Cogs and Cowboys

I was real excited to finally see a shooter that actually had some cover, because there have been about 30 Vive shooters where you stand in the open with nothing to duck behind, and ducking behind things is fun. Unfortunately, in its current state, Cogs and Cowboys is extremely clunky and not enjoyable in the slightest. You'll watch the trailer and think of exciting cowboy action, rapid-firing away with dual revolvers like classic cowboy fare, but in reality the the gameplay is bland and unenjoyable, with many major flaws. [Note: At the time I wrote this review a major issue was that there were all kinds of delays on your rate of fire, although supposedly some have been fixed since.] *The weapon selection system uses a great idea, but the execution is very poor, so it takes intense concentration and several attemps to change weapons. The first robot has always started shooting at me by the time I've equipped a weapon in both hands *There is an unacceptably long delay (maybe .2 or .25 seconds?) between when you pull the trigger and when the gun actually fires. As if the game needed more excuses to limit your ROF *The game encourages you to dual-wield, but your guns are so unresponsive and your effective rate of fire is so severely limited that you'll never hit anything in this manner. Might as well put down one controller and only use one gun. *The sound is bland to the extreme and poorly mixed. The audio would be more exciting if your friend was watching you play and making sound effects with his mouth *There's a long rifle but no two-handed aiming afaict *[b]Forces you to type in your name every time you die[/b] Supposedly these issues have been fixed, but I already refunded the game and can't verify: *Loading the revolvers and rifle seems to require you to swipe from top-to-bottom on the touchpad, which I guess is supposed to simulate pulling the hammer down, but it's way too finicky. Sometimes it doesn't work, othertimes it works with just a tap *There's at least half a second of delay between when you pull the hammer back and when you can actually fire, painfully limiting your rate of fire and making it very difficult to tell if you've actually ♥♥♥♥♥♥ the gun correctly

Good little shooter, makes a refreshing change from shooting zombies, just needs more levels/areas. Good buy tho

This game has some promise as a wave based shooter if the story mode is added and it has some casual game play options added. The western theme is good. The game play is not very unique though. You have guns and you have a shield and you can slow time and you are stuck in your room scale space and not able to travel any where on the map. Sound familiar? I am not going to be buying many more of these WBS's and probably more like never again. There are too many and they are just not exciting to me anymore. VR needs more than just arcade games. I grew up in the 70's too and understand the arcade craze like anyone else but that was then and this is now. I want the future not the past. I am going to recommend this based on the video below which you can watch and the fact that the dev says he is going to add a story mode. It took some getting used but it had its fun and the guns were a good mix of oldish style and future style even though the whole game is obviously a sci-fi western so don't go into this thinking you are back in and I say ,respectfully, Vietnam or Iraq and things have to work that way. Let a game be a game. Games for the most part are for fun and not real life re-enactments. The game is cheap but that is not why I bought it. I don't care about cheap anymore if devs are just going to slap a VR game together in another skin and let the VR game grabbers scrounge for the dish. That is not my style nor do I appreciate that as a game consumer. I read a review and got soft and that is why I bought this. It had some fun but it does need work as of this writing but if you love WBS's then this will satisfy I am sure. Enjoy the game and the video below after it processes. Peace. https://youtu.be/4J8SojbDf64

Have not played much of this game and probably won't. It is not bad however, it has nothing unique about it. Its just another one of those stand and shoot games. It was not bad but was not great or unique. 4/10

I know it's early access, but so are most VR games. Yet, this one is still less fun and less polished than many others.

If you are into wave based shooters get it now. Unique enough and cheap compared to others. Get it!

bis auf weiteres werden alle steam spiele mit einem daumen runter bewertet bis mir die möglichkeit gegeben wird auf die alte bibliothek zu wechsel.

Not realy ready in so many ways...Sound popped in and out and the shooting was dodgy...It may take awhile to get some improvement but my $5.99 should show that I am in and waitng for someething better...I too was excited about a western themed shooter but it did not fufill its promise..

Hi, First of all, a good start for an early access game. here are my suggestions/notes for future updates based on the first try of the game: - weopon sound doesnt fit the game. I would expect having something more powerfull/smoother relying to the weapon-sound that shows "hey, ive got a gun! Currently it feels like a 8bit sound-compilation. - for myself i feel like some weopons miss a reloadsound, eg sniper or the double barrel needs an additional sound when ammo is "getting back" - personally i dont like to drive around the trackpad to reload a weopon (it always gets annoying when the game has reached a specific speed level) - when the music/sfx volume is being reduced (out of the game) and the game has been restarted, the first couple of seconds are on a wrong volume and gets lowered afterwards. - the weapon-menu ... well, for now i cant say whether i like or hate it :). only noticed when i had my arm reached during the fight, choosing a weopon is not a good idea as the menue is being put a short distance off which means i need to reach my hand further or get it back and reopen the menu. maybe you can balance it a bit. - weopon damage needs small balance-update - weopon aiming seems a bit broken (especially noticed within the sniper) - to have an option to set the weopon angle would be great - global leaderboard missing - you already said its on the run :) - power ups would be great like (laserpointer, health recovery, autoreload, semifire and something like that) - bots could need a smoother moving - a radar which shows spoted enemys would be helpful especially on higher waves - getting close to an enemys shot that puts you under slow motion feels pretty nice (like it is SpacePirateTrainer) or even reduce the bullet-speed. its not that easy to to evade (or is it just me?) - how about dynamite!!! (hey we are cowboys :) ) - honestly i thought to have enough space to play but this game takes a bit too much. Some kind of teleporting would be great. Reducing the game-space could be an option as well.

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