Ashes 2 Reviews

Bought & finished this game today. Had a lot of fun playing it & found it well worth the money!

Full disclosure, I could only stomach about 40 minutes of this game, so I don't know if the irritations in my review become more tolerable the longer you progress. It's not that it's entirely bad, I do like the game's ideas on base building, level progression, and crafting; It's just that this game's ideas are poorly implemented. Water and food degenerate WAY too quickly and are not commonly found while scavenging, and it ends up being more irritating than its even worth. I'm all for a difficult survival game, but this really lacks the motivation for me. Hit detection is awful with weapons. The game shows DPS floating text, but most headshots aren't counted as actual headshots for some reason. I crafted a pistol, and found that shooting the back of a zombie's head deals 10 damage instead of 50 when hitting the front of the head - but even then, blatant headshots to the face more than 6 feet away seem to mostly also count as 10 damage instead of 50. Whether it is intentional fall off damage or not, it's pretty ridiculous, especially considering how pricey ammo is to craft, it makes a huge difference. Movement is super slow to me, I felt like I was walking the speed of an 80 year old with arthritis. Again, I didn't play for long enough to see where this goes, but the initial tiny sectioned off squares for maps are mostly bland and uninteresting fields. It lost me, and I was bored out of my mind with the game and irritated with its mechanics. Maybe if you're more patient then me you might be mildly entertained. I feel bad leaving such a bad review, but that's my honest opinion. It needs a lot of work still.