Generation Zero®

Good co op gameplay I am mad though because my friend got an experimental weapon from the reaper while I got a hat ):<

In the beginning the game was fun, like you collect items, weapons then fight the robots but then it became boring and more boring.

The game has a really big map and every area has its bunker. And the main story is based on activating those bunkers which repeats itself hundred times during the progress. There are so many buildings to loot but when I loot them the game still gives me the same weapons that I've already had 100 copies of them.

Some enemies are really tough to kill, you don't have anywhere to cover yourself when they attack in group but the worst part they'll respawn after a while even if you spend hours to kill them. I don't even mind getting killed many times by robots. I kill them eventually but after six or seven times I ask myself "Why am I doing this?". The game keeps repeating itself and gives me nothing interesting. That's why I felt bored of this game.

+++DO NOT BUY THIS GAME OR ANY OF ITS DLC+++

Generation Zero started rough, but well. And there was much patching, hotfixing, and etc....etc.

Later on in GEN-0 crafting was added so ammunition and essential tools for a gamer's play style of choice were added. This was awesome.

Now I'm going to skip ahead to the end. GEN-0 is sunsetting and will no longer be developed further or changed. And as of 01/08 2025, The DEV's have left the game as a hideous end game grind. And also abandoned the theme of the game.

I shall explain. "guerilla war" at it's heart is utilizing the enemies resources to empower the guerilla fighter to allow for punitive, punishing, and debilitating strikes to "the enemies war machine" This means subverting the enemies tools and tactics to your favor. Their weapons become your tools of destruction. It at it's core means Mobile Warfare. Adaptive Warfare. Offensive Warfare. And at a time and place of the Guerillas' choosing.

None of which involves involves staking a guerrilla fighter down like a sacrificial goat to indefensible bases, built with weak, pathetic, ineffective defenses, and built upon easily accessible terrain. Pointedly, the very sites used for the base defense missions and the Riingfort itself is indefensible. Being easily encircled and attacked from all sides. Thematically and given the locations on the game map, it's just stupid.

Foisting "base defense" and "ringfort" game modes for character and equipment progression is heavy handed, thematically incorrect, and unrewarding. The DEV's just threw a load of poo and a double heaping helping on their own IP. And all FUTURE IP, as far as I'm concerned with this type of digital prankery for currency. It's feels clownish. And I really don't like being clowned by game developers, unless I'm playing a clown based game.

I have to wonder did they die their hair some rainbow color brain rot while implementing these game modes? And then after deciding so, have a bad hair dye series of months when doubling down on this stupid,

Players now have to KUMBAYA to this misdirection of concept and theme. Just to produce an output, that is a literal retardation of character and game progression. For a "base defense" game mode that is thematically and progressively a 180 degree turn around from "resistance" and "guerrilla war".

"RESIUSTANCE" "GUERILLA WAR" Which means destroying the ENEMIES equipment, HIJACKING that manufacturing, converting that war fighting potential to the Guerillas own use to destroy an enemy. Not Goat STAKING yourself to undifensible positions involving immature and clownish treefort style bases, incompetent invisible NPC combat "helpers", and toilet paper mache defenses. Thats a lot of clownish to deal with as a game mode. What would be next? Acidic/gasseous robotic JACK N' THE BOXES fired at an untouchable distance by FNIX railguns... perhaps? I know!!! Let'S keep a rediculous bend in game design going....lets sell that as a DLC. and for one last grasp to make more profit.

The endgame of GEN-0 seems to have everything to do with "this game is sunsetting, so let us turd upon it and the players, as it departs. And of course, make a little more money."

Now I, and other gamers, bought GEN-0 For the idea of "sci-fi" guerilla warfare and against deadly robots". Where the whole point was not to have to play something like MINECRAFT or RESSOURCE GATHEREING SIMULATOR X (and featuring cool robots and stupid grindy gameplay). The Dev's Clearly have lost the theme, and decided to goat stake the players of the game to an EASTERN fashioned style of stupid grind. That's a 0 zero sum result in ROI for a gamers time and money.

