Faction-based AI with its own agenda involving quests, patrolling, scavenging, and attacking others.Different types of AI behaviors based on the enemy type, situation, time, or weather condition.A hazardous Ground Zero area with end-game enemies and new storylines.A complete map featuring all locations and diverse biomes.You only need to read this list of planned features to see how far Gray Zone Warfare still has to go: What you can play today feels like the beginnings of a much larger game, but it's hard to recommend dropping $35 on it (or a lot more, if you want more inventory space) as is. Seems like a good measure, though ultimately I think players deserve to know when they're dropping into a zone with nearby enemies. In a change made for the early access launch, players now have five seconds of invulnerability to safely reach cover after disembarking from a heli.

Since the preview period, Madfinger has been tweaking how helicopters work to discourage players from camping landing zones looking for easy kills. There are also some early balancing problems players have noticed. It's a nice looking game, but nothing about it suggests that only the might of 30 and 40-series cards can render its glory. If you're in the vast majority of Steam users with several generations-old hardware, you'll have to settle for a choppy 30-40 fps average with frequent chugs in busy areas (and that's at a humble 1080p with DLSS on). I want to play more Gray Zone Warfare, which is way more than I can say about the games that inspired it, but that makes its glaring early access messiness all the more frustrating.Īs day one Steam reviewers will tell you, it's nearly impossible to get Gray Zone running at a smooth, competitive shooter-friendly framerate without a very powerful PC. These smart, welcome adjustments to the Tarkov formula make Gray Zone stand out in an increasingly homogenous genre. (Image credit: Madfinger Games) Too early access Both times, I was able to recover everything I lost, something you won't see in Tarkov without a group of helpful friends willing to be your corpse mule. The second time, I had to go AFK just as an NPC found me and scored an easy kill. The first time, I died as soon as I stepped out of the helicopter in some sort of freak accident. But if it was an NPC, it'll all still be there.Įasy corpse runs are the reason the few deaths I've had so far in Gray Zone haven't bothered me too much.

If a player killed you, then they probably pocketed your best stuff. From there you can start fresh with a new loadout like you would in Tarkov, or you can head back to where you just beefed it and try to recover what you lost. When you die, you respawn in the same session back at your base camp. And Gray Zone's other standout feature, its persistent map, slightly softens the blow of losing your loot. Factions make for such a friendlier introduction than the minute one beatdowns you get in Tarkov or Marauders.

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