I keep hearing it getting called Concord 2 but I thought the whole issue with Concord was troons and fatties. All the Highguard champions are fit and clearly men and (attractive) women. So what's the fucking issue now? How is it anything like Concord?
>>731783415What's that thing on the right? male or female?
>>731783415People on 4chan are secondariesThey dont like video gamesThey like tertiary social media drama and gacha slop
>>731783415it's the gameplay any good? is it another live service game? beyond that people like to bandwagon and people like to hate. if the game is solid on all fronts it might literally be people just wanting something new to shit on. I don't play the game because I have a back log of coop games im pushing through
I hope it fails because it put a mutt with zoomer hair front and center in the marketing. Zoomers agree with me and that's why no one is playing it.
>>731783476Female that's Uma
>>731783592>bitter old man shouting at kidsLol
>>731783592Pretty shallow reason to want something to fail. >OH MY GOD THEY HAVE A GUY ON THE COVER WITH A CURRENT DAY HAIRSTYLE SAVE ME NIGGERMAN AAAIIIIIEEEEE
>>731783415when will these faggots learn you can't gaslight and berate people into playing your game?
>>731783674>coping retard fails to understand basic marketing
>>731783725as you can see here >>731783674 NEVERits the only way they know how to communicate
>>731783827Street Fighter 6 has an identical guy on the cover, did you kvetch about that one too? I understand basic marketing, your reason for hating the game is flat out shallow.
>>731783415Geoff fucked them so bad lmao
>>731783415Bros I can fix her....
Me on the right
>>731783415I haven't followed v discourse over the game but from what I've seen on social media the game was well received
>>731783415Chuds don't even know anymore what is supposed to make them seethe. The hivemind orders them to mald over something, and they obey. True NPCs.
>>731783917>REEEE BUT WHAT ABOUT OTHER GAMEthats not an identical guy at all.those are completely different looking people, psycho.Also streetfighter 6 wasn't at the game awards trying to ride on the coat tails of titanfall :)fighting games are their own SMALL niche and don't ever reach beyond that.You are a sad, pathetic worm that can only communicate in lies.
>>731783986Mara OP, pls nerf
>>731783623>>731783476the mask is on for your safety
>>731784297>IT'S NOT THE SAME, MOOOMSad cope.
>>731784248The amount of projection and self-owns you freaks post never stops amazing me.I can always tell what's wrong with your kind by what you accuse others of being.>>731784372>zero argumentslmao liar can't even think up a lie
>>731783415>cute face>nice midriff>"HEY GUYS I THINK THIS GAME DOESN'T DESERVE THE HATE"You coomers are so fucking predictable holy shit
>>731783623>FemaleSo that "battle sister" skin isn't a meme then. The game should have launched with its character designs looking like the premium skins.It shouldn't be 3v3, 5v5 at a minimum instead.The optimization is garbage.The mounts should have been vehicles with weapons mounted on them or something crazy like dinosaurs with lasers if you wanted to go the full crazy route.If you make female characters, you go the full mile and give them breasts instead of this half assing business. If the male characters can have roid pecs, the female characters can have large mammaries.What in God's green earth processed you to require TPM and Safeboot when Marathon is coming and it doesn't require that? Why did you settle on a fantasy setting when you have Kalashnikov tier weapons? Why make it call of duty with bears? For what purpose? Do you know that CoD is being looked at as a clown show these days?Invent new weapons for God's sake, have some lasers, some poison guns, some lightning guns have some characters use arm mounted weaponry or shoulder mounted lasers(predator) but don't just slap modern weaponry in a fantasy setting and call it a day? What were you thinking? At least have some compound bows or enchanted looking revolvers but reloading with mags while riding a tiger like it's fucking World of Warcraft is such a clash or visuals and totally unrelated concepts, it's painful to look at.Why aren't there any NPCs to shoot at in your wannabe 3rd person shooter moba? The bases are empty? really? Why don't you have magical items to fight over until you reach the enemy's base? Magical items which actually impact player visuals or size or damage? If you have mounts in your game, why aren't they part of the gameplay instead of just being mobility spells? If you lose your horse, you don't get it back just like that. Haven't you played any oldschool Halo? vehicles in that game were fucking amazing. You could have had a fuckhuge tank dinosaur with lasers on its back
>>731783415>it was just the character designsIt was never about that. It was an unfinished hero shooter that was exclusive to PS5.
>>731784297>The guy on the SF6 cover is making a silly face so it's a completely different design and hairstyle bro>wasn't at the game awards trying to ride on the coat tails of titanfallOh but I'm the one that doesn't understand basic marketing lmao
>>731783415Before I thought like you and was willing to give it a chance. Its 3 tiers above concord and other garbage in terms of aesthetic and everything.After trying it - this game is just bad. It feels like they didnt playtest it in terms of the gameplay. Almost every gameplay design decision was wrong.
ANY BLAST HAVERS IN CHAT?
