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I played the Alpha and the Beta i also enjoy every kind of zombie shooter game not only l4d(2)

I put a red thumb even tho i enjoyed the game because there are way too much downside and here my review.

Visual

-The game is enjoyable, modern graphics and gameplay is appreciable, the card system is interesting and you will enjoy building your deck depending your type of gameplay (melee, shotgun, medic...).
-Everything is generic, nothing memorable, survivors, maps, weapons or infected it's not bad but nothing special at all

Spawns

-Spawns are broken, you will get 4-8 SI at once of any kind even double or triple of the same, they can spawn anywhere, under cars, behind bushes, in tombstone pretty much anywhere on the map even behind you where you cleared the path.

Difficulty

-Difficulty are highly unbalanced, you go from Recruit the easiest wich is way too easy to Veteran and the Nightmare, you could think it is easy/normal/hard but it's not, it is more like Easy/Hard/Extreme and the corruption cards are insane in higher difficulty you can just have armored SI + explosive common zm and many other thing to make your game harder.

Trolls

-Griefer will be your nightmare, there is NO kick system nothing at all to stop people from ruining your game you just gotta accept the teamkill and chill and trust me there are many many ways to grief...

The most useless feature

-Continue system is bad and useless, you just have 2 retries before getting booted in the lobby with your squad disbanded so you can't even try different tactic to beat the current level. The checkpoint (saferoom) are divided in 2 category the major checkpoint and level checkpoint, each map has a saferoom but you have a major checkpoint every 2-4 maps depending the level you play on and if you have no more retries you get booted to the last major checkpoint. So if you fail level 4/4 you gotta redo the 3 first. (magnificient way for griefer to ruin a game)

Flashlight?

-No flashlight, it is triggered automatically but in some dark area where you can't see anything it doesn't trigger great.

The most broken feature

-Matchmaking is completly broken, barely anyone can join mid game and 80% ragequit first map i hope you enjoy playing solo or friends only. Yeah people do say "just go play with friend" but sorry no, as much as i enjoy playing with friend i also enjoy playing with randoms and that also a way to make friends!

Swarm (versus)

-Swarm mod 4v4 (versus) is just a massive joke, 1-3min round in a sort of survival map very small area where a bubble similar to battle royale ones get smaller every minutes barely any penality for ragequiters and if someone leave he won't be replaced by an other player nor a bot so you can end up 1v4 and you will end up 1v4, also you don't get any rewards if everyone RQ. The game mode is currently highly unbalanced nothing has changed since BETA.
Versus campaign won't be a thing dev don't want it.

Replayability

-Barely no replayabiliy currently, once you know all map by heart there are no more surprise it never change, the only thing that will be different are the corruption cards and your own cards if you change them, but even the corruption cards are always the same (corrosive or explosive or burning infected, more of this or this type of SI, bosses, frequent hordes etc..)
i played 20h at the moment of this eval and i will play more because i want to see all of it but im already bored.

Team play

-It is VERY VERY based on teamplay, if you don't play with your team, if your teammate are clueless or if there are trolls/griefer your run will be a massive faillure

Who can play?

-The game is NOT made for casual gamer unless they only play with friends or in easy difficulty, you gotta learn how to build a proper deck, use it wisely and know how to play your thing otherwise you gonna break the team and being yelled at.

Crossplay

-Crossplay is very nice BUT many steam players are disabling it since apparently console players are very bad, in my opinion i disabled it for an easier matchmaking, yeah i find it easier to play with PC players and i avoid gamepass trolls (1$/10$ gamepass alt account and such will be fun)

Deck system

-You cannot build more than 8 deck at once the game force you to delete them after then and you cannot change cards/deck mid game so if you get into a specific corruption cards set, just pray to have a build good enough to deal with.

Conclusion

The game do not worth much in it's current state, it is very enjoyable yet very limited and quickly boring it will not be a long term game unless they add some very interesting content (not only bunch or maps/char) and they fix many many of the current bugs especially the matchmaking.

UPDATE

I have unlocked everything in the game currently beside few cosmetics here and there and i created a meta build for each category of guns and as expected i don't even bother trying anything with cards since i have a proper build for melee/shotgun/rifle etc etc..
After 1 month now we got the first patch that mostly nerf melee build, make the game slightly harder and minor bug fix here and there, nothing that i listed has changed beside that.
After 2 month second patch bring difficulty level down, now everything is playable, they nerfed speed build and buffed gun build nothing much more to keep beside that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdRLNUGmFC8