Mercs Fully Loaded

**NOTE:** This review is part of my steam curator review and is the extended version. Check my steam curator page at https://store.steampowered.com/curator/39607348-Random-Game-Reviews-by-Labprofess/ . Follow appreciated! — This game marks the first FPS game I'm reviewing on my curator. Always a surprise what the next game I showcase brings. Mercs Fully Loaded is a third person FPS in its (at time of writing) early access, but not as you expect. A FPS where instead of being a human shooting other humans, you're a robot shooting mutations and other robots. Kind off like what Call of Duty Advanced Warfare could have been (it was still great though!). Play singleplayer with countless quests, with presumably more to be added soon, that contribute to the game's story. Not just that, multiplayer co-op exists too! And here is the best part: as unexpected from typical Indie games, this game got a huge detailed map. No illusions or invisible walls practice to disappoint the player. An actual detailed large free roam map. Not just one but multiple. Jump into various beautiful battle arenas with your friends fighting the AI (which is actually pretty good) or each other. I tested the battle arena with a friend and it works perfectly with no noticeable lag or other issues. Hours of fun essentially! At this point you even forget it's an indie and not AAA game. A rare sight in the Indie industry. All good? Here it gets tricky: this game packs some heavy graphics. Sorry potato computers, this will be a hard one to enjoy. Having tested various graphic settings, maxing everything even brings my trusty GTX 1660 SUPER to 70 degrees. Wouldn't want to imagine a worse GPU. However don't worry, the lowest settings basically made my GPU work at idle of around 40 degrees, rarely reaching 50. If you have a trustworthy GPU, this game is beautiful with its crispy graphics. Another rare practice for Indie games, which run on less GPU intensive (and hence, worse) graphics. The coloring and shading are also perfect as not to be distracting but also prevent the game from being too dark. Did I forget to mention the music? You can find various songs around the map and develop them (a feature of this game - more to it for you to find out). I rarely listen to music but these songs were pretty sweet. Like the perfect adrenaline booster and background noise while you are enjoying yourself in the arena. Lastly, the arguably most important part of all my reviews everyone wants to know: Is the game worth it? To answer this, keep in mind this game is in early access. So ONLY if you are ready to encounter glitches or see your favorite feature missing, it could be. This game got a sweet tutorial, (currently) short logical game story and tons of things to explore beyond battle arenas: there are even 3 arcade games! Let's not get distracted now, what glitches exist? First, don't use a controller. Those aren't optimized from my testing and prevent the keyboard from working. Don't worry, FPS with a mouse isn't as scary as it sounds. Secondly, there isn't a confirmation to go to the main menu and with the short menu lag it's possible to accidentally leave your progress if you're impatient. Thirdly, as just a recommendation it would be nice if the developers permit for online server play in their battle arena against random players. Friends aren't always available, and AI can get boring. If you are ready to take these matters into account and be patient until the full bug free experience is available, this game is totally worth it. Now go on soldier and restore Mercs-HQ to its former glory!

Terrible game, even for early acces its absolutely boring and uninspired crap. Technically it´s a real mess, you even dont have a sound feedback when you move the character on the ground or walk, nothing. Its like "generic third person shooter ordered on wish". And considiring the price its a scam if you ask me. Not really expensive, but for what it is currently, way to expensive... Worst games of 2022 i experienced so far: 1. Mercs Fully Loaded 2. Anthropocene Epoch

this game has extremely clunky controls this game does not give you any feedback when shooting enemies/taking damage i rather eat an entire tomato raw

Early access game that works well at release as I played with no issues although resolution is only supported up to 1080p. Controls are early and are a tad weird but nothing crazy only a few little things like from the pause menu you cant hit escape to leave you have to click the back button. Controller did work as well but not optimized for it yet. A lot to do for the price of admission overall would recommend.

Great concept, and tons of potential. The developer is super responsive to adding new features and fixing bugs when they are presented. Although this is an early access, I can already see the potential this title has. I look forward to seeing how it changes with more people in the ecosystem, and as the developer adds new content. Thank you!

This game has been on my wishlist for several months. The price just seemed too high to purchase. And with so few reviews and absolutely no one playing it on Youtube, I wanted to wait until it went on a deep discount sale. I am SO glad I only spent less than 4 bucks because there is NO way this game is worth the regular asking price. Even it is was free, I would not have been happy to have wasted my time on it. Mercs Fully Loaded is an open-world third person game with both multiplayer and single player quests. These quests are insanely dull and silly such as talk to this person, purchase a weapon, or play a heavily pixelated arcade game. There is also no indication or notification that you have completed a quest. The only good thing I can say about this game is that the graphics are better than I thought they would be. However, the game is poorly optimized because I could not play in 4k resolution without constant frame rate drops using an RTX3080 and i9 processor no matter what I lowered the graphic settings to. This game also starts Steam-VR, the menu looks cheap and arcady, croud noise constantly cuts out, you cannot manually save, there is clipping through walls, quests sometimes deactivate and you have to start them over, hitting escape when first starting the game does nothing until you press the P key for some reason, characters in the city also sometimes walk up walls, and they are all invincible so you cannot hurt them. And perhaps the absolute worst aspect of this game is the combat. I mean I cannot recall the last time I have seen combat this bad. When you fire your weapon, the sound effects are pathetic and there is no indication at all that you have struck your target. None. Enemies have ZERO reaction to both gunshots and physical combat. You also run out of ammo really quick without an easy way to replenish. Overall, this game is just bad. In my opinion, it should have remained on the developer's hard drive and should have never seen the light of day on Steam.