No More Room in Hell 2

Players lose 20-80 hour characters to crashes, desync, host quits, and getting stuck in geometry rather than actual mistakes. No reconnect option. This is the single most emotionally destructive complaint — the harshest mechanic is undermined by the least reliable tech.

'random crash mid game meant my level 84 character died without a zombie nearby'; 'I've lost more characters... to glitches and bugs than to actual deaths'; 'lost two characters level 50+'

Balanced around 8 responders but matches often fill 3-4, making maps unwinnable slogs. Survival mode literally requires two players to even start a private game. No single-player mode at all.

'need two players to create a private game >close >uninstall' (945 helpful); 'balanced around having 8 responders but you can get put into a match where there are only 4'

Devs added input delay to melee as a 'difficulty' lever; zombies phase through swings, no blocking, movement feels like running in place. Widely cited as the thing that kills moment-to-moment satisfaction.

'strange artificial delay when using them... my grandma literally could throw hands faster'; 'no snappiness... making controls harder counts as a difficulty increase'

Ping swings 60ms to 400ms, squads get split during matchmaking, no community servers or custom map support — a direct downgrade from the original's server browser culture.

'peer to peer server connection... if you lose connection you kiss goodbye to tens of hours'; 'no community-driven servers, self-hosting, single-player mode, and a meager server browser'

90% GPU utilization in the menu, unstable framerates on strong hardware, worse than a Source-engine predecessor.

'drawing >90% gpu utilization in the menu alone'; '160fps or less at 1440p with 2x framegen'; 'unoptimized UE slop'

Zombies spawn from floors of cleared rooms, endless respawns punish defending, stealth doesn't work because detection radius ignores crouching — contradicts the game's own 'avoid confrontation' advice.

'zombies still spawn from the floor of the house you're looting even though you killed all zombies there'; 'no stealth since the zombie apparently can smell you within their radius'

Small map pool, repetitive objectives, and you don't keep gear you extract with — removing the core reward of extraction games. Progression feels basic.

'you don't get to keep the things you carry out of matches (which is one of the larger appeals of extraction style games)'; 'poor map pool, poor objective system'

New players are dumped in with no explanation of infection, item economy, pacing, or objectives, then get flamed by veterans who speedrun ahead.

'no meaningful tutorial, no clear direction'; 'playing catch up with the players who already know what they are doing'

Fans feel the sequel abandoned Source-era grit, atmosphere and mod support, while charging $30 for an early-access, less-moddable product. Some resentment aimed at the studio abandoning Chivalry 2.

'the original was FREE... almost no mod support'; 'they ended support for Chivalry 2 in favor of this'; 'should be illegal to charge 29 euro'

Public lobbies full of item-hoarding sweats and door-blocking griefers; daily concurrents reported at 100-300, so matchmaking quality is poor.

'tons of griefers and speedrunners who hoard all the meds'; 'player count is quite low, averaging like 100-300 players daily'

Kernel-level EasyAntiCheat and a long third-party data-sharing agreement on a PvE co-op game.

'kernel-intrusive EasyAnticheat, which it does not need. This is not competitive e-sports'