>>731784543>retarded liar can't even tell two different people apart with completely different bone structure, hair color, musculature, hair color, clothing, etc>has to ignore the VAST different in scope and type of game and what the marketing was for as wellooof.not a good hill to die on, but your kind DOES love suicides
>>731783415I was expecting the worst but the woman are quite pretty. Hopefully the mask woman takes off the mask too and we get a cute asian and they eventually add in a typical blonde woman.Slade should have been used for the promotional material, not Atticus.The games biggest problem I think is explaining what the fuck it is.
>>731783568>gameplayIt feels like they designed it by taking all the big fps trends from the last 10ish years, stuck them to a board, and threw a fistfull of darts at it. None of it is strictly bad, but it is at its best strictly paint by numbers.>live serviceYes, tons of purchasable skins, battle passes, and 3 seperate forms of currency.
>>731784767You're such a weasly guy. I can 100% bet you were in those SF6 threads with your main character syndrome posting "I SHANT BE BUYING THIS GAME LOOK AT THIS MUTT ON THE COVER!" >VAST different in scope and type of game and what the marketing was for as wellAnon you still seem to not understand basic marketing. When something says "From the creators of..." that usually means it's by the same people but will be something different. How is this so hard for you to grasp? Also the game itself has the same dna as titanfall and apex in it's gameplay loop and gunplay.
16hours review>settingGeneric fantasy setting in a bland world with no lore. Weapons should have been more tailored to the world like a fire ball staff instead of a rocket launcher or a ice cracker shotgun. Characters are boring and repetitive too>guns and lootthe barrel loot is too cluttered with fucking GARBAGE like wall repairs or ammos when all you want is the op items like ult charges, thumpers, reinforces, helmets, etc. the guns play so similarly that the weapon you use genuinely doesnt matter in terms of choice and consequence (this is a good thing, mitigates bad rng) and the shopkeeper is completely useless after r1. the loot phase is totally fine, its good to have a low stress segment to cool off after raids. you will almost always have good enough gear for the round after 2 minutes>ctfHighlight of the game and the most individually skill expressive portion where teamwork isnt required. Choices actually matter during this part of the game. I tend to just camp out with shield breaker until overtime so I can play for team wipes because its very hard to plant the shield breaker against a good team and the timer isnt long. Horses and mount killing is such an interesting mechanic and the game mode thrives on ambushes. If there was a game mode that was just 24/7 ctf with prebuilt loadouts I would play it.>raidsobjectively the worst part of the game. bases are pretty boring, sight lines are abysmal, raid weapons like the zipline and the hammer give such an unfair advantage to attackers, and you need competent teammates or else its just a roll. Generators are too easy to take and always optimal just to make sure you dont take base damage from failed raids. It should have had a much longer timer, but shaves off seconds for every kill near the objective.>basesWhy even let us pick bases when most of the game time is spent in the ctf world? Not much to do with bases anyways.>shopbuy thermite rockets round 1. never touch it again
>>731784987>You're such a weasly guyprojection of your own lying>I bet you were-fanfiction>you don't understand basic-more projection.yawn.Man it must SUCK being nothing but a pathetic worm who lies all the time lmao.I don't even have to finish reading your sentences to see through those lies.Marketing is easy.If you make another installment in a longstanding fighting game franchise the cover means fuck all because you rely on keeping the previous characters around and THEIR looks for most of the actual marketing.If you are given a slot at the game awards and are trying to pull in a big crowd for your mishmash hero shooter, cashing in on titanfall, etc, with a COMPLETELY NEW title, your opening impression is everything.Streetfighter 6 isn't looking for NEW players. They HAVE a fanbase.Highguard is exclusively looking for new players.A lying worm like you wouldn't understand such BASIC AND SIMPLE marketing concepts.
>>731785423I like how you just gave up and called me a worm a hundred times. It'll sink in for you one day, bud.
>>731785523>retard is so assmad they tunnelvisoned and can only focus on being a wormsounds like another self-own
>>731785409>metai think the sbmm is really strong in this game because I played the same opponents constantly, recognized the same strategies too. Some stuff is already becoming meta like rocket launcher + ranger for easy kills on peeking players. Earthquake hammer is also really common at high MMR to block sightlines and its not unusual to see multiple earthquake plays during capture the flag portions which slows the game down significantly. Its good for if your teammates get picked and you just need to buy time for their spawns harassing the enemy team. Splitpushing also stops working, or at least it stopped working for me after like hour 10 of my gameplay. The team needs all its components working together for a successful push. picker, rushers, and the rushers need demolition. I played in a 3 stack so its easy to shut down split pushers and dome breaker plays with basic communication.I think the meta comp is going to be slade, mara, and the scarlett/kai since they make defending planted objectives really easy and scarlet is just insane for CTF. Snipers seem pretty good, shotguns are pretty horrible compared to the automatic weapons. If I have the luxury of choice I would just run ranger and any of the 3 assault rifles but my favorite was saber. They all play pretty much the same, point and click, no mechanics or anything like fortnite weapons would have for example.>abilitiesmost of the abilities are pretty lame desu and almost every tactical has to be used before a fire fight to be effective, with the exception of slade. the ults are uncreative and their animations are too long, again with the exception of slade. condor has an insane ult for keeping an objective locked down but its useless outside of that. they should go back to the drawing board on every single ult to make them more snappy and versatile. >performanceit will reliably freeze during fights and your fps will go to like 40 when an enemy is on screen so it needs optimization.6/10 shooter
>>731784521cont.You have titanfall devs on pay and you don't have some sort of mount that functions like a giant monster or robot or something? Getting into a titan was like half of the reasons to play titanfall. When people see "made by titanfall devs" they expect some fucking huge robots in your game, otherwise why bother mentioning that?You have all this terrain on these huge empty maps and you didn't think to have mounted combat with robots or dinosaurs or something like that?protip: get dinosaur mounts in and have them carry multiple players. The T-Rex is high risk high reward because it can go berserk if it takes too much damage from enemy players and it can turn on you and eat your ass, becoming a bossfight which drops miniguns after it's defeated, whoever grabs the miniguns has powerful weapons until they run out of ammo.Have a triceratops with plated armor and tank-like gun crashing through walls and objectives, add a few flying dinosaurs as well which can be used to parachute behind enemy lines or simply engage in airborne fighting like they do in Battlefield games.If you want a game with map objectives, the objectives can't only be "fight to break wall", you have to at least give different options to win the game. If you've ever played Arathi Basin in WoW, there's different bases on the map which each offer points for being captured, so translating this to your game, a part of the map could house artillery for bombaring enemy bases, another part could house really good weapons or buffs and another could house powerful mounts which can turn the tide if captured. That way, no game is the same and this helps with the lull in action the game currently suffers from. But the game would have to become 10v10 at that point.
