Arctic Combat | Webzen (2012) Doesn’t automatically save your login, doesn’t autodetect your country region: you have to enter a password and select North America, East every single time you play. Disorienting “BUY SHIT NOW NOW NOW!” screens supercrammed full of unclear selections. Loading screens… is the game loading? Is it not? Did I click the right button? IS THIS A BUTTON? Did I do something wrong, did the internet fail me again? No indicator that something is loading, or registering, or HAPPE-FUCKING-NING at all. Good design work there. Misspellings on most pages. Oh you want to use your mousewheel to switch weapons? We don’t acknowledge the existence of mousewheels. We built this game in 1996. Have to switch from Dvorak to Qwerty keyboard in Windows OOPS BUT WE WONT LET YOU ALT-TAB OUT OF THE GAME TO DO THAT. Quit game, switch keyboard input layouts (in Windows, literally two easy clicks), RELOAD STUPID GAME. Ugh I see this WZLauncher.exe screen every time I load the game up!? How virusy! Aaaaaaaand: once in an actual game, the suckitude continues. I don’t know the gaming term for it (FOV maybe), but being in-game, it’s like changing from a lifelike 55mm lens to a 18mm lens. Distances are out out of whack, movement is like you’re dangling on a robot arm, visuals are plain and uninspired. Also, the first level was in THE DESERT. Next level? New York. “Arctic combat”! You get what you pay for.  :( 
by gofromjrocknyc
January 31, 2013 05:09 pm ·
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Arctic Combat | Webzen (2012)

  • Doesn’t automatically save your login, doesn’t autodetect your country region: you have to enter a password and select North America, East every single time you play.
  • Disorienting “BUY SHIT NOW NOW NOW!” screens supercrammed full of unclear selections.
  • Loading screens… is the game loading? Is it not? Did I click the right button? IS THIS A BUTTON? Did I do something wrong, did the internet fail me again? No indicator that something is loading, or registering, or HAPPE-FUCKING-NING at all. Good design work there.
  • Misspellings on most pages.
  • Oh you want to use your mousewheel to switch weapons? We don’t acknowledge the existence of mousewheels. We built this game in 1996.
  • Have to switch from Dvorak to Qwerty keyboard in Windows OOPS BUT WE WONT LET YOU ALT-TAB OUT OF THE GAME TO DO THAT. Quit game, switch keyboard input layouts (in Windows, literally two easy clicks), RELOAD STUPID GAME.
  • Ugh I see this WZLauncher.exe screen every time I load the game up!? How virusy!
  • Aaaaaaaand: once in an actual game, the suckitude continues. I don’t know the gaming term for it (FOV maybe), but being in-game, it’s like changing from a lifelike 55mm lens to a 18mm lens. Distances are out out of whack, movement is like you’re dangling on a robot arm, visuals are plain and uninspired.
  • Also, the first level was in THE DESERT. Next level? New York. “Arctic combat”!

You get what you pay for. 

:(