Generation Zero

Played this multiplayer only, with a keyboard and mouse.
I can see why this wouldn't be enjoyable for single player however multiplayer was actually, really good fun. I had the music off throughout (although its also very good) and turned off nameplates to make it more immersive and actually, this also made the game a lot more fun.
Bad :
There are bugs there is no getting away from it. what i found is if you press ESC while in a container it stops you from going back in if you need to clear your bag (can be a pain, especially if there is good loot in there - work around it just to pres the cancel button). my game probably crashed twice or three times over a 19 hour period.
Missions are repetitive and very fallout 76. when you arrive at the area it is, pick up a note or destroy some robots etc. and there isn't really any deviation.
Inventory management is annoying but not unbearable. Different ammo "types" for each "type" of ammunition also took a while to get used to and i'm sure it makes a difference but i really had no idea tbh. There are weird stack limits, some med kits stack to 20 and the next level up only stacks to 10 so actually i didn't know if it was worth it that much.
Some of the Skill benefits should of been standard abilities or more inclusive. you need a skill to spot robots, one of the skills lets you see the components on them but for me however, this only worked for one type of robot.
And Despite the above, i still enjoyed the below.
Good :
Game is very pretty. Weather system is also very very nice with the snow as an example. And there are light rays that actually work. fighting Tanks at night is also great because of the lighting effects.
Sounds are great. Good gun sounds, robot sounds and the music is awesome.
You can be swarmed by enemies that make you hide in containers or buildings for cover. makes the game intense and in multiplayer very good fun. making your approaches tactical and you prioritise enemies.
Huge map, to get around it you get Bicycles which is quite comedic, also unusable if you aren't on a road and if you have the perk you can out run them. if you sprint into one while someone is riding it they fall off, providing endless entertainment.
Ammunition can be scarce if you pick fights you cannot win or don't have the perk to increase the amount you collect.
the fast travel system works... kind of. you can fast travel to safe houses which is great, however also you have to place down beacons, which run out after x uses, or additionally if you exit the game which was annoying. personally, its a pretty game and the encounters are fun so this didn't bother me at all.
Summary,
It is not a £30 game. This is a solid £20 game if you play multiplayer. This game i don't think is really aimed at being for single player and if it is it doesn't do it well. If you could mod the crap out of it, it would be awesome.
The game doesn't live up to the concept, the concept could be truly awesome but the game play i still found to be very good fun.

I know GZ has got some issues and yes they can be very frustrating but when it works its very good.
Open world , you plan what , when and how you want to do so one minute its all stealth , then you are in a ruckus with 8 hunters ( and yes I got them all).
Its worth the money , its not a rip off .
I only really like single player games and this suits on PC for me.
I'm a 58 year old retired plodder really but it really does get the grey matter turning over.
Its not for everyone but I for one , am totally fed up with BF and COD.

Generation Zero has a lot of potential, but doesn't seem quite finished yet. We've played 34 hours and are quitting now. There are a few problems with this game (no spoilers):
1. The enemy strength even on the easiest difficulty is ridiculous. We have played endless amounts of shooters and difficult games, but this game made us ragequit a few times. Example: If you happen to meet two Harvesters in one spot (which happens a lot), there's absolutely no way that you can kill them. Me and my husband have just been fighting them for 15 minutes, Thrown everything we have at them (5star guns with armor-piercing ammo, grenadelaunchers etc.), but they constantly spawn hunters, which make it impossible to survive long enough to kill the harvesters. Therefore, the longer you fight, the harder it gets. Then, I died,and respawned in a safehouse, a single step out of the house and I got shot to half health by one bullet from a harvester that was 420m away...Thats outrageous. We learned early on that you just have to go for it when fighting the enemies. There's no point in hiding behind things, and trying to be smart about it, because every enemy will get you anyway, as if walls or other barriers don't exist.
2. There are a lot of well known bugs in the game which sometimes make it impossible to play. Example: In Torsberga you get a graphics glitch where you see flashing lights/orbs in your screen which often cover 90-100% of your screen. You have to use workarounds like red dot scope or flashlight to be able to see 60% of the screen. This bug is known for I think at least 2 months and still has not been fixed.
3. You get a million crafting supplies (steel, fabric, plastic etc.), but can only craft clothes, which seem useless. There should be a crafting option for medkits or other useful items for fighting. After 2 hours of gameplay we knew that there's absolutely no point in keeping crafting resources, so we threw them all away, and now, having finished the game, we don't regret that at all.
4. They added bikes to the game, which would be great if they were mountainbikes. Instead, you get crappy city bikes which basically only work on the road. If you try and go anywhere else you're faster sprinting, since you mostly run through the woods or hills, so to us there, again, seems no point.
5. The inventory is absolutely infuriating. There items within the categories should be listed in alphabetical order or something, because when you are in your storage box and want to check how many Ak's you have, you see an Ak on top of the list, 2 in the middle, one in the end, even if they are the same star rating. Its incredibly confusing. I cannot tell you how many hours I wasted trying to organize my items. It's especially annoying with the weapon attachments, because you get a million of them for a million different weapons. Good luck finding the thing you need.
6. A minor thing, but we didn't understand why we got the credits really early on in the game. We only had maybe 70% of the main missions cleared and after we finished one specific facility, the game was "finished". We kept playing and finished all the missions we could find after that, but still something felt weird about it.
Nonetheless it has a lot of pros:
1. The story is very interesting, you want to keep playing to learn more. Especially the DLC was cool!
2. The missions are clearly marked on the map and the HUD, so you basically can't miss those. Example: When you have to do stuff in a bunker, you consecutively get waypoints which guide you along through hallways and doors towards your goal.
3. The skill trees are nice and make sense.
4. The graphics are gorgeous, Sometimes I just stood on a hill and watched the sun set over a lake.
All in all I'd say this game COULD be fantastic, if the developers fixed and added a few things. However, atm this game is a 50:50 for me. The cons are really annoying, often times to the point of frustration and ragequits. We bought it at reduced price, so it's fine, but it seems like an early access game to us and we did not bother to go for 100% in this game.

