Firefighting Simulator: Ignite

“I'm still going to play this game because of how I love the actual firefighting part, but this game needs to fix their driving mechanics. I should not have to hold A or D all the way just to turn slightly, shouldn't struggle to see red or green lights, and shouldn't have to squint to see such simple things on the road.”

“My biggest frustration with the game is on a more major gameplay or lore scale: for a lot of the major incidents, in real life these would be 3+ alarm fires involving units from multiple districts or municipalities, but instead there is a single crew of four dealing with the whole mess.”

“This could be so good and is clearly a labor of love, but right now with all the problems it has—especially with massive AI issues making anything other than 4-player multiplayer a nightmare, the finickiness of controls meaning you sometimes have to try multiple times to pick up items or interact with parts or you end up doing something else instead, terrible park scenarios that crash your framerate, certain fires you can't put out because of hitbox issues, and a focus on graphics over gameplay with forced sharpening that ruins visuals—the gameplay experience suffers greatly.”

“The game is raw, fps dropping, bugs, graphic demandable for poor quality.”

“Graphic issues out the ass with blurry textures appearing on the trucks constantly. Was clearly not meant for PC release by what I have seen and experienced, this game was more or less a console release.”

“This could be so good and is clearly a labour of love but right now with all the problems it has, especially with the massive AI problems making anything other than 4-player multiplayer a nightmare, the finickiness of controls meaning you sometimes have to try multiple times to pick up items or interact with parts, or you try to do something but it does something else instead. Don't do the park scenarios if you don't want your graphics card to scream and go into single-digit framerates (9700XT). There's certain fires you can't put out because hitboxes of chairs are in the way when you should be able to shoot between the legs. Also, the focus on graphics over gameplay is strong, which is ironic given that there's a forced 80% sharpening that needs hacks to turn down/off, which just destroys the visuals horribly, probably to compensate for using upscaling out of the box since they've tried to fix poor framerates without actually doing any optimisation.”

“A mechanically interesting game murdered by weird design choices, backbreaking bugs and very poor optimization (even for a UE5 title).”

“Extremely poor optimization and low graphical fidelity even for an Unreal Engine 5 title (version 5.4).”

“This game is good but the idea is poorly executed... many graphics problems ... it is unoptimized and uses resources heavily... as if I were playing a beta or worse an alpha... the game has potential but was released in a hurry to make some money.”

“Really bad glitches occur all the time: AI firefighters may as well not be in the game as they stand putting out invisible fires. Missions fail to end, and some of the trucks stop working mid-mission.”

“Game is buggy, doesn't load properly, and lags to the point of unusable.”

“Co-op mode is great, but suffers from freezes, crashes, or disconnections for some players.”

“Overall the game is a good framework, but the gameplay loop needs to be fleshed out more for replayability's sake.”

“A few tweaks to the AI and adding more procedural, random call-outs could significantly improve replayability.”

“Replayability for higher medals, multiplayer, and custom scenarios with mods feels limited without further content additions.”

“I'd love to see improvements to the fire station atmosphere; the alarms and sirens don't quite hit the mark yet, and the station itself is huge but feels a bit empty.”

“You'll need a second life for grinding.”

“The current light jog is very slow and makes moving around the home base to and from areas very tedious and drawn out.”

“AI drivers are terrible, making driving the fire truck around town tedious and annoying.”

“Why does this $37 game only have one music track that plays on a loop???”

“It's so sad that games like these can come out without any testing - it feels like a cash grab.”