Dark Days for Pc

The game is great and has lots of potential. It makes me sad to give it just 3 stars. I found myself happily playing it for hours, collecting things to craft weapons and items. The behind the player FPS handling is easy and intuitive! However... The game starts off like it might have a fun storyline but then it just disappears and you’re left to collecting and crafting things with no real point. Also some of the essential items are insanely hard to find or craft like the crowbar (Don’t waste the crowbar on fighting!) sharpening stone or bricks for example. Items wear out so fast, it would be nice if you could combine items to “repair” them, rather than having to carry around two of them. Also upon raiding difficult areas where you nearly die and break into the final main treasure chest you find amazing things you’d love to use, but they are worn out to the point of just falling apart immediately. Super disappointing when you’ve spent all your food and water and nearly died many times for a bunch of junk. Add a storyline, repair feature and make raiding have an actual payoff then I would love to give this game 5 stars and a rave review. I can’t see myself playing again until an update.

I have played more than a few “survival” games and there is always something to dislike, but with this one the biggest I have found so far is that carrying capacity is too low when trying to build resources early in the game. This in and of itself wouldn’t be too much of a problem if you can make multiple trips too and from an area after you have cleared it of all the dangers and before it resets. I have seen this vary depending on the danger level of the area from 30mins on the low end and 12hrs for the more difficult areas with stronger enemies. It would require using extra “run” or “fuel” points to make multiple trips, but that is better than having to do that plus use up the supplies, health, and time as well as those same travel boosts. The second big complaint I have is the major jump in enemy difficulty from green level areas to orange level, but I think being able to gather resources better would make that more manageable. And third, the rate of burning through food and drink is way too high when working around the base camp. But again, being able to better gather resources would probably make that much more manageable as well.

So I was playing the game as usual, and I noticed that there was an option to get a “random item” if you watched an ad, and I looked at the loot table, thought it was a good idea, and continued. The first item was crude oil, which wasn’t surprising- it was my first draw, after all. But as I continued to get items, I noticed that I would only get common items, even after multiple attempts. Intrigued, I decided to calculate the probability of getting common, rare, epic, and legendary items, and I found that rare and legendary (blue and purple) items had a 20% chance of being selected. This means that for every 5 draws, you should get one of these items, but I have watched that horrid ad more than 30 times and only got common items- worse, crude oil is a white item, which means it only has a 9% chance of being selected, but it has been the most common item I’ve gotten, which means that certain items are rigged to be given to you, which completely nullifies the quote-unquote “random chance”. I understand that you don’t want players to blast through the game, but PLEASE change this if you actually want to have some semblance of fairness.

The way the game is made allows there to be more skill involved with fighting enemies unlike other games of this type that force you to stand there while you swing or shoot so you automatically take damage and degrade your gear. The only thing I see the game is missing currently is a well put together and meaningful perk system as well as the option to repair gear. Everything else seems okay but I believe those are 2 things this game needs to be able to start to be better than other similar games. But overall the game seems good so far with a lot of potential of the Developers keep up with making content and trying to improve the game for the long term. Some other potentially cool ideas that could support the game- Create cool skins that are mostly bought with real money or gold and allow players to unlock a select amount of cool skins that the players can just equipped at any time.