And this is a great game, or was. Before this type of bow out, One that throw's feces at the gamers for their time and money. While the DEV's exit stage left. I suspect deeply that whatever "the new game" is, and one that will be hyped will probibly be left in the same state as GENERATION ZERO is being left in. AS of 01/08 2025 as it sunsets.

Suffice it to say The DEVS of GEN zero made a lot of of noise, when GENERATION ZERO was still a work in progress and players of the game saw progress. But here in the games sunset, they broke their own IP and ruined it's theme. This type of orchestration and exiting is only fitting for a robbery of ones wallet and ones time for new players, and a tedious ultra grind for players returning to the IP after a complete uninstall.

I do not think Avalanche Studios, Systemic Reaction, or Fatalist Entertainment AB. Should be rewarded with any money, currency, or bitcoin. That is to say no financial gain of any kind, now in in the future from gamers. Purely based on this end product. Until they collectively pull their heads out of their collective arses, and FIX GENERATION ZERO's END GAME. And at their own expense.

Until this needless, un-thematic, clownish end game state is resolved as to not waste a players time in resource grinding.....

I have to warn other and future gamers......

+++DO NOT BUY THIS GAME OR ITS RELATED DLC+++++

And I suggest most stringently to GAMERS, DO NOT buy ANY future PRODUCTS. AS of 01/08 2025 These DEVs have poorly sun setted a good game, in turn their company deserves the same I'll fate by gamers. By denying them any future profits from your wallet.

The game crashes constantly and I can't play anymore. Cool game otherwise.

Previously played on Epic, this game felt pretty boring. With little to no story, it’s just a shooter-looter with monotonous and repetitive gameplay that ultimately feels pointless.

Fun at first, but it gets old quick. Traversing the map sucks.

This game is the definition of quantity over quality.
There is a massive map, but it's mostly empty with the same copy-paste structure.
You'll get a lot of bullets, but except for the normal enemies it will take multiple mags to kill a single one and you'll spend most of the time reloading.
There are a of enemies, but they feel almost like the exact same bullet sponge.

The gun play is pretty bad,
The driving is horrible,
And the movement just feels stiff.
I cared so little about the story that I just turned off the voices and subtitles.

Seemed like a great game and a great concept... I played multiplayer with friends and it was very buggy. Missions would not progress correctly, disappearing enemies or mission objectives sometimes occurred too. In game mechanics were only okay, like 5/10. The enemies are not only bullet sponges, but you also don't have hit indicators or healthbars to know when you're doing damage.

absolutely pay to win with 9 DLC's to get all the weapons, companion armour's, and the tactical equipment. there is also a'lot of problems with the game such as grind, bugs, balancing. but they cover those better. and its not going to receive any more updates as the showdown update was the last one which introduced lots of problems and very few fixes TL;DR really good concept. really bad execution

80 hour game with only 10 hours of gameplay and 70 hours of mutated pig spawn variants of whatever happened in those first 10 hours of the games. They should of made this game like 20 hours because there is nothing to f'ing do for most of the time. Massive map but its empty, and more bugs than a Bethesda game (although not game breaking). The only good thing about this game is in hardcore mode combat is really fun but it gets repetitive quick.

The game is ok but rather slow, the world feels empty and there aint much to do beside loot one place, take down some bots and go to the next place... also i wanted to control a mech myself ;_;

A game with extreme amounts of potential that will ultimately let you down, especially as a solo player. Graphics, machines, and guns look beautiful. Combat in this game might be the most repetitive I've ever seen. It's supposed to be a survival game where you are struggling against the machines, but if you are playing solo you will die a lot. This can be considered a good thing if you are looking for a realistic experience, but it can suck the fun out of the game, especially because it is so repetitive. The story is basically a wild goose chase of fetch quests, which is sad because I think it could have a lot of potential. Locations are beautiful, albeit simple. If you get this game on sale, I think it's worth a shot to play with friends. Do not buy to play solo and don't waste your money paying full price. You will almost certainly be let down. The bugs in this game can also be game breaking, so be wary of that.

