
Katrina Bekers
Published
This game is a blend of 7 Days to Die, Rust and Subsistence in a very nice UE5 package. Early Access but solid survival/crafting/horde genre
UE5 is pretty demanding. Having it auto-detect your specs and settings everything at Ultra on 4K doesn't help...
Once a freeze-up. Couldn't pinpoint the reason.
The Anti-Cheat "ACE", as everyone else reported. But there's a work-around.
*** ATTENTION *** The main issue with this game, as everyone else reported, is the Anti-Cheat. There's a work-around for it: just be extremely quick to either find & join a dedicated server WITHOUT ACE enabled, or create a local game disabling the ACE and starting up as fast as possible (you have around 60 seconds from launching the game). Of course, a very fast SSD/RAM/CPU combo helps a lot. But once the ACE-less game starts, you can play for hours on end as long as you're "within" the local/dedicated server. The local game can also be prepared in different re-runs if you're not very fast with mouse (and keyboard to name your game/find the dedicated/name your character). Also char creation is saved progressively and even if you're thrown out of the game, you can continue from where you left at next start.
Version 1.0.7 forced ACE, and my work-around (see below) doesn't work anymore.
1.0.6 gave some hope. 1.0.7 destroyed it.