Gray Zone Warfare

TL;DR: A game with great potential that focuses more on tactical combat than endless looting. Unfortunately, it's not quite ready yet due to both unfinished gameplay mechanics and Unreal Engine 5 optimization issues. Once you start playing it, you'll quickly realize that Tarkov was — and still is — a surprisingly polished game. I've had this game on my wishlist for quite some time and finally decided to give it a shot. Here's my take—hopefully it'll help someone who's on the fence. <The good bits> The tropical setting is a refreshing change for the extraction shooter genre. The larger, more open environments make firefights feel different from the usual urban or industrial maps. The gunplay feels great, and having to carefully plan your approach before attacking an enemy outpost is one of the game's strongest aspects. I absolutely loved this part. Using blood loss as your health indicator instead of a traditional health bar is a fantastic idea and works surprisingly well. <The not-so-good bits> Audio is broken. It's often incredibly difficult to tell where enemies are coming from. I got killed multiple times by someone behind me while I was 100% convinced they were in front. The economy needs work. By level 18, I could only afford two storage caches, and the buy/sell price ratio feels unnecessarily punishing. No character progression yet. That's understandable for an Early Access title, but it's still something to keep in mind. UE5 optimization is disappointing. There is some optimization, but I honestly expected it to run better than Escape from Tarkov on my RTX 3080 Ti. <The "What were they thinking?!" bit> I was genuinely shocked to discover that PvE still puts you into a shared server with other players. Sure, you can team up with people and tackle difficult missions together if that's your thing. But my goal in PvE is the exact opposite—I want to overcome those challenging missions on my own. Here's why this design completely kills the experience for me: You gear up, carefully plan your approach, call in the helicopter, spend 10 minutes hiking to the objective, and the anticipation keeps building... ...only to arrive and discover that another player has already cleared the entire outpost. All the enemies are dead, all the valuable loot is gone, and you're left walking through the area as if you've enabled a cheat code. Yes, you can still complete the objective, but there's zero satisfaction because you never actually earned it. Even worse, there's no way to know whether an area has already been cleared before making the trip—you only find out once you arrive. That single design decision completely killed my motivation to keep playing. I'll definitely come back after a few major updates because the game has a lot of potential. But for now, it's going back on the shelf.

екстракшн шутер здорової людини. Це саме те, що шукав стільки років!

你扮演的不是刚摸枪的幸存者，而是接受过系统训练、装备完善的PMC行动人员 大量敌人则是地方武装、暴徒、民兵性质人员 但是现实问题是玩家在4倍镜里准星晃来晃去，AI拿一把普通M16站在100多米外，抬枪一两发直接打脸，一旦昏迷，独狼玩家直接重开，丢失所有物品 敌人准的异常，上次遇到这个情况还是在ready or not里面的ai人均约翰威克的水平 另外没有载具系统，只有直升机，直升机有时候要排队，而且降落地点很少，都已经PVE了，为什么不能开载具，哪怕摩托车也行啊，地图很大，全靠腿跑，而且耐力很差，加速跑不到30米就喘了，这体力…… 瞄准镜打开后晃得很离谱，玩家人均帕金森患者

Great game! But… Will this end up being another game stuck in an endless alpha? The game is already in a much better state than many AAA titles released as version 1.0. It absolutely deserves a 5/5 rating. However, because it’s still in an endless pre-alpha with mandatory wipes, I’d recommend waiting for version 1.0. As long as players keep paying for a never-ending pre-alpha, the studio has little incentive to release the full version. At the same time, they can always hide behind the “it’s only pre-alpha” label instead of being fully accountable for bugs and other issues.

Have only played standard edition don't think it's worth the other editions imo. Bought when it was around 40 which I think is a fair price. Right now do not think it's worth the price, pretty much only check in during their major updates. It definitely I think is a much better immersive military style operation sandbox with looting elements sprinkled in. I found quests far more enjoyable than looting, feels more about being a mercenary tasked in the area moving from location to location investigating the overall outcome of what has happened in this location. Really strong in this aspect. That said it definitely has a lot of rough edges. PVP is not where it need to be at. While it can have it's moments of being fun (Early game was where it was an absolute blast) but ultimately falls flat due to implementation and no doubt a cheater problem. These games always have a cheater problem and ruins the overall experience of the gameloop. So better to stay in PvE so as to mitigate the hassle but PvE shows that right now there isn't much to do within the game as a whole at least at this stage of development. Gunplay isn't great but not terrible, but that's down to my preference I suppose. I don't know what it is but it just doesn't have that feel and can't pinpoint exactly what it is. Just has a off feeling in general not enough it's unplayable but if you've played other shooters it's like it is missing something or doing something not quite right. That said shotgun by far my favourite weapon and felt great to use. I'd spend money once you have more updates and see where the game will be. Right now I'd avoid it.

So good. Huge map. Great community. Love it. 5* all day.

Game is great but the AI is dogshi. Take a guy out from 100m with a surpressed weapon? Cool now the whole base is immediately on alert and knows your exact location and can dome you from that same range with iron sight MP5s. If the AI wasn't so overtuned it would be an S Tier game.