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Highguard |OT| Mount up and raid with me (Is this the Apex of hero shooters?)

Base raiding games are fun because you know other people worked on them.

This won't give you the feeling of raiding someone's base in Rust or ARK, not even close.

This is like stomping on a pile of random sand as opposed to stomping on your brothers sand castle.
 
Men_in_Boxes said:
Unlikely, but I don't see it having much staying power.
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Well, First there was PUBG, FortNite overtook that, then came Apex Legends, few others that failed and then COD War zone. Those are the 4 major Battle Royales.

Arc Raiders, Marathon will be two major PVPVE Extraction Shooters.

What genre does this game count as? There can be 3-4 games in a genre that can sustain themselves before too much chances of failures.
 
Watching CohhCarnage play it since I'm not home right now. He thinks this game is gonna be a bit much for your average player. He's not sold on it being a 3v3. Says it puts too much pressure on individual performance. One person screwing up will be too punishing. He thinks this would have been better as a 6v6 or 12v12. It feels too empty to him.

He doesn't think the game will have the general public appeal. Some people will love it and it's well developed, but based on what he's played so far he doubts this will land the way some people have hyped it. He's gonna try other modes and give it more time.
 
It's already cooling down, it now gains only 1K players every 5 minutes instead of 7-20K. Will cross 100K then probably deflate.
 
Men_in_Boxes said:
Base raiding games are fun because you know other people worked on them.

This won't give you the feeling of raiding someone's base in Rust or ARK, not even close.

This is like stomping on a pile of random sand as opposed to stomping on your brothers sand castle.
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In the preview video they kept mentioning unique bases, so I read that as being they were either customized or procedurally generated, but it seems that they meant unique in that each base is different from each other, but the same every time.

Your point stands. Maybe this game will win over thanks to some tight and gripping gameplay, but it won't on the basis of people being invested in the world.
 
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Teammates suck.
Gunfights are questionable, aim assist is probably OP.
No text chat, nobody uses mics.

Pretty much another console shooter on PC.

Back to Overwatch 2 and CS.
 
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Varteras said:
Watching CohhCarnage play it since I'm not home right now. He thinks this game is gonna be a bit much for your average player. He's not sold on it being a 3v3. Says it puts too much pressure on individual performance. One person screwing up will be too punishing. He thinks this would have been better as a 6v6 or 12v12. It feels too empty to him.
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I agree. It's an interesting concept but it needs larger teams IMHO. 12vs12 would be sweet in something like this, but 3vs3 feels too limiting unless you are playing in coordinated teams, which randoms won't be.
 
Dude, the runbacks to where the action is if you die and don't get revived are insane. Even on a mount it takes so damn long to get back. Unless you're defending your base, it's brutal.
 
For clear comms, it's also the kind of game that can be too big especially if you just have 2 really talkative teammates.
I don't know if it has a private match mode so you can just play against friends. That'll be where I'd probably want to start before going against the sweats.

Even OW2, the comms in a 5v5 are already hectic at times.
Hell even watching Pro level Halo, 4v4 can get cluttered too.
 
no FOV slider
very narrow FOV on console...

instant MASSIVE red flag, telling me the devs don't care about the playability of their game or are too incompetent to know the importance of it

also, UE5 once again looks like pure diarrhea in motion... my god this engine is just cancer man
 
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I just got out of a game. It's the most boring shit I've played in a good while. After a God awful tutorial you then roam around an empty map and look for stuff to do. The visuals are so ugly too, it looks like a 2013 UE3 game.

Why did Geoff shill this shit? Did they give him a reach around?
 
Game almost broke my PC. Downloaded on PS5, finished the tutorial and then got a could not establish connection error on every attempt. :/
 
CPU not supported

gun middle finger GIF
 
kevboard said:
no FOV slider
very narrow FOV on console...

instant MASSIVE red flag, telling me the devs don't care about the playability of their game or are too incompetent to know the importance of it

also, UE5 once again looks like pure diarrhea in motion... my god this engine is just cancer man
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Game missing a ton of options on pc aswell and shit like no native ps controller support or buttons in 2026 is nuts
 
Nigel said:
I just got out of a game. It's the most boring shit I've played in a good while. After a God awful tutorial you then roam around an empty map and look for stuff to do. The visuals are so ugly too, it looks like a 2013 UE3 game.

Why did Geoff shill this shit? Did they give him a reach around?
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He might want to delete that smug meme post he did telling people he'll be accepting their apologies. Yeah, Geoff. We're sorry you degraded your reputation to shill for this.
 
Already getting matched against sweats...
Yeah this will die in a few days. Not made for casual play at all.

Yeah Geoff. That isnt it
 
dude can you SKIP the tutorial? This shit is taking ages and the character isn't even talking to me. Even with subtitles on nothing is appearing.
 
3v3 is a huge mistake

The reveal made it seem like it was going to be some huge multiplayer type game. Like I said meh but its worse than that
 
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