The Good
Rock Solid Stability: I played for 17 hours straight without a single crash.
Streamer-Friendly: The built-in streamer mode is perfect for avoiding copyright strikes on Twitch. The fan service moments (like civilians running around in their underwear) make for hilarious content when chat gets to admire some cheeks for points during a Myers kill.
Low Salt Gameplay: Myers easily wipes out the AI civilians, which satisfies the killer power-fantasy even if the player-controlled survivors manage to escape. It keeps the match fun for everyone.
Great Graphics: The visuals are fantastic and completely nail the atmosphere.
The Quirks & Bugs
Physics Glitches: Myers' teleport shade ability clips with vehicles, letting you literally push the police wagon around the map. I also had a visual bug where the lawn dart and knife combined into one weapon.
Accidental Flexing: A glitch let me equip the locked red glowing ember Myers skin without completing any challenges. Going into lobbies and getting called a hacker (and being told to shower) was hilarious. There are also shadow mines that I got to use without being the proper level that I still have no clue what they even do exactly.
The game leaves leftover easy anti cheat installer files in the root directory of your drive outside of the Steam folder where they belong you can safely delete them (EasyAntiCheat_EOS_Setup.exe, vc_redist.x64.exe)
The Bad
Hardware Heavy: It hits the hardware hard. My i9-14900K sat at 78-80°C the whole time, with the GPU at 71°C pulling 13.4GB of VRAM and 30GB of system RAM. It maintained a playable 60 FPS, but it is extremely demanding I am looking forward to testing this game out when Novalake drops next year.
Survivor Loops: Similar to the most frustrating chases in Dead by Daylight, some survivors feel impossible to catch. Between potential infinite stamina glitches and item abuse, chases often turn into: grab, get stabbed, they run away, grab, get stabbed, and they run away, forever repeat.
Clunky Ranged Combat: Throwing weapons are practically useless against fast survivors unless they are standing completely still and not looking.
Short Single-Player: The story mode is extremely brief and heavily restricted by invisible walls guiding you exactly where to go.
DLC map Ideas
Since the franchise is limited, future content will likely rely on cosmetics and with preferably more emphasis put on maps. A massive 5-story hospital map would be a perfect addition.
Laurie's Fortified Compound: Based on the 2018 movie, this would be a highly defensive map. It could feature the woodland perimeter, heavy security gates, and the secret basement trapdoor system, offering survivors unique ways to hide or trap the killer.
Densely wooded campground with tents and bushes to hide in as well as very thick fog to obscure vision to help survivors hide better.
