Deadside Reviews

Its got a bit before it gets there but this could possibly kill dayz Maybe a couple more big updates and itll be there. The gun play is great. the looting is difficult sometimes but that depends on your server. I dont reccomend pvp to new players as that can be buggy to say the least. The AI needs some work and the animations too. but other than that, this game is fun. 8/10 in its current state.

Ran by corrupt admins and devs that hate being confronted and will ban you immediatly. If you are better than the main admin group which plays on Central 300, they also ban you. Great game and has tons of potential but not with these devs. There is a reason the pop on this game has just declined since it came out.

Deadside is quite like all the other games in the genre, but this is my favorite one. It doesn't feature zombies, it has AI players scattered around the large map instead. They're usually on patrol, protecting a base or a crashed helicopter. The aim of the AI can be ridiculous. They're mostly part of missions, which I like doing but it will be a bit repetitive once you've completed a bunch. I didn't get much into base building yet. As of right now, the developers are still working on the game and I will definitely keep following the project to see what the future brings.

The game is nothing but pain, getting food and water is a pain, getting weapons is a pain, looting is a pain, NPCs have god tier aim, while it's damn near impossible for the player to aim because the weapon sways like i'm on a boat while moving, but if i stand still i die, and to top it all off , trying to get my shit back is also pain because i somehow always run close enough to a wolf for it to attack me, and the knife you start with after respawning sucks, and the NPCs that killed you will likely still be close enough to your body to then kill you before or just after you can get your shit, and despite the game being availible for console there is no controler compatibility at all

Okay, is the game worth buying and will you get value for your money? Most likely, but i wouldn't recommend it to serious FPS gamers. It really does depend if you like detailed, hardcore shooters or you just want to log into a game, grab the nearest sniper rifle and a scope, and kill everything from 500m away. If it's the latter, then the 2025 version of Deadside is just your game! It's not that the gunplay is totally broken, but it also certainly isn't balanced and feeling 100% right... basically, only AR's and sniper rifles matter in this game now. Pretty much no one even carries pistols anymore, barely anyone uses shotguns cause they're such a joke, and SMG's are borderline useless too... it's just a 2 gun type + a scope kind of game now. (by now, i mean the past 2-3 years.) It's very, very lucky that games like DayZ, Rust, and Scum exist, cause its gunplay certainly isn't as bad as those games, but it equally isn't on the detailed level of Escape From Tarkov and Delta Force. If you just want a fairly basic game with not a heap of detail, then you will get more than your money's worth out of Deadside, there's plenty to do on the map, and it also now has transport. It just isn't the game i thought it'd turn out to be in 2020 when i first started playing it and 5+ years and 7000+ hours later... it's never going to be the game i thought and had hoped it'd be. I need balanced and detailed gunplay where every gun matters and is important, Deadside isn't that! To me, the Devs just took the game down the wrong path, essentially making it a Rust clone. With some additional work, detail, and actually listening to ideas from their "experienced" players, it could have evolved into something more like Escape From Tarkov. Anyway, i'm moving on and playing other games that fit my need for hardcore PVP and actual balanced, detailed gunplay. When you're nothing but loyal to a game for 5+ years, and have taught and helped countless people in it, yet have never been listened to once about any issues in the game... then my talent and loyalty are deserved elsewhere. Thanks for the memories, i guess Oh, i've just been perma-banned from posting anything in the comments section about the game... like i care? It really does just reinforce everything i said in this review is 1000% correct, and remember... this review is really only just about the unbalanced gunplay. I could type a much, much, much longer review about everything else that's bad, broken, and wrong about the game/Devs. Alas... i have a life and way better "actual FPS" games to play. Enjoy your dwindling player-base, doh! Kek!

Money hungry, doesn't listen to community and allows cheaters to play

Very clever to put the game on sale. All bad games are now coming back with hacked accounts. Feedback from server 202: More than 5 different hackers banned in the last 48 hours, 2 of them to date. Thanks for letting us down... but hey, the main thing is that the new console update is coming out and we guys on PC have made the game big and that's how we get our thanks. Thanks tinybuild and badpixel for the wasted 1100 hours of play.

This game is fun because it's not overcomplicated. It has a lot of fun stuff to do, and the gameplay loop is what you want it to be but everything is pretty fun to do. If you come for PvP as I'm sure most do, you will get the same thing you get with all PvP games, cheaters, hackers, griefers, trolls etc etc. The devs can only make the game good they can't make players not be trolling scrotum scrubbers. But on PvE servers everyone is very friendly and helpful if you engage with them. You could also get on servers that have optional PvP if you don't want to constantly worry about your base getting raided because you have more going in IRL than someone who just likes to destroy and steal from others w/o any real challenge. Overall the game is really good and they have made some commendable improvements to the content and gameplay quality. PvP is always going to be what it is and will always leave people dissapointed in the lack of babysitting necessary to maintain PvP "fairness" whatever that is supposed to be.

Rampant cheating. Official servers have no active admins nor report tool.

for the love of god we need free peer to peer private servers, if i wanna play by myself or just a friend i should not have to buy a subscription service