Nsomniacs Dream

I took the day off work the day this game came out, it was amazing. I spent hours on my first jedi, setting him up, getting all my skills lined up and maxed. It was exactly what I wanted from Star Wars, and the community really rose to the occasion, it was so welcoming and friendly. The game today is a complete 180. If you're FTP, you're not playing even close to the same game as a subscription player. They limit your level, your exp, your storage space, what you can do, where you can go, everything. You can't even trade, and you can only send a message once every 60 seconds, so good luck carrying on a conversation if you have a question on how to do something. If you're subscribing, you're about halfway to that wonderful experience I started with, because the story is just so STAR WARS, ya know? You will fall in love, you'll be betrayed, and then you'll get revenge. But the battle system has been tweaked into ridiculousness by EA to the point that I regularly come across reviews that you simultaneously need to be using 4 skill bars continuously just to progress. I can kind of confirm that, I subbed for a bit just to see if I would still like it, but I couldn't get the hang of a 30 key rotation. Brings me to my main point: The community. If you're going to let your kid play this game, disable all the chat functions. Don't give it a try, don't think I'm exaggerating, the community is one of the worst I've found. I can say without hyperbole that I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that the KKK or the Proud Boys or whatever was using this game as their messaging system because every time you move into an area with more than like 3 players, you will be treated to the most vile and racist and completely unashamed strings of verbal abuse I've ever come across. The stuff people say to you on Xbox live isn't even in the same ballpark, and EA has zero interest in doing anything about it. My block list must have 600 names on it, and it doesn't even make a dent in the amount of vitriol I see on this game. Giving this game 2 stars: One because I firmly believe the devs love Star Wars as much as I do, and that comes across in the story. The second star is because a lot of the game is really beautifully done.

This game is the most amazing building Sim I've ever played. So jot that down, because you are going to hate every second of it. The player base is a nightmare. I'll give you 2 examples from the last week: in the first, I was on a noob server (I've only been playing for 4 days) and the server rule was to not kill new players, and don't do more damage to a base than you have to. So I've built a little 6 by 6 two story wood base, filled my tool cupboard, and I'm off to find more wood. I come back and a dude that was hiding behind a rock nails me and takes all my wood. Whatever right? So I respawn inside and the upkeep timer is saying 10 minutes. He had broken in, taken all but 10 minutes worth of wood and then waited to kill me. So I ran out to get more wood so my base wouldn't collapse, and he camped me. Killed me 3 more times in the ten minutes and made sure I never made it back in time to fix my base. The whole time, when he had killed me and was stealing all my resources, he was singing a song in a little 10 year old voice that went: "N***** N***** FA* FA*, YOURE A N***** THAT FUC** OTHER N*****S AND THAT MAKES YOU A N***** FA*". He finally stopped killing me once my base had collapsed. I was constantly telling the admins what was happening and they said "this is rust, what do you expect." The second example is: I was playing on a different server and I'd managed to build out this nice sized base, all kinds of goodies inside. I'd been grinding it out for like 2 days. Guns on the roof, shotgun traps every 4 feet, just a nightmare. This guy made a couple of tries to blow out a wall or something, but couldn't get the deed done. All of a sudden, im kicked off the server. I managed to get back on after about an hour and instantly die because one of my traps shot and killed me. He was the admin, he had kicked me off the server, broken into my base and destroyed my cabinet and put in his own. He didn't even stay there. He was just making sure I couldn't have it. I understand completely that most people play rust as a pvp heavy, scavenge off other people for supplies kind of game. That's fine, I could live with and enjoy that. But when the player base is filled with just the people who don't want to play rust, they just want to make sure you can't play rust, that's a real problem. If you've seen people play rust on YouTube, they play on their own private servers so the players don't ruin the game for them. Why would you want your players to only be the worst people imaginable who immediately run off everyone else? It's weird.