---{Audio}---
( ) Eargasm
( ) Amazing
(X) Good
( ) Decent
( ) Not too bad
( ) Bad
( ) Earrape
---{Audience}---
( ) Everyone
( ) Kids
(X) Teens
(X) Adults
---{Difficulity}---
( ) Dark souls
(X) Hard
() Easy to learn / Hard to master
( ) Easy
( ) Mindless head banging keyboard to win
---{Grind}---
( ) Grind is everything you do
( ) Grindy
( ) Every MMO ever type of grindy
( ) Bareable
(X) Is necessary to progress
( ) Isnt necessary to progress
( ) No grind
---{Game Time}---
( ) Endless
( ) Addictive
(X) Long
( ) Average
( ) Short
( ) Long enough for a cup of tea
---{Graphics}---
( ) Masterpiece
(X) Beautiful
( ) Good
( ) Decent
( ) OK
( ) Bad
( ) Awful
( ) Made on paint
---{PC Requirements}---
( ) Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
(X) High
(X) Medium
( ) Low
( ) Ultra low
( ) Game boy advance
---{Status}---
( ) Daytime New York
( ) Always some people around
( ) Hard to find people
(X) Few people still alive - COOP
(X) You are the only person alive
---{Servers}---
( ) No issues
(X) Minor lag every few hours
( ) Can get laggy sometimes
( ) 1.99$ Servers
( ) Unplayable
---{Bugs}---
( ) Never had any
( ) Minor bugs
(X) Few bugs
( ) Can get annoying
( ) Ruining the game
( ) The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{Price}---
( ) Just buy it
(X) Worth the price
( ) Wait for sale
( ) Maybe if u have some spare money left
( ) Not recommended
( ) You can have more fun burning that money instead
( ) Free
---{Worth playing?}---
(X) Yes
( ) No

