There is no way to join someone else's game unless its a friend. My biggest gripe is the multiplayer is only available for friends. 'The textures seem to load and unload randomly in places making things look blurry. 'The controls are clunky, especially the shooting,' one reviewer wrote. However, performance is surprisingly not a key concern among Steam reviewers, with most of the 'Not Recommended' scores listing the lack of AI teammates, forced host progression, simplistic AI enemies, poor gunplay, and lack of aim sensitivity options for mice. Performance is all over the place and the game just doesn't look right? Can't even disable the HUD.' On PC the performance is horrendous, and even if it's working, it's largely an uninteresting collection of compromised ideas.'Epic partner Powered by id Tech shared a similar sentiment, 'Played 30 minutes of Redfall. Another said that they 'would drop, freeze, and even have stutter frames up to 20-30 frames', while there are 'Connectivity issues playing friends,' and even 'CONNECTIVITY ISSUES WHEN PLAYING SOLO'.Claims of Redfall struggling on PC were backed up by Dexerto gaming editor Patrick Dane: 'It's a deeply disappointing title from a studio capable of so much more. Stay away, not even sure if time will save this one.' Speaking of bad performance, other reviewers called on the 'spotty' framerate, stating that it 'runs very poorly'.

Characters lack any real personality other than checking off boxes for tropes. No drop in drop out co-op for a multiplayer open world game? Gunplay feels terrible. 'What should be a great premise is destroyed by bad animation, absolutely no story that makes sense. Or lack thereof.'Online Co-op, Cross-platform Multiplayer but no matchmaking?' one reviewer asked, 'I'm out.' RELATED: Redfall Has All The Cards Stacked Against It Ahead Of Launch'This game is a mess,' another said.

Not only because of performance issues, but because of the 'empty world', 'trash' AI, and multiplayer systems.

Hot off the heels of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's rocky PC launch, Redfall has landed with 'Mostly Negative' reviews on Steam as well.

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