SAND: Raiders of Sophie

its fun

Un jeu qui était prometteur, MAIS a chaque partie tu as 1 voir 2 cheaters : meca/joueurs invisible, meca/joueur qui vole, noclip, aimbot, vol les coffres dans des salles qui sont fermées, augmentation de la vitesse de tir des canons, etc... Arc Raiders bis

fun game but very bad for 3 or less on a team. ship/walker battles are Amazing but the gunfights are absolutely horrible!!

Servers are extremely unreliable, great concept and gameplay but servers makes it unplayable.

Can't recommend as of now since this game is terribly balanced, you're constantly tossed in against walkers (Tramplers) cosplaying as castles on legs, standing no chance against them with your beginner tier walker. While 2vs3 engagements can be out-skilled, it's an even further gamechanger when the craft the 3 players are on is maxed out and you are in your tiny walker with your buddy, looking at it as it covers you with it's shadow. Developers have advised they are working on, what i hope, proper matchmaking system to adequately match equivalent walkers during expeditions + player count, with an expectancy to roll out that update in about 2 months, but who knows how long this would actually take. Until that update comes in, you simply can't play the game the intended way. The only way to farm resources is in single player mode where nobody attacks no one, and this mode is just utterly boring. Otherwise might be a good game, but it's only a speculation, since i never reached endgame.

why do I have to even say...u

Way too early, even for Early Access. -Item dupes, cheaters, teamers, server crashes (where you lose everything), the usual. You also don't get items returned from losing to cheaters, the systems just aren't there to support it. -Frequent false-positive anti-cheat kicks from BattleEye for just moving weirdly on your trampler or climbing a ladder or something. They're trying to dial in the detection stuff but it will still just instantly ruin a run every once in a while. You aren't allowed to load back in to that match, so you just lose everything. Don't recommend staying in voyage (the persistent game mode) for more than an hour or two at a time. -Basically non-existent PVE. What's there currently is very basic and uninteresting, and gets boring instantly. -Far too many regional servers, each with 2 different game modes and then both of those each have 4 separate crew size queues. Leads to very weird mixes of seeing the same people every game, loading back into the same match that you were just in (sometimes several times in a row), dead servers, and long queue times. The player base is way too small for this many servers. -Hit reg is awful and ground combat feels super inconsistent and unreliable because of it. Probably largely depends on ping as well. Sometimes your shotgun will 1-shot every single person you see, sometimes you won't get a hit marker when walking up behind someone that's afk and clicking on them point blank. -C4 is dirt cheap and most people have trampler builds that only take a few C4 (or even just 1) to get to their captain's quarters to capture it. Even if they do a weird build to try to counter it, you can easily afford to bring plenty of C4 in every round, so it doesn't matter anyway. The devs had to disable trampler-capture for like a month because cheaters were no-clipping or teleporting right into it, capturing your trampler out from under you without you ever knowing they were there. And now capture is re-enabled but they didn't do anything to fix the board-and-C4 meta, so trampler combat is super de-emphasized again, at least in solos, which feels really weird/bad when "moving base vehicle combat" with the tramplers is supposed to kind of be the selling point here. I get that capturing is a good tool as an equalizer, but you could probably remove it and just find other ways to fill that gap. Some people would whine, but again, the "naval" combat taking a backseat to C4 spam definitely needs addressed. C4 either needs nerfed hard (cost, stack size, whatever) or just remove capturing again and let the focus stay on the trampler combat a lot more easily. -No Gear-Based Matchmaking (GBMM), at least yet. Not even anything to prevent a completely fresh, first-game, default trampler build new player from queueing right into a maxed royal chassis with all experimental cannons veteran player. GBMM is on the roadmap but no ETA. There's a pretty steady stream of players complaining about starting off immediately getting stomped by massive high-tech trampler builds driven by enemies with all top-tier guns and armor. So a lot of new players are getting turned away immediately and choosing to quit rather than be forced to struggle through it as they try to advance their own tech tree bit by bit, until they start to catch up and even the playing field with their own trampler upgrades. But even when GBMM comes (in whatever form it will be), the player base will probably be far too small for it to be effective still. It has to be tuned to actually be doing something, but then that will likely just lead to even worse queue times and even smaller partitions of players than we already have.

I play on the Oceanic Server (my region) - the server is glitchy, resulting in loss of control of my walker, randomly getting kicked from the server. I have lost multiple machines and loot due to these server failures, it makes the game unplayable. Battle eye functionality - is also poorly integrated - resulting in another way to get kicked from the Server and loose all your gear and loot. This early access has been poorly implemented. The game is extremely buggy. Would not recommend.