The Forever Winter

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so far really fun. the community seems to be very helpful.

Goated, ♥♥♥♥ exos and 50 ragdoll tho

I haven't played this since launch day. However, from every video and review I've seen, my biggest problem with the game still isn't fixed. The game advertised itself saying that enemies would mostly ignore you unless you made yourself a threat. This is an outright lie. Enemy patrols will drop everything to target a lonely scavenger running in the opposite direction to them showing no intent on attacking. If you look at an enemy for too long they act like you've verbally threatened them and their entire family. I want to like this game. I really do. It has some of the best art direction I've seen in a video game. But the fact of the matter is I can't bring myself to like it as a video game due to how cruel it is. It really does feel like the entire warzone hates you and you specifically.

Game has more bugs than any game i've ever played, This game should of never been announced in any capacity let alone Released in any capacity. I stopped playing in 2024 and coming back to it nothing has changed, If anything it has only gotten worse. Also the game is invested by AI Chinese, Do not trust Any devs any longer ''Indie'' or otherwise. It is interesting how the games lore is about AI's forcing us into a forever war but here we are Fun Dog Studios controlled by Eurasia lol. Also turns out they use real scans of Russian T-72B's that have been destroyed in Ukraine as the destroyed T-90A, Fairly disgusting all things considered..I guess the company is just attempting to speed run self fulfilling prophecies.

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Still needs work but what's here is amazing. It's way more fun than Warframe was when it was still Early Access, has a deep rich world. devs are active on the project and regular updates are made. It's a promising title. You're not the hero in this game, a stray heavy bullet can take you out at the wrong time. You're a civilian scavenger in a 40k-esque warzone. Lots of grind and RNG but the gameloop is fun, runs don't feel crazy repetitive. At the end of it all though you are a scavenger and not at the top of the foodchain. Stealth and ambushing is the way to get a leg up to begin with. Solo friendly but no pause, lose all your stuff on death but can go get it back or buy your same loadout with the press of a button, a lot more forgiving than expected. There's jank, some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ spawns on occasion but otherwise it's great fun. Paid $45ish, definitely got my moneys worth. Some of the negative reviews here are similar to Tarkovs in that Call of Duty was expected but tactics were needed.

I'm just now getting into it, and I have hope that the developers will finish and police the game over time! Honestly it's moving faster than some game development that I'm keeping up with so I think it's fine, at least from what I've seen so far. It's definitely early access though. It's lacking some serious polish in key areas that can break your immersion unless you approach it like STALKER sometimes. And you will lose gear to bugs or ♥♥♥♥ you didn't expect or count for, etc. Just expect that.