BioSentral

So, Project reality... this barfstew mod was made by a company called Black Sand Studio. This company has a really cool logo and that's about as far as it goes. I learned quite a bit about this game today. I know there's a manual and I read a little bit. I also read some tips elsewhere on the internet on how to play. Which is a bit of a problem: I'm not reading a motherfucking book to play a motherfucking game. If the game is too complex to be able to pop in and do the basics, it's a shitty game. The game has some great concepts that weren't addressed and never will be in barfstew and I shall list a few now.

I'm glad to see they decided to force team play. You have to join a squad if you don't want to get kicked. What do we know about gamers? Correct, they don't care about anything but their own score. So you have a bunch of people in squads who don't give a fuck about anyone else. Great. Now ALL the squads are useless. Fuck yeah! Great plan! Force ME to play with the assholes.

Project reality is about as accurate as you can get with this game. There isn't an enemy around every corner. And fire fights occur sporadically as members from either side bump into each other. Game play is incredibly slow. So fucking slow that you could stare at the map for 20 minutes and nothing would move. The maps are setup by coordinates like a real map. Good idea! The problem is that each grid square is as big as Dragon Valley. 64 player servers ARE TOO FUCKING SMALL! Oh and get used to walking. Yeah, if you don't have a chevron on your shoulder or a wrench in your pocket, you can't get a drivers license... and then, you suffocate or walk 4 kilometers over cliffs and through rivers to get to where you wanted to spawn. And there is a surprise at the end of your journey! Congratulations, you just got shot by a missile that came like a laser beam from nowhere/a grenade artillery barrage from the shadow realm and get to make the journey all over again! Which leads me into my next and probably the standalone reason I fucking hate this mod.

Spawn points: being in a squad means that you have access to a rally point set up by your squad leader. But remember kids, your squad leader only joined to be a dick, so you don't get a rally point. And if you didn't read the book, you wouldn't know about the trick that awaits you when you click on one of the other 15 spawn points out there that would seem like they are available to you as they are a little gray dot that changes shape when you select it. HA! You fell for it! You clicked on the wrong one! You get sent back to GO but instead of $200, you get to jog off 30 lbs of ass humping that 4K we just talked about back to where you wanted to be. But oh hai! There's that truck! OOPS! You suffocated because you don't have a wrench again! Is it such a difficult thing to lock out spawn points so that you can't access OR simply not spawn the player if they selected a point they can't use? No, we leave everything open to trick people who may be new to the game and were just curious about the game but didn't feel like doing the prerequisite summer reading assignment required to not get fucked or someone who accidentally selected a point that wasn't their's.

Black Sand has dropped the fucking ball just like every good little game company that pops up. I know, I know, "Zombie, you hate every game that comes out!" Kinda... I really hate the game company for fucking up such minor things that interfere with game flow or simplicity but then turning a blind eye to these failures that could be so easily fixed or avoided. As games get more complex, game companies need to get a little smarter about game flow. Every game I've played recently has had horrible flaws in the design that no one seems to mind. Is it so hard to make perfection? That's all I'm asking... well, that, and for someone to fix these stupid fucking failures.

**UPDATE**
Cheating is required or you're behind the curve... like in Counter-Strike.