Recent reviews by d2kemps

I have always loved the idea of battle royales, but hated FPS games. This game is really great. They were having server issues at launch, but have fixed them for the most part.

The dev team has been really responsive to most issues and for that I'm really thankful.

I do wish they had some ability to report people because losing to someone who is obviously cheating is a really bad game experience.

Okay first the good. I like the board game and the digital version is well implemented. I recommend this game as a stand alone or solo experience.

The bad is a few things. Number one is that the ELO rating system encourages bad actors. If you're playing a game against someone with lower ELO, you will get little or no gain from winning the game, but can lose massive ELO from losing it. That wouldn't be a problem (I don't usually care about ranked play) except one of the hidden achievements is to get a certain ELO. So, if I want to get that achievement, I need to play like an awful person in ranked play, leaving games I'm not gonna win or asking someone to tank their ELO so I can get the last achievement. ELO is not zero sum, it's negative sum. The last game I played, the winner got 7 points, I lost 9, and the loser lost hundreds. Scythe is not a nice game. I don't want to be under pressure in a game that can be really mean at times to metagame to a higher ELO.

Also, the unskippable cutscenes are unnecessary.

In short, don't play ranked, and don't put achievements in game requiring players to be mean.