and they are SPOOKED
games
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
this is their big $300M game, only big release of theirs this year
they just had a closed beta for pre-order people, every pre-order got 5 beta codes, game is on Stream, etc.
and there were severe lobby fill issues, for a 5v5 game
peaked at ~1k concurrent, dropped to 200-300 before the beta ended
lol even
deserved from everything I saw
since we like graphs
That is a way more healthy drop off
longer beta, minor decrease, still had >2k at the end
that Sony game is in so much trouble
it's $40 too
40 dollars plus a battle pass no doubt
and in-game store
That studio is getting closed
oh Pika
have you seen all the characters
the fat characters
are bizzare
I saw a twitter clip going through the full roaster and their quips they say as you select them
oh, I found that video
ok, timestamped
Second character has the eye makeup the chinese like
wait, that's a guy
I thought it was a fat woman
lmao
Putting pronouns on the fucking character select screen for every fucking fictional character is so fucking funny
it goes beyond normal pandering where it would be some optional flavour text lore log thing
yep, top right
undecided is also very funny
"How should I refer to you?"
"I do not know, please help"
I think 5/16 of the characters have a decent design (excluding default soldier)
but of those 5, 2 are just copies of Guardians of the Galaxy characters
I am impressed none of them have vitalgo or whatever its called
That is another thing I saw on twitter, I never realized how much these weirdo's like that and want everything to have a character with it
all these character games need to launch with 30 characters minimum imo
OW had 21 on-launch, but added 5 or so in the first year
Overwatch did the right move though even for their roaster size
they hyped you up with pixar animations
so people were attatched to the characters right off the bat
Hell, I never played the game other than OW2, but I still think foldly on the characters from the early OW1 animations
the question should also be "is this character design something that someone would want to cosplay"
not for 100% of characters
but it's a good fallback if you're unsure about a design
I went through,
Mushroom head is okay
Haunt is alright (can't see her, full suit)
The pink robot is okay but is ust a rip off of the blue robot from guardians,
the fat yellow robot is funny
Those are the 4 I think are decent
The 2 guardians of teh galaxy clones I counted too
and Pika
Haunt is their class
not the name
oh lol
yeah, the classes are just as retarded as the pronouns
This is bad UI design
I see pronouns, I just assume the thing next to it is the name
Tactician - Improved reload speed
Ranger - Lower weapon recoil
Haunt - Higher mobility
Anchor - Higher amount of healing received
Breacher - Lower Dodge cooldown
Warden - Increased weapon range
these are their classes, instead of DPS, tank, support
These names tell you nothing. If you said you were playing a ranger, I'd assume higher range, possibly better mobility
the way the game works Pika, is matches are best of 5
and after you win, the class you won with is locked (not just character)
>best of 5
too long, that is also bad game design for the current gamer