SAND: Raiders of Sophie

This game is easily one of the worst extraction shooters out there right now. The game is absolutely overrun with cheaters, and the worst part is the anti-cheat is non-existent and the report button doesn't even work. The community is constantly complaining about this, and the devs are doing nothing. On top of the hackers, the servers are a complete joke. On my first ever raid, I was trying to extract on a zipline and the game kept rubber-banding and teleporting me back to the bottom. I couldn't move or do anything. I waited 5 minutes, gave up, and alt-f4'd. The game literally told me I had 10 minutes to relog and rejoin, but when I opened it back up, my entire character was just deleted. Progress wiped instantly. Even if you don't get hit by game-breaking bugs, the gameplay is terrible. The gunplay feels awful, hit reg is broken, and the map is so empty and boring between points of interest. It's also completely unplayable if you're a solo player going against squads. To make it worse, the optimization is a joke. I'm running a high-end PC (RTX 5080, 64 GB DDR5, Ryzen 7 9800X3D) and I still get massive FPS drops. Save your money. 0/10 until they fix the servers, get a real anti-cheat, and patch the extraction bugs.

I've been supporting the game since the beta because the concept is fantastic, but the current gameplay loop is becoming more frustrating than fun. My friends and I had just spent almost two hours farming during a Voyage when we reached an extraction point, only to find a squad with hundreds of hours in the game camping it. They were running endgame builds with a ram, cannon chassis, and upgraded gear. Our mech was destroyed in around 30 seconds, and because extraction is cancelled as soon as combat starts, we lost two hours of progress in less than a minute. This wasn't a close fight. There was no opportunity to outplay them or rely on skill. The outcome was decided before the fight even started because of the massive gear advantage and the fact that they were camping the extraction zone. Unfortunately, this has happened multiple times. Spending hours progressing only to lose everything in under a minute because another team is waiting at extraction completely destroys the motivation to queue for another run. I understand that PvP and risk are core parts of the game, but there needs to be a better balance. Right now, extraction camping combined with huge progression gaps creates an experience that feels unfair rather than challenging. I genuinely hope the developers address this because SAND has enormous potential. But in its current state, I can't recommend it, and after several experiences like this, I've decided to uninstall the game. Je soutiens le jeu depuis la bêta parce que son concept est excellent, mais la boucle de gameplay actuelle devient plus frustrante qu'amusante. Mes amis et moi venions de passer près de deux heures à farmer pendant une expédition lorsque nous sommes arrivés à un point d'extraction. Une équipe avec des centaines d'heures de jeu campait l'extraction en nous attendant. Ils jouaient avec des builds de fin de jeu (bélier, châssis canon et équipement entièrement amélioré). Notre méca a été détruit en une trentaine de secondes et, comme l'extraction s'annule dès qu'un combat commence, nous avons perdu deux heures de progression en moins d'une minute. Ce n'était même pas un combat équilibré. Nous n'avons eu aucune possibilité de les surpasser grâce au skill. L'issue était décidée avant même le début du combat, simplement à cause de l'énorme différence d'équipement et du fait qu'ils campaient la zone d'extraction. Malheureusement, ce n'est pas la première fois que cela nous arrive. Passer des heures à progresser pour tout perdre en moins d'une minute parce qu'une équipe attend à l'extraction détruit complètement l'envie de relancer une partie. Je comprends que le PvP et la prise de risque soient au cœur du jeu, mais il faut un meilleur équilibre. Aujourd'hui, le camping des extractions, combiné à un écart de progression beaucoup trop important entre les joueurs, donne une expérience qui paraît injuste plutôt que difficile. J'espère sincèrement que les développeurs corrigeront ces problèmes, car SAND possède un énorme potentiel. Mais dans son état actuel, je ne peux pas le recommander et, après plusieurs expériences de ce genre, j'ai décidé de désinstaller le jeu. Traduit avec l'IA

The concept is great, and it's genuinely a good game to play. However, it's currently unplayable. OCE servers have been broken for the last 72+ hours as of 13/7/26, with no update from the dev team on whether they're even working to get them back up. And if you're lucky enough to actually get into a game without hitting a game-breaking bug, cheaters will teleport onto your Trampler and take all your gear. Again, no updates from the dev team on whether they plan to address it. I understand this is Early Access and still very new, but I can't help feeling like the backend systems are being badly mismanaged. Unless there are some big changes soon, I wouldn't waste your time.

The game used to be fun. Now it's riddled with teamers in discord calls using it to their advantage. I've reported these guys several times and clearly nothing has been done. Fun idea, terrible execution, you run into a new glitch every game. Getting stuck on a ladder, clipping through walls, horrible desync between shots and other players. Name it and that glitch exists i swear. 211 hours played by the way, not like I tried it and didn't like. I tried it and put up with the issues because it was a fun idea. Not anymore...teamers have ruined it for everyone

Im really bad at the game but its still fun

Idee ist gut. Umsetzung ist unfassbar schlecht. Anfangs gabs keine Duo Queue, dann haben sich die Devs wochenlang gewehrt. Dann unter großem Druck doch umgesetzt. Jedes Game teamt irgendjemand. Manchmal sind doch Trios in der Duo Queue also die funktioniert auch nicht. Wenn man mal 1 von 100 Games erwischt, dass keine Teamer hat, haben die unfassbar OP Stuff weil es kein Gear Based Matchmaking gibt. Early Access hin oder her ich hab das Gefühl, dass die Devs garkeine Lust haben ihr Spiel zu fixen und sich gegen alles was es verbessern würde wehren. Teamer kriegen einen Bann von einer Stunde was soll das? Falls die Devs doch Lust haben sollten machen Sie es verdammt schlecht.

Unbalanced game.