Days of War: Definitive Edition

The developers of this game have completely abandoned it. They promised 3 years, THREE YEARS of updates to the game.. as soon as it was released, they ditched it. Its a laughing stock and i wish i could get my money back. There was a solid promise of this game that hit the nostalgia of the DOD Game days. Which i had amassed thousands of hours on pre-steam tracking. This is such a bad joke.

Good Foundation, Poor Execution.
All the groundwork for a good game is there. The gunplay and TTK just kill the vibe of everything. TTK is so high, it takes 6 rounds from the 1911 to kill... with all headshots. Recoil on automatics is unbearable. The closest comparison I can make for the recoil on automatics is Totally Accurate Battle Grounds. So unrealistically over the top. The character models could also use some serious work.
There are some positives to this game. Gun models are mostly polished. Runs pretty smooth. Maps are very detailed and are above average design. But that's not enough for me to say it's worth hopping in to.

Days of War is what I imagined a new Day of Defeat game would be like if Valve were to ever give a single damn about that property and provide us with a more updated version. So far no bugs, the game controls well, and runs well too. It really needs more players, though. I can understand people being hesitant to buy this game at $25, I know I was, so I strongly urge the publisher to drop the price permanently so that people on the fence are more willing to try.

This game absolutely scratches that "new DoD" itch I've been having for years and I hope we can get more players in the mix!

I give up! The game had potential,but for some reason no one is playing EVEN ON A FREE weekend!
Top it off they patched the game now I can't even play it gives me a fatal error, So after buying the game I guess it's been 2 years maybe, it is unplayable!
Too bad it was fun from what I got to play.

My initial review was very negative, and now my opinion has changed a bit. Despite this, I still cannot recommend the game in it's current state. If this current version is how the game initially launched onto early access then I might recommend the game. Knowing this is the full release version out of early access, I genuinely can't recommend it. It honestly feels like very early alpha version of a Day of Infamy/Day of Defeat clone. Here are a few reasons why this mostly isn't worth a buy currently:

Pros

• Classic WW2/COD2/DOD/DOI style shooter (In Progress)
  
• Several weapons, maps, and factions
  
• Item unlock/progression system
  
• Custom map creator/steam workshop
  
• Passionate development team
  

• Lack of players (Very low count)
  
• Few populated servers may not be in your location
  
• No weight to weapons
  
• Awkward movement speed
  
• Screen tearing (Possibly just my issue?)
  
• Lack of fluidity/smooth gameplay
  
• Poor character animations
  
• Small development team
  
[*]Questionable hitboxes/tickrate

This game is worthless. They cut out some features and add pointless bullshit excuses of "maps". They completely copied day of defeat.

The graphics are nothing special. It actually looks terrible.

The player base is dead, the last time i played, there was 7 people online. This game died within six days.

This game was nothing like what they showed off. The developers dont listen to fucking any of the community.

I paid 20 fucking pounds for this bullshit. DO NOT BUY, its worth nothing, not even good for free.

There was a lot of hype for this game amongst the Day of Defeat community. Looking back almost a year now it is funny to think of all the existing clans and realism units which were planning to move to this game and even funnier to think of all the clans and units which formed to play this game. Shame it turned out to be rubbish. I really hope there is still some way this can be a good game but as it stands it is not worth playing. Developers, if you have not abandoned this game then please add bots. They don't have to be good bots. The least you can do is give those of us who bought this game some fleshy targets to shoot at because NOBODY is playing this game.

Dev attitude towards its very small playerbase is bad. After taking away ads they suggest if you want ads, to just go play another game.

Taking away a game mechanic like ads is absurd if you think its going to help build your playerbase. You have no playerbase the way it is. I'd suggest listening to your community rather than thinking you know whats best for your game. With how poor the game is turning out in regards to your playerbase, I'd say its clear you don't know what is best.

I pay for your game and you tell me to go play another game because you don't want to listen to the feedback of your community. Ok...

When this game was first announced on Kickstarter, there was alot of hype. People liked what the devs were saying about this game, and people couldn't wait to get it. I personally know at least 10 people who pledged money to the game, and curretnly 26 of my Steam friends own the game. With each update, the devs are pushing towards a WW2 version of CSGO, which is not the direction they said they would be taking during the Kickstarter, or the initial release of the game. DOW has a ton of performance issues for a game that doesn't have AMAZING graphics. (The graphics are good, but I shouldn't be at 30 - 40 fps with my system). This was just another cash grab for the developers. DON'T BUY THIS GAME.

