Road to Vostok

The current build leaves plenty, and I mean plenty to be desired. For what we have and for what it goes for on sale, it aint bad. Currently the game is playable but has it's short comings. To name a few, loot is random at best (no continuity with reality) like you find a gun in the stove and clothes in refrigerators. Random items in containers makes looting very taxing because you are forced to meticulously search EVERYTHING. Doing this over and over and over and over again makes the play through boring and mentally checks people out. There are some areas where loot is consistent but the items you get are random and not guaranteed to spawn so you will still have to repetitively search the same spots over again. I'd rather play Tarkov if I'm expected to find medical supplies for a quest, at least in Tarkov the medical bags have meds in them and are consistent. All the traders feel bland, since they have mostly the same items for sale they lose their personality. Even the gunsmith sells items you can find at the other two traders, but at a ridiculously high tax rate. This makes the "best" trader feel soulless and makes the looting runs frustratingly long. With the length of time you spend trying to find loot to trade for a better gun or lousy medkit, your cat will die. The cat is a cute little thing to add to the game but it dies if you dont feed it in 24hr gametime, so you best not venture far from your shelter. Kinda defeats the whole purpose of this being a survival looting game if you are anchored to that damn cat. It would be nice if you could fill a container with food and it would sustain the cat indefinitely. With that also being said; hopefully it takes less resources to feed the cat so you arent wasting everything. Personally if you're gonna add something to the game it should add value. This cat just adds another level of frustration and ultimately doesnt benefit the playing experience in the slightest. Sure, cute cat, so what? But with cat aside, the rest of the game is what you come to expect from a jank early access title. The AI are intense only because they can cross map you with a pistol while only spotting one pixel of your character. If they hurt ya, have fun finding medical supplies, especially if you have a critical wound. The devs have a very good beginning of a game but they failed to give players the means to play the game. I say they failed to give players the means to play their game because there are no tools or abilities to gather resources or craft things organically without needing to find specified items. Like half of the crafts for food require water bottles and they make them the rarest food item to find. You have a canteen cup or can but cant fill it with water from a pond or sink and cook the water over a flame. You have a knife but cant cut clothing into rags to help craft a bandage or splint. You cant pick up a stick and create a fishing pole to catch fish, you can only fish with their fishing pole which is extremely rare. Like there's levels of depth to the game that are REQUIRED if you're going to add these crafting systems and survival mechanisms into the game. The devs unfortunately have released the game into early access without making it that deep. Intuition would suggest that the crafting recipe list would be 20x what it currently is inorder to allow us to roleplay in this survival shooter. Unfortunately there are less than 10 crafting recipes (excluding all the weapon repairs). There isnt enough here for me to even make use of. By the time you are in a position where crafting is useable, you will have 20 freezers full of canned food and juice boxes, with maybe one singular water bottle found. I dont know if they put much thought into these things and it's really just disappointing because on the audio and visual side, the game is half decent. The gunplay is satisfying for the lack of variety it has. But I wont hold my breath that anything I've listed as an issue will be overhauled anytime soon. I still enjoy the game enough to recommend it but be warned. If you arent a fan of survival shooters or familiar with games like STALKER, DayZ or Tarkov, you will not have a good time with this one.

I get the permadeath concept in the Vostok area, but not being able to retrieve you gear is douchy. Makes the game un-enjoyable especially in the early stage. Get snuck up on by a bandit as soon as you leave your stash? Stuff lost. Find a decent weapon/item, head back to your stash, get caught between 2 bandits? Stuff lost. Finally make it through the 3rd day task, have a kid (IRL) ask a random question, turn your head back to the screen? Stuff lost. I already play a game were a single stupid mistake means the end of things....it's called life. I play video games to get a break from that. I'd not recommend this unless you are a psyco that literally doesn't care about wasting hours in a game only to loss everything.

