'll be honest, I haven't played much of this game. The reason is because I couldn't help but notice a glaring audio issue upon picking up and firing the first weapon you get. The gist is that there's about 250ms of delay - when you fire the gun you can actually see the muzzle flash completely dissipate before hearing the gunshot. In real-time it can be subtle but it's enough of a discrepancy to be noticeable and give the gun a sluggish, strange feeling. Many people have told me they never noticed it originally but after watching my video they see/hear it now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhS3f0MNF30 Personally I can't really move past this; my brain won't let me. I don't know if this extends to other audio in the game (I have a feeling it might) but this was enough of an oversight I couldn't really bring myself to enjoy the rest of the game; it broke the immersion that much (for me). By looking at other reviews I have a feeling this isn't something most people notice or are sensitive to so maybe it's worth trying the game regardless. I just can't believe they released the game in this state and never fixed it.
I'll be honest, I haven't played much of this game. The reason is because I couldn't help but notice a glaring audio issue upon picking up and firing the first weapon you get in the game. The gist is that there's about 250ms of delay - when you fire the gun you can actually see the muzzle flash completely dissipate before hearing the gunshot. In real-time it can be subtle but it's enough of a discrepancy to be noticeable and give the gun a sluggish, strange feeling. Many people have told me they never noticed it originally but after watching my video they see/hear it now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhS3f0MNF30 Personally I can't really move past this; my brain won't let me. I don't know if this extends to other audio in the game (I have a feeling it might) but this was enough of an oversight I couldn't really bring myself to enjoy the rest of the game; it broke the immersion that much (for me). By looking at other reviews I have a feeling this isn't something most people notice or are sensitive to so maybe it's worth trying the game regardless. I just can't believe they released the game in this state and never fixed it.
There are too many things wrong with this game; it's really unbelievable that it was delayed so many times and still released in this condition. Here's a few things I noticed within 5 minutes of playing: *Can't rebind the F key (among several others) *Can't slow walk (only walk and run; and walk is too damn fast especially when trying to follow NPC characters during story missions without overtaking them constantly) *Can't toggle ADS *Driving controls are slippery as ♥♥♥♥; way too easy to lose traction and start drifting when steering left or right. (Maybe this is a keyboard-specific problem? I don't know. It might make sense though given that they didn't seem to compensate for any other analog aspects such as walking). *Weird texture pop-in issues (looking at an electrical box 3' away then moving 1' closer causes a more detailed texture to pop-in??) *Guns floating in mid-air (presumably where characters were standing at some point??) *Enemy walking outside of playable area during training sequence causing me to have to re-load a checkpoint to progress And those are just the technical issues that *I've* encountered (in less than 4 hours of playing). I've played very little of the actual story thus far (and will probably keep it that way until this thing is fixed). But what little I have played seemed to skip a hell of a lot in terms of exposition. The game feels half-baked. I wouldn't have expected it to release until holiday 2021 given its current state. I can't recommend it right now, and I can only hope that all of these concerns and more are addressed over the coming months. It's really a sad state of affairs how this has become par for the course; that is, for games to release in half-finished states only to maybe (or maybe not) be completed later. All that said, the game is still somewhat of a technological marvel (when it's working), and has fairly competent FPS gameplay, but t he most I can give it in light of everything else is 2 stars for now.