So this is a 'Recommended' - but with major caveats.

If you have any other version of Generation Zero, you should play that instead. This is because the final update made sweeping changes to the game so you HAVE to engage with the basebuilding.

If you have it somewhere else, you're probably at endgame and this won't affect you TOO much (beyond being upset at how much weaker your base is now).

I will explain the game itself in a bit but first I'd like to give the perfect example of why the changes are so bad, and how it makes getting to endgame harder.

Grenades used to be quite cheap to craft. You could do an average run (a mission or two, looting all the while) and get enough materials ('mats') to make anywhere from 10-30 grenades.

You could use the grenades to - well, you've played video games, you know how grenades work.

They were VERY handy for taking down the enemy bases.

Well now you literally can't craft them until endgame (unless there's some way I'm not aware of).

GRENADES.

THE explosive projectile.

This would be like if the shotgun was hidden timelocked behind the endgame: They're both supposed to be workhorses, not endgame goals.

*No, I have not misunderstood. No, you have not misunderstood. A living breathing human genuinely thought this was an appropriate design choice for a FINAL UPDATE.*

That kind of logic can't be played 'around'. You can't just ignore that.

The ONLY explosives you'll have are the explosives you find. And you won't find many.

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The game itself is a loose-but-atmospheric post-apocalypse first-person shooter with basic stealth elements and light RPG elements, It takes place in Ostertorn (a fictional Swedish area) which is overrun with mechanical foes.

The NPCs feel wedged in, because they literally were (apparently they weren't around at launch). I don't know if European kids are different from other kids but Therese (the main civilian NPC) looks 25, sounds 16, and uses the logic of a 12-year-old. She says the phrase 'This person is my favourite grown-up'. Therese, you are a grown up yourself - you shouldn't be saying things like 'my favourite grown up'.

The gameplay itself feels like the answer to the question: 'What if Stalker and System Shock Remake had a baby?'

The gameplay loop feels like the answer to the question 'What if Fallout 76 was good, actually?'

The story feels like the answer to the question 'hey man can you please make a really interesting story but then, like, tell it in pieces so I can ignore it if I want?'

Having said that, the story is not interesting in the sense that it brings something new to the table. It's interesting because it's approached differently, and it's supported by the atmosphere. It's immersive as hell. The gameplay is the story is the gameplay, if you see what I'm saying.

If this were a modern Fallout game, you'd be given a pretend time limit you can completely ignore (FIND YOUR KIDNAPPED SON but also help the minutemen first and also you should totally build a base and explore first though).

This is not a modern Fallout game, so you don't get any pretend time limit. As far as movement goes, you can just do whatever you want, whenever you want.

Unless you want to craft a fucking grenade of course.

It doesn't work.

I can't even get it to load

Absolute rubbish.

This game used to be promising until the devs or higher ups shifted toward micro-transactions in the form of weapon pack dlcs (Which I bought when they had the discount because a friend recommended it.).

Another Gripe I have is the lack of content after completing the main story, where it just becomes an endless grind with no grand reward.

Yet another thing is the TOS which outlaws modding except for a small handful of creators that bring traction to the game online, a double standard.

Overall, I "WANT" to like this game, I really do, but it is very hard to do so

not a lot of games will actively tell players to go fuck themselves. this one does. Would NOT recommend due to grindy gameplay loop and the games wholehearted and sucessful attempts to be unenjoyable on purpose.

it should not take 60+ shots from a anti tank missile (taking several seconds to reload) while getting direct hits on an enemies' weak spot to kill it, that's just simply not enjoyable game play.

