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3 people found this review helpful
605.0 hrs on record (562.8 hrs at review time)
The game is fun but often times it feels unfair and way to difficult. Just when you think you are starting to get the hang of the game a twist on a contract or a random bout of bad luck ruins your playthrough. Miss 50% chance attacks 8 times in a row? get good I guess while you watch any connection you have with your brothers in this game get crushed over and over again. At this point if I could refund the game I would. I know what the outcome of me playing it will be. An afternoon spent feeling like im doing relatively well just to have one bad encounter completely ruin my playthrough.
Posted 1 February.
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1 person found this review helpful
4.4 hrs on record
Base game Sims 3 has more content than Sims 4. You cant go to the city without purchasing DLC and many features like that are locked behind a pay wall do you want to have cats and dogs? PAY 40 dollars for cats and dogs. If your lucky the dlc might go on sale for 50% off so its 20.... 20 dollars to buy cats and dogs.
Posted 10 January, 2022.
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3,958.7 hrs on record (3,939.6 hrs at review time)
Early Access Review
Complete unbalanced garbage. Most servers have auto revive enabled which is one of the worst settings in a game with unlimited growth this means that you will be fighting people who can litterally just leave their computer on and their dino keeps growing until they starve but then they auto revive and just keep growing. Came back to this game after about a year long hiatus and its still as unbalanced as ever with all of the same problems its had for years now. Giant apocalyptic size dinos rule every server you go on and act as litteral whales who feast on new players. Growth times are also so dramatically increased that its now become common to see dinos that are pushing that 3-4.0x Growth. The game has a perfectly functioning revive mechanic thats actually balanced but it requires the player to work towards their revive and reduces their growth upon being revived. This system is rendered null and void by auto revive on death which means every server that has that setting will have people whaling out their time to become Gods in the game. At this point I could not recomend PVP servers to anyone wanting to play this game unless you to intend on just becoming a bloated abomination of a dino. There is no more skill left in this husk of a game its just who can grow the bigger dino by spending more of their time on the game and obtaining larger and larger amounts of stats to seal club the next player they see with. You can look up plenty of youtube kill compilations where giant dinos just facetank other dinos even in unfavorable matchups. The balance is gone the game is broken the only way to enjoy the game is to now whale out your time or play on a chill server and just remove the PVP completely because its ultimately all meaningless. The devs seem to have decided that infinite growth now no longer requires any effort on the players part because through the auto revive system a player can litterally just leave their computer on and afk in game for as long as they want to continue growing to even greater heights. If you have not already started growing your dino there is no hope for you for you are already an ant Titans walk the land and they have blowholes and very mean clubs with which they plan to bludgeon you with repeatedly until you learn your lesson. The fact that their are dinos that currently exist on PVP servers that are well over 6x the growth of the "adult" dino in this game is sadly to common for the casual dino enjoyer who does not have the time to shill out their life on a game they just want to play and be a dino in. Go buy better games that allow you to play without having to overcome someone who has spent thousands of hours on one dino become monstrous stat block that is effectively immortal because even if it dies it will live again and only grow larger.
Posted 10 March, 2020. Last edited 13 June, 2023.
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41.6 hrs on record
Crusader Kings 2 is the better game hands down. This game has no improved systems compared to euIV or CK2 just play one of those instead.
Posted 10 December, 2019.
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1,196.9 hrs on record (378.0 hrs at review time)
TLDR: The population system is broken, to fix the broken population system specialized planets are the most efficient and effective planets, if you temporarily lose a important planet your entire economy will collapse and you will be unable to play the game till you can recover which is unlikely because of PERCENTAGE JOB LOSS MODIFIERS STACKING ON TOP OF EACH OTHER MAKING IT SO YOUR FARMERS THAT PEEL POTATOES EAT THE PEELS RATHER THAN THE POTATOES.
The population system is completely broken in this game. populations move around all the time causing your economy to constantly fluctuate and your farmers will randomly decide they dont want to grow food anymore so they switch to producing energy credits or minerals
BUT OH WAIT NOW THEY ARE STARVING SO THEY HAVE TO SWITCH BACK. The limited amount of control a player has over their populations is assanine and your population STILL switches jobs constantly even when the player directs them to focus on food production. Heaven forbid in this game your empire ever goes into debt because you enter into a debt spiral because of your stability tanking ON TOP OF YOUR JOB PRODUCTION ALSO TANKING. This debt spiral can be quite rediculous considering low stability also effects your job production so you get two MASSIVE LOSSES TO JOB PRODUCTION WHEN YOU ARE ALREADY RUNNING A DEFICIT. This means that if you go into debt and cant recover quick enough before your entire economy collapses you are essentially screwed because you cant produce anything and your farmers dont want to work the fields you are telling them to work. Going into debt of your own volition is easily avoidable despite your pops not working where you tell them to by limiting their available jobs. So if you have a specialized planet like say a planet that has only agricultural buildings and districts because your farmers wont work farms otherwise then you are in the clear.... EXCEPT IN TIMES OF WAR when that food planet gets taken over and invaded. Oh i lost one planet wars not over yet ill be able to retake it soon ill buy some food for my people in the mean time. War intensifies and well you arent able to take that food planet back just yet you are on the cusp of doing it but oh look you ran out of credit to purchase food with and you dont want to into debt on credits as well so you have to wait a few months for more credits. That few months in game will break your entire empire because you ran out of food for 3months which means your stability is now basically 0 on every planet now your job production is hit with a massive penalty and oh look your negative on credits now as well... Which means now your fleet is useless because you cant pay your soldiers so you cant retake that food planet DESPITE FINALLY BEATING YOUR ENEMIES FLEETS BECAUSE THEY HAVE A STARBASE YOU CANT BREAK BECAUSE ALL OF YOUR SHIPS NOW DONT DO ANYTHING TO ASSIST YOUR NATION IN YOUR RECOVERY. So your jobs production is horribly ruined by two different PERCENTAGE LOSSES across your entire empire and you have the knowledge knowing that if you could just retake that ONE PLANET you lost you could get your economy back on track but your fleet is now just another expense on your nation because when you go into negative credits your ship weapon damage takes a percentage loss as well. This leaves you with only one option when you enter into this kind of debt spiral sit back and watch as your population slowly declines or your enemies defeat your fleets invading your worlds and just hope that by the time you manage to come out of your debt spiral you have something left to play with.
