ANEURISM IV

This is a very bittersweet game. You can grind and grind for hours on one guy and lose everything because some stupid banker with a shotgun wanted the same property as you or some random controller decides to go on a rampage. And don't get me started on the awful Karma system. Hidden ultra-punishing mechanic that is nearly impossible to work out of is insane to me, especially with the low player count making everything only based around one server, you either deal with not playing half the damn game or move to an empty server. Now I do like this game, it honestly made me better at anger management, plus it's gameplay is really addictive to me. But it desperately needs some reworks to not be hell.

This game is an active social experiment on toxic gaming culture. From the ground up the game is designed to reward hurting others while teasing "roleplay elements" like job roles and the existence of law enforcement. Servers are virtually empty but for one or two. One is active regularly because it during peak hours has active moderation while every other server is empty. It is a multiplayer game with no incentive to work together and no way to advance without playing alone or stealing from others. It isn't a hard fast rule, either - The game rewards stealing and does nothing to discourage it while the gaming community actively pretends "It's dystopian" to sell it as "authentic" with no understanding what dystopian means. This is a kill and be killed world. The minigames were interesting for jobs and store ownership. The ideas behind the connected systems that suggests different roles are needed for the world to succeed and lend some measure of social security in this are legitimately interesting. The playerbase ruins the experience. I've not had a single gaming session that wasn't full of psychopaths running around killing everyone that was unable to defend themselves, including the moderators themselves at one point. If you like cutting yourself, this game might be for you, because it is sadistic on a fundamental level. I saw more humanity in the game "Hatred". This gameworld is not dystopian. It doesn't even try to be. It masquarades as dystopian to justify a PVP system that is functionally lobotomised.

I like the game, im even writing a theory on the lore of it. But in the most respectful way possible: if you are not yet fully done optimizing the lag compensation can you please for the love of god cover up the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hole in the catwalks for underground. I have been sucked into it several times due to lag compensation pulling me into it like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sarlacc pit and it has no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reason to exist other than to inconvenience people.

One of the developers named Aaron is a known pedophile, but if you bring this up you will get banned from both the game and the discord. The game has been on a downward slope for months and they do nothing. on top of that Aaron's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ reputation makes it so much worse and if you ever find him in game because spoiler alert he rarely plays he'll just admin abuse and give himself an advantage whilst killing others. Overall just a bad game that will be dead in a few months not worth it

how about do some content updates maybe?

Was hard to get into even before it became almost deserted. Fun times while it lasted though.

What an unique gem of a game. Extremely fun when you meet the right people. However, considering the amount of toxic people, I do recommend playing with at least one friend. Been playing with a friend myself and it nullified a number of issues I have with the game when playing solo.