>>731783674y-yeah why would a game ever fail because of the main characters visual design?
>>731783415Pretty simple, picrel is the face of the game I feel instinctively disgusted seeing it, since its some nigger halfbreed mysterymeat with zoomer hair Also I instantly know I'm not the target audience (I'm White European) and its a game made for third worlders that look like that If there were no niggers/non-whites in the game, and the redhead chick was the face of the game, it wouldve fared much better. (I guess I can settle for Marvel Rivals of doing things, where theres occassional nigress side character, but shes extremely hot, so its ok)
>>731785931he looks like the kind of guy who would stab you on public transit in London or some other European shithole
>>731785931>I'm White EuropeanI never get why people refer themselves as European when they could've said their nationality.
>>731783415+10 cents, faggot
>>731783415There are too many of these games that appeal to a specific niche of people who love team shooters. Players who love bespoke single-player games (i.e. the majority of gamers) get annoyed that developers keep expending their resources and time and talent on yet another Overwatch clone.
>>731785931I completely agree. If they just put a fucking helmet on him, the hate would have been cut down like 75%.
>>731785931
>>731783415It’s a hero shooter that no one wanted.
>>731784784Yeah, apex worked as a shadow drop bc it was a simply a new take on an already established genre. Highguard is a "new raid shooter genre" that the devs just expected everyone to get without explanation. You dont shadow drop that- that needs beta testing and player feedback. I mean, it doesnt look like they would have accepted any feedback considering one of their devs is throwing retard fits in the highguard stream discussion threads but, y'know. Ideally it would have helped.
>>731785931>truthbomb that kills the apologistsPeople often dont realize why they instinctively dont like something, but this makes a lot of sense when put into words like thisMaking this guy front and center of your game was definitely a horrendous idea
>>731785931JOHN VIDEO GAME
>>731785931>calling this "non-white"on what fucking planet? I'm literally white and my skin is darker than his
>>731783415Because it looks like shit, not every bad game has to be as woke as Concord, faggot.Just look at the people there. What the fuck is the main woman supposed to be? Describe her in one or at most 2 words, if you can't it's a shit designJust look at overwatchKnight: ReinMonk: ZenNinja: GenjiCowboy: McCree A bunch of characters can be described with one word and everybody that looks at the characters would know who you're talking about.The only character in your image that works here is the Shaman on the right. Except they decided to turn her into some troon looking shaman instead of a sexo slut shaman or a cool male shaman so it's shit too
>>731785931why does he have more stubble on his face than on the sides of his head?
>>731783415>So what's the fucking issue now?it's just apex + siege why should I give a shit about that game?
>>731785931Racemixing is a sin And it has just killed another videogame
>>731783415If they made her the face of the game, instead of the Black guy with the retarded haircut, it might not have been laughed at as hard when it got revealed.
>>731783592>I hope it failsIt did
>>731783415Such an unflattering image.She is actually cute and hot.Its not just enough to shit on games with ugly females.We have to praise devs who try.Red head but not a negress?Tummy?Attractive?Well done!
>>731785931this picture makes me feel disgust. Why is that?
>>731786739why are you lying?
Concord was a troon fatty fagslop game AND ALSO it bombed like shit. Its made fun of for two things.
>>731786940Because that character has jaundice and an aggressively homosexual look that communicates sickliness and disease. Many cultural taboos like the general taboo against homosexuality arose as defense mechanisms against disease back in the caveman days.
>>731786916Yeah this doesn't get enough mentions, the female characters in this game aren't purposefully made to be repulsive, which is shocking for a western game in 2026. The dark skinned woman isn't a racial caricature with huge lips and ugly face, she actually looks good if you pay for alternate skins but she's no Loba from Apex.