Latest update broke the game... wait for recall or fix..
or just accept that you missed the chance to game it when it where fun,
buy something else :'(

I've played this game since 2019 first on PlayStation and then on PC. and This final update has made me so disappointed that I. am writing my first steam review. for reference Anthem and No Mans Sky where less of a disappointment. the new areas and quests are a boring, buggy, mess that in no way gives a satisfying conclusion to the game.

With 500 hours in the game when I finished the "Showdown" Update (the same day it came out), I figured it was time to leave my honest review.
The Game as a whole was "Decent". I did put many hours into the game so there was something that I found fun about the game. Mostly because it was based on the late 80's giving me those Stranger Things vibes and we get to fight robots instead of zombies. I also liked how most of the weapons felt when used. As for the graphics, I thought, for the most part, they were very "Meh" with a few times of "Wow, that's an awesome view", but I felt that the graphics fit with the time frame of the story.

The Story: It had great potential in the beginning, but ultimately fell flat, especially in the final "Showdown" update. I enjoyed the story earlier in the game than in the later game. I don't know if it was a translation-related thing or a weird perspective from the story writer. However, the jist of the story was pretty clear and I was able to overlook the quality of the story. The voice acting could have had a lot to do with my issues with the story as well. It was mostly voice and not a lot of acting.
Overall the game mechanics were on par with most survival games, so there was not anything that stuck out as being super bad or good. Other than you found out pretty quickly that there was one weapon that was far more superior to all other weapons. Once I figured this out it was very evident that the weapon system in this game was severely out of balance. Then there is the other side of this coin. There was also a pretty cool weapon in the game that I would have preferred to use and yet it did not even have a skill tree that would benefit its use. Every other weapon in the game could easily benefit from the majority of the skills in most of the trees. I am not going to list these weapons so as to not spoil things for those who haven't played the game yet or realized the truth of my comments. Just know that both of the weapons I described here have been mentioned by other creators for the very thing I found during my playtime.

Skill Tree: I did make multiple characters so I could test and play different skill tree types even trying a "No Specialization" build. All of these were interesting to play and I would recommend you try different builds as it can make the game more fun, even for a short period of time. However, there is a whole survival skill tree that as a solo player, I could never take advantage of the survival skills (in a survival game) because it is strictly geared for multiplayer gameplay. As a solo player, taking any skills in the survival tree did not benefit your gameplay experience. Mainly because you were robbing yourself from using more beneficial skills in other trees. I wish they had laid these skills out better to suit both the solo and multiplayer players.

So, overall there was enough good to keep me interested in the game or wanting to come back to it. Mostly because I kept wanting it to be better and sadly I would get disinterested each time for the same reasons. I also never mentioned the conflicted issues I had about several of the DLC's they came out with. I personally don't agree with making weapons part of a paid DLC, but this seems to be the money-grab portion of the game. So, I only purchased the DLC's I felt like I had to have to progress in the game and I think I left five DLC's on the table.

Is the game worth the money I spent? NO
Would I recommend this game to others? Maybe with caution (but only the base game and Expansion DLC's if they are on heavy discount)

I feel the Dev's could have done much better with this game than they did, but from a player's perspective, it feels like they either fell short of financial projections or just got money-hungry and it shows in the game. I was also extremely disappointed in the "Final" update. Cheap story ending with horrible character graphics and the voice acting was even worse than the rest of the game. I feel the update was rushed last minute so they could just finish the game.

At this time, because there is no "Star" rating only Thumbs up or Thumbs Down I'm going to have to give it a Thumbs Down.

Fun FPS experience. Very atmospheric when playing solo, multiplayer can be a little chaotic. Expect some jank and minor issues, but nothing game breaking.

