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Read this if you want the real deal opinion, no sugar coating, and no dev butt sucking. I'll praise them where it's due and criticize them when its warranted.
I installed this game awhile back when it was still killing you for touching water. I installed again about 3 months ago during the peak of 0.75 release. I was hooked. Sure, there were bugs that would be frustrating at times but it was rare enough for me that I could deal with it personally as a dedicated gamer. I got involved in the Scum community forums and pages, keeping up with the Dev's work and progress on 0.8. They went as far as including the community and reaching out, getting polls, consensus of which models looked best for the Base Building, etc. That added A LOT of hype to the upcoming 0.8 release. Advertised farming, implied we would be getting 2 modular vehicles(car and a truck), implied animal taming "might" happen with the 0.8 release, boasted the Nuclear Power Plant POI and it's new features VERY HEAVILY. In fact that was the main thing they seemed to be pushing with the new update and not so much the game changing mechanics of modular vehicles, base building, farming, etc. Everybody was H-Y-P-E-D. I'm emphasize that because the dev's and community admin's pushed this 0.8 update like it was the new flavor of the day and it was going to CHANGE SCUM YET AGAIN! and FOR THE BETTER! right?.....right?....bueller?.....
Then D day happened.....0.8 dropped a nuclear BOMB on the ENTIRE community..and NOT IN A GOOD WAY EITHER!!!!!!!
Let's run a few things that did and didn't happen with the 0.8 release.
We got the nuclear power plant poi and the features with that. STOP. This is the only GOOD thing I've seen added to this update in my honest opinion. The Dev's put ALL their eggs in one basket with this added location. It came out AMAZING....but then...they wanted to mess it up with HOTFIXES. So now you can't run in a hazmat suit, hazmat lockers and medical lockers with phoenix tears can no longer be forced, you have to actually pick them now, after burning through 6 40/40 use screwdrivers and not unlocking a single one ive said screw it. screw that poi, screw the issues with radiation and screw that POI. I'll just avoid that entire area the rest of my life now because they've made it too much of a pain in the ass to visit regularly that it's not even beneficial as far as loot goes so other than my initial one time there in single player spawning my own gear to get in, I won't be back anytime soon.
Other 0.8 surprises and changes:
Animal Taming - NO
SCAR - NO
Farming - BROKEN, I had a 25 plot planter on a 10x Max loot server, out of the 25 plants(cherries, potatoes, tomatoes, garlic, apples. It took me several days to get them to be "ripe" and even then, total items collected over several days and COUNTLESS searching after restarts and loot respawning (5 potatoes, 3 garlic). That's it. Never got an apple, or cherry, or tomato, and then they DIED. No point in farming til u can actually get produce off your plants. Otherwise, it's just for FUN! CUZ GROWING PLANTS TO GET NOTHING IS FUN AMIRITE?!
Base Building - Meh, semi-broken but with the amount of resources needed to upgrade each piece of your base individually, you'll spend days upgrading to just brick which can easily be destroyed with only 1 C4, and that's not even the last tier! For perspective, I have a 2 story 3x3 base on the edge of the water with a very small yard by comparison to flag range, walled in. I've made 3 runs to Brick Factory, Gravel yard, junkyard AND cement factory over 3 days and just NOW got my building to brick and have yet to upgrade the external walls beyond metal. This is on a 10x MAX LOOT server. Imagine trying to upgrade your base on a low loot or hell.....even a vanilla server.
Cars - Well let's see. We had 3 diff types of planes, 2 diff types of boats, 2 diff types of bicycles, several types of motorcycles, 1 quad(four wheeler), an suv, a pickup truck, and a tractor...with diff color variants of the quad, motorcycles, pickups and suvs during 0.75. They removed EVERY SINGLE VEHICLE FOR THE UPDATE... with 0.8 we didnt even get the truck, we only got a half broken red dinky janky "wolfwagon" hatchback that for the last month has been nothing but a pain in the ass for players. Glitching, random despawning through the map, flipping the car on its side and roof with the only way to fix is either RAM it with another car or have somebody throw their body into your tires.....oh...but you have to STAY in your vehicle until that happens otherwise the car is dead in its tracks and you cant move it once you exit. So if you get stuck, unless an admin, or another player decides to help you. You're f*cked. Oh but we also got a boat too still, which likes to disappear randomly and people could still steal it for weeks after the update even if it was locked. Oh, and let's not forget to mention the dev's have HARD CODED a 100 VEHICLE limit per SERVER map, so if an admin spawns car 101, the oldest one despawns off the map....hence why most of your cars are despawning randomly...that or theyre falling through the map still.
The SCUM Community had a meltdown. We still are in fact. Tomislav and the rest of the dev's don't appear to give 2 sh*ts anymore because NEWSFLASH: JAGEX NOW owns Gamepires. Yup...you read that right. The company who bought Runescape and monitized it to Micro TX hell. Every hotfix since the 0.8 update has only removed bugs that benefit players and nothing to fix the actual issues with the major issues players are experiencing.
Server restart times: Prior to 0.8, the server I play on was doing 2 hour restart times. Restarts would take 2 minutes before being able to relog back in. Now....it's 10 minutes and we can't even get 30 minutes into a restart before everybody starts rubberbanding and lagging on a 70/70 server.
I get that it's in OpEn BeTa however, you can look up in the release date....2018....5 f*cking years almost and they haven't hit 1.0 yet. It's almost as if they dragged their feet long enough waiting for a company like JAGEX to acquire them.
One of the problems the community is facing now is suppression of our outrage. Any forum(Discord, FB, Reddit, etc) that has community input are deleting NEGATIVE comments and REVIEWS about this game and update that players are making to try and HIDE the fact that this game is a hot pile of trash right now. They're protecting the Dev's and don't want bad publicity on a major FAILED update.
This game has a lot of potential and before the 0.8 update, was extremely fun to play. I advise anybody looking to purchase this game right now. DON'T. Don't support these dev's right now because they def are coming across like they aren't listening or supporting the community right now. Wait til 0.9...Hell wait til 1.0 and see how good or bad JAGEX makes it before buying, the price might go up 10 or 20 bucks but you'd be happier with your purchase THEN, than the feeling of wasting 35 bucks you'd be spending NOW on a broken game. Dev's need to stop going out and drinking all the time, posting pics on social media of their shenanigans and get to fixing their product. Hell, I'd have much more respect for them right now if they were to roll back to 0.75 and apologize to the community for this trainwreck rather than the current catastrophe that's occurring with this game.