1) Very few people playing (bots would come in handy)
2) Only 4 maps
3) No map builder
4) ADS was dropped

It is not worth the $24.99 I paid initially with what it currently offers.

Please fix! I prefer playing DOD at this point...

The game started out well. Lots of promises and I noticed that the devs actually improved things.

A frew months later they fucked up everything. Modified the maps, added INVISIBLE WALLS so you can't jump anymore to specific spaces which makes the game feel like you're playing in f'ing tunnel. And it would be fine if they were improved recoil, sound and animation glitches and made the jumping mechanic better. But no. They made everything worse.

And in the end, THEY REMOVED IRON SIGHTS.

This game is dead to me now. If I could, I'd ask my money back...

DON'T BUY THIS SHIT! I don't belive I'm saying this but if you want a good WWII game... BUY COD WWII INSTEAD. (Gosh, I don't believe I recommend a COD game.)

I know this game is early access, but it seems to me the development team at Driven arts really doesn't have a clear vision of what they want in this game, or if they do they have changed their minds on what they want this game to be.

It started out as a great game, but now is nothing more than an inferior clone of the 12 year old Day of Defeat Source.

I do NOT recommend this game. If you like Day of Defeat Source, just stick with that. Gameplay is better and it is much less resource intensive.

Update June 17, 2018

Over one YEAR later, and still no update, and no game. Anybody who still believes these scammers are actually going to release this game are delusional.

Update September 12, 2019

Over TWO years later and still nothing but empty promises from this rip-off dev group.
Now they say game release in 2020... I'll believe it when I see Steam telling me there is an update. But of course I don't believe THAT is ever going to happen.

It started out good, need some work and instead of the devs actually trying to work out the flaws they had with ADS they decided to just remove it. Don't know if they can't or what but i spent 10 plus hours everytime they had a patch to go in and see if it was getting better but it was not and with the last patch that removed ADS all together i uninstalled the game. Just lost out on 24.99. Stay away the community is small and no one ever plays it. A lot more are jumping ship since last patch.

This game is maybe worth $5 with the amount of content and playerbase it has. Highly not recommended. It seems that the developers are trying to ruin their own game.

You know what? I'm just gonna say it.


Worst WW2 game I've ever played and wished I never wasted money on this mess.

Edit: Nearly a year on from this review, it's disgusting that you are still attempting to sell this product.

Note: DO NOT BUY, NO ONE PLAYS THIS.

Imagine taking all of the things that made Day of Defeat: Source great... and putting them into a game with 60% of the quality.

Bad hit registration.

Ugly weapon models/ textures
Ugly map textures (how? it's Unreal 4!)
Unoriginal maps
Historically inaccurate weapon handling/recoil
Clunky movement
Poor developer support
Slow update speed
Awful sound design
Already tiny community...

Having played the genre extensively, this is by far the worst addition to it. I'd rather play Heroes and Generals.


Play dods. If dods is too old for you, play Day of Infamy. Avoid this game like the plague.

just bought it annnnd no players..... i dont know if its on my end but a refuned was requsted.
look good but cant be if no one is playing.
save your time and bypass this one.

Talk about your classic nostalgic pump and dump. I was fully torqued for this game, bought it as soon as it was available. Played numerous seasons in both DoD 1.3 and DoD:S across multiple leageues and LANs. The devs promised a game that would have the competitive community at the forefront. After a few subpar patches it became clear that is not the direction they are going. Balance patches over compensate for minor problems (added way too much recoil to rifles and basically NO recoil for assaults). Don't be surprised when the $30 DLC is called Nights of War and there are pitch black maps where you have to have dedicated torch bearers. Stay away unless you only want to pub a mediocre WW2 shooter.

BEWARE!!

This game is absolutely and completely dead!

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Not much of a recommendation - quite the contrary !!

