I don't know how this game has a very positive. It runs like ♥♥♥♥ and I have a *very* good computer, I get at most 40 fps and it makes the whole thing headache inducing. The motion blur or Depth of field or whatever it is is set very high and it makes the headaches even worse. The weapons aren't very satisfying to use as enemies take different amounts of hits to take down. Sometimes one shot to the head works, other times you have to hit them multiple times in order to take them down.
Someone was saying the crossbow is awesome but it's the worst crossbow I've ever played with. The aim is completely off from the crosshair, about an inch above where the front sights lie, and the drop on the arrow is ridiculous, as if the arrows weigh 100 pounds and just fall right after you fire it. You have a range of maybe 20 feet on a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ *crossbow*. You're supposed to take out enemies silently with it, but it's absolutely useless. Speaking of that, the weapons are just all over the place, and they aren't *loud* enough to alert the other enemies. You can shoot everyone and they wont hear you, but if you are 100 feet away and are in their sights you will get spotted RIGHT AWAY. It's awful to try and play stealthily. They also have the issue of AI having immaculate accuracy with every shot hitting you. If you don't kill them the first moment, they will get shots off you and you'll have to use a medkit every time. Thank goodness you can loot them and each has a medkit to give you, otherwise the game would be literally impossible. A little bit of a patch on a main gameplay issue I guess, just give practically infinite health to the player and I guess it wont be a problem!
It's jank unreal, most of the mechanics don't work. Apparently you can unleash tigers that are in their cages and they'll go and attack enemies, but they ignore you as you're a part of the tribe that is friends with the animals. You can't open the cage with your hands by the way, even if you punch or knife, you HAVE to shoot the cage, it opens, and the tigers literally just stand there. Even if an enemy is right in front of them, they do nothing. They are broken. I've played jank before, I love bad jank games but this is just frustrating and boring and a lot of the mechanics simply don't work or are made to be annoying.
The crafting system isn't very good either, it's basically there to make energy bars out of food, water and beer of all things, and then making ammo and that's about it. It's the most basic thing you can make and it's boring. You have to buy supplies from a trader because I haven't found any of the resources out in the field so crafting is purely based on how much money you have, as far as I can tell. Again, in the hour and a half of play, I didn't find *any* resources out in the world.
The world itself is jank and barely holding together. In the very opening cave, there is a path that leads out to under the map. It's a cave in a mountain and you can just leave through a cave exit and find yourself under everything, and you have to sort of jump up and forwards to get back *into* the normal map, through the ground. I found a bunch of caves, and there are MANY places where this happens where you are left underneath the main map or looking up and seeing something untextured and see-through. Also a LOT of untextured locations where you can just see through places that you shouldn't. I don't know, I know it's early access but this feels *too undercooked* for even early access.
It's honestly just not that good. It sucks cuz it looks like a lot of effort was put into the game but at the end of the day, when things don't work, are boring and are frustrating, I don't know what else to do. It's just not fun to play, especially with the FPS issues. It's not a good looking game yet it runs like it's the new Battlefield game with ultra realistic graphics. I got it for 10 dollars on sale, and honestly I think that's the right price for it. 15 is too high, but there *is* a lot of things to do in it. There's a massive island to play on and will give you lots of content, however I don't know how much of that is actually worth playing. If you really like jank and can handle some issues with the game actually running, maybe you'll like it. I certainly didn't.