I played this game back when it was in beta and i was hooked on how fun it could be with your friends and weaponry and every since then with the new content its been even more fun to play it

This is like my last summer romance. It started amazingly and full of hope and then turned into a grief and heartbreak nightmare. When I bought this game (on sale), I thought I had stumbled upon a treasure that many people had overlooked and judged unfairly. I had heard some bad things about this game, but when I started playing it, I could not understand what so many disliked. The story was great, the missions and combat were fun, and gathering resources and finding better weapons through the game's progression was compelling. It is surreal and bittersweet since I enjoyed a few fantastic hours before the update, and I wanted to recommend this game to everyone. I also planned to purchase the DLCs. (I was literally on the store page about to buy the DLCs before relaunching the game before doing so). But now it sucks. This is a new game in which everything has changed so much that it is no longer enjoyable. It now forces you to engage in unrealistic amounts of grinding and doing base-building and base-defending. What's worse is that you cannot possibly defend the bases since building defenses for such bases requires base-building materials that can only be obtained by defending the bases from massive waves of enemies over and over again, for HOURS at a time. However, the items (ammo, weapons, health kits) that can help you defend the bases can only be crafted by defending the bases. To play the game, you have to create a problem and solve that problem by creating another problem that creates another problem, and to fix that, and you have to create another problem, and so on and so on, for HOURS. I did some math, and to just improve one weapon, I would need to spend 13 hours doing base-defending. In reality, it would be more than 13 hours, since defending the base would deplete my ammo and health, and in order to get those items back, I would need to spend many additional hours of grinding in order to stand a chance against the waves of enemies that attack the base. I think it's nice to have a game that is challenging, and may include a bit of grind, but this game is just unrealistic and boring now.

I would have recommended this game before the most recent update. At that point, it was a fine and serviceable game. It had a grind, but it was tolerable.

The recent update, however, has made the grind unbearable. The Outpost system in-game was a fun secondary thought and a nice way to set up safehouses in areas that didn't have convenient ones. NOW, many crafting recipes, as well as most defensive structures and weapon augments, require materials you get at a TRICKLE from buildings you have to defend at these outposts.

I am also positive that my previous stockpiles of some resources were deleted due to these resource changes, such as Uranium (used for certain ammunition types and skill resets) and Ethanol (important in the crafting of certain items, including revive shots).|

This has completely destroyed the progression of the game and has ruined the experience for me. And on top of that, this update has introduced many bugs to the game, such as XP readouts not appearing correctly. Other players have reported performance issues as well, though I never experienced this myself.

I had fun with this game while I could, but I can no longer recommend this game, at their pricepoint, with this update. Unless they make a huge rebalance to fix these issues, I can't see myself returning, OR spending any more money on Avalanche titles.

I've been with this game since it was first released. And I loved it until the final update. It was a great open world game where I could focus on exploring, let my mind relax and wander a bit. Then, when it was necessary or I chose to, I could get into the action.

The final update was released on Dec 12, 2024. It featured new territory, some new weapons, and continued the story. That part was good.

Unfortunately, in a move no fan asked for, it also completely changed elements that unbalance the game against the player. It also makes the game an incredible unnecessary grind.

The new base defence mechanic is bizarre compared to what it was. The enemies never seem to stop coming, even after the defence is finished. The rewards on "successful" defence - necessary now to create the most basic improvements in weapons, clothes, and base defences - are so sparsely awarded that you would think the developers have to pay for them out of pocket. Maybe they get penalised $1 pay for every piece of phosphorous a player gets?

They've ruined enjoyment of the game for reasons I don't understand. Before Dec 12, I would have described the game and happily recommended it anyone with play habits like mine. Post Dec 12, I have to sadly but firmly say "no". Maybe if you like grindy games? Otherwise ...

Based on everything I'd seen, I was under the impression that this was something of a Far Cry-style game with survival and RPG elements. To a point, that's an accurate way to describe the moment to moment gameplay, but it goes off the rails when you finish the first bits of story and get a home base. That's when you're first presented with this awkward menu of daily tasks, limited-time events, and reward tracks.

