Delta Force

Cheating appears in 18% of all reviews and in 42% of substantive negative ones, far more than any other complaint, and in 56% of negative reviews from players with 50 or more hours. Players describe wallhacks, aimbots, speed and flying hacks, cheaters in the top leaderboard spots, and paid carry services, concentrated in Operations' Normal and Hard maps (Space City and Tide Prison come up repeatedly) but present in Warfare too. Much of the anger is about enforcement: reports return form messages, bans are said to be short or evaded with new accounts, and the promised gear compensation after dying to a cheater rarely arrives. A few players say things improved around Season 7 (December 2025), when an anti-cheat push made matches cleaner, while others report cheaters back by the following season. A small minority argues the "cheater" label is mostly skill gaps, no SBMM and the game's generous recon tools.

Separately from cheating, players describe matchmaking that ignores skill and rank: Bronze players against DF Pinnacle and Marshal squads, "ranked" lobbies shared with unranked, and Warfare teams where one side gets all the strong players. Some are convinced the game uses engagement-based matchmaking that alternates easy wins with punishing streaks. Newcomers say they never get a chance to learn, and returning players find the skill floor has risen.

Warfare players describe "32v32" matches with only a handful of real players per side, the rest filled by AI that stands still, walks into walls or occasionally aims through smoke. They also say the bots were long undisclosed (AI name tags arrived around Season 10, June 2026). The matchmaking counter that sits at "63/64" for minutes before dropping players into half-empty or half-finished matches is a running joke. Players in Oceania, South America, Africa and parts of Asia describe dead regional servers and being routed to 150 to 300 ms lobbies. Some doubt the Steam concurrent-player figures.

The game is described at anywhere from 90 to over 250 GB, with Warfare map packs, Operations maps and skins as extra in-game downloads, and seasonal patches of 75 to 175 GB. Players under 2 hours bring up the size about as often as cheating, more than any other problem, and some ask for Warfare and Operations to be installed separately.

Long-time Warfare players are angry that moving many maps into a separate download means most players never install them, so rotation collapses to the same three or four maps (Cracked, Trench Lines, Aftershock, Akh Canal), sometimes the same map five times in a row, with no map vote or blacklist. Seasonal missions tied to maps that never come up add to it.

Warfare players say tanks and APCs with active defense shrug off rockets and self-repair, that competent helicopter and jet pilots are nearly unkillable because Stingers lock slowly, get flared and can be outrun, and that only Engineers can meaningfully fight armor. Some enjoy vehicle play; the complaint is that one good pilot can decide a match.

A distinct and angry group reports bans they say were unjustified: 1-day to 10-year bans for MSI Afterburner, mouse software, TeamViewer, remote-desktop tools or new hardware, bans after being mass-reported for playing well, and bans on accounts that had not been played in months. They describe automated support replies, appeals closed without explanation, and a sense that legitimate players are punished while cheaters are not. Some mention hijacked accounts that support would not restore.

Separate from whether ACE catches cheaters, players report practical costs: new Secure Boot, TPM 2.0 and DMA Shield requirements that locked out existing players or demanded BIOS and disk-format changes, blue screens and boot loops attributed to the driver, constant drive scanning, conflicts with other anti-cheats, and the game or ACE continuing to run in the background after closing (inflating Steam playtime and heating GPUs). Linux and Steam Deck players who could once play say they are now blocked.

Newcomers describe a mobile-style menu maze with a dozen currencies, reward screens to click through after every match, unskippable tutorials that force returning players into Operations, and little explanation of systems. One player counts "like 15 different dailies and rewards screens that you have to dig through for 5 minutes."

Players cite a mandatory third-party account, failed logins, broken binding between mobile, console and Steam accounts, a Garena versus Steam split that separates progress, and age verification that asked adults for a parent's email or a credit card (and a CPF number in Brazil). For some, this ended the experience before the first match.

Smaller but recurring: Warfare spawns that drop players into enemy fire or get camped, desync where players die behind cover, inconsistent hit registration, and a very short time-to-kill that makes gear gaps and first-shot advantage decisive.

23% of reviews raise performance, and 74% of those are negative reviews. Reviewers describe frame rates far below the multiplayer modes on the same PC, stutter when entering new areas, CPU usage at or near 100%, input lag, and a dependence on upscaling and frame generation to reach playable rates. 3% of reviews blame the setup: starting a mission opens a separate Unreal Engine 5 program while the Unreal Engine 4 Delta Force client stays open behind it. One of the most upvoted reviews reads, in full: "Separated game client, forces the original delta force exe to run in the background soaking up performance and making the DLC a stuttery mess. Can't aim as it just jitters everywhere. Awful." Another says it "runs at half the framerate of the base game".

The reports include expensive hardware such as RTX 3090 and 4090 cards. 3% of reviews say it ran fine, often listing high-end parts ("FPS counter is steady in the 170s+"), and a few advise lowering the campaign's own graphics preset, which starts high and ignores the multiplayer settings. Talk of performance thinned over time without going away: 27% of reviews from the first fortnight raise performance, against 15% of those written from September 2025 on, and as late as August 2026 a player wrote "I've had it down to 4 fps at one point".

At launch the campaign was a co-op mode for up to four players with no AI squadmates. You could start a mission alone, but enemy numbers and supplies stayed tuned for a squad, and the class abilities that hand out ammo and bandages only work on other players. 14% of reviews bring up solo play or single player, and 70% of those reviews recommend against the DLC. Some had expected a single-player campaign like the 2003 game: "This is not a single-player game." Another asks for "an offline mode and easier difficulty when you're playing solo."

