Its me R.

This comes out a bit late, but here it is. I played Darkorbit since 2008 and got a lot to say. This is by no means a 'new player review' but I can share a new players experience, by practice and theory.

Game started out good. Game was alive, it was fun, noone was really outgearing anyone. It was very social but competetive. You had a lot of Clans at the time, always a friend on your side and always something new to do. That has shifted over the years for the worse.

Lets start with the positive aspects of the game in it's current state
- If you are fully maxed out on equip, PVP is a lot of fun

Enough of the good things, let's move over to what's going terribly wrong
Im going to start with simple things
- Servers are dead. Simple as that. The game has no playerbase. As to why, later more
- Servers are laggy. On a low amount of players encountering each other the game gets almost unplayable
- Support was always terrible and unhelpfull and will always stay as it is

Let me explain why the game has no playerbase. It's pretty simple, and many players may already know. It's very beginner unfriendly. For multiple reasons in fact. You won't find help as a new player, you won't find a clan and you will constantly be killed by both enemy and your own faction. On top, the players you will encouter are most likely going to be bots anyway. I would argue 95% of the playerbase uses bots for obvious reasons. Without them, you can't keep up, and obviously can't catch up either.
But hey, wait. There is another reason why you won't keep up. Massive Pay2Win. Let's not call it massive. Hardcore Pay2Win. Without a premium account, you don't even need to start playing the game. But thats just a few $ every month. Adding in hundreds to thousands of $ to just keep up with the real badbois, that played this game for years and invested just as much money as you have to nowadays. Simply to keep up. You are still missing all the skill it requires to play highlevel PVP.
The community itself is insanely toxic. Don't bother asking them for help. They'd rather wipe you off the map before properly communicating with anyone outside their bubble. There will be 1 Clan per Server dominating everything. Noone has a say other than them. There might be 2, maybe 3. At best. And you won't be a part of them, and never will be, unless you pay ridiculous amounts to get up to their 'level' -sorta say.

I myself played active for a good 9 years, witnessed the big banwave in 2010 which wiped out bots from the game almost completely. In 2015 or 2016, not sure here, another one of these banwaves appeared. And my accounts got banned too, because, I was botting at the time. And I'm not afraid to say it, because everyone was already. It's not a secret, it never was.

TL: DR
Bigpoint, or how I'd like to call them, Bugpoint, doesn't care about developing Darkorbit in favor of the community. They showed over the last 10 years, how they can make the game progressively worse. A game that started out good and ended in the mess that it is in right now. Simply put, a game full of bugs, 3rd party software of all kind and hardcore P2W. This game won't improve in future, just keep your hands where they are. Not in Darkorbit

Wish you a great day and hope you are doing fine in this pandemic.