At that point you see the full scope of what you're expected to grind out, and it clicks what sort of game this is. What I wanted was an open-world survival RPG to explore and get lost in at my own pace, but the game is full of live-service type BS. The combat and such is fine, but the game wants you to keep coming back for the sake of arbitrary "rewards" and long-term grind, not because it's giving you a world to get meaningfully immersed in on your own terms. It's not a perfect comparison, but essentially I was expecting Fallout 4 and ended up with Fallout 76.

I won't debate the specifics of the grind, latest balance patches, or pay-to-win DLC; other reviewers cover those issues and my play time doesn't qualify me to judge it on that basis anyway. I'm giving the game a thumbs-down not based on whether or not it's a GOOD grindy live-service type game, but because it IS a grindy live-service type game. And that simply isn't the game I wanted, or thought I was buying based on the store page.

Very cool game and super underrated. Would recommend if you like shooters and stealth. Tons of DLCS too so that's really cool.

No more updates, I don't Like some of the changes and no way as far as I can tell to backdate the game not to mention that multiplayer is part of the core design and unstable with bugs that have broken it slipping past the devs during major updates.

The recent update has made me out right quit this game.

This game all in all is fun and amazing with friends and solo. The gameplay is there and there is a whole lot that can be done. However, Avalanche can not SEEM to understand the simple concept of balance and grind. The recent update, as I have said in my post in the community, is to say the less, horrid on this front.

I have stay contempt with this game and its ever increasing dog water crap grind, however this recent update has officially made me quit. It has made the outpost grind five times worse and have made recipes that make ZERO sense. Phosphorus Ore for wooden walls? What sense is that???

I do recommend this game, but be ready for a grind game cause it seems the norm today for PAID games to be a heavy grind as if they are micro-transactions in this game.

I see the good ideas and hard work put into it but its still kind of frustrating to play and feels unfinished. The trailer seemed a lot better than the game...

Probably the most underrated game I've ever played, yea there are some bugs but nothing really major or game breaking. This game is a real enjoyment to play either with friends or alone, good graphics and in an interesting setting. Also as a bonus It works real well on ultrawide monitors.

Wow, I've not played a game this badly optimized in a while. Not a terrible game, just not really fun to play with such drops in frame rate. Read the "SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS" and double those numbers, otherwise you'll won't be able to have much fun.

The first 3 hours are possibly the most fun this game has to offer. Equipped with a handgun and stealth the start is really fun and intense. The atmosphere is really cool but if you're playing solo then it can get extremely lonely and bland after the intro missions. Every enemy is a bullet sponge in the midgame and its difficult to keep up with resources. It feels like this game wants to be 3-4 games all at once and doesn't do any of them that well, (except for the start, cannot stress how fun the beginning is). If this game is on sale id say give it a try but be prepared to spend hours looking stuff up on the wiki or reddit because this game tells you nothing about the world and how you can interact with it.

Seems like a really cool game but no matter how I tweak it, it's got some buggy framerates and it's giving me motion sickness. Would like to give a positive rating but can't.

Game felt empty on release and very very lacking compared to a lot of games that came out around it's time. Going to give it another try and see..

The game isn't bad but just feels pointless. Run from one copy pasted location to the next, shoot some copy pasted robots, loot the place, leave, repeat. The story is more or less a wild goose chase that hasn't interested me in the slightest, that tends to happen when you don't give players any characters or locations to care about. Guns sound fantastic but the only one even worth using is the basic assault rifle. All you really do in this game is loot guns so you can get better at looting guns. The first hour was actually the most fun I had the entire time, only armed with a pistol and stuck in a world filled with dangerous robots you truly feel like a scavenging survivor. That feeling completely goes away before you even know it, turning the game into yet another open world checklist simulator. The most recent update includes some very good changes but that doesn't tackle the issue of the complete lack of anything meaningful to find in the world and the repetitive gameplay loop.

