Foxhole Review (SoReddy)
First off, I want to say I played 125 hours within the past two weeks. Clearly I enjoyed the game and what it had to offer. There's a lot of variety of different things of what you can do. Fight in the front lines? You got it. Want to help do supply chain logistics, you have that too. Want to go behind enemy lines and disrupt their logistics, there's that too.
The game has sucked me in with the continual purpose of contributing in the war effort, constantly doing my best to supply the front with the ever so needed armaments or trying to do a large push to destroy a relic base for zone dominance.
But at the end of the day, I definitely cannot recommend this game to others. The amount of toxicity I have received from others really left a sour taste in my mouth. Don't get me wrong, there were so many pleasant experiences I've had with other players. So many players were accommodating towards me, teaching me on certain operations or asking me how I like the game and what not. Teammates have come to my rescue in defending my base against partisans in numerous occasions, rallying against the forces of the other team. Neighbors constantly asking me what I've been up to, sharing resources and vehicles, and just being that friendly accommodating neighbor everyone wants in their lives. I once joined a group of players in vehicular warfare and the driver was guiding me on what to do. He was extremely accommodating when I made a mistake (I shot a AT bunker as a tank), and said it's OK, it's a learning experience.
But despite all of these positive experiences from players, I've had way too many toxic players. As a solo player, you get bullied from groups of players truly taking advantage of you. You cannot go to certain sections of the map as clans will kick you out. Certain resources are under lockdown as they are 'owned' from the other clans. I've built bases/facilities for the purpose of having a public facility yet all of my vehicles and resources get taken out of my bases before I can get them running. I would have to travel 2 hexes to gather resources and would have to sit in my own base to wait for them to process in fear of my own teammates in raiding me. Teammates would wrench my own vehicle to in order to steal resources from my truck while I am in the middle of gathering resources.
What really made me leave this game, was when a player constantly followed me while cussing at me, just for the point of griefing me. Just for context, I primarily played this game in logistics and I primarily gathered resources where no players usually went to (places where resources were constantly out of gas and were often capped out, so I assumed the zone had a lack of players maintaining that resource node). In this instance, while driving towards a refinery, this player was driving in the middle of the road and we ran into each other. I get it, cars will always run into each other, even if both players happen to drive on the right side of the road, it just happens. You both back up, make space, and move on. In this case, I backed up while this player started yelling at me while driving forward. His teammate/squad then decided to come behind my vehicle and block me while this player continued to yell at me. His teammate gets out with a wrench wanting to unlock my car, and I'm thinking wow, this is not fun at all. Eventually as I leave, to continue to gather resources, this player continues to follow me, blocking me off the road all the while yelling and making fun of me. I just want to play the game. He eventually was able to unlock my car and decided to sit in the passenger seat, so now I'm left with him wherever I go. Fine, you win, I quit, you must be happy now.
If this is the experience I get while I play this game, I decided I'm over it. I also do want to note that all of these players that have been toxic have always been a high rank. If I'm constantly running into higher ranks that are toxic already, then I'm going to keep running into them if I were to keep playing this game. You feel useless, discouraged, and inferior against a larger group of players that bully you. I definitely do not want to put these experiences that I've had with any of my other friends.
TLDR: The toxic negative experiences you get aren't from the other team, it's from your own teammates.