Mostly Positive(80%)
Co-op combat
Friends and teamwork
Cinematic missions
Enemy variety
Core gameplay
Anti-cheat update
Mod support
Warbond content
Crashes and launch failures
Poor performance
Persistent bugs
Grindy monetization
The overall sentiment is strongly negative toward the game’s current state, despite continued affection for chaotic co-op combat and memorable missions with friends. The latest update is widely blamed for launch failures, crashes, performance drops, and broken mods, while persistent bugs and poor developer communication deepen frustration. Players also criticize grindy, paid Warbond progression. Some support measures against cheating, but many feel the broad anti-cheat restrictions punish legitimate PvE players and mod users. Many reviewers believe the game has a compelling foundation, yet do not recommend buying or playing it until the technical and community issues improve.
Positive Points
The core co-op shooter is frequently described as exciting, cinematic, and chaotic, with satisfying gunplay, large enemy hordes, and memorable moments from calling in stratagems and surviving missions.Playing with friends is a major draw; teamwork, friendly-fire mishaps, and improvised mission stories make sessions entertaining, and some players also enjoy joining random squads.Players praise the variety of weapons, stratagems, enemy factions, and possible tactics, along with the satirical setting, lore, visuals, and sound design.Many long-time players say the game has a distinctive concept and unusually high potential, and several still consider it a favorite despite their complaints about its current state.Negative Points
The recent Easy Anti-Cheat change is the dominant complaint. Many reviewers report that the game will not launch, crashes during missions, disconnects, or runs with severe stuttering, lag, and frame-rate drops—even on unmodded installations.The anti-cheat update has also disabled or broken many mods, including cosmetic and quality-of-life fixes. Players are especially frustrated that mods addressed longstanding issues such as bouncing stratagems, restricted Hellpod steering, loadout management, and other usability problems.Reviewers describe persistent bugs and unreliable updates, citing crashes, connection problems, awkward hitboxes and enemy behavior, excessive ragdolling, and stratagems that fail to land where intended. Many say these issues have remained for months or years and updates often introduce new ones.Many players feel Arrowhead does not listen to feedback, communicates vaguely, or makes decisions that undermine trust. Complaints include inconsistent balancing, perceived stealth changes, and a disconnect between the developers’ intended vision and the co-op horde-shooter experience players want.Warbonds and premium currency are often criticized as expensive or grind-heavy, with meaningful equipment and features perceived as paywalled and Super Credits tedious to earn. Some reviewers also complain that recent Warbonds offer less content, or that trailers overstate what new items can do.Some players find missions repetitive, progression slow, and solo play or higher difficulties frustrating. A few also say the game’s content and replay value have declined over time.Mixed Points
The core gameplay receives strong praise, but many players say bugs, unstable performance, frustrating mechanics, and the latest update make the overall experience unreliable or currently unplayable.Opinions on anti-cheat and modding differ: some players support action against cheats that disrupt public lobbies or affect premium-currency rewards, while many others object that the blanket restrictions also remove harmless mods and affect a PvE game.Warbonds and ongoing updates provide new equipment and reasons to return for some players, but others see the paid-content model, slow currency grind, shrinking bundles, and limited free additions as poor value.The challenge and balance are appealing to some players, while others describe enemy pressure, weapon nerfs, ragdolling, and inconsistent difficulty as frustrating rather than satisfying.Common Themes
Reviews are overwhelmingly focused on the recent Easy Anti-Cheat rollout and its reported effects on launching, stability, performance, platform compatibility, and mod support.A recurring source of frustration is the contrast between long-standing bugs and community-made fixes: players say mods addressed problems they had repeatedly asked the developers to fix.Many reviewers still distinguish the game’s enjoyable foundation from their disappointment with its management, updates, communication, and monetization.Co-op with friends is consistently presented as one of the game’s strongest features, while solo play and repetitive missions receive more criticism.A number of negative reviews are explicitly conditional: players say they may change their recommendation if the game becomes playable again, mods are supported, or major issues are fixed.Updated 10/22/2026, 12:04:00 AM UTC