Posted 28 November, 2019.
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2 people found this review helpful
348.7 hrs on record (169.5 hrs at review time)
Early Access Review
I litterally cant play this game because I am unable to open unlocked containers and doors that are placed by players Including myself. Verifying and Uninstalling the game does nothing to fix the issue I am still unable to open even my own doors in multiplayer. I have tried to rebind my controls on my keyboard which does not even work unless I verify my game and then load the game without entering a multiplayer game. This has been an ongoing issue for several patches now and it is rediculous. My computer has run this game perfectly fine in previous patches and I often play total war warhammer 2 a much more intense game for pc requirements. This is the only game that just flat out has parts in it that are broken and unplayable. I can play singleplayer perfectly fine but multiplayer always breaks and I am unable to ever open my own doors or chests. This game is fun but im tired of troubleshooting when just resetting my controls becomes an ordeal that I have to verify my cache or reinstall the game for.
Posted 6 November, 2019.
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3 people found this review helpful
345.0 hrs on record (192.1 hrs at review time)
I like this game alot the gameplay is fun and you can get really creative with building your death machine.
TLDR:This game is PAY TO WIN if your willing to fork over your money you can DUNK on new players all day.

This game gets a negative review because its unbalanced. Their is a powerscore system in the game where every part is alocated a score of how strong this part is and you are generally matched with people whos powerscore is +/- 1000 points. The problem is people can essentially pay to win in lower tier matches. Goliaths and scorpions are probably the best examples of pay to win items in the game. The scorpion is a top tier weapon it is beyond the legendary tier of weapons and you can strap a scorpion onto a car that just has 4 wheels and no armor and can be matched with new players who only have acess to blue rarity parts. Blue rarity parts are the first step above white rarity parts and a scorpion user can destroy ANY part they shoot in one shot whilst also piercing through said part and destroying several parts behind that. Needless to say scorpions users can basically one shot new players and a skilled player can do this from across the map because the scorpion is a sniper weapon. When you combine the scorpion with a scope you can precisely target any part on a newbies vehicle and instantly incapacitate them. Goliaths are a type of giant tank tread which has the HIGHEST DURABILITY IN GAME and goliaths can be used against players who only have acess to COMMON WHITE RARITY PARTS. Goliath tracks can completely cover a persons cabin on either side of them so they effectively can only take damage from the front or back of their vehicle. I have personally witnessed a Goliath build 1v7 and win in a tier of players who should only have acess to white and blue parts that being the 2000-3000 powerscore bracket. Now Goliaths are a purple or epic part one step below legendary they are non craftable and can only be bought. I would wager that if an entire team of newbies shot a Goliath track with the strongest white weapon in the game the avenger itd probably take those 8 newbies 2 shots each just to break one Goliath track. If getting one shotted or being unable to defeat players who have payed for the game sounds like a good time then you are probably part of the problem with this game. Either powerscores need to be adjusted SIGNIFICANTLY on higher tier weapons and movement parts or they need to be restricted to certain powerscores where they belong. Any player who owns Goliath tracks or a Scorpion can easily build a vehicle that is viable fun and fair for higher powerscores they should NOT be matched together with new players thats how you kill your player base for an otherwise really good game.
Posted 13 August, 2019.
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101.7 hrs on record (86.2 hrs at review time)
Dont get this game until they fix the server issues. Losing packets in the middle of a fight will ruin this gaming experience for you. This is a good game i like the complexity and depth of the combat system but im finding that the server issues have either gotten worse or my tolerance for them has deteriorated to much. Dueling is really fun in this game its a shame that anytime i get a REALLY GOOD LONG DRAWN OUT DUEL with a player of an equivalent enough skill level to me I always know i have a risk of losing a packet mid fight. When packet loss makes you lose a duel it seriously ruins your gaming experience "I lost because my oponents sword phased through my block" "I lost because my attack went through my oponents body" Losing packets is just straight cancer. I was lucky when this game first came out and did not experience any server issues for the first week or so. Then they started to patch the game to try to fix the server issues and now i have started to experience server issues EVERY SINGLE MATCH. At least the developers know this is an issue hopefull they will resolve it soon because at current I just cant play the game that i used to like because of packet loss.
Posted 3 June, 2019.
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2 people found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
408.2 hrs on record (306.0 hrs at review time)
Played as the gauls.
Gauls get bonus barbarian diplomacy and public order from going to war.
Minor party has traits HATES BARBARIANS and PACIFISTS.
Civil war happens on turn 22.
I uninstall and refuse to play again because of ANTIFUN mechanics.
Posted 16 May, 2018.
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No one has rated this review as helpful yet
16.6 hrs on record
New players are not matched together with other new players because there is no account level system in this game so if you have never played Dota it can be very hard to get into the game. I really do not know how long i will even try to continue playing this game because of the fact that i am being grouped with very experienced players where as i only have the experience i have gained from playing against the robots.
Posted 4 March, 2018.
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