>>731783592This is the way
>>731786041Yeah like a morrocan zoomer arab or other north African wearing a striped soccer team shirt.
>>731785931The character itself isn't even that ugly, it could fly in any other setting except some fantasy hero shooterall he needs is a long barbarian hair and better outfitWhy would they mash so many clashing elements that don't f it together?>Jaundice yellow middle-eastern chad>except he has the most beta zoomer hair>except he is wearing an ugly, lame armor that is neither futuristic, medieval, fantasy nor modern>except he has lighting powers, the most thematically unfitting to his look>except he has a hideous color scheme of white, pine green, piss and steel, that fully blends in with the plain and dusty environmentThey gave a similar treatment to all of their characters, which is a very concordian thing to doThough I will admit, I'm surprised they had even one decent looking girl in the roster
>>731786537Uh oh anon I hate to be the bearer of bad news...
>>731786537Anon, americans aren't white and you aren't either
>>731786064Because they're people who care more about race than nationality.Or they're neither white nor European and are either coping or part of a psyop.
>>731783674yeah, should've put a strong black woman instead
>>731785817I still want to fuck colgate-chan tho
Left>dyke cutRight>wtf is thatCenter>abs not slender
>>731783415>falling for the anglerfish tacticSome of these DEI games have this one dedicated pretty girl to lure some retards in. Just to turn her gay later on.Or that the devs can pretend its not "diversity" that helped the game fail.I really hope no one waifued her cause its quite embarrasing this would be your dedicated girl over all these better options in gaming just cause it only took a midriff to buy you over. No one cares for the other dykes.
>>731788824The game is probably a victim of its monetization scheme, just like Evolve was. They made the base versions of the characters look like garbage so it motivates you to buy the better looking skins.So indirectly, their greed led to a catastrophic image and perception issue for the audience. This is the typical stuff you see in korean mmos, pay to not look like a clown. Pretty bad implementation overall.
>>731789387>pay to not look like a clownmore like pay to wear less, that's what korean MMO:s do, or alternatively pay to have an eyesore of particle effects, wings, tails and other features tied to an outfit set
>>731789628>more like pay to wear less,Well, yeah. Who do you think spends hundreds of dollars on skins? Waifufags. But to get to their money, you have to make appealing characters, and i'm not sure Highguard devs are up for that.
>>731783917>Street Fighter 6 has an identical guy on the coverNot anymore.
>>731784784>that meathead on the rightI can fix him
>>731783917>Street Fighter 6 has an identical guy on the coverSF6's identity are ass cheeks and labia majora peeking out, let's not even go there. Highguard's identity is a sickly looking zoomer broccoli cut male with a "Just kill me" expression on his mug, that was the very first frontal shot of the character in the game awards trailer, the first impressions if you will.Luke from SF6 has a victorious, extatic, triumphant expression on his face, he just bested an opponent or finished a high intensity workout. Atticus looks like he's going to the electric chair.What's odd is that in the materials they published on their youtube channel post game release, they have professional editing and really polished videos showing the developers looking great with excited expressions on their faces, the characters in the game are shown in very flattering angles, everything is straight aces.
>>731791629forgot pic
>>731783415dead worthless genre, 10 years too late and even 10 years ago nobody would have cared
>>731789387>skins>in an fps game>with no ragdolls or anything so you literally never see your skin>game is so blurry that it would be hard to tell what skin someone has on anyways and only serves to visually confuse opponents to which hero you are
>>731783415The whole issue with Concord was Sony trying to hype a game that was 6/10 at best. If EA or Ubisoft published Concord they would have axed it cause they have actual standards in their games. And that's why Geoff trying to hype Highguard as the next big shooter makes zero sense, it's yet another 6/10 at best shooter.
>>731784420>beeb boop, chud-bot answer #432: Print: "Projection!"Fucking NPCs, I swear...
>>731789387The one on the right is a freebie tho.
>>7317834151 girl 3 furries 7 malestherefore it gets a 1/15 from me
>>731791815>If EA or Ubisoft published Concord they would have axed it cause they have actual standards in their games>they have actual standards in their games
>>731783415Why don't you fucking play it then? It's free - why don't you go pad out the desperately lacking player count instead of wasting time here defending actual garbage?
>>731785931>White European
>>731791787Yeah no you're right, extensive changes are required to support that monetization scheme. Skins work in overwatch because all the characters pop out and are easily visible against the background.But Apex legends also has skins as a monetization strategy and it worked out for them, the issue is Highguard is badly optimized, beating a decomposing horse at this point.
>>7317919594 girls althoughbeit
>>731784248Spoken like an OG Highguard player that will be playing this game long after the next hero shooter comes out.
>>731785931>I'm White European
>>731792019>(You) *MUST* play the NEWEST thing!Zoomzooms were a mistake
>>731791881>it's freeShould have led with that one then.
>>731791817So you are a robot as well?
>>731791815he wanted to flex his influence so he could use it as leverage for next year's sponsorships, but all he showed people is that it's a death sentence for your game to be advertised by the dorito sellout.
>>731785931What fucking skin color is even that? He looks like he has some kinda of sickness, tan isn't like that.
