
In SAND you build your highly customizable walking mech fortress. Squad up or go solo. Scavenge the dunes, gather loot, weapons, priceless artifacts, survive and extract. Clash with other players in a brutal procedurally generated desert set in an alternate 1910.
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I'll start with the good. The premise is good, world is really cool and the locations have really cool design. The mechs are just sick and large scale fights feel cool. The game itself has massive potential and the roadmap seems promising, if they can deliver on promises and listen to community feedback, this will be a great game. That's about it. It's insanely hard to start if you haven't played non stop since release. It is ruthless game. There is no form of gear based matchmaking and all the fights are geared towards just whoever has the most progress down the tech tree. I played 8 ish games today and only successfully extracted in two of them. 1 I lost to another mech fair and square, the other 5 I got ♥♥♥♥ stomped by a mech multiple tiers above my own. Very frustrating to spend an hour looting, to get spotted by a mech 3km away and just run down by better tier cannons and fuel cell spam on a fully armoured mech. The game is riddled with bugs, the spatial audio is non-existent, in 11 hours of gameplay I've run into two cheaters, both when i was hauling significant amounts of loot. TLDR; Amazing potential, really cool concept, not worth the £20 at the moment. The main issue for me is the imbalance in combat and how if someone has slightly better cannons/armour, you just flat lose. I know people will say skill diff, but the gear difference between people in the same lobby is frankly laughable.
Das Matchmaking hat ein Scheiß-Balancing … Man kämpft dauerhaft gegen bessere Gegner mit stärkerem Gear.
Good game, cheaters have been executed
its fun
Un jeu qui était prometteur, MAIS a chaque partie tu as 1 voir 2 cheaters : meca/joueurs invisible, meca/joueur qui vole, noclip, aimbot, vol les coffres dans des salles qui sont fermées, augmentation de la vitesse de tir des canons, etc... Arc Raiders bis
Need to fix a lot of bugs/anticheat and fix gameplay its self, its super crazy that 6 ai spawn on a dreadnaught in solos, need to re balance and wipe players due to multiple dupe glitches for the best weapons
Man this game looks familiar.....Oh wait, this is the game that all those phishing accounts were linked to. I had like 5 people on my friends list get hacked and this was the game "they" were trying to show me. So yeah Sand, what can i say. This is an extraction "shooter" game, except you use a mechanical war beast to fight other players' beasts. So if they have more stuff unlocked, then you're gonna die over and over and over, until finally you realize that you need to play like a coward and hide from people so you can actually extract with your meager amount of loot and make it back home to try and research some better ship parts. They currently have 3 group settings and 2 modes. So make sure that if you have the maximum number of players for the que you are in otherwise you could be a 2 player beast against a 3 player group, or worse you could join up with 3 other friends for a squad of 4 and get dominated by 6 high schoolers with a bedtime. Best not to have too many friends playing this game unless you can tell them you don't want to play with them so as not to get put into a higher level game mode. There was a recent bit of cheating going on so they disabled the ability to take over other ships, so if yours is lost but you are A GOD at pvp and can slip on the enemy ship after some slick kills, theres no way to steal theres anymore, because the devs thought disabling a key feature was going to fix some cheating issues. Personally i keep loading in with a basic ship and these game grinding players have the meta ship and just kill me as soon as i spawn in. Like spawning in on other players is a serious issue that most games have figured out how to fix. I'll wait for the game to release several updates before i even try to come back, because i dont like playing against other players with top tier gear and i have these rusty relics that belong in a museum. Ideally the devs will wipe the inventory's of players after they solve the cheating issue and then, maybe then myself and other like minded individuals will come back to play.
The game kicks me EXACTLY after 12 minutes into the round (timed it, used to be 26 minutes) because of battleye needing to restart. I can always get back in but it makes the game almost unplayable for obvious reasons. I tried everything to fix it but it's time to stop. If you're having fun, good for you. I'm not.
I wanted to like this game so bad, gave it so many tries but this game just leaves me frustrated EVERY MATCH. If its not the bugs and glitches (can't even climb a ladder or walk up some dang stairs) especially on the ship, it's the tryhard player base. I thought voyage would be a more casual experience all people want to do is just ruin your run/day. You try to communicate with friendly flares and all people do is stab you in the back. the player base is extremely toxic. Not only that but the game has no matchmaking fill whatsoever! You either play with friends or no one. And none of my friends want to drop money on a game they MIGHT like. This forces player like me to run solo mode against sweats. Solo mode makes this game 3x harder and it sucks. I try using the discord server as a platform to play with others but it takes so long to organize. I end up taking 30+ minutes just trying to form a team, when there are other games out there that have a fill option via matchmaking! I wanted to like this game but all I have now is resentment. GIVE US PROPER MATCHMAKING Also don't get me started on the constant server crashes, were I lose hours worth of loot in the blink of an eye. Also have been hearing a lot about cheaters in this game...smh
Jogo completamente horroroso, a IA tem aimbot, os player n possuem hitbox certo, vc pode acerta 1 tiro de doze no inimigo e 1 hr mata e na outra nao, os robos tem boa movimentação porem é só isso no jogo parece que esqueceram do resto As torretas sao completamente imprecisas ainda mais se voce mirar com o botao do mouse, player pode renascer infinitamente e o matchmaking é completamente ridiculo enquanto vaoce n tem nada no jogo tu puxa partida com player que tem a ultima perk liberada. Alem do Hitbox do corpo a corpo ser inexistente tambem