Flash Point - Online FPS

I love supporting indie developers, and I also love redemption stories. After listening to BigFry's interview with this young developer, I was hoping that his words would be taken to heart. I am willing to set aside the DMCA requests, Breach of Contract, Breach of Contract Reloaded, the suspicious multiple studios, etc and judge this game for what it is. Unfortunately, there's not much here. PROS: + You can make your own maps in Steam workshop. + The maps and the game itself show the beginning stages of potential future talent as a game designer, albeit these are not realized in any significant capacity yet. + You can host your own server, helping preserve the longevity of the game. + It's free-to-play now, a wise decision to help potentially spark a population increase. Unfortunately, there's literally no active playerbase, the maps all follow a similar design and layout, only swapping assets, and the environments offer no real destructibility which definitely takes away from the immersion. The gunplay is subpar, even for an indie project, and the sound effects and music, while not wholly out-of-place, definitely don't help this title create an identity of it's own. It's also could benefit from an additional optimization pass, perhaps compressing some textures and assets to help speed up loading times and increase framerate. Maybe even some animated objects could be added to help the maps feel like they are actual, lived-in locations. I'll definitely check it out again in the future. However, there's just nothing really here for me to even conditionally recommend it -- even to the most hardcore of Call of Duty style FPS fans. Best of luck to your future endeavors, developer. Use your three projects from Steam and their failures as an opportunity to learn and grow! I believe that in 5 to 10 years time that you will be capable of making some really quality titles, if you focus on building upon your strengths and also improve upon your weaknesses. Definitely focus on your next title's vision and scope, especially how it will differ from other titles on the market, to help create a title with it's own identity.