SAND: Raiders of Sophie

I ABSOLUTELY loved this game and the developers are extremely hard working and ACTUALLY listen to the community. But first it was the teleporting cheaters who stole ur trampler then they turned trampler stealing off and there was hardly any cheaters then they turned it back on without the teleporting cheaters (thank god ) AND NOW WE HAVE DUPING AND SPEED HACKING TRAMPLERS me and my friends all quit this game until they rid the game of the hackers I can NOT recommend this game to new players in the state that it is in right now.

Solid concept, solid optimization. But amount of bugs is unreal, I encounter new bug(s) every day. Full list is too long, but among them: - Spiral stairs straight dont work properly, as are stairs on tramplers - Issues swapping equipment - Getting stuck on geometry forever - Issues with hitreg - Invisible zombies - Copies of locked doors in voyage locations - Arbitrary damage from explosives - and more Also game is cheater galore, one of core mechanics is disabled atm due to that, hopefully they will succeed in fixing. Yesterday cheater stole all my lootboxes after losing a fight

I hate to give this game a negative review as I honestly really like the core concept. I mean its huge machine beasts and collecting loot in a desert, thats awesome. Sadly though the experience has been ruined for me because of the issues the devs seem unable to fix. I know lots of people are reporting cheaters but I write this review not even about them. The matchmaking system is broken. I played it since launch and even in multiple playtests and since launch there has been considerable issues but the worst for me personally is definitely getting team players in solo games. I have had this exact scenario happen many times where I would loot for 20 or 30 minutes in the storm mode and some times even longer, make my way to the exit only to be greeted by tramplers with 3 man teams who just demolish me, leaving me with no loot. This happened repeatedly effectively making me waste my hours of time spent playing. Having died to circumstance that should not be possible is annoying. I took a break for a while only to come back and suprise. I was chased down by two tramplers in solo who were actively working together. Destroyed my trampler. I had remembered reading that they were activating trampler capture again, so i thought "okay this isnt over, im going to take over one of theirs" I killed them as they tried to loot my trampler and did get to the captains quarters. Only to find it was not possible. I then died to them, losing all my progress to unfixed matchmaking bugs..again. Sadly this issue is game ruining for me and because of this I must leave a negative review.

what a sh** f***** game. game has been out for MONTHS and no one has fixed the teaming issue??? L game. L devs. Doont waste your time playing. delete it if you have it

DON'T buy this game its current state. idk if its a bug with the new GBMM or just the game being dead. but match after match you get thrown into empty lobbies with max 2 other tramplers most the time. For a PvP extraction game, that just completely kills the point. When you do find people, PvP has devolved into grenade spam rather than actual interesting fights. Everyone is stacking nades because they can two shot people, and you can dump an entire stack in under a second. Theres zero incentive to actually use guns or engage in proper PvP. The bigger issue is how slow the game is actually being fixed, its filled with bugs that have been a known issue for weeks or some even months and instead of fixing, every new update just makes things worse. 2 examples, hit registration issues, and constant server crashes in voyage. The dreadnought is also a good example, probably the only meaningful reason to play Storm Dive, since its the only place you can get experimental canons, it feels like it has a less than 5% chance to spawn atm. which is an insane design, the game already struggles with player number and you're forcing people to spend 40min in an empty stormdive for something that has an absurdly low spawn chance and is the only place you can get experimental canons. And yes, the game is early access, and im not expecting a fully polished game, but early access cant be an excuse for the core gameplay becoming this frustrating. Devs should address the problems that are driving people away, before adding more on top of them. Right now it feels more like paying to beta test a game that desperately needs a healthy playerbase to function, than paying for early access DON'T BUY IT RIGHT NOW. Wait until the devs actually fix the fundamental problems, improve matchmaking/population, and give people a reason to keep playing. I'll happily change this review if the game improves.

A lot of game bugs and hackers makes this game unplayable. Even tho this game has a lot of potential, in it´s current state it´s not a lot of fun to play.

Hold off on buying this one for now. Something's off with matchmaking right now — whether it's a bug in the new GBMM system or the playerbase just dying out, I don't know. But session after session I'm getting dropped into near-empty lobbies, sometimes with only 1-2 other players total. I've spent literal hours just driving around the map trying to find anyone to fight, which for a PvP extraction game is a dealbreaker. The whole genre lives or dies on player density, and right now it's on life support. On the rare occasion you actually run into someone, fights aren't really fights anymore — it's grenade spam. Nades two-shot players and you can throw a full stack in under a second, so there's basically no reason to bother with guns. Gunfights have been replaced by who has more nades. Then there's the bug situation. Issues that have been reported for weeks, some for months, just sit there unfixed. Hit registration is still broken. Voyage still crashes constantly. Meanwhile every patch adds new problems on top of the old ones instead of clearing the backlog. Storm Dive / the Dreadnought sums up a lot of what's wrong. It's the only source of experimental cannons, so it's basically the only reason to run that mode — but the spawn rate feels under 5%. So you're sinking 40 minutes into a mode that's already struggling for players, for a reward that almost never shows up. Bad design compounding a population problem. I get it's early access and I'm not expecting a finished product. But "early access" shouldn't be a shield for the core gameplay loop being this broken and frustrating. Fix what's driving players away before shipping more content — right now this feels less like early access and more like unpaid beta testing for a game that needs a healthy playerbase just to be playable. Not recommended right now. I'll gladly revisit this review if matchmaking, the bugs, and the balance issues get sorted out.