This is a game for masochists. Moronic balance and gameplay decisions lead to it being a massive slog at best and a miserable experience at worst even on lower difficulties. "Melee based gameplay" was what they said. Here's what it means in practice: Guns are still plentiful, but nerfed into oblivion in both damage and accuracy. The guns in FOLON make 18th century muskets look like sniper rifles. What it also means is that every enemy has guns, and you bet your ass theirs aren't nerfed. They also tend to all have molotovs and grenades. The fighting loop is thus: Take a few shots from range, realize that the one of 10 that hit did about 1 damage. Charge in, avoiding molotovs and gunshots. Wail away, hoping that your DPS with the hammer or whatever you're using is higher than the multiple guns now trained on you. Oh, and also hope that they only block 25% of your attacks instead of 75% (of course there's no indication that they're blocking, they just do). Maybe there's a decent story in there but my word the gameplay is just so SO bad. Unless you're one of those psychos that complains that expert/survival isn't hard enough and installs lots of difficulty mods, this aint for you. I want to have fun, not engage in sadomasochism, so this aint for me.