I really, truly dig this game!
My friends and I were looking for a cooperative survival style game, and in my research Gen Zero came up. We've enjoyed the hell out of it! So much so that I really want to share my/our feedback here.
This game feels like a passion project for some (many?) of the developers. Much of the game world has been created quite well, and the detail added to several aspects of the game have given me pause on more then one occasion just to appreciate the work that's been put into it. Some examples:
Saab Viggen combat aircraft parked in hangers or crashed in fields. Appropriate aircraft for 80’s Sweden, and I suspect something the game developers had to build themselves from scratch (I don’t imagine there’s been much need for a Saab Viggen game artifact previously). And with attention to very granular detail: the engine is shown with the thrust reverser deployed (apologies for those of you reading - I'm an aircraft fanboy). In any case, I really appreciated that attention to detail.
Recently plowed fields with water collecting in furrows, with the morning sun rising at an angle that results in a very beautiful reflection.
The audio engineers absolutely deserve recognition for the work put into this game. I use audio cues in the game all the time. Using a headset I’m able to get an acoustic direction for some enemies (particularly the Tanks and Gatherers in the distance) and a sense for how far away they may be. And the sounds really give a great ambiance to the game as a whole. A harsh wind blowing across the field as we move our way between farmsteads? Yep, I get a sense of cold as I move through the environment. The deep concerning “Thump! Thump! Thump! BWAAAAA” of a Tank in the distance as it's walking a patrol and stops to do…something? Yep, I’m concerned and make sure I’m informing the team. Music playing from radios or boomboxes when deployed? Brings me right back to an 80’s groove.
The audio really elevated the game for me and my crew of friends. Lots of little details that, in aggregate, add to the feel and experience of this game.
It’s a rather large game. At first, I got the sense we’d be confined to a smaller area. But as we progressed it became apparent that there was a lot more to explore. Many more points of discovery in the game and places to trek to than I was initially expecting.
The game’s not a cake walk. Difficulty ramps up noticeably as you progress. And now we’re paying a lot more attention to avoiding the attention of other enemies when we engage – when more units arrive during a firefight, things can get pretty hairy, and quickly. Oh, and when things blow up…they BLOW UP. Usually big. Try not to get into firefights near things that go boom. Like fuel cells. Or gas canisters. Propane tanks - stay clear of ‘em when shooting at / being shot at. Cars. Just avoid cars altogether when fighting. That was a painful lesson learned, I can tell you.
The ability to use team tactics in multiplayer has been excellent. Using in-game skills to identify target types at range, using different equipment load-outs for players, flanking efforts, and targeting weak-points have all been very enjoyable for us. There's far less "run and gun" going on for us (so long as we're not surprised by a patrol, which happens frequently enough to keep us all very much on our toes). It's a good mix of stealthy movement, discussion among the team about how best to go about avoiding or fighting discovered enemies, planning attacks, unplanned results, as well as raw hip-deep in firefights.
This game really does feel like a labor of love by its developers. I’m thankful for that, and very thankful we found it!
Some criticisms:
Inventory gets frustrating to manage. First and foremost, we feel the game needs to be capable of sorting inventory by type. As it stands today, everything in inventory (on-person or in the storage box) seems to be sorted by the order it was added, and that really makes finding duplicates, needed ammo, or specific items cumbersome. It’s particularly challenging when you need to swap out a weapon or ammo type during combat. If you’re not hunkered down in a very, very safe place when that happens, you’re going to get waxed. An auto-sort feature is desperately needed here.
Enemies that float away after being destroyed. This honestly isn’t huge, it’s just a frustration that my entire game crew comments on. Every. Time. It. Happens. It seems to occur almost exclusively with Hunters: shortly after destroying one the “corpse” will suddenly float off into the sky, as if being summoned back to an alien mothership, never to be seen again. It’s a little funny, but we all lament not being able to loot it. Not a game breaking thing, mind you. Just a notable frustration.
Seems like you can’t start up a single player game independent of the state of a multiplayer game (if you’ve participated multiplayer). By that I mean: if you’ve played multiplayer and make a new character, you new character will start in the same place your multiplayer character was last in.
Crafting is… not really something we’re doing. We’re collecting building materials, but lately we’re finding that they’re just adding undesired wight to our inventory and we’re dumping it all as we trek. We've found very few schematics or recipes thus far (25+ hours in, mind you), so we have very little we can craft. Maybe there will be more for us to learn and craft as we continue? It’s a little disappointing so far as the crafting component is something several of our gaming crew gravitate towards in games like this and it was a factor in our selecting Gen Zero.
Multiplayer is a little wonky sometimes. We occasionally have incidents where a player will drop from the session, almost always followed shortly after by everyone dropping, including the host. It’s not been often, so I can only speculate on the cause (which we felt might have been network latency between clients or the host).
Multiplayer being limited to 4 players is mildly disappointing. It’s very clear in the Gen Zero store page and documentation that it’s 4 players maximum, so it wasn’t a surprise. It’d just be nice if a few more than 4 players could be in a game.
I tip my hat to Systemic Reaction, Avalanche Studios, and anyone else involved with the making of Generation Zero. As I said at the start of this review: I enjoy the hell out of this game! I know my friends do as well!

Just bought it. Played it. LOVE IT!!!
I'm only doing this in single player. I'm not really an online gamer, but maybe if I can find time and meet someone worth playing this game online with, that would be something I'm willing to try. I held off from buying this due to bad reviews, but someone on YouTube said that most of everything is fixed for early 2020. So I bought it.
Glad I did.

This game is getting better.
I have been playing this game close to when it was put on to the store and I am happy to see that many changes and improvemts have been made on this game. I am happy that the game has not been left for dead and that it is evolving into some thing more playable than its first form. yes there are still things that need to be improved but if they keep at it I think that more people would find this game enjoyable. I hope that in the future the game is made into somthing even better and more people come to it. these are just my thoughts on this game.
The dlc:
I feel that Alpine Unrest is a great dlc and a must have with the game. An island that is not apart of the main island is a great addition to add more difficult robots you have to fight. I will not say alot about the story from the dlc but it makes sense and feels at place in the game
Now for FNIX rising. I feel that it is not really worth it. It is all over the place in my eyes. you get to fight protoype robots but then later you have to fight a apoc tank. yes it could be that it is trying to challange you in the later game but it just feels like a chore to do some of it. dont get me wrong i enjoy the challanges that it gives you but with my main profile i was able to complete it in about 2 hours (the main story about it). I did enjoy the outposts and small bases the robots set up but i don't want to have to buy another 8$ dlc to put them all over the other parts of the map. Now if this dlc was on the other island this would be worth 8$ but they did not do that.
Now dont get me wrong. I enjoy this game but it still can improve. I think the dlcs are cool but If they add another one I hope they add the other island and to help complete the story or somthing.
How They Could Improve.
I feel that a sort of auto generated missions or things like Defend this and attack that that are given and cycled every day or week could keep making the player Think and not just run and gun with a EXP weapon set. Yes It could get dull or repetitive but somthing that keeps on making the player fight the robots in a new way.
Ex: You have to get parts from bots and give them to the survivors, or Defend the outpost from an attack. And it would get more difficult and match the skill level and play style/challange the player to play in a new way!
I apologize if The grammer is bad Or I repeat my self i just love this game And see so much hope for its Groth
this is just my view on the game. 7/25/2020