. [*]The UI does not well indicate the amount of information you need. This was mentioned above as well. [/list] [h1]Finally...[/h1] Any other problem I could mention with it is no big deal to me at the moment so I will leave it at that. The bottom line here is that it is playable, but if you are short on cash I would wait. One other thing to note is that while the game does support side by side 3D (Oculus Rift), the UI is NOT built for it and the guns float right in front of your face not only making you uncomfortable but also blocking much of your vision. It is not playable with the Rift.

Wow, well I had ok hopes for this when I downloaded it. Real let down, holy crap do the controls suck. Its also extremely hard to figure out where you are being attacked from and where the enemies are, as whenever you are under threat deafening battle music starts playing, that and there doesn't seem to be directional sound effects from the bad guys. I gave it an hour, waste of $17 sadly. cool ambience, they tried.

[i]EDIT 2: I've noticed older gamers, of the age where their children play the same games, have been the happiest with this game on the forums. I don't quite understand why, but it seems like the older you are the more likely you are to enjoy this game. Now to my original review...[/i] It has come to my attention people are getting upset that I am a moderator on the forums for this game, friends with the developer, and have posted a review. I'm not trying to hide anything or trick anyone, people may not realize this but... IF YOU AREN'T GOING TO ENJOY THE GAME I DON'T WANT YOU TO BUY IT!!! Seriously. I don't want people to spend their money on something they won't enjoy. Even if you don't believe that, you can believe this. I don't want to have to deal with angry people being rude and disrespectful on the forums, people calling me names, telling me to "kill myself" in my review comments, and just the hatefulness in general. In the end the game does better by ensuring only people who will enjoy the game and leave good reviews buy, because otherwise negativity chases players away who may have enjoyed it like I personally do. That is why I have posted gameplay videos that contains both features and bugs. Yes, you heard that right, I don't edit out bugs or glitches, what you see is what you get. That way anyone watching can make up their own mind about whether the good outweighs the bad, and whether the game is for them or not. If you read through all this, thank you. It doesn't matter whether you ultimately decide to thumb it up or thumb down, you took the time to hear me out, and I really appreciate and respect that. EDIT: I have started a no commentary playthrough of the release version for you to get a feel of the game without any outside influences, I hope this helps you decide if the game is for you or not. https://youtu.be/uA0fngw2ABI EDIT 2: Since I left this review they added a box for disclosing the game was received for free so I updated the review to reflect that I did. I also removed the ability to comment on this review because I'm done getting notifications about hateful comments.

I downloaded this game installed it, hoping for a fun shooter instead I got an interesting looking game that was incredibly frustrating to play. First, it crashed three times before deciding to run, but then it started. First thing I do is change the resolution to Full Screen and the native resolution of my monitor. Wait. No apply changes button. Had to exit the game, restart then the Apply Changes button was there. I glance at the control options. Hmmm. It says weapons are bound to the number keys. Except they aren’t. The Shotgun and SMG. Everything else I had to use quick select to get to/ Except it wasn’t very quick to cycle through. Did I mention you can’t re-map the keys? Because you can’t remap the weapon keys. Combat. I’ll admit I’m an older gamer and maybe my reflexes aren’t what they were when I was playimg Half-life, halflife-2 Duke Nuk’em, Blood and about 30 or 40 other shooters. But I can still play System Shock 2, which has difficulty levels that are no lie. Guns are pretty inaccurate and trying to shoot fast moving aliens with small hit boxes with guns that can’t hit much, even when aiming makes combat a chore. I didn’t play long, maybe it gets better, but I’ll try something more fun or just replay Bioshock or Arma 3.

Im going to keep this simple. It was early access so some reviews are bad but ignore them. The past few patches have come in leaps and bounds. All of the previous problems are gone (except controller support on some interactable objects). This just leaves a seriously scary survival horror with over 100 hours of story driven gameplay, randomisation means never the same game twice, Pro : - Scary as hell - Random events and AI - Non-linear AI so you can't predict where they will be or how they will react - Great soundtrack - No hand-holding. This game is relentless on anything other than easy and even that is hard ! - Old-school feel. - Absolutely HUGE ship to investigate and discover. - Puzzles to avoid this being just another shooter. - Value for money. Cons: - Could have used a budget (not really a con for what is here). - May not be appealing to anyone who wants an easy game. - No VR support but that is due to Epic not the developer. - UDK engine seems dated by today's standard but not really a con as it still looks great !

This game has steadily improved with each new update and its good if you like a story , not only to follow through at your leisure but also fighting to reach your objectives. You can play on easy mode or crank up through normal to nightmare if you like a challenge.Its the same story but the harder modes come with more achievements. I personally don't think its for the faint hearted and you do have to apply some grey matter to work out some of the codes required for unlocking doors or reaching objectives within the game in story mode.If you die however don't worry you are re spawned in the last airlock you came through. If you've already taken a beating and are not happy you can just jump back there anyway without dying?The earlier versions could sometimes give you too much detail on some missions while leaving you to guess on others, but this has also been improved. If your not too bothered about story lines there may be something to occupy you in the other game modes , maybe something like onslaught , which gives you more of an in your face type of battle once the action begins.Challenge mode on the other hand is more sustained and requires a slightly different approach.With skirmish mode and simulation mode as well there should be something to interest most types of gamer.

I will be straight up, I really find the mostly negative comments very unfair to this game. This game was made by one guy. A one person project. For a game developed by one man, it is a pretty damn epic feat to create a FPS such as this. Allow me to break it down. Pros: *Open Area to explore *Dynamic Random Enemies *Very pretty graphics *Lots of game modes *Fun story mode *Excellent atmosphere *Multiple endings *Non-Linear Cons: *Movement could be better *A lot of the combat can be absolutely frustrating *Aliens can bump you if they touch you (reminds me of the original Castlevania games) *Some area's can be VERY dark and its hard to tell who is shooting at you, especially in Hangar 2 *Inconsistant number macro's for weapon changes (However you can choose which weapons go in what via the Inventory Screen by pressing I and dragging the weapons into 1-9) *Plentiful of bullet sponge enemies (unless you get more powerful weapons) The fact that this was developed by one person and the game is very non-linear is a real big feat in on itself. If you can accept and get over the games short comings, its actually pretty fun. It acts more like a survival horror game with a Quick Save/Quick Load system. So if you die, you can just keep trying over, and over. The auto save mechanic is also very forgiving. So yes, I recommend this game. I played a lot of crappy FPS on steam. This game is not as bad as some of the crap I've played, believe me. I am HYPERCRITICAL of the games I play.

The majority of the weapons tend to be posititioned incorrectly for a first person perspective, if this issue is fixed and a basic waypointing mechanism is implimented(?), then I can possibly recommend this game. As it is, it is a mess of a game and not worth playing. These issues aside, I think it is a very interesting concept and very much worth expanding on. But, because of these issues, I cannot reccomend this game at this current time.

People are complaining for imo dumb things. Like gun placement. I have yet to beat the game, and will update my review when I do. But the first hour and a half have been relatively good. The shooting is solid, aiming is fine. Atmosphere is also great with some creepiness present as well. The main complaints I have are very small. Sometimes, its hard to figure out what you're suppose to do because listed objectives are a bit too simple in their instructions. Also, sometimes the voice triggers can be a little misleading. Minor problems however. I would recommend.

Piece of crap barely runs on a gtx 970 without stuttering if you get it to run in the first place, also malware programs in the game files that grab your Steam info, watch out.