I liked all of the WW1 games of these devs, and I really wanted to like this one, but simply cannot. The game in it's current state is anything but fun, mainly because of the following flaws:
1. The game wanted to be more hardcore and less arcade-y. Sure. But such a game requires proper hitreg and responsiveness. The hitreg in this game is catastrophic, probably the worst I have seen in any shooter game. There were dozens of cases where the sights are clearly on target and you somehow miss. In a game that deliberately has slow movement and bolting, this becomes very frustrating very quickly.
This becomes even worse when in close combat, one of these weird misses gets you killed. The community quickly found solutions - at this point, almost everyone is spamming pistols, and British infantry just usually run and gun with Lewis LMGs. The hardcore-realism nature of the game breaks completely because bolt-action rifles are so unreliable.
2. There are some very severe desync issues. It happened several times that at a very modest (~30) ping, you get back into cover around a corner, and then a shot fired by a player around the corner kills you. Combine that with some players playing on 250 ping, and the whole precision aspect of the game is lost.
3. Server setup is really bad. Had a fun, close game between two teams? Pity, after the game ends, everyone leaves, leaving a 50-player server with 20 or so players for the next map. Sometimes, the server fills up quickly, but that's not guaranteed. Unless you love playing with bots, back to the menu you go, to find another server. Most of the time, those games are already in progress, so in many cases, if you simply want to play against humans, you will have to join in-progress games.
4. Speaking of bots. While they are not particularly difficult to defeat, this game has a decent amount of focus on sneaking and getting into nice flank angles. Bots know where you are, and several times have I found myself getting picked off by a random bot in a spot where humans barely look. Combine this with point (3), and it becomes very annoying to wait until the server fills up and replaces all the bots.
5. Spawn points are very messy. Sometimes, the same spawnpoint will spawn you forward, in some cases literally behind enemy lines. This is actually nice if you wanna commando, but certainly unrealistic. Other times, it spawns you 20m behind the actual beacon, making you having to cross a field under MG fire despite the beacon being in a trench 20m ahead.