ты идешь за лутом тебя убивают. ты бежишь на базу с лутом тебя ибивают. хочешь найти кто тебя убил - тебя убивают. боты стреляют как - будто они этого ждали всю свою жизнь. враги появляются из все дыр и щелей иногда не понимаешь откуда и за что тебя убили боты стреляют без предупреждения хотелось что бы они кричали перед выстрелом. хочу отметить, что в этой игре ничего так не веселит как побегушки от злых ботов с дробовиками и мосинками. а так же очень "радуют" боты с пп - ты хочешь пролутать школу заходишь в класс а там это чудо с пп- и тебе в голову летит полный магазин с пм-5. но когда заходишьк медику то аж сердце радуется, когда видишь бота в своей собственной крови. 10 пробитых голов из 10

What an absolute abomination of a game, should of listened to the reviews but its hard because some might be bot reviews but this is awful. Spawn, take 10 steps and start getting shot at by an NPC through a house. Dude was in the middle of the house but somehow locked onto me and shooting at me through the walls. Ya no thanks, refund inbound. ----------Ignore messages from Femboy Ralin---------------- Dudes a dev on a ghost account crying on people negative reviews versus fixing the game. Games cooked, don't buy.

game truly makes you feel that perfect sense of loneliness and constant alertness, environment and ambient sounds are excellent. only issue is that the gun sounds, enemy AI chatter and footsteps sound like they're right next to my ear even though they are quite far away.i think it will be fixed asap, but still 10/10.

