This is just based on first impressions as have not actually used overnight or on the trail yet and just an initial setup. I will update this once it's gotten some usage.

I provide workshops to beginner and novice backpackers who are just getting started or interested in backpacking and one of the biggest questions is how much does this cost? Obviously most people are not going to go out and spend oodles of money on something they don't know they are going to like, so I started putting together several modest budget kits to see what could be done for under $500 and selected this tent as an option.

Experienced hikers/backpackers - This is NOT ultralight. I have several 2lb 2-person tents (SMD Haven, Big Agnes TigerWall 2) and I chose this one based on Amazon reviews, the listed weight and size, and that it is free-standing which is easier for beginners.

For those starting out and fully 2 person tent, it's 5.1 lbs according to my scale (Seller lists as 5.5lb) and this could be stripped down a bit more by swapping out lighter bags (or no bags) for stakes and pole, reducing # of stakes and/or replacing the stakes. I'll have to do more weighing but here is what my scale came up with:

Alum Stakes + 4 guy lines in sack: 7 oz.
Alum Pole in sack: 14 oz.
Fly: 28 oz.
Body: 32 oz
Total (minus stuff sack): 81oz - 5.09 lb

Setup was super easy, I specifically picked this tent because the inner tent clips on to the poles and had a single pole (double-Y) design.

The elastic on the pole was just right so that a couple shakes and the pole almost self-assembled. The Y connectors are solid alum disks like on most high-end tents of similar designs and at 14 oz. respectable given the size and space provided by having a cross pole in the center opening the living space. The pole sections are short (10-12 inches) making them fit easier in a pack and the joints have a 1.5-2" connectors for strength and stability.

The material is obviously heavier than ultralight tents but they have done a good job of mixing material weights where most needed with heavier (Floor and fly) and lighter (Walls and mesh). There was some less refined edges (fraying material that wasn't trapped in seams or heated) and while the fly is fully seam taped, only the bathtub floor is with side wall seams not (see pictures). The fly comes all the way to the ground, but it wouldn't take much to seal all the seams and for the price, you could easily do this yourself. Only field testing and time will tell how well the seam tape holds up but all tent users/backpackers learn that at some point you have to redo this yourself anyway.

The stakes while aluminum are not the typical thin shepherd hook ones found in similar priced tents (and pictured in the product listing). They have gone with slightly thicker ones with an octagon profile so they are light but still felt incredibly strong and they give you 12 of them! You could easily reduce this to 6 (2 for vestibule/doors and 4 for corners)

The Double-Y pole gives lots of head room though that could make it a sail in the wind. To combat this they have included 4 guy out points on the fly allowing you to better secure everything. This is one way you can reduce weight. Since it's free standing with the pole inserting into grommets at each corner and the fly clipping to those same corners, when using the fly you don't need to stake the corners of the inner tent and can instead stake down the fly, reducing the # of stakes.

This tent floor area is also completely rectangular making it easily 2P or 1P with ALL your gear inside. The zippers on the doors (one on each side) worked smoothly and are built with no way for fabric to snag (even the fly doors) The inner tent doors have double (open either direction) zippers which is nice as you can unzip from the bottom enough to reach out to the vestibule.

There are equal sized vestibules on each side which aren't big but enough you could put your shoes, cook pot, etc. under and if using as a 1P you have a back porch! Each end of the fly also has vents that can be opened from the outside to reduce condensation. It would have been nice for the fly doors to have double zippers to allow venting at the top of them as well.

I don't see anywhere that they sell a footprint but I have made ones for all my tents out of tyvek with reinforced grommets for the poles and you could easily adapt the fly connectors where you could use the fly without the inner tent and just a footprint and poles.

They have included stash pockets in EVERY corner and an overhead gear loft that is detachable. They also include a hook in the center to hang a lantern, etc. but this is the third fault I found as the gear loft when installed prevents use of this hook (see photos). It would be better if they moved the hook to one of the ends so it would be usable along with the gear loft, but the loft installs/removes easily with toggles.

