SAND: Raiders of Sophie

I REALLY like this game. It has alot, wait no... MASSIVE potential; However its not without its downsides. -----/!\ PROS /!\----- - The game looks amazing, visually. reminds me of a Rust/Last Oasis/Sea of Thieves fusion. art style wise. - Gameplay is SOLID. A little buggy, but solid. with some polishing it could really shine! - I like the idea of being able to send characters home if you just keep losing and want a fresh start WITHOUT having to start the tech tree over. -The "Trampler" which serves as you're boat/base is a cool idea and building them is really fun. -----/!\ CONS /!\----- - The game in its current state, is unplayable IMO. If you have not been playing sense day one, and aren't playing solo, you are going to get run down by every player on the map, and they are ALL going to have worn/pristine cannons and a FAR better trampler then you. NEW PLAYERS BEWARE, YOU ARE GOING TO SUFFER. - Cheaters. Cheaters, Cheaters, and more Cheaters. Cheaters? Cheaters! and more Cheaters. There is most likely a Cheater in every lobby, even after the most recent ban wave. I have had several super sketchy instances. Its understandable losing to someone by mechanical skill/gear but when they sink you're trampler from afar and in the SAME FRAME are already on you're boat and know exactly where you are and kill you? hmmm.... nah. Not buying it. - This is sort of a gripe related to the first "Con" but there really needs to be a catch up system, or a gear based matchmaking system. Getting clapped up by power-tripping teenagers with too much free time is not fun, I don't care what game it is. - There needs to be more POI's or more PVE. Right now, you are mostly patrolling a barren dessert other then the 10 or so POI's and sunken ships. - The coral... good grief. You're trampler will either walk over the coral/rocks just fine or you will crash and become stuck and frustrated. This will also cause damage to the trampler and makes basically large portions of the map untraversable. I have no idea why they even added these large 'coral forests". It feels like it was plopped down as filler so there wouldn't just be more dessert. - This is a minor gripe, but right now there are only 3 types of turrets/cannons you can have right now. a 40mm flak or machine gun type weapon, a 70mm slow firing shotgun, and a 80mm harder hitting and longer range option that's also slower to fire. there are different tiers of these weapons that go all the way up to experimental but you wont see these too often in the traditional game mode. It would be nice if there were more options. - There needs to be a duos que. As a working man myself and I'm sure for others this will be true as well, its hard for my friend circle for all of us to be online at once. Its usually just me and one other person or vise versa. If you que as a duo, you are gonna be paired with trios and that is gonna put you at an even further disadvantage considering everything else I have stated. Honestly I could keep going but this is long enough. I know its a small indie company but honestly? They should have waited before dropping the game at all, even in its EA state. If they don't fix some of these issues, like the rampant cheating and don't introduce a system like gear based matchmaking, its not a matter of IF but WHEN this game will die and it will be a FAST death. I want this game to succeed! its fun, its addictive and its got a theme to it that really makes it unique. TLDR: Game is fun, needs ALOT OF WORK, has a cheater problem, hard to play when everyone else has stuff you wont have until 100+ hours in, not new player friendly. Buy on sale at half price.

They fcked the game, constant stuttering, kicked by BattleEye 2 times in a fight, killed by the map just by driving on a plain, the game in this state just s*ck

game is so buggy its hard to get through a match without something terribly failing and you end up loosing everything you took in. Or you run into a group teaming or cheating a get wrecked.

enjoyed it. then hackers came along. not playing it till they get a batter anti cheat

Cheaters with absurd hacks, not just wall hacks. Worst was I Spent dozens of hours on a ship and hackers forcibly crashed my and my duos game simul

keep getting kicked after a few games trying to play

This game is too much like Sea of Thieves in that desync problems are constant, cheaters still seem to run around, and trying to play the game to have fun is a pipe dream. The PvE is kinda nice, I'll give it that. It's fun to fight the normal humanoid enemies and the enemy Tramplers, but why should I bother with PvE when someone can just beeline to me, lay me out flat with better gear, and then yank everything I have? And to put it to the extraction shooter block is just another nail in the coffin, because you can just die when your Trampler gets grabbed by the dropship and still lose any high tier stuff you have. Give the casual players a mode with less risk, where we can just kinda vibe with friends and run around the sands of Sophie without the risk of losing everything to a cheater or someone that can outskill you.