Line of Sight Gameplay & Review - Free to Play FPS (New Release Friday)

This week’s New Release Friday featuring Line of Sight Gameplay & Review is a free to play shooter and is sponsored by Mountain Dew and Doritos (DGG is not really sponsored by Mountain Dew or Doritos.) I normally stray away from free to play games as part of this series, just because I don’t want people to perceive me as a tightwad. This week I made an exception because Line of Sight actually kind of sparked my interest when I saw the gameplay trailer and that it had mixed reviews. For some reason, something about that trailer reminded me of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which was one of my favorite multiplayer shooters of all time. So, here is my Line of Sight gameplay and review. Hope you get some sort of entertainment and information out of it. If not then fuck off. First off, what the fuck is NRF? New Release Friday is a series in which (hopefully) every week I will hop over to the “New Releases” section of Steam and pick-up a game to play for a few hours and give a first-thought review on. This series is an attempt to not only keep content fresh and relevant around the channel by covering current games in a concise and genuine fashion, but also to offer exposure to new games via a relaxed review format to inform potential, unsure buyers. Check out the playlist for more! First let’s address what the developers have to say about the game: Line of Sight is an online FPS game, developed by a small independent studio, that trying to bring many unique features and innovative systems, such as detailed character and weapon customization. Line of Sight takes place in a modern military setting in a twisted reality. To describe it in one sentence, “Bioshock(tm) meets Call of Duty(tm) in a multi-player game.” They do proceed to saw that it is a bit of an overstatement, but the simplest explanation they can give. The Bioshock thing is a bit of a stretch, but the Call of Duty comparison is pretty accurate. I do really like the psionic skills and the way then impact the gameplay, but definitely not on par with Bioshock from what I have seen. Line of Sight’s developers do promise that there will be many more abilities added later on, so we at least have that to look forward to. First portion of our Line of Sight gameplay and review is going to of course focus on the gameplay. It actually isn’t too bad. The gunplay isn’t horrible really, it isn’t like Insurgency tier or anything but it definitely suffices. There is something a little clunky feeling about the way your person moves that I can’t quite put my finger on it but I think that it has something to do with the move speed being a bit slower than it should be. Line of Sight made a pretty alright HUD and UI, specifically the mini map is pretty great. It isn’t overly complicated but really displays information in a nice looking form. It makes it stupidly easy to locate people once they are exposed, so I imagine this will make suppressors even more valuable if they hide you on the radar. The main menu also has a really nice layout that is easy to navigate and relatively concise. Upon further review, I realized how insane the amount of shit was that was stuck inside the menus, which is why the design was so important. The biggest issue that I ran into while playing Line of Sight is the hit detection and fucked up matchmaking. The review for most people will definitely be pretty negative because of these two aspects alone. You can really lay into someone in Line of Sight and just watch as the bullets do nothing to them. You can also queue up for a game and it will only search for Western Europe servers which completely screws you over when everyone has like 200+ ping. I don’t know if either of these have anything to do with this, but the damage modifiers seem completely out of whack during Line of Sight gameplay as well. Sometimes you will tag a person in the chest with a sniper and it kills them no problem, other times you will hit their head and they just brush it off. This might have something to do with damage being taken from other people, but it happened frequently enough that I highly doubt that is the case, especially since it is really noticeable with full auto weapons. You will spray into them, even at the beginning of the game and they will take like 2 shots and die. Then you will do the same thing next round and they will just take 8+ shots and still have half health after they shoot you to death with a single bullet. I feel like it must calculate hits client side but then calculate different hits server side. The last portion of my Line of Sight review is going to talk about the customization and in-game purchase system. In game cash (GP) seems pretty easy to gain and will allow you to buy upgrades for your weapons and some new guns. The non-free to play Gem system which can be bought with real money is where pay to win will become a problem, but at least you can still get Gems by just logging in every day. Customization is REALLY extensive it seems.