+ Best performance I've ever seen in a game, just unheard of, getting 400+ to 500+ FPS while having nice, realistic graphics. Most devs can never achieve an even remotely acceptable level of performance no matter how many millions of dollars they have, let alone matching this games phenomenal performance. It is just so important & critical especially in a high stakes hardcore FPS. Even after investing millions, if anything, most games performance will become worse over the updates. - EXTREME lack of content, & lack of anything to do, the main problem of this game: There are 7 maps, 3 traders and their quests, but really it is just 1 map, & 1 trader. The rest is useless worthless filler. The quests can hardly be called quests. Some of the maps are mostly empty and exist for a single purpose, like the minefields just be a transitional area, or the outpost is empty and exists to house a single trader. - The only 1 map worth going to: The Vostok Apartments is the "endgame" area and also the "only game" area. Has the best & most abundant loot by far. Rarely encounter any enemies while grabbing massive loot so why go anywhere else? Max out here instantly, no reason to explore the other 6 maps, what do they even have to offer? In fact what does the game even have to offer you now that you are maxed? The Apartments is already the end game area & ultimate goal of the game and it is boring AF. ROAD TO VOSTOK? MORE LIKE SIDEWALK TO VOSTOK. No epic journey, just an average Finnish or Russians day. The apartments are EXTREMELY boring, The exact same 7 apartment blocks copy pasted with different doors open or closed with rarely any enemies. The starter areas are more fun and interesting but don't have loot so why bother. Once you done looting the Apartments, leave the area and come back to reset it and repeat. Start a new run, even on Ironman, with nothing at all, and easily waltz into the apartments without a fight and max out instantly, starvation along the way doesn't matter, the moment you get in you will instantly get food and easily find meds to heal up. It's funny how the apartments are safer & easier to loot than the starting areas. Only 10 enemies can spawn per map, and the Apartments area is so huge you will hardly encounter anyone. Never had anyone walk in on me. Starter areas you could be fighting 2 or 3 guys at a time, here it's only 1 by 1. There is nothing stopping you from going to the "endgame" zone, and no reason to stick to the early game area. You are more likely to get killed looking for a starter gun with matching mag & ammo in the starter area than just running straight to the apartments with nothing, which has safer and a guaranteed chance for better loot. The higher tier lvl 3 military here, compared to lvl 1 bandits in easy areas, I can't tell the difference. The minefields along the way? Just run along the edges, EZ. Why risk going through the center of the map, dodging the mines while fighting guards(if they decide to show up for work), also an invincible helicopter might spawn on you which can insta kill you too. I've done it, but high risk 0 reward, no loot. So skip the minefield. - Rubbish quests & useless traders: There are 3 traders but only 1 that is actually useful & worth trading with. The other 2 traders existence is just to be useless filler content and doing their quests is a complete waste of time. The first 2 traders, the Generalist & Doctor, 50%+ of their stock is worthless furniture, the other 50% is useless junk. The chances of the Generalist having something you need is very slim, the Doctor never even sells the only 1 medical item you actually need, the First Aid Kit that can actually heal head injuries that can quickly kill you, instead only sells useless basic meds that are already everywhere in the game. Tried rerolling the Docs inventory 10 times, same trash. The Generalist doesn't need to exist too, go over to the Apartments for guaranteed loot & better loot, all for free. What is ridiculous is that the only trader worth your time is the Gunsmith, but he only appears on Day 10. So you can spam sleep until Day 10 comes, or you can keep looting the Apartments until Day 10 to make sure you won't need anything he has to offer anymore. Even then he still might have 70% inventory of furniture for sale. QUESTS? Hardly can be called quests. Extremely unrewarding, just abysmal. You go find RNG loot that the traders want, you don't need to go anywhere specific, the loot is just RNG stuff you already normally find, so you just keep going to the apartments as usual, and in return they will give you sh*t, the only thing you do the quests for is the permanent stacking discount, 10 total, the item reward that they give is trash. The discount & quests aren't shared between traders so ignore the other 2 guys. Like the first useless trader, absolutely ridiculous, find 6 BEERS for him, it is already very rare to even find 1, find 6 and he will give you the lowest tier starter primary, a mosin with a fixed zoom long range scope? Long before you found even the first beer you are already maxed out. AR with variable zoom & supressor on Day 1 easy, 2 days max, plus a maxed SMG secondary. 1 or 2 quests might ask you to do something different for once, but same abysmal reward. - Rubbish legendary guns, and so easy to max out All you really need is a single gun with a variable zoom scope, it can fit on any AR/SMG. It's nice to have a laser for the SMG for CQC but not necessary. Nothing else you really need, the standard issue AR & SMGS are common, infinite ammo, long before you current AR/SMG reaches 50% durability where it begins to jam, you already can easily find another one with high durability and swap out. The suppressors aren't hard to find either but don't seem to make much difference, if any at all. Why bother to find rare & expensive repair kits if there is no reason to repair? - Legendary guns? Not exciting or worth it at all. The game is so easy with a standard issue AR/SMG. Most of the rare weapons with rare ammo seem to have the same stats as the normal guns, some are just straight up worse, like the legendary KP-31 SMG can't accept any attatchments, not even a laser, the ultimate CQC attachment and still has the same performance, recoil & stats as the normal SMGs, just a bigger mag that provides no advantage in this game, over having a 30 round mag with a proper sight, laser and supressor. Hardly get any ammo for any of these rare guns too, the Gunsmith doesn't even sell ammo for them, all too much hassle for minimal benefit that is even if the legendary gun even happens to have any benefit... Not to mention the hassle of having to keep repairing the legendary gun that isn't worth it when you can just keep picking up a new standard AR or SMG and swapping over your attatchments. Also the only difference between the legendary .308 and the cheaper more common .308 is that the legendary one has an ultra rare mag that only holds 20 rounds, the cheaper one holds 30 and is way more common. Why? OMG I just found a rare legendary VSS, an ultimate gun in any other game, but might as well hand it in for a quest for the Gunsmith for a permanent 10% discound instead of getting excited because my standard issue AR has better stats in everyway. It can't even equip laser or go into the secondary slot, so it can't even replace the SMG, the only way it could ever be useful. Useless, not to mention you have to now grind for the matching mags & ammo if you wanted to use a worse gun.

Only 3 hours in and it's basically what I wanted from tarkov single player performance wise. Obviously with it being early access the depth isn't as much as tarkov but the dev is very transparent with the roadmap and I'm very excited to see the additions and growth. For $20 this is a no brainer buy.