It's enjoyable when it's not fighting you which is about 1 or 2 chases out of 10 tops.
First off, it's ridiculous that for me and 1 friend to play a game together we have to play with random players which is not at all interesting to us or we have to buy multiple computers of the game just to force ourselves in a private session.
The developers are painfully slow, they give one little snapshot of their projects a month and do not care about player retention let alone player perspective.
Driving physics are abysmal, BUT, I will say, the fact I can use my Logi. G920 steering wheel flawlessly, without official support is absolutely awesome. And honestly it's so much easier to drive than it is on mouse and keyboard. That said tho, my irl Nissan Altima can drive in a grass field faster than any vehicle in this game can apparently. 90% of the tornados that spawn, do so in the middle of fields that you can't realistically get to. So you wait by a road in its path just for it to disappear before it even hits your probe. The only way to get these is with a million coin dominator that can anchor down and let the nader go right over you. But you can't get a million coins very easily, and the only advice devs have are "get good" lol disrespectful and don't value their players time.
Biggest flaw to that is some of the road network isn't the most logical. Some towns are designed to make you waste time and go around in order to get somewhere, and we already have punishing enough speeds off-road. When a twister is going 60 mph past you in a field and you can only go 20, you aren't catching it. The second you start chasing it, instead of intercepting it and being ahead of it, you might as well extract and start a new match.
The economy is only good if you can land several probe hits on tornados and, for lack of better term, extract at a gas station. Alot of the upgrades are decently priced, except the vehicles aren't worth getting. You don't know how a vehicle is going to handle until you buy it and fimd out the hard way how much money you just burnt. You buy one, you're setting yourself back cuz you have to have the dominator to do anything worth a ♥♥♥♥. It would be nice if you could buy anchor upgrades for your vehicles but I highly doubt that's happening. They teased a tiv 2 I think almost a year ago? And absolutely nothing has come of that, and they're working on a vegetation update to make visuals better. Whoo hoo now it'll be pretty even tho it's still ass to drive.
The last complaint would be if you ride with somebody, and they end up dying, you are now stranded. Nevermind the "sprinting" speed in this game is like taking half steps IRL to get where you're going lol the devs designed everything to punish and waste the players time as much as possible and it shows. And they don't care. They want you to waste hours grinding instead of enjoying something that doesn't have alot of competition.
Now those things said, the weather visuals are pretty damn good. Sure not the best, idk if I even want the best, I like being able to chase with a buddy and try and have fun. We get like 3 or 4 chases in and we get so frustrated at how piss poor the money making is so we quit for a couple weeks to couple months.
It's quite neat to buy upgrades for vehicles and they carry over to all the other base model vehicles. They have special ones that you can't customize whatsoever like the dominator but couple others as well. Those upgrades I like to be able to customize my rig so long as I have the cash. I probably after 60 hours of this game total, have only made like 5 or 600k coins. And I almost have my van upgraded to the point I'm happy with it and just want to grind for the dom. I don't even like the Dom but I want it cuz it is the only thing you can anchor with.
In conclusion, I wish the devs actually gave a damn about the players but they don't and unfortunately I enjoy playing from time to time but damn that price tag is not worth it especially in the state it's in now. Painfully slow development, and they're so gung ho about getting features in for 1.0 and yet absolutely no updates in months, they don't care about player retention or opinion and disrespect our time.
Get this game if you like tornado chasing especially with friends and want a good time once in a while. I'll say I definitely have not gotten my money's worth yet (bought the damn game for friends and myself... Big mistake) and don't get this game if you can't handle the game fighting you every step of the way. Almost rage baiting but at same time not idk.
