ANEURISM IV Reviews

Game boots up and I'm immediately thrown into a featureless void. Five seconds later, my soul gets violently shoved into some depressed factory worker. Fine, I guess. Stumble around till I find the laundry room. Doing laundry isn't spiritual—it's literally my job, the only thing barely keeping me alive at this point. I try to open thee washing mashine early, and suddenly this wave of pure horror comes over me. I get this eerie, unmistakable feeling that the washing machine really, really doesn't like being opened early. Suddenly cops bust in and lock down the laundry room. They frisk everybody, looking for... something. I'm clean (ha). They leave without explanation. Then, sirens blaring, bombs dropping. Apparently we're at war now? Police shuffle us straight from laundry duty into making bombs. Mandatory career change, but oddly enough, the pay upgrade was appreciated. People around me start blowing themselves up because they messed up building bombs—small mistake, big boom. After each explosion, the cops just scream at us to keep going, stay productive, keep working. "It's the only thing you're good for!" they shout. Others rush over instantly, butcher the fresh corpses with sscreewdriverrs and eat the raw meat. One guy tries leaving work early, instantly gets shot. No one even bats an eye. We just keep making bombs, because that's life now, I guess. 10/10, would gladly be a citizen of Aneurysm IV again. Glory to Aneurysm IV

this game is actually really good but in its current state its designed in a way that 14 year olds who just got done watching good griefs get to have power over you and silent try hards use you as anamnacyte farm without even saying a word. i dont want admins i dont want snitch culture but you know what else i dont want? my time wasted. having losers and freaks have complete advantage isn't fun, the little disclaimer in the beginning is really cute and edgy but your design choices embolden the worst, game killing type of people. you made an amazing game, now stop wasting people's time by design. Edit: So I checked out some other reviews and it made me realize im not crazy and there's another huge problem with this game: the developers. it sucks that the game is good, because the people that run it obviously don't know what the fuck they're doing or dont care. When i first started playing this game they got hacked and all their servers went down. I joined the discord to get updates. While i was in there i was having civil conversation (yes really) and suddenly a few people start losing their minds. Calling me this that and the other blah blah blah. They call a moderator, I assume because the game is good that the people who run the discord many of who are devs would also be cool. No, some antisocial freaks started attacking me, then called the admin, then the admin without any clarification, just banned me. Now i've heard all the stuff about this AyAyron guy and its clicked. These devs are weird. Its very funny because their game is all about tyranny, big brother censorship whatever its that whole diaspara, but they themselves are kinda just mindless tyrants with no concern for any sense of fairness. its weird bro. it goes beyond them "not caring" which im sure they'd claim and ventures more into "i want to create a little pocket of reality where i am god". very ironic. anyway get a grip fix your game stop being freaks and make some money.