>>731792272>NO UAnd so it continues. Can I talk to your handler now or are you stuck in a loop?
>>731792363Jaundice
>>731792363Looks like average spaniard to me tbqh
>>731783415NOT ATTRACTIVE ENOUGH
>>731792376you have a handler as well?can you tell them to get a better bot?
>yesterday everyone laughing at highguard failing>gaming urinalists start crying>asmon starts dunking on it>trannies suddenly angry at everyone laughingthe culture war brainrot is insane
>>731783592Going by this it seems like trannies having a backlash against attractive people in a game as revenge.Personally I don't care want to engage in pvp ever. If I wanted to fight someone I would burn their house down.
>>731783415She looks cute. I will now play your game.
>>731789387WHO THE FUCK CARES FOR CHARACTERS SKINS IN A 1ST PERSON SHOOTER GAMEKYS ZOOMER, ROFL
ACKNOWLEDGING THAT A GAME IS SUPER BORING AND GENERIC IS NOT HATEKYS ZOOMER
>>731786537Picrel is White. If you dont look like that then i have some bad news for you anonI'm sorry you found out youre not White this way
>>731783986But why would you want to, it's gross.
>>731785931JOHN JAUNDICE HIGHGUARD
>>731786064Well mainly because Europe is the only continent where there still are actual whites, so I dont want to get confused by some 16th generation american immigrant, whos bloodline is ruined by racemixing somewhere down the line, like they all are
>>731793179>WHO THE FUCK CARES FOR CHARACTERS SKINS IN A 1ST PERSON SHOOTER GAMEThe devs who made the game? How do you think overwatch or other fps games stay afloat?
>>731793179You cared enough to all caps seethe about it.
>>731786193One of his skins actually has him in his helmet, and I also feel removing the hair helps
>>731793228But you are, in fact, not doing that.
>>731793331>brown hair>whiteSanchez....
>>731794927How is this brown hair, color blind anon
>>731783415tits too smalltummy okhips not wide enoughpuffy vagina
>>731783415>last place reveal hero shooter - normies (biggest demographic) hate it>brown zoomer poster boy - chuds hate it>no trannies - mentally damaged people (big demographic) hate it>Trailer didn't show shit about gameplay and it drops like 2 weeks later - most people are annoyed>concord effect = fun to make fun of = hate for dimwits >game is mid but all previous- fuel to the fire of hateIs there any demographic that they captured with that reveal??
>>731795195>Is there any demographic that they captured with that reveal??Paid streamers and youtubers making money off of the fireworks.
>>7317834151. The poster boy is ugly2. The game is not fun, is like if the game was designed by executives 3. The game is trying to enter the bloodbath that is GaaS multiplayer shooters, is not 2016 anymore where you could humbly try with your hero shooter with a twist, everyone who plays a multiplayer shooter already has his fix with Fortnite, Overwatch, Marvel Rivals, Valorant, Arc Raiders, the Finals, and so on
>>731783415>small chest>covered up tits>exposed stomachThe typical "we don't want to make anything objectifying BUT we also paid pajeets to pretend our design is super sexy" bullshit in the vein of nu-mortal kombat.
>>731788527Yeah just compare her to Hyenas, Concord, Lawbreakers, etc negresses.Here they made sure she was attractive yet black.
>>731793179I have seen the game has a third person mode like the latest CoD.
>>731785931why wasnt this his default
>>731785931Unironically this, Slade with the Terry Bogard haircut should have been the posterboy/face of the game but devs are too erect for the broccoli hair/muttoid phenotype to accept the simple fact that caucasian/blonde/white european is the hero archetype.Nobody associates black/dark skin with anything righteous or non-foul, i.e. rot, decay, gangrene, etc. and you are just a self-loathing wokie if you disagree.T. Bronze skinned central-american, zealous St.Ruckus devotee
>>731786064I mean if he said if he was German then anons would have called him a turk.Brit, they would have called him a pooSwede, a somalian etc etc
>>731796054He even is a fire type. Typical MC element.
>>731796002That skin reminds me of an old cartoon i used to watch with american football players transported back in time or into a parallel dimension of Arthurian Legend.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjbWDjzTM0AI don't know how they'd make that work with guns though, maybe have some magical bullets or something. But that skin looks 10 times better than the default.
Just played a round.Easy clap, planted sword with no problem - I think they didn't realize I ran back out towards my own base before circling around at mach 5 through the speedgates. they were guarding A/B heavily so we just planted at the big gem. Set up whisps + tree ult all around it, murdered them as they came in one by one.Feel like flashbangs need to be a thing at some point here. Defending bombsite after planting is easy if you get even 5 seconds of setup time.8 minute match
>>731796784I thought I was the only person on earth that watched this. I fucking loved this show, was so excited to catch it as a kid
>>73179753290's kids had it great, today cartoons are mostly garbage that's why the kids are watching anime and playing chinese games with anime themes.
>p-please stop, look, we have a femoid(female(woman(womb haver(bleeding person)))) using she/her pronouns too!!I'd probably give you some points if she looked hot, but why the fuck would I jack it to this rather than overwatch?So even on the porn front, you're completely outmatched and outclassed by a game that released 10 years ago, it's pathetic
>>731783476that is a very problematic question, please stay seated while a HR representive is sent to lecture you on proper behavior.
