Recent reviews by Raudimus

After playing this game to completion up to and including both the Ringed City DLC and the Painting of Ariandel DLC I have to say this game is not worth the purchase price nor playing even if you get it on discount.

This game suffers from one of the most toxic player base i have ever seen which is compounded by the fact that much of the games PvE content is primarily locked behind PvP content with the invasions as well as completely locked behind PvP when it comes to the Spears of the Church 'boss fight' in the Ringed City DLC which all in all encourages griefing to its utmost intolerable levels.

In order for you to feasibly make it through the game at a somewhat nice pace, you would need to actually spend many hours out-of-game researching weapons, their 'weapon arts' as well as character builds before you even make a character (and in all faireness before you even purchase the game to begin with to save you time and money) as many of the pro-PvPers in the game have already done so and are waiting to give you hell with those very same builds through invasions.

Previous game mechanics are now nothing but random and beyond infuriating, with or without in game mechanics such as miracles that allow your attacks to go through despite getting hit. Parrying and Backstabs are like playing a slot machine and hoping that it pays off as even if you do what is required to parry or backstab an enemy to the letter, you still run a 1 in 5 chance of the game not registering it which most likely will result in your immediate death.

Not only that but the story line is convuluted to all hell as well as having little to no actual in game 'lore' which exists either in previous games, YouTube videos saying as such (but never links their sources) or again the toxic player base that prattle on and on that 'its there, you just have to git gud' before proceeding to try and kill you regardless if they were summoned to help you or not as team killing through misdirection or using knock backs to throw you off ledges is a thing.

All in all this game is perfect for only two groups of people: Masochists who get off on being made to suffer and sadists who take pleasure in the misery of others, especially if they are the ones causing it.

The game has potential but for the casual players I would not recommend getting it just yet. As per the normal complaints when it comes to FPS games it has attracted the kinds of people you would hope not to run across. People who spawn kill and justify doing it, people who exploit a bugged alpha state for an unfair advantage and of course the always hated and just as much always trying to cover-their-asses the hackers have come to crash the party and muck it up for everyone else. In particular I find that those in the PG clain (perhaps known as Prestige Gaming?) have a consistent suspicious glitch that I feel is a hack where they are able to reflect charged plasma shots back on to the shooter in question and of course be able to do more damage to other players while attacking them with the same weapons takes up to 5 or more hits in order to down them. Long story short, wait until Beta or until a form of anti-cheat software is implemented.

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