Before you read this and make your opinnion I will say that I wrote this in a very negative mood. I got randomly killed by a corpsman as I was playing banker. Then I was spawncamp killed by a limitator in the scum base. So bear that in mind reading this. Aneurism 4, Amazing game. Works wonderfully at least for me... But I cannot recommend it sadly. For me this game suffers majorly from: a lack of community among the players (especially above ground), The idea of the city of Aneurism 4 vs reality, and a lack of punishment for breaking the rules. Starting off with the lack of community. Above ground the world is absolute chaos, with next to no proper roleplay. You might run into a prole who wants to sniff glue, or some dirty cop who's charging your shop for protection fees. But outside of these few and far between encounters, its everyone doing their own thing with little to no incentive to work with each other. Fates such as the Corpsman quickly go from making pharmaceuticals and helping the people. To begging that some random person has cancer pods so they could get more than 6 credits from the pay cycle. Or the Dealer, who's idea is to make shady deals. Get things others cannot, and avoiding being seen dealing illegal things. Quickly becomes a race to gather enough amnecytes to become a banker. After they got lit up like a christmas tree for being instantly searched by the cops and found hauling bottles of literally fermented shit. And not even mentioning the proles. What I gather from what they're supposed to be is hard working, poor people who toil in the factories day and night... But instead we have ration thieves, mass murderers, and glue sniffers. With next to no repercussions for going on a mass murder spree, causing others to lose hours of work at worst. Even if all of these require players to interact with each other. Its not good when everyone in the server acts the same. Cops will search you whenever you try to smuggle drugs, and instantly open fire regardless of how much time or effort you put into it. You will have your repair kit stolen when you try to repair something, and you will be killed upon attacking them. You will walk outside and get blasted by a prole with a lung puncher for absolutely no reason. All of this combined with the city of Aneurism 4 itself. It is portrayed as this Totalitarian 1984 type city state? Where cortex knows all, and blah blah blah. I love the idea of Aneurism 4. But in reality I believe the totalitarian aspect isn't really used that much. Sure you'll go mad from some woman on the loudspeaker shouting in your ear, and get PTSD from every time you hear the camera take a screenshot of you. But outside of that? Nothing else really. Proles will stop doing work and start snorting glue in the laundromat. Corpsmen will quit healing altogether and heal the Zealots and scumbags. Bankers will be killed infront of cameras for the sole reason of existing. And limitators will shoot any random prole they want because they felt like it, it isn't like anyone's going to try to stop them. What I'm trying to say is that the game isn't punishing enough for those who step outside of doing their job. And if anything they should be rewarded better for doing their work. Imagine if the proles at the metal works have to hit a certain quota of ore for a bit of extra credits, or the Controllers get rewards from the Nexus for being a better cop, slowly and gradually rising through the ranks until they can become like a lesser limitator? Now for breaking the rules. Amnecyte loss clearly isn't enough for most people. If anything it is sadly encouraged by the fact that you require a slave to become the Vomit Coffin. And I think that's wrong. I think based on this mysterious karma system, you should be downed into playing Prole. Where you have to not just push boulders but also work your way up back into society while also getting a chance to play the game. I also believe that showing people's karma would be good for certain fates. Like for example the Dealer. Who can artificially raise the price of his product for people who aren't trustworthy, or vice versa. I really love this game's world, and the Gmod darkRP done right vibe its going for. But these issues make the game very very very repetetive. Especially for someone who's trying to really roleplay and be a part of the world and contribute to it. That being said. Praise the rot, Fuck the cortex. And thank you for reading all of this.

gameplay is cool, but the community manager ayayron is apparently a groomer, has streamed porn to minors and bans people for whatever reason he sees fit, and the servers are also being DDOSed, buy at your own risk

I have dreams that i'm beating metal ore into ingots to dreary 90s ps2 theme music most days because of this game.

i got addicted to glue cigarettes and booze. lost my mind when i couldnt find any and ultimately ended up just having to jump in a pit of fire. then i found a dead body, ate it, got sick, and jumped into a fire pit. after that i came home and got on aneurysm 4

Here's a summary of my first life in Aneurysm IV. Spawn in as a parole. Wander around until I meet a Brotherhood of Steel power armor looking dude. He tells me to stay strapped or get clapped, And proceeds to hand me a automatic shotgun. He then tells me to come with him to the Underground Railroad to kill Anne Frank. I have no idea what's happening. We then enter the Underground Railroad and get absolutely pummeled by seven zealots. Instantly my favorite game, 10 out of 10, Would eat the leftovers of Jenkum again.

