Despite my last review of this game which was extremely negative, i have now decided to change my evaluation of the game as a result of the rapid development and bugfixing that the game has rechieved and because it deserves a chance to become what it was destined to be.

BUT WHY?
The game offers a unique experience that i have never come across in any other survival game. When you play Rust, you do the same things most of the time. You grind for more stuff, you get blueprints and then go raid some bases. For some people (like me) this kind of survival gets boring after a while. This is the first large scale survial game i have seen out there, that truly has no limits to what it can become over time. When raiding or plundering you will experience unique battles with different twists to them every time. For example, you can demand of some players to surrender themselves to you and really do your best to be an honnerable pirate who only takes what he needs. Or you can be evil and destroy their ship while making sure they won´t recover any time soon. You have to be very tactical about every battle, and it realy forces you to be creative every time. The game has a large player base with lots of friends to be made, but you need a team of 3 players who can be active at any time to make any meaningfull progress in the game.

ONLY RECOMMENDED FOR SIRTAN PEOPLE
If you are currently under education and you don´t have a lot of time to sink into the grinding. This is NOT for you. If you can´t play games that have major problems and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ moments, this is NOT for you. If you ressent games that will make you feel powerfull for a short moment, whereafter it strips it all from you in a minute, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR YOU!

MY EXPERIENCE
This game was the most boring piece of **** i have ever played for the first 9 hours. I sunk those hours into learning the mechanics and attempting to recuit people on the starter island. The starting game is SUPER boring and it takes at least 3 hours to complete. Its just pure grinding without purpose and without motivation, that makes you want to refund the game. And when you finaly get your raft and have enough supplies. You might get killed by griefers waiting on the edge of the server border or killed by all kinds of stupid mechanics in the game. If you die on your raft while trying to leave the starting area, there is allways a pretty good chance you won´t be able to respawn and reclaim your raft. Which will make you start all over. Personally i had to start over 4 times before i had succes. Taking me a total of 15 hours.

There are WAY too many mobs on the lawless islands. When you arive you will most likely be chased by 4 snakes at once, and even if you mannage to kill them all and clear the area - New ones will spawn 5 mins later, slowly depleting your amunition and taking you by surprise.
The rapid spawning is caused by an update that fixed a lack of resourceses problem after launch, but this caused the other problem i just mentioned.

When you finaly set up a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ base on a lawless island: You will try to build a ship. This is extremely difficoult, if not nearly impossible to do by yourself. Because the gathering rate is so slow that it will take you more than 10 hours to complete a ship by yourself. The time it takes is fourther increased because you need to use half the resources you gather on surviving the attacks of animals that spawns near you.

Even if you mannage to get a friend to join you and you start building a ship together on a day with bonus to gathering rate. You will most likely fail, as unchallenged bands of pirates sails around the islands and bombs all shipyards and construction sites. There should be a protection on the ships getting constructed, or a reduction in construction materials needed as it is unfair to players that are wasting their precious time on progressing without luck.

When you finaly get a ship and sail the seas to discover and raid with a few friends you´ve made allong the way. This game is the best experience out there! - Untill some naked dude with firearrows jumps abboard and starts breaking into the ship. At this point there really is not much to do. If they mannage to break your beds you are done! As this makes you unable to respawn on your ship.

SHIPS ARE TOO EASY TO KILL AND TOO HARD TO CONSTRUCT
Making a ship is a 10 hour proces. The time you will most likely have to enjoy using it is a mere 5-20 hours. The time it takes for a superior enemy ship to destory your ship completely is about 15 mins. Obviously something is wrong about this. Ships should be somewhere around 5 times cheaper to build before its possible for everyday people to progres in this game.

I can barely recommend this game, and i have only done so because it has enormous potential and because the devs has made it playable in a short ammount of time. I have hopes for this game and only time will tell if its misplaced.

Despite my last review of this game which was extremely negative, i have now decided to change my evaluation of the game as a result of the rapid development and bugfixing that the game has rechieved and because it deserves a chance to become what it was destined to be. BUT WHY? The game offers a unique experience that i have never come across in any other survival game. When you play Rust, you do the same things most of the time. You grind for more stuff, you get blueprints and then go raid some bases. For some people (like me) this kind of survival gets boring after a while. This is the first large scale survial game i have seen out there, that truly has no limits to what it can become over time. When raiding or plundering you will experience unique battles with different twists to them every time. For example, you can demand of some players to surrender themselves to you and really do your best to be an honnerable pirate who only takes what he needs. Or you can be evil and destroy their ship while making sure they won´t recover any time soon. You have to be very tactical about every battle, and it realy forces you to be creative every time. The game has a large player base with lots of friends to be made, but you need a team of 3 players who can be active at any time to make any meaningfull progress in the game. ONLY RECOMMENDED FOR SIRTAN PEOPLE If you are currently under education and you don´t have a lot of time to sink into the grinding. This is NOT for you. If you can´t play games that have major problems and bullshit moments, this is NOT for you. If you ressent games that will make you feel powerfull for a short moment, whereafter it strips it all from you in a minute, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR YOU! MY EXPERIENCE This game was the most boring piece of **** i have ever played for the first 9 hours. I sunk those hours into learning the mechanics and attempting to recuit people on the starter island. The starting game is SUPER boring and it takes at least 3 hours to complete. Its just pure grinding without purpose and without motivation, that makes you want to refund the game. And when you finaly get your raft and have enough supplies. You might get killed by griefers waiting on the edge of the server border or killed by all kinds of stupid mechanics in the game. If you die on your raft while trying to leave the starting area, there is allways a pretty good chance you won´t be able to respawn and reclaim your raft. Which will make you start all over. Personally i had to start over 4 times before i had succes. Taking me a total of 15 hours. There are WAY too many mobs on the lawless islands. When you arive you will most likely be chased by 4 snakes at once, and even if you mannage to kill them all and clear the area - New ones will spawn 5 mins later, slowly depleting your amunition and taking you by surprise. The rapid spawning is caused by an update that fixed a lack of resourceses problem after launch, but this caused the other problem i just mentioned. When you finaly set up a shitty base on a lawless island: You will try to build a ship. This is extremely difficoult, if not nearly impossible to do by yourself. Because the gathering rate is so slow that it will take you more than 10 hours to complete a ship by yourself. The time it takes is fourther increased because you need to use half the resources you gather on surviving the attacks of animals that spawns near you. Even if you mannage to get a friend to join you and you start building a ship together on a day with bonus to gathering rate. You will most likely fail, as unchallenged bands of pirates sails around the islands and bombs all shipyards and construction sites. There should be a protection on the ships getting constructed, or a reduction in construction materials needed as it is unfair to players that are wasting their precious time on progressing without luck. When you finaly get a ship and sail the seas to discover and raid with a few friends you´ve made allong the way. This game is the best experience out there! - Untill some naked dude with firearrows jumps abboard and starts breaking into the ship. At this point there really is not much to do. If they mannage to break your beds you are done! As this makes you unable to respawn on your ship. SHIPS ARE TOO EASY TO KILL AND TOO HARD TO CONSTRUCT Making a ship is a 10 hour proces. The time you will most likely have to enjoy using it is a mere 5-20 hours. The time it takes for a superior enemy ship to destory your ship completely is about 15 mins. Obviously something is wrong about this. Ships should be somewhere around 5 times cheaper to build before its possible for everyday people to progres in this game. I can barely recommend this game, and i have only done so because it has enormous potential and because the devs has made it playable in a short ammount of time. I have hopes for this game and only time will tell if its misplaced.