Game has gotten more progressively broken with every downgrading update.... shock ammo shocks player but doesn't affect the enemy more than the standard full metal jacket rounds. Enemy weapons shoot through mountains and multiple buildings all at once. Stealth doesn't work at all. Not even a little.... enemy bots track player through multiple solid objects 1000 meters away without engaging and while on your belly trying to use stealth. FUCK THIS BROKEN AS FUCK GAME!!!

something weird about how this game is rendered - it gives me really bad headaches and after a few minutes of playing - if i look away from the screen or blink, i can see slow moving black bars in my vision - like when you stare at those black and white optical illusion images. anyone else experiencing this with this game?

I highly suggest picking this game up on a sale. It's decent (which is a low bar these days), but has the WORST inventory system I've ever seen in any game, and I've played the original Mass Effect 1 where you could only see FOUR items at a time on the screen.

Pain points include:

• The game does not pause even in singleplayer. Doesn't seem like an issue, until you see the rest.
  
• There is no favorites function.
  
• You can filter and reorder items, but it does not save the options you picked so you will need to repply the filter/sort EVERY TIME you open the inventory.
  
• You cannot equip gear from the inventory. You have to ASSIGN gear to one of your 9 quickslots, and then you can equip it.
  
• Except for placeables, you CAN place those from inventory, but you better make sure you were aiming at the right place before you opened the menu or you're about to make a second trip. If you want to manually place it like a sane person, well... time to switch something out of a quickslot, and then switch it back when you're done.
  
[*]The 9 quickslots are all that you have to use gear - there are no keybinds to using things like medkits, grenades, binoculars, and all of the usual fare other games have.

A fine first-person shooter with survival elements and exploring. The machines are very decent from components to virtually everything. I like the weapons so far as you can customise them and get a great feel during combat including sniping machines far away.

Traversing around the map is a bit weird, especially when riding bikes or mopeds across terrain. I mostly run around on foot, sometimes getting efforts on climbing rocky places. I feel like most places seem the same and a little repetitive like houses and bunkers when I went inside. I always like hoarding everything, but getting over encumbered from the weight system seems a bit annoying when you hold more than the threshold, sometimes unable to move or even fast-travel from loads of ammo to a bunch of devices. Late game felt like inventory management including the recycling station. The skill trees have a lot of useful and meaningful perks for a better experience and combat with some seem iffy whether those can be beneficial or for fun. The schematics and weapon augmenting can be a bit grindy for materials, points and hunting down machines. I would mostly stick with the gold augment using a non-experimental weapon (5-crown) for better results.

Combat seems great and it lets you take them down stealthily. Some can be a bit tedious and sometimes repetitive to me. Rivals sound like mini-bosses when they are just the same machines, but tougher; and base missions pack a bigger punch when taking the maxed-out difficulty. Though, I've seen some awkward cases such as hunters and runners disappearing out of the blue from harvesters and FNIX command centres. The story in the base game sounds vague as if you are solving a mystery yourself until the end. The stories from both DLCs were interesting enough (including the runner rival from one of the FNIX Rising side missions), and I don't mind much about it.

The game is pretty good so far with the two expansion DLCs. It's worth buying it when discounted.

Very fun with beautiful scenery. This is the one game I highly recommend going into without spoilers.

This is my favorite FPS game I've played. It has a decent story, but a beautiful open landscape, amazing mechanics with the individual health of the components on the enemies machines, and tons of replayability with different styles of play supported, fun collectibles and missions, and is so much better with friends

I have played this game across multiple platforms and have sunk hundreds of hours into this lush eye candy of a game. This game will itch that tickle you have for open world explorations and mass violence against the robots that will soon control our world in the future..

Really cool world building and fun gameplay.

Great game, tense combat. But there are some awful in-game glitches, including 'getting stuck' within the environment. This ends the game and requires a restart without a convenient save or checkpoint, makes the game less playable. Beyond that this is a game for the library

This game was very lacking at launch, but after 5 years of continuous work on it, this game has become pretty good and can be challenging at higher difficulties. Most of the DLC's should have been free, so I would recommend not getting them unless they are on sale. This game a decent story line to follow along with. It has co-op mode for up to 4 players to play together. The host of the co-op is where the point in the story line is stored.

