- At what point did I say different to that? The fact is, like it or not, more people know what a boomer is than a bloat, and since it is the same, it is a clone – no matter which came first (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A+clone&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a)

“Also, it shows you didn’t even proof read the article.”
- how?

“Frankly, it’s a poorly written review”
- that’s your opinion and that’s fine. I will point out that it was never intended to be a full review – hence it being catagorised under ‘initial thoughts’ and not having a rating on the end

“especially with the unfair overtone of “if someone else made it, it’d be better”.”
- I don’t think that’s unfair. I think it’s perfectly justified – a more experienced dev team would have released it in a better state. Yeah it only has a £15 price tag, but it’s also pretty short on content.

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Also, it shows you didn’t even proof read the article. Frankly, it’s a poorly written review, especially with the unfair overtone of “if someone else made it, it’d be better”.

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followed by the illogical time travel requiring comparison:

“boomer clone”

as someone with a BeBox router it pisses me off, however it is the routers fault. KF doesnt do anything particularly unusual netcode wise, its just that these routers are complete crap, and the firmware hasnt been updated at all since i got it almost a year ago.

also you may want to try this exercise some time, hold both your hands up with your palms facing away and thumbs extended. One of your hands looks like a Capital “L”, this is your left hand.

now if you do this in front of your screen while playing KF you can tell what side the counter is on.

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You can’t really get away with dismissing a mob on the grounds you don’t like to fight it – I don’t particularly like fighting Crawlers or Scrakes, but they’re still incredibly good at what they’re designed to do.

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ill thought out enemy? the guy goes invisible, runs fast, machine guns you, rockets you, heals himself, and gets you with his chest tentacle, i think hes pretty well thought out!

“Do explain” (small dyslexic hiccup when describing the HUD)

you said the specimen counter is on the left. its clearly on the right in the screenshot you took.

“It’s not ai issues which make him bad. It’s the fact that he’s so far removed from the rest of the bads. By suddenly employing all these super abilities it’s like a completely different game and a sudden and significant difficulty spike.”

removed from the rest of the bads? he runs fast like the scrake and FP, he turns invisible like the stalker, he hits you like the rest of the specimen do. the only thing not in common with the specimen is his 3 heal he can do (we have unlimited heals however). so id say hes a combination of every specimen youve faced so far. its a culmination of your progress really.

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KF may not be polished till you can see your face, but it plays well, the animations are a bit wooden but if you have seen the new on fire animations you know that its being worked on.

Is it worth £15? yes. is it worth £30? probably yes. Im glad I got it for the low price, because now I can spend spend spend on all the DLC, and I still dont feel abandoned like I have with more mainstream games.

Tripwire might not have an army at their disposal, but the blood sweat and tears in this game ring out whenever I chainsaw off a specimens head with giant rotating cogwheels and a man with his head stuck in a TV in the background.

P.S. AK is awesome.

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Thanks Again,
Dayle Flowers

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Craig does reccomend it at the end, but it is important to tell the consumer about any problems encountered. With the tech problems he had a valid point about the router. It must be tough for a small team to deal with technical issues, but the response he got was less than helpful. The game was fully compatible with that type of router pre-patch, so to be told that it was entirely his provider’s fault shows a negligence to admit mistakes on your part. I like what you guys do, please don’t act as though constructive criticism is beneath you. The fact Craig even compares you to Valve at all is a testament of what we think you can achieve.

We’re not expecting you to be perfect, we enjoy what’s there and wish there were some little changes for the better (i.e. allow levelling on the big servers again, collision turned off between players in the shop to prevent griefing, etc.). But the fact is there will be people who won’t find that same experience, and will feel cheated by the reviewer who left out details that might be crucial to their enjoyment of a product they paid for.

All the best to you folks, but Craig gave a balanced and fair review to a fun game that still isn’t all there. PCG 203 gave a good review of it but still gave it a 72%, which on their chart is “A decent effort that, but for a little more polish, coulda been a contender”.

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