Reporting in on 30 minutes playtime solo: I did 3 games and died in all 3 of them.
1st game I had no idea what I was doing, parachuted down into some barn looking place and some guy already had a pistol and headshot me. Booted back to the main menu and was about to quit. Gave the game another chance...
2nd game I managed to collect some clothes and a loaded pistol, some dude was looting a house across the street that I entered into and surprise killed me. My own fault for being reckless...
3rd game, learning from my past mistakes, I went nearer to the outskirts to load up on supplies. Found a shotgun, a nice coat, lots of ammo and some medkits. Ran across a couple of fields when that weird blue circle began closing in so I ran inside the white circle on the map and noticed a player right off in the distance running away from me; seemingly away from someone? Saw him take cover behind a windmill, where I took to the hills and began sneaking up to him, but as I got close he moved further into the circle and up some grassy hill. I followed suite but lost him, then the next blue circle started to close, so I hurried forwards some more, looking out for this guy. I heard gunfire about 50 yards ahead amidst a bunch of rocks overlooking this huge ass lake, it was him, and he was trying to snipe someone. I snuck up to the rocks he was sitting on but he heard me. My heart was pounding like a motherfucker at this point lmao. I got my shotgun ready and decided to actually retreat and approach him from left (to his right), and sat behind this large rock that was between me and him, and I noticed he was moving his character around on the spot looking for me in all directions. After a deep breath, I jumped him and shotgun him in the face, and that was one of the most satisfying things I've done in an online game in a loooong time.
As I was looting his body, to which he had over a dozen of really good items, all these explosions started happening around me and I died in something called a 'red zone'. Decided to call it quits at this point.
The bad:
- Optimisation is awful, even worse than ARK, around 20 - 40 FPS with a mix of high/low
- Graphics are bad... blurry textures, pop in, clay-like character models
- Dying is too punishing, you shouldn't be booted back to the main menu after dying and having to sit through another 2+ minute load
- It isn't noob friendly, people know where all the good shit is and you'll die so easily
- Character customisation is extremely limited
The good:
- This game is TENSE, especially when it gets to around ~50 players
- Encountering other players is an adrenaline rush like never before
- Interior textures are good
- Lots of weapons, clothing etc
- It's super satisfying killing another player
- Can rebind keys
So yeah, that's my 30 min solo experience.
I will be keeping the game because I enjoyed it more than I didn't, but yeah as I see, the game would be alot better with friends. I really suck at this game and I'm learning as I go, I can definitely see why this game is addicting, you get rewarded even for "losing".
But eh... £27... I ain't sure about that price point...
