I seriously want to like this game. It has such massive potential.
Pros:
1) Sound is amazing. Play with a good headset and you will be able to hear every footstep and gunshot in beautiful deafening glory. Their sound guy deserves a raise.
2) Bullets hurt. No shrugging off 7.62 rounds like BBs. When you get hit you feel it. Head shot auto-kills, sniper rifles kill with torso shots, unless your carrying heavy armor.
3) Bleeding. When you get shot you tend to bleed, and left untended you will bleed out and die, so if you just winged a soldier as he ran in a building he might fall over dead in a few seconds. Bad part is you medkits to deal with it and they are one use and instant apply. Beginning you will not even know how to use it. When you do, it disappears and then next scratch and you're doomed. There are no ways to get more in game, until you die. Would like to see a medkit be infinity use but you have to hide and spend a several seconds bandaging and or tourniquet. They are so mandatory you will never get to equip any other items, like grenades.
4) Brings back tactics like sneaking and teamwork. At the moment no one works as a team, but if you get a group and do you can seriously dominate. Communication is god. Plenty of cover and concealment for the like minded sniper.
5) Leveling system is awesome idea and can help you specialize your play style, but still needs more work.
Cons:
1) Team Killing Rampant-There is currently no puishment for Team Killing and it happens alot. Nothing you can do about it. Vostek says to take a screen shot and then go to support page and submit evidence, except you can't. Page wont open, can't write a support ticket either, says I dont have permission.
2) Massive Unbalancing, this is one of the most unbalanced games I've ever played. SMG's do everything better than everything else. Get in a game 95% of players using one. Sniper Rifles have no scopes or anything terrible rechambering, slow you down, small mags, and server side glitched will mean you miss alot of shots due to everyone being Nightcrawler all over the map, so its like playing the game on hard mode.
3) Hit Registration is awful often disregarding single shots so sorry again, snipers you will often shoot right through your target while he blows you away with 30 well aimed non-scattering shots. Glitches a plenty fall through map, people teleporting, and invisible players.
4) No safe spawn point. The entire map is open for everyone so if you sneak around the lines, which is easy due to map size and cover, you can just sit in their spawn and kill them as they spawn. This one I can guarentee will happen in every game.
5) No prone. In Future Russia laying on the ground is prohibited, which really hurts snipers, causing you to stand still like a big dumb target.
6) Matchmaking is broken, only game mode you can get into is TDM and you will get matched with players from all tiers of play, so your first game will proabably be against god-tier players with heavy armor and LMG's and the worlds more accurate SMG's ever made. Using weapons that you can no longer attain due to changes in the game. So they will always have an edge over you.
7) In game store. This game has an In game store, which is perfectly fine for a F2P game, except that it is not finished and they say they can't even get small things like the damn "Stars and Stripes" in the game (While they have like 30-40 others and their coat of arms, including even a Atlas has never heard of), but you bet they want you to spend your money on it. Also leveling up without "Premium" is awful. I got no good drops after games, got a few days premium to see the difference, and I got like 10 weapons in one day. You will almost never see one without it.
In this state I cannot recommend this game. That being said, I would love to come back and play this game if they ever fix it. In it's current state it's really a open alpha, with a In Game Store. I do not recommend supporting these shady business tactics in Video Games. Vostek Games please fix yourself please.