Pros:
- EASY Setup
- Pole snapped together quick (almost on it's own with a couple shakes)
- Pole and fly connect easily with clips and grommets
- Fly covers all the way to the ground
- Great interior space (I'm 5'11" and had easily a foot to spare in length and could almost stretch my arms to the sides)
- STASH pockets everywhere
- Good stakes

Cons:
- No Seam sealing on all seams: just those exposed to ground or on fly
- Workmanship: some fraying, loose threads and scraps found stuck to it - can tell it was built on a factory line
- Weight? Not bad - decent for a starter: 5lbs or $17/lb (in comparison my Tigerwall 2 is $200/lb)

Initial thoughts are that this indeed would be a great starter tent for someone getting into backpacking. I've included this tent as part of a sub $500 starter kit I'm compiling (https://www.lighterpack.com/r/m60i3h) and so far this is going to be my go to recommendation for tent as the weight to price to size to feature ratios are excellent. $85, 5.1lb, 32.6 Sq Ft, 2P free standing

I bought this tent specifically for a 5 night canoe/camping trip in the wilderness. Our gear needed to be as light as possible and so upon reading the other reviews about this tent, I decided to purchase. On our trip we had thunderstorms with wind gusts up to 35mph on two different occasions. It was a pretty impressive weather maker. We stayed completely dry and the tent was not compromised in any way by the wind gusts! I was skeptical as the storms rolled in, but after the completion of our trip I felt compelled to write this review.

It's easy to set up and take down, my teenager could do it solo.

The room on the inside is capable of handling a 6' string-bean teen and 220lb. man, w/ about a foot of room at your feet for gear.

The rain fly is designed to cover the tent perfectly and still allow for smaller pieces of gear to remain dry just outside the tent.

It is lightweight, but I could see a true backpacker not liking the overall weight as it would seem it would likely be a pound or two heavier than what a backpacker needs"¦?

Overall, I would say that if you spend 50-60 days a year in the outdoors, then maybe buy a $350-$400 tent with bells and whistles from rei. If you want to buy a tent you know will keep you and fellow camper dry then I would buy this one from forceatt. Great Tent for the Price! Thank you FORCEATT.

To this tent or on a ridge hike overnight and it stood up to 25mph winds. We also got rained on and inside was completely dry. The tent is a little on the heavy side weighting over 5 lbs but it's not too bad considering it's a 2 person tent.

I needed something to strap on the rack of my gravel bike, as I wanted to start doing solo tours around my home state (MI) and slowly expanding to other states if I enjoyed it after my first few outings. I wasn't about to spend half the price of my bike buying a tent, though. The nice thing about bikepacking over backpacking is the weight isn't as important on the bike; you have two wheels to help spread the weight distribution around. As I prefer "groomed" trails like the numerous rails-to-trails around us, I'm not hitting soft sand or mud much at all, so I decided to go for "best bang for the buck" equipment to start out, and upgrade to lighter stuff next year if needed.

After watching tons of YT vids on the "best" tents to buy for this type of trekking, I came across a couple of vids which has decent things to say about Forceatt tents. I read up some more online and found that what everyone reported as pros and cons made a lot of sense, and for the price I decided the pros added up quite well on paper. I opted for the larger 3-person tent, as I was looking to stash my pannier bags and other items inside; MI has been quite a mix of rain and sun the past month, and October looks to be more of the same. Better to be dry and cold than wet and anything else!

I come from decades of camping with a family of four, and before I was married I toted around early dome-style tents for years while camping and canoeing with friends. The build quality of larger and/or older tents is quite different from these newer double-wall tents. I feel like newer tents are made more for handling ease-of-assembly issues and ventilation, where older tents are made to handle unknowns better (such as rain). Maybe that's me, just an opinion... :)

