Blacklight: Retribution Reviews

Well after 2 hours in the game i think i can safely say....the game is dead.theres never more than 6 players playing any gamemode and even thats rare. So, what may have been a good game at one time, is no longer. I can't recommend the game. i just can't i mean,its free so you can give it a shot. but don't expect much.

this game is good visually and the gameplay is actually good for a free fps game. it's very fast pace and required skill and tactics to actually play well. it's a free to win game, but if you are very patience you can earn in game currency to buy new weapon permanently. the problem with the game is the servers is always empty and every quickplay search always redirect you to an empty server, very rare to find full servers. you'll feel boring after few games playing against bot offline. if you playing in SE asia region as me you would notice how high the pings is while playing against other player and at some point make the game almost unplayable. (i wished i got better internet) i wouldn't recommend you to play the game alone, so bring friends along. i would rate the game 6/10.

This game really went down hill. from the last time i played compared to now it's gained [list] [*]ability to crash your graphics card, even give it a BSOD (which has never happened to me b4 [*]90% of servers are empty now, an averaged of 50 players spread across all servers (used to be 100's of people playing on weekdays) [*]Lose all of your items if you played a long time ago due to a patch that came out. [*]more people hacking [*]more negitive reviews [*]holy f*ck this game really went in the sh*tter.. [/list]

I really enjoy this game. While it does have a shadow of a pay-to-win ethos, the guns are all reliable enough to do sufficient damage that teamplay will overwhelm one Rambo with the best gun. That's what I enjoy about this: people are happy to work as a team! The down side, I must say, is I cannot now find anyone else online :( it is as if the game has died. However, with 11,000+ positive reviews, I'm LFG for some great rounds! Even if the devs have gone to Xbox support, this has plenty of replayability with the right teammates. Try it out. Get some friends in on it too as it's a proper LAN party game!

Use to be the best F2P FPS game on steam. As far as gameplay goes its par to none but the recent changes have made it unenjoyable to new players who iether do not want to or cannot afford to pay into it. starting off with a fresh account you will find that each half-hour match, even a good one, you only make about 150 GP. well, any gun costs about 25k GP to perm it and add it to a loadout. For players who have the cash to buy "zen" (the ingame pay for currency) they can buy a "GP duplicator" and have half the grind you will have. It use to be that zen was used for purely cosmetic changes but now the gameplay is dependant on it if u dont want too loose ur mind playing the default weapon loadouts for days on end.

Sad to say that I have to uninstall. Truly a great game but like many, I have to agree that the game is dead. Grinding on money is quite hard but thats not the main point here. The servers are dead, not many players online. To be honest I have waited for this game since it was released. I only got on it at the end of 2016 as my internet before was horrible. But after a few weeks of playing i realise that the servers are getting really empty. For some reason also my ping is very high even though my internet is working just fine. Basically in summary, The servers are not well maintained. If that is fix i do not mind jumping back into the game.

This game was good, played the sh** out of it! it was amazing. Then came this crappy update, game always crashing and glitching took away amazing maps and put in low quality crappy maps in! ask me 3 years ago if i would recomend this and i would say with my life now i would say id rather die then have to see someone else go through the same amount of disappiontment as i had too! spent so many days and hours slave to it and now.... it breaks my heart

The best "has been" fps game, if only there was a time machine to go back to the good days of full servers and accessable gun attachments. Don't waste your time.

One of the most painful downvotes for me, some of my best gaming memories were with blacklight in 2013-2015 i was honestly addicted and managed to even pull my friends into playing it, blacklight was seriously one of the best balanced and well playing f2p fps games out there and it was a game that people kept coming to, that is not an easy feat in the f2p fps market sadly the devs just randomly left it to die, they also released patches which activatly made just about everything worse and they never did fix that, there is so much money left that could have been made, this was a great game in its haydays, it still looks fantastic as well which is such a shame. This was one of the games that made me move to pc gaming exclusively and now its dead all because the developers randomly abandoned it when it was going strong when there was an active scene surrounding it, it is a shame because it could have been so much more however good things must come to an end and this has met its end just slowly being starved of servers and players until it is no more. I met a lot of friends because of this, found a new platform and so many options, it will be sad when the servers ultimately shut down but this is an example of how you can screw up even when you were doing everything correctly, this is what happens when you forget who your true audience is. hardsuit labs made a fantastic game and perfect world destroyed it.

This game was absolutely incredible when I first started playing it in July of 2013. At first it seemed like just another Call of Duty ripoff that decided to take the free-to-play route, but as I invested more time into the game, I began realizing how distinct this game is from others. Just pressing the V key is enough to see that. In all honesty I don't know where to begin. The weapon balancing was pretty good, but that kinda changed later. The customization options were, and still are, broad and lets you really personalize your character. The community was fantastic for the most part, and as time went on, the playerbase decreased, which led to each lobby being like those old towns you hear about where everyone knows each other. There was a time for about a year and a half where the developers did not update the game due to internal problems, and the game's functionality certainly reflected that. The servers didn't work too well, constantly crashed, were rather laggy, ect. A lot of the playerbase died out at this point since the game was having these problems, but it just made the loyal parts of the community closer. Then they updated it after all that time with the Parity patch. They took all of the new content from the PS4 version and brought it to PC, which everyone was excited for at first. What ended up happening was we got a game that felt really strange and unlike what we were used to. Recoil was reduced greatly, which limited the viable builds to be damage-focused builds for the weapons. The question for moving further into the game changed from "how can I build this gun to fit my playstyle and comfort?" to "how can I build this gun to do more damage?". To me, this lack of diversity ruins the fun for me, especially considering the amount of diversity before the Parity patch. If I were to have written this three years ago, I would have said that this was the best multiplayer FPS game available and that if you are willing to grind a bit to find equipment that matches your playstyle, you will enjoy this game greatly. But sadly I can't say that anymore. I would not recommend this game to anyone looking for a fresh FPS experience. EDIT (June 14, 2018): I was hoping by now I'd be able to say that I recommend the game, but I sadly cannot. The new devs released three patches after their first comeback update that served as balance changes, but that's about it. The last patch was in February, and I'm beginning to think that we've entered into another drought, as they called it. They nerfed pretty much everything and then buffed the Assault Rifle, making it once again the most dominant and overpowered receiver. Want to do well with minimal effort? Use the AR or any of its other overtuned and power creeped variants. The game is just a mess really. It still feels crappy and more awkward since the Parity patch, and updates don't seem to be happening anymore. I've given up hope that this game can come back and be as prominent as it once was.