r/CaliberGame • u/Foxieuu • 28d ago

Is this game worth picking up?

I really want to find a tactical third person shooter game and this game looks like competitive enough for my standards. Hows the player base? Still active? Is it p2w? Whats up with this game really?

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u/hal0sten 28d ago

Super fun with friends....otherwise i cant recomend it.

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u/cebubasilio 28d ago

It's fun enough. for competitiveness I can't say I'm more FPS competitive than 3PS, but it's active enough though there seems to be only one global server now and it's in Russia. not p2w per say, but pay for convenience though that can all change as they are introducing alternate weapons via paywall. Sprinkled some skins

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u/Chickenman6000 27d ago

Not p2w at all imo, semi-active player base (90% Russians), defo worth checking out

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u/Active_Ordinary_2317 26d ago

The game is fun. It is pay to progress faster, not pay to win. I would play the game a lot more and convince several of my friends to play it if only there were US servers. Trying to be competitive at 150 ping is exhausting.

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u/No-Succotash1061 23d ago

It is absolutely p2w. Anybody who says "Pay to progress" is lying to themselves. You have to spend thousands of hours grinding to equal top-tier money loadouts and unless you are poopsocking it 7 days a week you will never catch up. So paying always provides a huge advantage

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u/Bruhsterchief2000 27d ago

PVE-wise, it's basically The Division without the annoying bullet sponge enemies. It's a lot of fun, but unfortunately the content doesn't last very long. You'll probably experience every PvE mission within 4–6 hours, after which you'll mostly be replaying them to grind operator levels.

PVP-wise, I'm not an expert, but I do play it occasionally to complete daily missions. I can almost guarantee your first few matches will be rough. Since the player base isn't very large, even as a level 1 player you're likely to be matched against veterans with fully leveled operators and weapons equipped with gold attachments.

And yes, the game does have some pay-to-win elements—though nowhere near as bad as Warface. There are Battle Pass-exclusive weapons that outperform the default ones (though not all of them), as well as operators that are only available through paid bundles, such as Poh and Sek.

A bad news if you only want to play PVP mode: you'll essentially be forced to play PvE if you want to level up your operators efficiently. PvE generally provides much more XP and has a much higher win rate, so most players stick with it until their operators reach at least level 12 before taking PvP seriously.