Project Silverfish

I have logged almost 40 amazing hours with this Early Access title that’s better than plenty of “1.0” releases. Great survival game, great RPG, great STALKER-like, great for fans of Half-life 2. I don’t care if the updates are infrequent since it’s made one single person. Be realistic, guys. This game is a banger through and through exactly as it is <3

The game difficulty is completely out of whack with the latest update. Perdition (The main "Stealth" access route to the northern part of the map) has now become so impossibly difficult that you have to cheat to get through it. I'm not saying it's "You just need to git gud" levels of hard, I mean it's literally impossible you NEED to turn on godmode. There isn't a strategy when there's literally INVISIBLE enemies, 500 anomalies that take half your health on one hit, an INVINCIBLE TELEKENETIC ENEMY THAT ONESHOTS YOU, and to top it all off like 40 enemies spawn all at once in a tiny ass room that you NEED to pass through to progress. The game needs a severe rebalance until then it is currently unplayable without cheating. You'll be wearing the highest tier armor in the game and get domed by an enemy in pitch darkness without any indication where the shot came from, enemies can see through foliage like its transparent and at times act like they can see you through walls. Some anomalies are EXTREMELY unforgiving, several of them have no outside radius so you can't tell you're near one until you're dead and reloading. The game has horrible light balancing when you have multiple anomalies, light sources, and enemies all acting in the same scene it'll go from being completely black screen to being flashbanged for no reason at all. Some other issues: -Every character in the game is voiced by the same person and they all sound like they're so bored and uninterested it really takes you out of it. It's like an angsty teen did the voice acting. -Faction interactions are a joke they'll just push their way through each other and then literally explode into a firefight. There is no finesse. -Missions are 90% fetch quests -Weapons feel off, they lack the punch they did in prior versions. Buckshot to the face no longer kills an enemy outright. -Artifact hunting feels less like hunting and more like you're playing metal detector 9000, they don't spawn in meaningful ways and you'll find them in the strangest out-of-the-way areas. There is no artifact that you can't find in any random anomaly, they aren't tied to the anomaly in any way. -Inventory management feels clunky and unintuitive at times, there's no sort by weight/name so you'll be in a firefight digging through your inventory trying to find something and die. -Anomalies will literally SPAWN ON TOP OF YOU -Enemies will literally SPAWN ON TOP OF YOU or they just magically gain knowledge of your location, the game AI acts like you are the center of the universe and you're the main character in all their stories. Overall the game needs some serious time in the oven, I know it's version 0.4.5 but its currently just rage-bait until the balancing gets done.