There are still some bugs and poor writing in some points, but overall, this is a fun to play game and worth getting.

It's a good game, apart from the bugs and slow development it's actually pretty good. play with friends it really is good. So worthy of a positive look lots of lore which I love so GG Devs

In Generation Zero, The combat and story is very good! The performance is great as well. You can build your own base and craft tools, even ammunition too. The open-world is fairly large, With it's upcoming second expansion! There are collectables and plenty of loot.. Guns, Clothes, and equipment!

Generation Zero has terrible fall damage, One little slip and you lose health. Mild pop-in and companion collision issues! But overall, a fantastic game!

this really is one of the better open world games to come out, and the coop is great.

Basically If Skynet was based in Sweeden during the cold war, loads of twists and turns with many different stories from the common people trying to survive this apocalyptic scenario, along with very funny physics and combat to be expected from the game.

It's a pretty cool game, but supremely buggy, and has some questionable DLC. I played the entire thing in coop and we experienced a lot of bugs, including progression stopping ones. Sometimes restarting the game helps, sometimes it doesn't,

The game is fairly cheap on sales though, but buy at your own risk. Read on to find out why.

The game

The BS

The bugs

• Many quests would not progress because enemies that you need to kill simply do not spawn unless you restart the game. This happened in 2023, and it happens in 2024.
  
• None of the DLC main mission progress saved on my save. One DLC side mission permanently bugged for me after we did it in coop, making it incompletable in my save.
  
• Every single location I visited/unlocked as client doesn't save for non host players.
  
• Certain locations do not track completed objectives correctly, for both players. This mostly affected Missions in locations not tracking correctly for both "Location Objectives" and for the "Challenges" system. These are permanent to your save. You cannot fix them. Other similar things are Relay Beacons not counting, and with Alpine DLCs - Collectibles and Weapons are not counting sometimes.
  
• In many cases quest NPCs were invisible for both players in COOP. Player characters would become invisible in menus after some time playing back in 2023, but this may have been fixed. In many cases NPC dialogue would not play in COOP, including subtitles.
  
• Many desync issues - things like players not being on the bike for one player, placeable fast travel beacons not appearing at all for the other player, etc.
  
• Sometimes enemies just don't die on one player's game, making them unable to be looted
  
• Sometimes shooting sounds don't play or particle effects don't display at all.
  
• You can bypass weapon draw animations by switching weapons while the un-ADS-ing animation plays.
  

Other things I didn't like

• Limited player stash. They actually increased it since 2023, but only for the weapons, not for materials, which is still quite limiting. Back in 2023 the amount of micromanaging of the inventory that was required is insane,
  
• My friend bought all the small DLCs near the end of the game and got substantial boost to drop rates for some reason.
  
• Movement feels very floaty and imprecise. Trying to make precise jumps is a nightmare.
  
• Switching weapons is very slow. This includes switching to healing items and throwables/deployables, making the latter really inefficient.
  
• The map is kinda too big, and there's not a lot going on between points of interest. The sheer size of it feels kinda pointless, especially given how bad the transport you get is.
  
• Most of the missions feel like MMORPG filler. No voice acting, 1-2 objectives, just grind basically. With how bloated the game is already, expecting the player to read every note is a bit too far.
  
• Enemies get spongy, especially later game.
  
• Looting is kind of a chore due to carry weight limits and strange item weights (small and large fuel cells weigh the same for no reason, etc), as well as and clunky UI. Throughout most of the game more than half of the inventory space is taken up by weapons, ammo and healing items.
  
• Certain items can only be dismantled 10 at a time. This includes the heaviest objects like propane and fuel tanks
  
• Certain items, such as wood and gas canisters are not shared loot like everything else is
  
• You do not get any skill points after level 30. Lame.
  
[*]The base building part is just a wave-defense chore. Attacking enemy bases is cool, but having to defending them every few hours is not, if not more often.