I played this game for 55 hours and couldn't find the cons, but finally i did. And after it happened it became literally unplayable, boring and pointless to even continue playing. So you can choose to play between two different factions. First is Cortex (basically the police), second is SCUM (basically domestic terrorists). SCUM players have shared inventory in the form of chests in different underground locations. In order to win as a SCUM fate you need to work as a team, you need to share items you found to help others make guns/bombs/tools faster. And that's where the biggest and the most boring flaw lays. There are people that will literally grief the f out of chests, waisting time scum spent grinding some resources, then they just go towards the void and throw all the stuff there with no repercutions. After they cleaned the whole basement of any usefull recources they will open the gates that divide the scum territory from the overworld. Letting the police come in and letting them raid the f out of poor SCUM who used amnecytes to become that. So now you spawn as a SCUM with lack of recources and while you waist your time searching for them you get your head blown by 350 HP tank police units that camp your base. Mind, every death in this game costs you your amnecytes (points to become fate which are obtained by doing laundry). So you need to grind those points back up before becoming SCUM. Most often those griefers are THE CORTEX MEMBERS who purposely spawn as SCUM to grief. And there literally is NO WAY to grief Cortex the same way without being punished by "[b] the game rules [/b]". [b] There are 2 options to fix this problem. [/b] [list] [*]Mods could create channels on discord for players to share griefers SteamID with footages of them griefing and then banning them. Mind you, it could only take 2 clicks for mods and devs on discord server to create a specific channel where you send the recordings of griefings with the steam IDs to ban them from official servers permanently. I asked mods on Discord is there a way to help to stop the griefers (maybe even ban them) from despawning and they said their TOS doesn't apply to that kind of behavior. Therefore there is nothing wrong with griefing and nothing you can do to stop the griefers. xD [*]The better decision is to put passwords on chests which can change every 20 minutes and are only seen by Zealots (more amnecyte expensive role of SCUM fates) who can tell the codes to SCUM they trust. However DEVs are canadians and therefore are incapable of figuring out the problem that could be solved in 5 minutes. (I spent 2 thinking about the ways to stop griefing) [/list] It is hypocritical that you get punished for mostly everything in this game but not the most obvious griefing strategy ever.

Edit: Since writing this review, the community manager in question has been removed from his position and it seems he will allegedly fully depart from vellocet come September, for now it looks like he is just a mod on the discord server. I have also been unbanned from the game and discord server and it would be disingenuous of me to not inform you guys if this. However I feel it would be equally disingenuous to take the review down, and if the review had anything to do with my unbanning, so here is what i'll do. If you have been wrongfully banned from this game i.e banned despite not cheating submit your appeal here: [email protected]. And let us know the results in the comments of this review. If this is a genuine effort by vellocet to turn a new leaf or just damage control remains to be seen, but I think this is a step in the right direction and if this continues (and if the devs stay out of trouble lmao) then I think it would be fair to change this review from neg to positive but for now we'll see how this new moderation team handles the game. Enjoyed the game until the community manager Ayayron permanently banned me off of it for talking to someone he didnt like, despite "Malicious association" not being a bannable offense on their own EULA he doubled down on his decision and denied my appeal request after vaguely saying he "received evidence" against me despite me never having cheated once on this game, nor ever clarifying what evidence he actually had. The aftermath of this is a game ban sits on my account over a game I never even broke the rules on and am permanently banned from the game and I cannot sell the items with actual monetary value I got over the course of my almost 300 hours. The community manager for this game is incredibly intransparent in the ban appeals and has a guilty before innocent mentality and will ban you for any arbitrary reason he can think of if he wants to, even if you didnt actually break any rules. I am also far from the only person affected by this, aneurysm definitely has a moderation problem and it is solely because of the incompotent and corrupt community manager, who has made it a habit to ban people off the game falsely with no warnings whatsoever. On top of this he has some serious allegations against him involving showing minors pornography over discord and apparently only keeps his position because he is friends with the lead developer, I would say this literal one person is killing the game entirely because of his power trips. Other than that the game is good but buyer beware, you may talk to someone Ayayron doesnt like and be locked out of the ten dollars you spent and get a ban on your account over an indie game

-Become doctor -Find large amount of bottles from digging in trash cans and dumpsters -Finds officer -I ask "what should I do with these" -Officer responds "make some jenkem or something idk" -Officer commends me -I find a prole in the nightclub while im making said jenkem -"Hello this is my first time playing this game" -I say "Want to start a jenkem drug empire with me?" -Prole says "Yeah sounds good to me" -We make around 7 bottles of jenkem and hide them in the dumpster behind the greenhouse -Prole asks what the jenkem does while its we are waiting for it to ferment -Let him test the product -I then find out hes already addicted to sniffing glue -Prole becomes violently addicted and is also starving to death -I continue to heal him to keep my drug addict alive -Banker buys some of our jenkem -Me and prole go to buy gabagool to eat food for the first time -Goes back to greenhouse dumpster -Cops waiting for us -Prole was holding our inventory of jenkem -Cops kill my prole buinsess partner -Same cop walks up to me -"I lost 10 amnecytes because of you" 10/10 game