After playing the game for 40+ hours, it's pretty fun but there are some glaring issues that make it hard to recommend in its current state
The Good:
- I like watching my matches and changing the strategies of my team on the fly and just throwing ♥♥♥♥ at the wall. It gets me really invested when we stomp a team or when a player clutches
- I find it's gameplay loop really good and just creating a bunch of saves where you're fixing your own team and then another for rebuilding a struggling one; there are many ways to play this game and enjoy it
The Bad:
- I think that some stuff just doesn't make sense in terms of managing your team. Sometimes players want out immediately after signing them or players will just randomly decide to be depressed or crushed even after winning a lot of games with little ways to deal with it. The game needs clearer ways to solve issues that might come from player health or mental because the system right now just feels so random and difficult to deal with. Some stats also don't really reflect so well in-game and just feel like randomness
- To add to that, it feels like "training" doesn't do much, especially for coach training with players. Like it barely goes up, even after running sims for a few years and so they just feel eternally bad, forcing you to pick up better players
- I think the game needs more dynamic casting cause most of the time it would either say stuff that isn't flat out happening or just say the most random things. I had a caster say that the CT side got a 3k with the AK but it was actually a 4k with an M4 or will always, AND I MEAN ALWAYS, talk about AWP headshots so I just turn it off
- The in-game player AI. I swear it can sometimes be the most stupid thing ever, especially if you let it auto. To name a bunch...
- Teams would save on a pistol round in very winnable rounds (or at all even)
- Players will pick up an AWP even though they aren't made to AWP just because I guess
- It runs a lot on set plays. I have had rounds where a player lurks and fully clears site and then they will still hit the the strategy that I called for even. It feels like they don't adapt to situations and just follow whatever you called for them
- The general strategies (Aggressive, Defensive, Controlling) feel kinda misleading. I ran some aggressive stuff on some maps but players will just sit back and not do what the play said it does
- On inferno especially, my team would just randomly throw a molly at pit at the start of the round like they're retaking and the list goes on
- Players will also have enemies just rushing in and not look at the angle or respond to it and it genuinely confuses me. It's like they play with no sound sometimes
- Sometimes when you auto, the AI will call for half buys or eco buys on the last round and just lose the game
I think this game has potential to be really really good but there are a lot of things that really stop it from doing that. If you really like CS Competitive Scene, you might get a kick out of it, and if you get it on sale (like I got it for like 8 dollars/400-500 pesos cause it was on launch sale) it feels like you can really get your time and money out of it. Otherwise, play the demo first or wait for them to update it more and more before buying. 5.5/10
