Recent reviews by Outcats

games fun when works, arrowhead seems compelled to make sure it doesn't work
some points
QA seems nonexistent, every patch comes with either returning bugs or massive and obvious bugs

balance is and always has been ♥♥♥♥, to expand on that let me just throw some stuff here
- assault rifles have been pretty universally bad with one sitting on top of the heap, right now its the coyote which is unquestionably the best AR whereas the rest aren't good enough to justify. None of them feel different to justify using them for feel anyway.
- Armor passives are seemingly weaponized, shortly after we get nerfed or the enemies get buffed we get a new warbond armor that fills in what we used to have. (2 ish weeks before Siege Ready came out as a passive, a bunch of very popular weapons had their max ammo reduced. Siege Ready gives you some of that lost max ammo back). This is also what happened with the Gunslinger perk, among others.
- Devs don't seem to actually look at what their change does, currently all sidearms are barely useable for on the go precision (the weapon sways uncontrollably for a full second if you sprint or exit a sprint)
- Almost all the warbonds with weapons that are good and liked is almost immediately nerfed into the ground, only sometimes being brought back into usability (eruptor becoming usable again recently).
- things that are not directly nerfed are very quickly soft nerfed back to irrelevance (arc thrower used to stun hulks, got nerfed, then buffed to be able to stun hulks again after backlash. 3 weeks later they buffed the hulk instead so that the arc thrower can't stun them in one hit anymore, thus softnerfing the arc thrower. just one example)

the actual game itself is in immense need for fixes
- the game is bloated to hell and back, on console its 40-ish gigabytes, on PC its 140 gigabytes
- performance has been on a steady decline since release
- Known issues have been unfixed since launch (the berserker and charger don't make any noise when moving, this is supposedly going to be fixed in the upcoming patch almost 2 years after launch)
- Arrowhead love to sit on their thumbs regarding fixes, rather than approaching most issues with periodic fixes they prefer to wait until the game is in such a state that people start throwing fits and then prepare one big patch. This has happened multiple times, see 60 day patch.
- Peoples computers (mine included, why I stopped playing) completely lock up when playing the game, requiring a full restart. This happens on no other games, it hasn't been fixed

Main point being is that the devs don't have any interesting in making their game work well until Sony starts breathing down their neck, the extremely vapid post that they made about a patch to fix the compounding bugs over the past 6 months only came when their reviews hit mixed. patch isn't even getting rolled out until october either
I'm sure its fun when it works but this ain't it

game is crock ♥♥♥♥ now
the dev ran off and releases maps made by other people to get money from skins and cases
the dev also hasn't made any major updates to the game since like 2018
crock ♥♥♥♥!!!!!!!

also just really janky, severely underdeveloped survival mechanics (there is never EVER a situation where food, water, or infection are issues)
I guess maybe if you like pvp on one of the 4 pvp servers thats both fun and has players in it

the biggest fumble of the century gah dayum
don't buy it lol

This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fishing right here. None of that pansy ass ♥♥♥♥ tugging smile for the aquarium ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Men puke, men POOP on the dock, men deliver their newborns by the pond. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard core fish in the ass fishing rod tacklebox ♥♥♥♥ it catch it fishing time ♥♥♥♥. Take it to the bait store. Fish get shoved in places you don't even REMEMBER. We fish together we celebrate together. Fishing is BACK baby.

shocking: pay to win game is pay to win, more at 12

ok imagine this ...
magma uo,rm ..
now shrine of moutan
3 magma wo urm..
u are ded, try drizzle

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Morbius hunt 👍

Okay so just to preface this: Toram does a lot of things correctly for an Asobimo game.
You get 3 free character slots and access to free stat resets and avatar box rolls (assuming you're willing to dump the time in or you're new and get them en masse) among other things.
My experience with Asobimo goes way back to Iruna Online, staying with that game up until I quit around Toram Online's launch in 2015~ and I gotta say the changes are refreshing compared to the button mash gameplay of Iruna.

However good some of the changes may be, many of the slight issues with Asobimos games shine really heavily through.
The main one being the boss scaling is absolutely godawful in every sense. Early game the bosses are a little challenging (assuming you don't just autoitem the 99x Revita (Gift) you get at the start) but definitely doable even if you need to farm for gear or materials. But right around Ganglef, a boss with
107800HP where the maximum damage output of someone around that level (50 max if you didn't overly farm) is around 8k-15k damage with a charged up MP meter.
Its understandable that this is meant to encourage party play but its an extremely sudden jump where you are incapable of soloing a boss in a reasonable timeframe after only one boss. Iruna Online also had this problem a lot of the time if you weren't willing to spend forever grinding 3i or Mega.
The janky targeting system doesn't help this at all, when a boss has respawning minions that either knock you out of a magic cast or do chip damage too quickly for you to heal back with a Revita, it just makes the entire boss fight a game of cat and mouse.

The community of this game is absolutely wonderful, especially so if you find a good active clan. But the issues with scaling are just too glaring for me to overlook. Iruna was bad but I could generally progress on my own with enough prep in the higher levels, Toram and boss minions just make it too damn annoying to pull off.

game is ok and all but god ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ damn