>>731793520>not John Diss
>>731783674Not at all. We have had almost 2 decades of shit games. Marketing teams for these massive companies should be doing everything in their power to distance themselves from the stink and they refuse. No course correction. They get what they fucking deserve.
>>731783415She and the blond guy are the only good designs.
>>731786537>I'm literally white and my skin is darker than hisArgentina please go
>>731785931>European>WhiteYou're not fooling anyone here, Emir.
>>731783415That tummy is begging to be kissed and those freckles are begging to be cummed on
>>731786537bait
>>731783415i love tummy sluts
>>731795024That's called brown where I come from. Of course in Africa anything lighter than coal counts as blonde
>>731783415First time? After every TORtanic there's a period of time where everyone wants another TORtanic to happen so they start saying that everything is TORtanic in hopes of seeing another ship sink. Just replace TORtanic with Concord if you don't get what I'm saying.
Besides being a bit uncreative, its a fine game that doesnt really provoke how hated it is. It's like a rough draft of a compfag shooter and that might be filtering the few people that can stomach the visuals
what cool devs, they clearly care about the game and the community
>>731783415Tribal costume designed for cosplay.3vs3 when other shooters has 12vs12.Bizarre mix of knights, guns, magic and sword.You can ride bears
>>731809410For all that it's worth i hope they don't crash and burn and manage to get out of the woods. This game is by far not a concord tier flop, it's just designed by people or corporate suits who weren't scared enough by concord's cratering, and maybe these last few days were enough of a ride that they're now scared shitless of failing.Just, you know? Remember what the audience actually is and look at Marvel Rivals or other titles which recently managed to stay afloat. Don't make weird characters in your hero shooter because these types of games live and die by how popular their characters are, at least stay on the beaten path if you're wildly experimenting with gameplay, you can't have experimental character design while also having experimental gameplay, you have to have a hook for the audience, and the easiest hook there is, is sex appeal, be it male or female. Even ArcRaiders has some nice skins.
>>731810473unironically better character design
>>731811045>/v/ loves trans aesthetics now
>>731793616>whos bloodline is ruined by racemixing somewhere down the line, like they all areAmerican whites are not racemixed unless you consider European whites to be of separate races.
>>731785931I hate this stupid design.Looks both like an effeminated spic & a homesexual arab.I'm 100% sure whover designed the concord characters, designed this spanish looking fuck.Not just him, all of the male characters look like absolute shit.Hope capcom sues them for stealing Ken's design.
The mix of modern weaponry and fantasy elements is actually just disgusting to me
>There are people defending another uninspired hero looter shooter that would be filled to the brim with western creaturas, battle passes, FOMO events and microtransactions>Even after people have confirmed the actual gameplay and game loop is shitI'll answer the question with a question. Why exactly would any decent person want Slopguard to have succeeded?
>>731813603>Why exactly would any decent person want Slopguard to have succeeded?Because when you cry wolf every single time, nobody believes you when it matters. Concord was a TORtanic tier failure, just like Hyenas before it. When a game is irredeemable, it makes sense to mock its failure but when a game has a few redemptive qualities, it doesn't make sense to attack and lambast it needlessly long. They already know they shipped a bad product, now let them pick themselves up and try to improve it. Attacking them while they're down makes no sense, and it detracts from your station as consumers because it makes you all look like hyenas wanting to harass people for the fun of it. tl;dr if you cry wolf all the time, people will stop believing you and you're doing damage to your own side by overplaying your admittedly good points on the quality of the game. If they fail again and again, it's their fault now. People have already provided enough feedback, time to step back, for a while at least.
>>731793616White Americans don't racemix. That's literally the definition of "white" in the United States, it means you have pure European ancestry. If you race mixed even a little, you were kicked out of the white club and were one of the "coloreds". Basically the entire race-mixed population in the US is classified as "black" on the census.
>>731783415people are just trying to have another tortanic sitaution. the truth is it's another mediocre cash grab hero shooter with loot crates and battle passes. way less interesting an an epic disastrous failure.
>>731815702They aren't salvaging this, gang. They're getting a year before support ends, then a couple months before it gets sunset. MAX
1st match I didn't really know what the fuck I was doing. 2nd and 3rd match were better but we still lost. The funnest part of the game by far is the storm-breaker runs, basically CTF on huge maps reminiscent of Halo 2. The reinforcing stage feels pointless, the gearing up stage just feels like an unnecessary lull in the action. Thankfully brief, but still just kind of annoying having to stop the action to go ride around playing QTE minecraft/looting to get gems or upgrade your inventory.The 2nd funnest part is raiding or defending, but this part needs more polish. The map in general feels too hard to navigate and it feels like a cluster fuck. Getting to the bomb is way too easy as an attacker because there's so many different paths and it's hard for defenders to tell what's going on.3v3 feels too little for how massive the maps are, by far this is going to be the biggest complaint they get.Throwing melee weapons is a useless feature.The character designs and artstyle and abilities are way too generic and uninspired and the game ends up feeling kind of flat and lacking in any real sense of identity of its own. There's also not enough characters but that can be fixed in time.Overall, not a horrible game by any stretch. But it's not amazing either. It's not even particularly good. It's just "okay". Already after 3 matches I feel like I've pretty much seen all it has to offer. Right now it doesn't have much of a future but it can be saved if they make the necessary updates quickly enough. It's important that they act fast though, otherwise it's gonna die before they ever get the chance. I give the game in its current state less than a month before it dies and becomes completely irrelevant.I will say it's better than Concord. With some polish and critical updates it has genuine potential. Beneath the flaws and jank there is clearly at least some genuine inspiration apparent in parts of the game play design.(1/2)
>>731783592Why is shit like this said by the most unfashionable shut-ins imaginable?
