Blood Strike

17% of longer reviews complain about bots, and about a third of those tie them to the rank ladder, saying real opponents only appear around Gold, Platinum, Diamond or Master. First-session reviews describe winning every match against enemies that run into walls or turn their backs: "I didnt die ever during this playtime and its not fun." Others put the threshold higher: "You need MASTER rank to start getting players mixed in with your bots (50/50)." A minority defend the bots as a gentle on-ramp for learning the guns, and some say Hot Zone or Squad Fight have fewer of them. The complaint has grown over time: bots came up in 12% of longer reviews written in the launch quarter (October to December 2024) and in 24% of those written in the first and third quarters of 2026, with a dip in between.

15% of longer reviews mention cheaters or anti-cheat, and about a third of those place the problem in the higher ranks. Reviewers describe aimbots, wallhacks, ESP and no-recoil macros visible in the kill cam: "came back and climbed into Legend just to find a non-trivial amount of players using obvious no-recoil scripts, macro actions, aim bot, and ESP." Some add that reports take effect only after the damage to their rank points is done, or that the report window after death is too short. A smaller group say they have rarely met a cheater, that reports do lead to bans, and that the game sends compensation when a reported cheater is caught. Cheating came up in between 12% and 19% of longer reviews in every quarter since launch, with no clear rise or fall.

16% of longer reviews describe the game as a mobile port or complain about its menus. The lobby is covered in red dots, reward claims, event tabs and shop banners, and several reviewers say leaving the game is an ordeal: "to leave a match you need to click through a billion popups". Others list missing PC basics: resolution and frame settings offered only as presets, a 240 fps cap, no invert-Y option, hard-coded keybinds, touch-control leftovers in the settings and fonts sized for a phone. These complaints come mostly from newcomers.

12% of longer reviews take issue with the monetization. The specific targets repeat: the best skins sit behind low-odds spins with no guaranteed reward ("Theres STILL no pity system, so even after spending $50-$100, you still arent garunteed to get the reward."), draws pad out with 3-day and 7-day trial skins, and the shop and reward popups follow you to the exit: "Done with your gaming session, good luck in exiting the game." Players are divided on whether any of it is pay to win. Those who say it is point at paid skins with better scopes or a cleaner red dot in place of the iron sight, or at top-tier guns with less recoil; others say flatly that it is not pay to win, and one reviewer who raised the iron-sight point added "It's actually very minor". Several players who did spend say the cheaper battle pass is fair value next to the spins.

11% of longer reviews complain about matchmaking or teammates. Solo players describe AFK teammates, quitters and squads that scatter: "Too many teammates disconnect, refuse to stick with the squad, or leave after getting knocked." Others report lopsided rank pairings, long queues at the top of the ladder or late at night, no duo option for ranked, region locks that keep them from friends abroad, and a jump from easy lobbies straight into very skilled "sweats" around Legend and Mythic. Several call the penalty for AFK players too light and ask for a kick option.

5% of longer reviews blame the servers. The complaints are about shots that do not register, desync and dying behind cover: "you get killed through a wall, but on the replay, you see that the other player had a line of sight on you the whole time". Several connect this to cross-region matches against high-ping players, and a few to specific season updates that made lag worse.

7% of longer reviews argue about balance. The names repeat: the flying Striker Alondra ("That striker's Ability is So overpowered Even after they nerfed it"), shotguns, the magnum, dual pistols and Uzis, the M82 sniper, melee range, and collab event items such as the One Punch Man gloves and Attack on Titan transformations: "someone will turn into a titan using an event item and hit kill you, so fun". A few reviewers counter that every gun is usable and the meta can be countered.

4.6% of longer reviews report crashes, freezes or bugs. These include games that hang on the loading screen, PCs that freeze or restart mid-match, voice chat that cannot be muted or will not turn on, looting menus that grab a zipline instead of an item, and abilities that fail to fire. Several tie the problems to particular updates.

2.6% of longer reviews warn that the game reads or uploads personal files. Some describe what they saw: an antivirus alert after accepting the terms, or OneDrive files uploading once a match started. 8 reviews repeat the same wording, "it was downloading files from my personal folder". Other reviewers dispute the claim, one explaining that the game keeps local save files which OneDrive backs up, another arguing "If it was malware, Valve would've removed the game already". The reviews do not settle it either way, and a few reviewers say they uninstalled after reading the warnings.

2% of longer reviews describe bans they consider wrong, some after spending money, with long restrictions and appeals answered by a template: "I tried appealing the ban but i got a copy pasted decline in response". Several say third-party tools such as overlay, highlight or crosshair apps triggered the flag.

2.3% of longer reviews say controller support is broken or thin. The repeated report is that only the triggers work: "You can ADS and shoot but cannot move your character or do anything else". Those who get it working say PC controller players get no aim assist.

Around 2% of longer reviews say the store trailer and screenshots look far better than the game, and some newcomers uninstalled over the gap.

1.4% of longer reviews could not bring an existing mobile or standalone-client account to Steam, or lost progress because the first Steam launch created a new account: "Imagine not warning someone about having to link their account before launching the game for the first time."

About 1% of longer reviews complain that heavily promoted collabs (Evangelion, Bleach and others) were unavailable in their country, or that they cannot change server region.

About 1% of longer reviews object to what they see as AI-generated art in loading screens, profile pictures, lobby assets or music.