A dedicated solo option, Fighting Alone, was added by late May 2025. The few reviews that discuss it say it removed some enemies but still left no AI squad, checkpoints or resupply; one calls it "just the same crap but with a few hand picked AI removed". A minority did finish solo, which earns a badge, and enjoyed the challenge. Mentions of solo play fell from 17% of launch-fortnight reviews to 8% of reviews written from September 2025 on.

The same specifics recur: enemies firing at players behind walls and closed doors, snipers that hit the moment you peek, RPG gunners firing in quick volleys, enemies appearing in rooms the squad just cleared or right behind it, and melee kicks that knock a player down in one hit. 13% of reviews raise the enemy or friendly AI, the snipers, the RPG gunners or enemy spawns, and 79% of those are negative reviews. "The AI seems to have omniscient awareness of your position at all times," wrote a squad of three who describe themselves as Arma, Ground Branch and Tarkov veterans. Friendly Rangers and convoy gunners get the opposite complaint ("the AI on your team is SO useless"). A few defenders say the swarming matches what the real battle was like.

"I'm pretty sure i would have grandchildren before i get past the 83% loading mark," one player wrote. 10% of reviews report crashes, freezes, loading screens stuck at a fixed point such as 83% or 87%, "waiting for match" loops, or a campaign that never starts. Some describe blue screens, whole-PC freezes and voice chat dropping in Discord while the campaign runs. Separately, about 1% hit an install loop in which Steam shows the DLC installed while the game asks for it again: "i try to download it from steam and it just launches the game." A handful were blocked by an outdated-driver warning on up-to-date cards ("It tells me my graphics drivers are outdated when I updated them 2 mins before playing."). These reports were most common at launch, and 6% of reviews from September 2025 on still mention crashes or loading problems.

Each mission starts with a fixed stock of ammo, bandages and grenades. The maps have no crates, weapons can't be taken from fallen enemies or allies, and the support and medic classes share from their own stock but can't refill themselves. 10% of reviews talk about ammo or resupply, two-thirds of them negative reviews. "let us pick up one of the thousands of AK's on the ground," one reviewer wrote, and a solo player found that "it turns out you cant replenish your ammo in solo in any way". Launch-era reviews also note there was no melee even though enemies could kick you down: "There is no melee, so when your pathetic amount of ammo runs dry, you are screwed." Reviews from mid-2025 on mention a knife, and complaints about having no melee become rare after that.

Defenders say scarcity is the point and advise single-shot fire and a dedicated support player. One positive review names it as its only problem: "The only problem I have is running out of ammo cause you are required to have at least one person playing support".

Quick match can't target a mission, so players who want a particular chapter keep landing in the wrong one ("It's really just annoying that you can't select which mission to join to."). 6% of reviews mention matchmaking, lobbies or random teammates. Nobody can join a session in progress or replace a player who leaves, some lobbies stall on AFK players, and there is no text chat, ping or compass to coordinate with strangers: "Push-to-talk is the only way how you can communicate with team." A couple of later reviews found the lobbies empty: "I want to play this campaign so bad but no players :<"

A squad wipe sends everyone back through the lobby, loadout screen, loading and opening cutscene of a mission that can run 20 minutes or more. 5.5% of reviews raise checkpoints or having to restart from scratch. "I lagged off a balcony and had to restart 40 minutes of gameplay which is really annoying," one player wrote, and another asked "Why would you ever make a game with 20-30 minute missions and no checkpoints". A few like the stakes ("The no checkpoints isn't too bad, if you fail you'll do better next run"). Unlike most complaints this one did not fade: it appears in 5% of launch-fortnight reviews and 6% of later ones.

4% of reviews single out particular missions. In the second mission the convoy keeps driving into RPG fire while the squad tries to clear the rooftops ahead of it, and a single rocket can destroy a vehicle. One player called it "one of the worst designed escort missions I've ever played in a video game", and a positive review from a self-described former soldier suggested "Being able to tell the drivers in mission 2 to stop or back the hell up would be nice." The final mission asks the squad to keep pace with a convoy under mortar, sniper and RPG fire, with a timer for falling behind. Duos and trios describe dozens of failed attempts, and some gave up. Some squads that beat it describe the win as a real accomplishment ("the mission felt like a Dark Souls Boss").

Delta Force's multiplayer modes support controllers and the campaign does not. 2% of all reviews raise controller support, but the complaint is concentrated in later reviews: 8.5% of those written from August 2025 on, which makes it one of the most frequent complaints of that period. "Main game has controller support but this add-on doesnt," one reviewer wrote, and another, a year after launch: "dude this DLC came out a year ago and is completely unplayable with controller".

Enemy gunfire can be muffled or missing ("People are within arms length and yet their gunshots sound like they are 4 buildings away."), and some say the sound lags behind the action. Keybinds and graphics settings don't carry over from the multiplayer, and "you cannot change graphic setting from main menu". Some subtitles and the end-of-mission score screen show untranslated Chinese text, and on every retry the mission intro has to be skipped again. Each of these comes up in under 3% of reviews.

2.5% of reviews object to installing the full Delta Force client, which they put at roughly 100 GB or more, to reach a campaign of a few hours that itself takes another 20 to 30 GB. "Let us download the campaign without having to download the full game," one wrote.

Under 1% of reviews object to running Delta Force's kernel-level anti-cheat for a co-op campaign. Some report its services staying behind after uninstalling ("After uninstalling the game, I found that it continued to leave behind at least one kernel-level file on my system."), and a few say they were flagged or banned right after installing.

A small number of reviews score the whole game: cheaters in the Operations mode, its matchmaking, or the price of the Black Hawk Down skin bundle in the store. One draws the line itself: "The main game has a lot of cheaters and virtually no moderation. BUT.... Black Hawk Down is great!" Those complaints belong to Delta Force's own verdict and don't shape this one.