With that in mind, some thoughts:
1) This tent has a much thinner floor/pan than older tents. Make sure you get an under-floor or tarp to help protect it!
2) The Forceatt tent went up very easily, and didn't require instructions at all (but they are there! Look in the large bag, they should be printed on a big tag sewn inside). Hints on setup below.
3) It's possible to leave the fly/outer wall off, if you're certain you'll have no rain AND if the air is quite dry. Remember that once the sun goes down, the moisture in the air can drop almost like a fine rain (especially in the fall in the Midwest US states!), so you don't want everything in your tent to get damp before you even get in!
4) I had this up in the rain the other night, which was light but steady and lasted almost six hours. Not a drop inside the pan, but the fly underside was quite damp to the touch. I'll be adding some Nikwax waterproofing to the fly this week while I have it up again, just to make sure I stay dry as possible.
5) The vestibules at either door are... barely vestibules. If you're going to use them to put your boots/shoes outside the tent proper (or anything else for that matter), bring along a light-weight kitchen garbage bag to protect anything you leave in those areas. I found each morning that the grass I pitched on was damp under those areas because of the gap around the entire fly area (it's not designed to be touching the ground because of airflow).
6) The 3-person tent has a ton of room for two people to be comfy. For one person, it's close to luxurious! One of my pics shows my Klymit Insulated Static-V Luxe (30" W) in the center of the pan, and there is a ton of space around all sides. If two people had 24" W pads or smaller, they'd fit fine. Probably would have room at their heads for stuff, too.
7) 3-season description is accurate, but untested by me. Two nights ago I slept in it with a regular old-school synthetic filled sleeping bag (waiting for my new UGQ quilt to be built). It got down to 39F on a very clear night. The tent was perfectly dry inside, very wet outside from condensation drop, but it was not windy at all (so I can't guarantee it'll stand up to 30+MPH winds yet). It was quite cold in the tent all night, and I think some of that comes from the large amount of airflow in the overall design of newer tents in general. The thinking now is: it's better to be cold and dry than damp and cool. This tent is good for cold/dry, for sure. Make certain your sleeping bag/quilt and pad can handle the cold you're going to see! Bring extra clothes or a wool blanket if you have doubts.

For those looking for help setting it up, it's actually a very simple tent to raise compared to many I've owned. I followed the instructions and had no problems:
Leave the floor unstaked when putting the metal ribs in place, then you can slide it around to get perfect placement. Stake the four corners, put the cover in place, clasp it to the corners, then put the other stakes in place. At the doors, zip them up before staking, and only stake the left side (why there's a loop on both side of each door, I dunno). There's supposed to be a couple-inch gap for air flow, it's OK. Finally, make sure to let out the small vents once everything's staked down (the points with the little velcro 4" pieces); that's important for letting out condensation from occupants breathing while sleeping.

The thickness of the polyester fabric is quite nice, but only time will tell if it's actually durable. Again, I didn't buy this for ultralight backpacking trips, nor to do camping trips out in the heavy woods, so my needs are not necessarily yours. But from what I've seen, you could do far worse than this Forceatt tent for light-to-medium use or as a "feeler" tent to see if you like camping/bikepacking. It's fairly heavy but worth a good look!

We bought this to replace a Wallmart special. My son and I were preparing to hike the Cabinet Mountains in Montana and we needed a new small-ish tent. I am frugal and tend to gravitate toward budget friendly items. Queue this wonderful tent. This tent might not be the lightest nor the most durable in construction but it is perfect for our needs. At just over 5 pounds we were able to split the weight between our back packs to share the load and it was not a burden. Our third night at Lower Cedar Lake gave us gusts probably around 40-50mph and a downpour that lasted about 2.5 hours. We stayed comfortable and dry!

Just to note that a single camper can put their gear inside but two people better be prepared to leave their packs out of the tent. The vestibule/rainfly is great for shoes/boots but little else.

Things we really liked about it:
Comfortable length for a 6ft tall person with a few extra inches at head and foot.
Just wide enough for 2 people. You could possibly sardine 3 people in there together but you would not be comfortable.
Loved the built in corner pockets (4 of them for phone, nose rags, chapstick and the like) and the center hanging pouch for other bulkier loose items (flashlight, keys, etc).
The bottom of the tent is a tarp type material that is extended up the sides. No leaks or pools when it rained!
Rainfly is a FULL rainfly! Not a drop of water touched the main tent.

Things that could be improved (maybe):
There is a center hook in the top of the tent for hanging a small lantern/light however if you put the pouch up you can't really use it.
The tarp/bottom of the tent seems kinda thin. I dont know how durable it is. I suspect of you have a rock or stick or growth under the tent you might end up with a hole in the bottom.
The rainfly could possibly be made with a darkening material? With the sun out it got quite bright/warm inside. Luckily it has good airflow.

Overall a very nice budget tent that worked amazing.