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Highguard |OT| Mount up and raid with me (Is this the Apex of hero shooters?)
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
SkillUp: "They overhyped Highguard".
Apparently releasing a trailer and then saying nothing is "over hyping" a game.
Apparently releasing a trailer and then saying nothing is "over hyping" a game.
Hollywood Hitman
Gold Member
11k on right now, jfc imagine being on that dev team
near
Gold Member
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
I think shotguns also need some kind of buff. it can take 3 direct hits at close range to kill someone and both the pump and reload animations are too slow.
decisions
Member
I think this game is a solid 7/10 for a F2P launch game. But in 2026 that's not good enough to pull people away from other F2P games.
Game mechanics: 9/10 (guns, movement, animations, overall feel)
Game design: 5/10 (you bet everything on 1 mode that has some serious flaws making half the match boring af)
Game mechanics: 9/10 (guns, movement, animations, overall feel)
Game design: 5/10 (you bet everything on 1 mode that has some serious flaws making half the match boring af)
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Yamisan
Member
Unless its making the game 5v5 or 6v6 the patch is useless.
Pokedot
Neo Member
They could add a game mode with 5v5 along with the 3v3 to give ppl options. It doesn't hurt to have both and let ppl decide what they prefer like with Arc Raiders.
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Yamisan
Member
Can't really think of many people liking a big dead empty map.
bighugeguns
Gold Member
Saw an interesting comment, this game might be an AI pilot project and this is market testing.
HRK69
Member
bighugeguns
Gold Member
I bet Geoff prompted the whole thing, no fucking way professionals worked on this.
bighugeguns
Gold Member
Somethings up with this game, it came from nowhere, controlled marketing, dangerously generic. This thing isn't normal.
Yamisan
Member
It didn't come out of no where... And only a human could make something this bad. AI does art and most things better than humans. Something tells me xbox devs are behind this shit.
Zannegan
Member
Maybe they think you are an official spokesperson? =P
Really though, are you loving it so far? I haven't gotten to try it, but it sounds like a solid shooter, mechanically, and the setting/concept of making MMO fantasy tropes like mounts core to the experience looks interesting. I may have to give it a go one of these days.
Yamisan
Member
I put a hole in my wall today while streaming as a vtuber. I had more fun fixing that wall hole than I had playing this game.
struggler_guts
Member
Finally got to try it
Yamisan
Member
I'm so sorry that you had to play this "game." Its worse than a family member dying.Finally got to try it
Cyberpunkd
Member
So you are betting your whole game on one change to generic tropes? Because everything else from setting to graphics is generic AF.
Yamisan
Member
Generic? You love Cyberpunk, the most generic as it gets. gtfo.
bighugeguns
Gold Member
Says the man with an anime avatar.
Cyberpunkd
Member
There is a reason I played Witcher 3 4 times and CP2077 only once. I agree, the design there is generic, but it takes from original source material that was created 40 years ago.
Calverz
Member
100% agree. The only shotgun worth a damn is the automatic shotgun as long as it's purple or orange.
Vindicator
Member
Could have been interesting if it was a Destiny Spinoff with Sparrows instead of Horses, maybe call it Highguardians lol.
ricardo_sousa11
Member
Game lost 90% of players in 24 hours
Lost another 50% in 48 hours
Seems to be doing great
Lost another 50% in 48 hours
Seems to be doing great
bighugeguns
Gold Member
That poor dumbass at PC Gamer who had to write like 20 articles on this shit.
bighugeguns
Gold Member
Gotta lick the hand that feeds.
Luipadre
Member
Twitch chat is like this forum and its ccu threads
near
Gold Member
It's not even limited to the ccu thread, it's in here as well. Pathetic honestly. I don't even want to discuss the game here anymore, but I'm going to keep playing it until I've had my fill.
bighugeguns
Gold Member
Some of us have been gaming longer than shitty marketing bros were dreaming of scamming people out of money. Bullshit will increasingly and correctly be met with ridicule.
Make no mistake, if you engage in shilling you're not a marketer, you're a scam artist.
Do something that helps and not hurt innocent people, you're rotting your soul away for some pocket change.
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TrebleShot
Member
Down to 4.5k
It's in the endgame.
Once hits 2k they may pull the plug
It's in the endgame.
Once hits 2k they may pull the plug
BurningNad
Member
The Internet and its population are poison. I like the game, I play the game. Tim is right though. He has to think about how it affects his channel.
Madserb2023
Member
It's not a bad game, it just very average. However, unlike single player games, you are in direct competition with games like Fortnight, Battlefield 6 etc. People have limited time and the aim is to pull people from those games. Can't be done unless it is amazing. I am sure Marathon will follow the same fate. Resident Evil 9 doesn't have to worry about gamers still playing Silent Hill F. I actually think that now something like Titanfall 3 with a great campaign would be more successful in the current climate.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Tim would play this game more if he REALLY wanted to
kpopSuperstar
Gold Member
What is he wearing?
Cyberpunkd
Member
Fuck the clothes, why is he making a statement and then following up with "I don't know bro"?
I dont think they have to do much to pull people away from BF6, considering that game has already lost 90% of its player base.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
It's decent.
I'd be rooting harder for it if multi-player was just Valorant, Overwatch, and RS Siege. It's conceptually more interesting than those.
The main annoyances for me are:
- There's no obvious counterplay to opponents who are better at shooting than you. Overwatch solved this 10 years ago.
- Defense phase feels like something they'd work on post release. Your team has 15 walls they can reinforce but borders on feeling completely useless.
- Typical progression problem. You play 6 matches in 2 hours and end up unlocking gold socks for a character you don't use.
A lot of the criticisms feel pretty invalid to me.
kpopSuperstar
Gold Member
Half of the gaming community is hecklers, they get off on it.
Highguard is extreme, some of the shit people are saying in here is ridicules.
People are acting like the devs knew the game was bad and that they are trying to cheat people or something.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Is this true? I read it on the purple board.
The game is 3 vs 3 as everyone now knows (which they didnt tell until launch).
But if a gamer drops off the team, the game doesn't have join-in-progress gamers subbing back in or AI bots to get the team back to 3 vs 3?
So if a game starts 3 vs 3 and players drop off, the game can literally end up as 1 vs 1?
The game is 3 vs 3 as everyone now knows (which they didnt tell until launch).
But if a gamer drops off the team, the game doesn't have join-in-progress gamers subbing back in or AI bots to get the team back to 3 vs 3?
So if a game starts 3 vs 3 and players drop off, the game can literally end up as 1 vs 1?
Zannegan
Member
I'd say the setting is being reinterpreted just by shifting it into a new genre. Mounts in MMOs are just a faster way to get around (or show off your epeen). In this game they look like they've become a gameplay mechanic, which is cool.
And while the setting is generic in other genres, it's not nearly so common in a shooter. It'd be like having a WWII setting for a JRPG—covering the same ground but from a fresh perspective.
The character designs though are aggressively generic, and the hero shooter dynamic with defined roles is pretty passé at this point. That said, I prefer a good ol' TDM with customizeability through perks and loadouts, so I have NOTHING to say about a multiplayer game type being passé or worn out.
Either way, familiar doesn't necessarily mean worse any more than new and trendy means better. Just so long as it's not a complete ripoff or a downgrade from its inspiration, it's all good, IMO. But to each his own.
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I collect VHS tapes
Gold Member
Are you telling me that people are criticizing shitty video games on a video game forum?
How strange
ShadyAcshuns
Gold Member
What a waste of time and money...