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Well, the mad men actually pulled it off. The Culling is back and it is good. All old players should get back into it, give it a chance. It is like The Culling Day 1 but better in every way. Looks gorgeous, runs extremely well, feels very fluid. So far I have not encountered any bugs. Sometimes getting into a match can take a while, but other times it is nearly instant. I'm okay with that.

First, they released The Culling. It was original, it was a ton of fun, it was amazing. It had issues like any other early access title. The developers fixed some, made others worse, and often would change the game multiple times before anyone got used to the most recent patch. It burned people and they quit.

Second, they released The Culling 2. We all know how well that was received.

Third, they released The Culling Day 1 Reference. It was good, until the community died overnight.

Fourth, now, finally! They have re-released The Culling with massive improvements across the board. More customization, more textures, more bug fixes, more items, more maps, more everythinng and so far it all seems good.

Play it.

TL;DR the only difficulty mode that offers any challenge is almost literally impossible. Game has massive bugs and stability problems. Dev's seem very inexperienced. Customer service is ♥♥♥♥. Don't play this game right now.

I used to enjoy this game quite a lot, but the devs seem hell bent on making it the most difficult game possible with little to no reward. The highest difficulty, Cataclysm, is nearly impossible for like 97% of the player base (check achievements) and Cataclysm is the only reliable way to get the best loot, which is a shame because you need more luck than skill to conquer Cataclysm maps with any frequency. Every difficulty up to Cataclysm is a joke and Cataclysm is absolutely brutal. You need a team of people with high end gear and who know every trick for the map in order to even have a chance and then, the game might randomly spawn Assassins (think Jockey from L4D2) as a sort of "♥♥♥♥ you". This can happen in the first 3 minutes or the last 10 seconds, literally.

The game has several bugs that make it even more difficult and unreliable, such as randomly dying for no reason whatsoever, invisible rats at times, rats that don't care about walls/objects/height differences and will glitch to attack you, etc.

Finally, their first "DLC" that they released was free, which was great and added some much needed features in order to adjust the stats and perks on your weapons. Then they released a hold out, wave style map. Cool. They teasted their next DLC for a while and made it known that it would be paid, but released no further details. Upon release, it was the exact same wave style mechanics as the previous one, but in a different map. It offered nothing new other than a different location that in no way changed how you played the game. I felt as though this was an extremely poor move by the developers. Instead of focusing on perfecting the current content and removing stability, balancing and various glitches, they released free DLC then basically a paid version of it that offered nothing new in any way. Great.

On top of that, their customer support is pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awful. At one point I had an older i7 SLI Laptop that ran the game fine, but would often crash. No matter what settings I tried to run the game with, I got the exact same crash every time. I compiled all of the information as requested, typed everything out that I could and made a support ticket, marked "Critical". It took them 3 or 4 days to get back to me, which is fine. They offered a solution, but as I was busy with other things, I did not get to test it for a day and a half before they closed my ticket. The solution changed nothing and was literally "This game does not support SLI. Disable it", which in my ticket I stated I had already attempted. So, I opened another ticket and then waited 2 and a half weeks for any response whatsoever. In that time I just bought a new desktop and continued to play on that instead of the laptop. Eventually they got back to me and offered more advice, which did indeed help, but not completely.

Overall, the developers seem to be extremely new to this whole "make game, foster community" sort of thing. I love difficult games that make me work for every single victory. I love increasing my skill. However, this game comes down far more to pure luck than it does skill. You can do absolutely everything perfectly and still lose because the game seemingly just says "Hey, ♥♥♥♥ you, you're not winning this map". No reward, nothing, just try again. Cataclysm is the only difficulty mode that offers any sort of challenge for myself or my friends and sadly, most of the community experiences great difficulty on "Hard", which is one step above "Normal". Above hard is Nightmare, which very few players have ever beaten and above that, Cataclysm. Even fewer people have been able to beat a single map of that, let alone every map. The developers are fine with that, so I'm fine not playing the game again and leaving a negative review.

8/10 game

Gameplay is balanced very well and the game is incredibly skill based. This is in no way P2W. There are various bugs in the game that desperately need to be fixed. As other reviews have mentioned, a human standing on stairs is effectively immunte to some vampire abilities. There is hit detection issues with both melee abilities and attacks, and with human ranged attacks and melee abilities (Vanguard Shield Bash sometimes doesn't hit, you will instead fly through your enemy), and the game has hard crashes from time to time.

The developers seem to focus more on content than fixing bugs, but at least the game is balanced. None of the bugs are game breaking but they are slightly frustrating.