WARDOGS

Ever since the playtest earlier in the week, I've been having problems trying to launch the game. Some kind of error with the anti-cheat known as "Elytra" that the game is using. People at the time were talking about going into the BIOS to turn off virtualisation and all that, which honestly sounds to me like a problem that the devs should fix rather than us the players. A functioning game should be made in a way that the players do not need to go through a whole act of congress with 15 years of game-development knowledge in order to just launch the game. I thought to myself at the time that the game is pretty much about to go into early access, so I figured I'd just be patient and wait. Then comes the day where the game is launched in early access, and still I had problems with the anti-cheat not allowing me to launch the game. The fix however, is much simpler this time. I had to go into my game files, start up Elytra setup and click on "repair". The game launched, only for me to be at the back of a 300k+ queue. I also heard that many people waited throughout the entire queue, only to be booted out because of some kind of error and then be put all the way back to the beginning of the queue. I also heard that DDoS attacks were carried out on this particular game. I'm no IT tech, but it all sounds kinda sketchy to me. Some people even turned off their firewalls just to try and get the game running. The fact that I had to tweak the anti-cheat myself, and with the DDoS attacks, only shows that this game is being targeted by hackers and may constitute a potentially elevated cybersecurity threat. The game looks great, I never had the pleasure of being able to play it myself. But this game, in it's current state, is not just broken, rather it sounds to me that it's quite vulnerable as well. I have refunded this game, and I look forward to trying it again in the future in a time where the devs locked in and improved their server infrastructure and anti-cheat.

A forced tutorial? Is this a mobile game?

It's a great game. Everyone review bombing this game is salty because they have no patience or understanding of how servers work... Especially with steam limitations and supposed DDOS attacks on milsims as of late.... The games great, the beta was great, and everything all around shows great promise. Probably the only early access game I'll actually endorse. Thanks devs for doing your job, and keep up the great work!

Gameplay's great, no complaints there. The launch has been horrible though. Streamer queue priority shouldn't exist. Having an online following doesn't earn you the right to cut the line. We all bought the game, so wait like the rest of us. The queue to just reach the main menu is bad. The playtest peaked at around 245k concurrent players (with launch peak of 340k as of writing the review), so the hype for the game was no surprise. The devs should've worked with Valve on the steam launch verification before the early access release. And once you get through the tutorial, all official servers are full, with most likely another 45 minute queue to even play the game. Again, predictable based on the playtest.

devs unfortunately decided it was time to begin gargling streamer balls, but a fifteenth apology video is gonna hit different, i swear

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Despite having multiple open betas, when specifically the most recent one had well over 200,000 concurrent players, they were completely unequipped and mishandled this early access launch. Not only did I and MANY others have to wait in multiple two hour plus long queues to just get into the game but the servers weren't responsive and wouldn't let you join no matte how much you tried, not to mention the multiple times you would get kicked from the queue just to have to re-join and be at around 250,000-300,000 place in the queue. The least they could do in this type of situation is have the deploy button inactive with the queue wait displayed on it and let players access the firing range and vehicle practice areas. Another mistake they somehow managed to make was when they were wiping the servers and accounts during the downtime (still don't know why they had to do that) they conveniently missed most big streamers, who when they were able to quickly make it back onto the servers to play didn't have any money or skill levels missing. Compared to most everyone else who where basically reset to a new account with maybe a few extra thousand and like 1/5 of a skill level. To make the waiting even worse it was entirely obvious that they favoured literally anyone who was streaming their gameplay. Whitelisting them and their friends so they would be able to join the servers before anyone else which ended up meaning that by the time I had logged off for the day any streamer would have probably had 3-4 more hours of play time that I or any other player could have gotten. Overall a horrible way to launch an early access to a game, which is a shame after I had such high hopes from partaking in the recent beta test.