>>731816858(2/2)My biggest recommendation and by far I mean the #1 thing they should do ASAP is to overhaul the base defense phases. It needs to be way more involved. Reinforced walls aren't any different than standard walls. Defenders are always playing catchup to try defusing because the map design makes it way too hard for them to tell where the attackers are once the raid starts. There's too many points of entry and the fortresses are too sprawling with so many paths. They should add an alert any time a wall gets destroyed that highlights in red, shows on the minimap, and maybe even a notification that pops up on screen saying "enemies have breached a wall!". They should also add something like traps, turrets, stuff like that. Basically make it so defending the base involves way more set-up, and make attacking harder. Right now it's a snoozefest with how easy it is to breach your way to the core of the base and plant bombs.Finally, they should remove the "feature" where attacker's base losses 30hp for a failed attack. And arguably they should also either remove the 30 damage for successfully initiating a raid altogether. If attackers start a raid and fail to plant and get a bomb to go off, it should have 0 effect on the match status, just leaving both teams at 100 health still. This might make matches longer but it would also make the stakes and tension way higher and leave more room for clutch moments and comebacks. If they don't wanna do that, then at the very least, failed raids should only do like 10 damage, not 30. And likewise breaching and starting a raid would only do 10 damage instead of 30. Or maybe even 15 would be fine. But 30 is too high. It doesn't even mechanically make sense for your own base to somehow take damage because you failed to plant the bomb.
>>731816739If it bombs, we will all be there to throw the first bit of dirt on its casket, I'm more concerned about damaging consumer confidence in the consumer review process itself. In the east there's these gacha games which have loyal and ferocious internet defenders, who rally their similarly minded fellows and then engage in reviewbomb wars of rival games in a show of tribal force. If the same thing ends up happening here, we're going to get more concords going forward, not less, because the trust in the public level of impartiality will have been lost.
I'm having a blast.
I think everyone was just pissed when they hyped it up with a new game by the people behind apex and titanfall, and it turns out it wasn't titanfall 3
>>731818465EA already made Titanfall 3 and then just shelved it.
>>731818465That's a huge part of it, yeah.
>>731783415>I literally don't get the hate for Highguardbuy an ad
The maps are built for something I would assume be a big team shooter CTF map.The game feels like it was specifically built around a mobile platform(I think 3v3 would be fine for phone use cases), should at minimum be 5v5Mining is just pure retard shitThe objectives are like what? and then you complete it and the map/building doesn't respond like wow CS:S had more explosive effects in dust2 when the bomb went offThe shooting is just meh, it's not bad but it's not good again if mobile I'd give it an okay sure passing gradeThe environment is trying to explain some huge battle of the highlanders or whatever, yet it's fucking 3 people if you don't stick instantly together enjoy just losing. This feels like something that was designed to come out around 2016-2019, specifically for iOS and Andriod or just a run of the mill Overwatch clone and got shoveled, the team needed a tax break so they just shoved it to market and called it a day. The graphics literally feel like a mobile game somehow despite the settings you apply.>>731818465hype didn't help but if this was just a shadow drop during the VGA's as a mobile game F2P now, I think it would have done fine.
>>731818465>the people behind apex and titanfall*For all we know those people who "worked" on those games could have just been janitors at the studio or other non important people who at most maybe made a single asset like a pile of rocks or the trees in one map. Reminds of how publisher studios pretend they made a historic popular game because they bought the actual dev studios years after the fact.
>>731818972The maps are built for chase sequences and ambushes. It wouldn't work if it was fully populated.
>>731819039talking "big" as in mobile game big like 8v8 or 10v10 at most, would be fine not talking 16v16 or whatever.
>>731785931This plus the faggy run he does at the start sealed its fate
>>731783415It's not offensively bad like Concord, it's just insultingly bland. The gameplay is a pastiche of recent FPS tropes and the character designs are entirely uninspired. Its sin isn't that it's some travesty of poor design choices, but rather that it's just a very hyped-up game with zero stand-out qualities. Calling it Concord 2 isn't accurate, but it's another big budget game with clear signs of a fruitless future, and that's what's being laughed at.
>>731785817>Peewwwhhh
>>731783415Why are all the tummy games shitty multiplayer slop?
>>731800005You burgers are getting too uppity
>>731812995When I saw the siege tower coming out of nowhere my first thought was who thought this was a good idea.
