The game tries to sell its self as a competitive arena FPS similar to those of the 90's era. However that's really where it falls short. Toxikk really has nothing in common with a proper arena fps and its really just another casual modern FPS game.

Here are the core problems.

* Over the top fog and post processing that cannot be disabled in online mode (see forum post: http://forum.toxikk.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1400&p=13556#p13556)

* Film grain / HDR / Bloom / Post Processing / Distortion / Grain effect make visibility worse than even call of duty.

* Mouse acceleration and smoothing is difficult to remove, to fully remove it you have to change a number of config settings, these config changes tend to get overwritten if you don't set them to read only.

Seeing as this is an early access game, and this is the direction the developers have decided to take the game really disappoints me. I will update this review if any of these issues change, and hopefully they do.

I would personally avoid the game and go for a proper competitive fps like Reflex.

**EDIT 1**

I create a youtube video to demonstrate the differnces with fog on and off: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=381959609

**EDIT 2**

The dev's released an update today that fixed the visibility issues to some degree. The fog is still there however player models are much more visible now.

That was my main gripe with the game. The best solution is to totally remove the fog, but as its currently not as game breaking as before I'm going to change my update from not recommend to recommended.

The game tries to sell its self as a competitive arena FPS similar to those of the 90's era. However that's really where it falls short. Toxikk really has nothing in common with a proper arena fps and its really just another casual modern FPS game. Here are the core problems. * Over the top fog and post processing that cannot be disabled in online mode (see forum post: http://forum.toxikk.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1400&p=13556#p13556) * Film grain / HDR / Bloom / Post Processing / Distortion / Grain effect make visibility worse than even call of duty. * Mouse acceleration and smoothing is difficult to remove, to fully remove it you have to change a number of config settings, these config changes tend to get overwritten if you don't set them to read only. Seeing as this is an early access game, and this is the direction the developers have decided to take the game really disappoints me. I will update this review if any of these issues change, and hopefully they do. I would personally avoid the game and go for a proper competitive fps like Reflex. **EDIT 1** I create a youtube video to demonstrate the differnces with fog on and off: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=381959609 **EDIT 2** The dev's released an update today that fixed the visibility issues to some degree. The fog is still there however player models are much more visible now. That was my main gripe with the game. The best solution is to totally remove the fog, but as its currently not as game breaking as before I'm going to change my update from not recommend to recommended.