SAND: Raiders of Sophie

good game besides too many sweats and teaming ♥♥♥♥ and the trampler building is kinda trash

The game is fun especially with friends, however, the entire game just needs more work. Things that need to be fixed IMO: Tramplers get stuck walking in places they shouldn't. PVE enemies going invisible and shooting at you feels like fighting ghosts. Loot boxes not full registering when opening and having to open multiple times to get loot to spawn. Walker input issues where you set the walker to do something and it simple won't, so have to set it back to halt, and re-register your input. PVP has mainly become ramming and boarding battles to put people on respawn timers, and get to watch your entire ship get destroyed in a respawn screen. Many timing mechanics needs to be thoroughly thought over to keep players engaged. 2 minute extract times to massively allow extract camping (which is the most rampant of any extract game i've ever played, including arc raiders, dark and darker, EFT with thousands of hours logged.) Its just not fun doing a 2 hour run and losing it all at the last second or having to take a 30 minute battle to save my trampler and loot. The servers disconnect almost every time i leave an expedition, while i don't lose my loot, it's time consuming and annoying to reload into the end of a match and have my entire crew waiting for reconnection. Game also has random crashes which could happen at any time, but often happens during PVP fighting. Its weird a game could run smooth for hours and then right when a fight engages it crashes. While i would love to recommend and get more friends to play the game, with as many bugs that it has, i cant recommend people getting into the game and becoming completely frustrated with simple mechanics. Furthermore, the very hard uphill grind a new player must face, facing mega walkers with basic ships just learning the game. Have had multiple instances where my walker spawned right next to another walker entering an expedition, and when this happens to new players they are just a sitting duck. Good Core mechanics of the game: Like i stated previously, the game isn't entirely bad. It great to play with friends and trampler battles are very fun and engaging. Building and testing new tramplers is also exciting, especially after successfully grinding a few runs for new trampler pieces. The PVE mechanics are decent and just could use some smoothening out to make a more seamless enjoyable experience. Having both game modes is nice for a more relaxed experience in voyage and a much more uptempo feel with storm dive.