“It’s still relatively shit, but it’s surprisingly a lot of fun” – German shooter expert draws conclusions about Gray Zone Warfare

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Gray Zone Warfare has been available on Steam for a few days now. A German shooter expert has now drawn his conclusion and, despite a lot of criticism, he enjoyed the game.

Who is the person you are talking about?

  • Fabian Siegismund is a German content creator who primarily plays shooters on his YouTube and Twitch channels and also tests new releases.
  • In the past, Siegismund has appeared specifically with tips and tutorial videos for Battlefield; currently he primarily plays the extraction shooter Hunt: Showdown, but can also be seen in other shooters, most recently in Gray Zone Warfare.
  • Before Siegismund founded his own channels on Twitch and YouTube, he was an editor at GameStar.
  • In 2024, Fabian Siegismund was also nominated for Player of the Year at the German Computer Game Awards, but had to admit defeat to Maurice Weber.

    • In a new video, Siegismund now talks about the new extraction shooter Gray Zone Warfare, which was released on Steam on April 30, 2024, and summarizes his impressions after the first hours of play.

  • You can see the video on YouTube here

    • What does Siegismund say about Gray Zone Warfare? Fabian Siegismund criticizes numerous shortcomings that he believes Gray Zone Warfare currently has. These include the constant network drops, the bots and the spawn camping at the landing zones.

    Nevertheless, over the course of the video he comes to the conclusion that he enjoys the shooter: “So far, Gray Zone Warfare still sounds relatively shit, but the joke is that I find it surprisingly fun.”

    He particularly likes the great graphics and the system in which a “raid” has no end and you can theoretically repeat your loot after a death: “Gray Zone Warfare looks cool and I like the system with the persistent world.”

    Fabian Siegismund’s conclusion about Gray Zone Warfare once again expresses this contradiction of strong flaws and still fun gameplay: “Although viewed soberly, the points of friction outweigh the fun part, Gray Zone Warfare has captivated me.”

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    What exactly does Siegismund criticize about Gray Zone Warfare? The list of points of friction, as Siegismund calls them, is long and clear. Here you can see a selection of his criticism:

  • Network crashes that kill the match and the character
  • Unpredictable NPCs who don’t want to die
  • NPCs that can see and shoot at you through solid objects
  • The faction selection, which limits who you can play with and can only be undone with a wipe
  • Quests are monotonous
  • Different editions offer some form of pay-to-win or pay-to-progress (which of the two it is is a separate discussion), which he finds “crappy.”
  • Spawn camping at the landing zones – the developers’ measures against the siege of the helicopter landing zones are not sufficient
  • No long-term motivation because there is no meta gameplay like expanding the hideout in Escape from Tarkov
  • There is currently no incentive for PvP; in fact, when leveling up, it is more beneficial to actively avoid PvP and concentrate on your PvE quests
  • No sufficient measures against targeted team kills

    • In general, you can tell that Gray Zone Warfare is still in Early Access. Siegismund didn’t explicitly address the game’s much-criticized performance in his video, but there are actually numerous reviews about it on Steam.

    Extraction shooter with a special twist

    What exactly is Gray Zone Warfare? Gray Zone Warfare is a new extraction shooter that focuses on realism and is a direct competitor to the genre leader Escape from Tarkov – but instead of a fictional Russian city, a tropical jungle awaits you.

    The game is played in Gray Zone Warfare PvEvP. You can roam the map with squads of up to 4 players and meet enemy players as well as friendly squads from the same faction.

    The big unique selling point of Gray Zone Warfare is its persistent world. In most extraction shooters you have to extract at some point and leave the map completely. If you die and drop your loot, it is gone forever. Things are different in Gray Zone Warfare. Theoretically, you can play on the same server all the time and repeat your lost loot even if you die.

    Gray Zone Warfare has been available on Steam in various editions since April 30, 2024 – the cheapest version costs 34.99 euros and can be expanded with various upgrades. You can also find Gray Zone Warfare in our list of games to play if you like Escape from Tarkov.

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