--- The game that was released 30. January ----

Everything below still stick, but now there are also levels and bots... but it's still clunky and fugly and broken in a lot of ways in regards to achievements, guns and hit registry. It's nice with the addition of new guns that you can unlock, but the guns are really not much of an improvement, the level requirements are nuts, and it's also really annoying that if you don't stay for the end-game summary your progress is lost in every way - I can understand that as a way to motivate people to keep playing, which would be perfectly fine IF it was actually a nice game.

There is also a Leaderboard. Both Local and Global. At the time of this writing I am number 1 globally and number 1 in regards to friends, but it doesn't represent my skill in any way. It just means that I kill a lot of bots and cap a hell of lot of flags in the process. The leaderboard is silly and stupid in every way and means absolutely nothing - even less, it's actually kind of embarrassing to be on it at all. I am pretty sure that number one do the same.

My initial assessment that this game must have been done by devs that truly hate assault and support still fits my initial impression, but it's even worse. It feels as if Headshots are everything and bodyshots are nothing. There is also a slow-death animation that confuse me a lot, that cause me to waste more bullets killing something that is already dying... Somehow dead is not really dead until it drops.

It's been... what? Three years from beginning and apart from making "nice" with the maps, the gameplay and color balance haven't been improved at all. It's like playing a slightly improved version of the original fugly as hell dod reworked with an extremely bland and dull color palette. Without the map I would be completely lost in regards to objectives, because those flags are really easy to miss and the progress bar is on the same dark bland color palette. Color design is really poor all around.

Btw, models are not solid at all. Enemies can run straight through you and when you chase an enemy with a knife they can suddenly disappear in front of you and appear right behind you...

--- that was the old game, before the 2nd official release ---

Not much of a recommendation, really. Quite the contrary.

I am trying really hard to like this game, but I am constantly failing. I keep trying, but damn..

I would not recommend this game at the current price for any other reason than to revitalize your interest in whatever game you think that this game should be the spiritual successor of. For my part I feel that this game is lightyears away from the Day of Defeat: Source I know so well. Even though this is Early Access it has been in devopment for more than eight months and considering what state it's currently in it doesn't bode well for any near future.

The game is fugly, dark and clunky as hell. Tons of features missing to qualify this game as the successor of anything. Lots of clunky stupid and stuttering animations. Weird physics. Clunky gameplay. Extremely unbalanced weapons - someone on the dev team really hates Assault and Support. Very few and fugly maps and low res textures on everything. Everything seems to be on the same colour palette - I have huge difficulties telling wallpaper and players apart. Lots of inexplicable deaths. Tons of one-shot kills. Protected by neither VAC nor anti-cheat - they've recently added EasyAntiCheat, but it remains to be seen what effect that has.

I've actually upgraded my gfx in order to play this game at the best quality in a reasonably fluent way, but there are some extremely bad design choices at work that makes adding what little quality this game has to offer much more of a punishment than an improvement in any way (you can add fog and lush terrain full of grass and bushes, but it will only obstruct your own view and it doesn't provide you any cover, because you'll be the only one that see it.. That's kind of lame.)

I would suggest that you check back in a few months to see what the reviewers think of this game, because unless you are interested in taking an active part in the development of this game, like providing feedback and suggestions, there is very little to do with it.

Some very loud people say DoDS is dead, but just take a look at this to see how DoW compares: http://steamcharts.com/cmp/300,454350 (DoDS is Green, DoW is Blue). DoW - Deader than dead. :(

For an early access game this is brilliant. Days of War has all the foundations to be an awesome competitive FPS title. I am very excited for what the future brings for this game. Even in its present state I am having loads of fun with this game. I highly reccommend it!!

Updated 2020 Full release - Devs have done a brilliant job with the updates and bringing this game out of early access - plays and feels like the old day of defeat - get amongst it people!!

Heavily inspirted by games such as the original Medal of Honor, the original Call of Duty, Day of Defeat and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Days of War if built in the Unreal Engine 4, which makes the game really user and community friendly.

Its a WWII shooter with oldschool standards: no bull****, you can't drop bombs with your ipad while taking a dump, can't ask for killstreaks nor health regen or any of those crutches. THANK YOU.

Its a class based shooter where you fight in a wide variety of maps/environments and its mostly about skill and team work. This game in on early access but feels really polished. The developers will give full mod support, incluing a level editor, free dedicated servers and complete steamworkshop integration.

It will only get better.