yeah I think I'll Stay Out of this game.

But the experience is absolutely horrible. Excruciatingly painful to be exact.
It is as if this was done by design, there is no way that it could be this bad by accident.

Questing is the main-stay of the game. But unfortunately it is like pulling your teeth out with hot iron clasps whilst having your balls crushed in a vice.
Quests are unnecessarily absurd and ridiculous. The game maps are huge, and you are sent trundling along back and forth back and forth across the same places and routs over and over again to do errands and tasks that just make you wonder why you are doing any of this.
On occasions they are SO specific in wording and description that if you miss one small detail you will be spending hours running around in PVE terrain trying to figure out what you missed whilst getting repeatedly killed by wild animals. losing your loot, spawning again, to try and find it, losing your way, death again, repeat.

One early Example of something very specific:
Find a herb, it can be located in the swamp area South East of here, in Map coordinates xxx. Find three of these herbs and bring them back to me.
Now take these three herbs and go back to the swap (why?) and find the hunters shack. Be careful of the mutant dogs they are vicious (yes you'll die numerous times if you have to face more than two at a time) West of the Shack is a bucket, place the herbs in the bucket.
Once done, head South East through the swamp and you will see a large gnarly tree. Nearby this tree is an old tree stump, examine this tree stump to find a tincture. Bring this tincture back to me.

And yet, given the above, on numerous other occasions quests are incredibly vague and give very little direction on whats needed or if something is an absolutely necessary requirement to completing a quest. Eg, on the second map. (this is just one example):

"Hatter from the Palace of Culture asked me to find a stump in the park at night and extract some 'herbal ball' from it. He claims that the stumps are silvians' caches which appear in the park at night. I'b better watch my back and get a headlamp, which i can buy from the technician in the middle five-story building which stands at an angle to the Gorkogo Street.

Now the issue is. You can see perfectly fine at night without the lamp. I spent +2hrs combing through the central park-square and the surrounding areas at night time only to give up (numerous deaths from mutant dogs just to make it worse). Then decided that perhaps this is a translation issue (from Russian to English) and i assumed that the lamp was actually a requirement (what for? Players can see perfectly fine in the dark).
And finding the lamp is a task on its own, as the map of the city is huge, and streets do not have names nor signs. You are supposed to somehow know that xxx road is called "Gorkogo Street". The maps are actually very large most of the time, which is normally a good thing in game's, but here it is a massive negative.
I spent hours running through the city trying to find where on Earth this five story building is which stands at an angle to an unnamed street. The streets are littered with aggressive PVE creeps (mostly dogs). If you did not buy any of the enhancement packages or starter packs, you'll get torn to pieces in a few seconds, they will out run you and there will be +5 of them at times.
Eventually i found the buildings and the NPC who sold me a headlamp, which I then needed to buy batteries in order to use or else it will not work.
Now finally once you have the lamp equipped and turned on, at night time, in the town centre park, after about 30mins of doing circles in the park, dealing with all the dogs, the correct creeps (silvians) finally spawn. And it turned out to be a very challenging task, required +3 other people from PVE to help, there were lots of these creeps, and for this level, they are very powerful, which thankfully other players helped and they did on their own accord or else it would not have been possible for one person.

This was just one example.
Another example of something painful is the following:
I saved up a lot of gold/currency for my respective level, it's not a lot of gold in the end-game of things, but for my level and the time spent playing, it amounted to +90% of my gold at the time. Having been given a really hard time for monsters/dogs (because i refused to pay money for starter packages and extra items/bonus gifts). I decided to purchase some armour and a military helmet, i really needed the defence stats. It cost me +90% of everything i had saved up from the last 20hrs of play. I used the Item trader/sales NPC on the second map (at the train station) to purchase these items from other players who were selling them through the item trader. Okay so far so good.

Now i've spent the money and aquired the items. I am now told that my items have been successfully purchased and i must "Take them from the storekeeper: Sergey The Smuggler"
The issue is several fold. All of the NPC names are Russian names. Which, after the first +30NPC's, they all begin to sound the same and indestinquishable to anyone who is not Russian. To add insult to injury, it seems that this NPC is perhaps on a part of the city which i've yet to explore. Great. So i spent +90% of my savings to buy armour, which is sent to another NPC (why?) who resides somewhere else in the city, and i must now go and find where he is.
I needed the items badly, so i spent a long while (many hours) exploring all the city and finding all the NPC's.
Nope. No luck.
I must be going mad. Surely. I go back and read all the names of every NCP, one by one, several time, i even write them down because by this point i'm losing my mind. The notification said that " Sergey The Smuggler" had received my items. I checked, and double checked and triple checks - nope this damn name is not in this city,

Some searching on Reddit, reveals that this NPC is actually +20hrs further into the game, its two entire maps away from where i am atm . . . . .

Why allow players to purchase items from other players via the item trader? after which, they'll never get their items until +2 entire maps into the game?

At this point, i decided to f*ck this game. I'm out. There were numerous similar instances before this one, which i've not made mention of or taken the time to put down in words



Oh just to add.
No one speaks English in this game, its mostly Russian players, and for those who speak English - Don't expect any responses besides one or two word answers.

The game makes sense to anyone who has already played through it, mostly with a walk-through or with other friends. As for anyone else, its just painful. There is no need for most of this. its a painful design choice, for what reason exactly?


A glorified escape-room with third person shooter mechanics.



P.s I forgot to mention all the bugs.
The terrain is very glitchy. Rats/mice can kill you in 3-6 seconds if you are stuck on a rock or stuck on a barrel and unable to get off something which is 10-20cm off the ground such as a log, a tile, a ledge, a doorstep, a trash can etc. Attacks from smaller creeps such as rats and spiders is really fast, their hit range is also silly, they can strike through objects and they can strike backwards as well as forwards and upwards. Which means you can be above them, or behind them, or you can be behind a door, or stuck on a rock/ledge and these creeps will inflict high dps +bleed and occasionally poison. You'll have your ass handed to you many times by one or two small rats xD. At night time, you'll not be able to see them as they often spawn directly under your feet.

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