>>731783415
>>731783674shallow just like the game lmao
>>731785409>>ctf>Highlight of the game and the most individually skill expressive portion where teamwork isnt required.100% agree, literally the only part of matches I enjoyed and felt both teams had give-and-take
>>731785931It's so weird how fucked up he looks here, but looks so much more normal and appealing here >>731822049
>>731783415>anon pretending that he doesn't understand that the game is offensively bad You're not that culture war brained.
>>731785409>raids are the worst partIsnt the base defense supposed to be the main selling point of the game? How could they fuck up the part that was supposed to carry them?
>>731783415I wanted Titanfall 3. I wish I could tell you there was more to it than that. Punishing AAA live service slop, punching Geoff, or some kind of Veilguard thing. But that's really all there is.
>>731785667>>731785409The ctf, open world firefights are the best. The game starts to feel a lot better when you settle into the mechanics - even the shitty sieges feels a little better once you learn how critical rockets and hammers are. Personally, I feel sieges heavily favor the defending team, but that’s just me.The looting phase is fine, but everything could be tweaked. I think the real sore spot is that the phases build (Looting OK, CTF great) up to the siege, which is obviously the worst. The game doesn’t feel good close range to me personally.I can say I’ve played super high quality teams, where I imagine attacking/defending during sieges would be a nightmare.Honestly, the game is just desperately lacking game modes. If you don’t like raid, there’s nothing for you. They could have thrown in a half baked CTF, TDM, close quarters game modes on jus the bases so you can learn them, a 6v6 raid mode, etc. - there were a lot of options that wouldn’t have taken much work.
>>731783415It's related to all those live service games companies stated they were investing into years back. They're all starting to come out now
>>731817270It’s not always the case that the bases are too large though - you pic your base at the beginning. Just pick a smaller layout; some of them only provide marginal entry points unless the have the shield cracker thing.
>>731783415It's a boring inoffensive mid game that no one cares or talks about except people who hate all popular games, so they get to rail against the dead horse freely doing nothing but wasting their time because no one was going to play it regardless.
This game feels like something that was cooked up in a game jam group brainstorming session, but that should have been dropped extremely early on when it became apparent that the team couldn't agree on what they actually wanted the game to be.I hesitate to call the design schizophrenic, but it does seem to be trying to do too many different things simultaneously, and not doing any of them well. There's no single aspect, mechanic, or feature that you can point to and be like "oh yeah that's 9/10, that's what this game does best, that is carrying this game" it's like every single thing from the movement to the interface to the voice acting to the visual designs to the abilities, the performance, the gunplay, the map design, everything is like a 5/10, at best.I've seen people saying that this is the worst game of the decade or whatever, and no there's no way this is beating fuckin' Mindseye or Suicide Squad or Concord, it IS better than those, but it's still not good.
Manface
>>731822964>>731820092I AM NOOTICINGIs this some Discord script?
>>731786739Subtle, very funny.
>>731824615man body as well
>>731783415>Told this game was going to be the new cool thing>It's actually boring and genericIt's a lazy attempt at a trend chasing cashgrab, and a literal example of a shilled game. People don't like being told to like something, especially if it's bad, so of course anons and are pleased to see it blow up in their faces.
>>731783663>Zoomers agree with memaybe you missed that part, zoom zoom
>>731783592Yeah that zoomer haircut is a turn off. Meh
>>731783415Remember when SWTOR flopped and people ran around calling every new game they didn't like the next TORtanic? This is TORtanic for Gen Alpha.Anyway, I've got no skin in the game. I refuse to play Highguard because Secureboot Required and 3v3, but if it finds an audience that's fine.
>>731827540ToR was successful, and this game is not anywhere near big or exciting enough to come even close to something like that.
>>731825890>People don't like being told to like somethingThe thing is, nobody is saying that you have to like Highguard. Nobody is saying you can't hate Highguard. What people have been saying is that the actively obsessing over it, crusading and celebrating every step of the way unprompted, is beyond excessive to the point of being unhealthy.Like the most shilling Highguard got leading up to release was>hey, you guys should at least wait to try out the gameand upon release the most that's been mustered is absolute nothing articles like>d'oh-man, I sure do like smacking rocks and walls in HighguardThat's hardly enough to warrant you people obsessively shitting on it in countless videos, social media posts, literally daily threads here, and actively hyping yourself up in excitement every single day until release that a forgettable hero shooter is going to be forgettable.
>>731829246>upon release the most that's been mustered is absolute nothing articles like.Check again. PC gamer has a half dozen articles alone. Zoefucker is back, and bitching about right wing conspiracies. LOL. You're not going to tell me what's reasonable or not to say about the game you fucking loser. Game got a high profile launch and 31 flavors of bukake glaze from the big press. And you think you can come here an blame us? You think we're making clickbait youtube videos? Plenty of people here gave it a shot.
>>731785931I swear he gets more fucking jaundiced every time this image is posted
>>731829246I'm not the one making these threads. I'm just answering the question.
>take shieldbreaker>you have 2 minutes to take it to their base>if you don't take it to their base after 2 minutes, then whichever base the shieldbreaker is closest to will lose their shieldDo they not see the problem here? The meta now is to take the shieldbreaker then walk forward a bit and then camp for 2 minutes and force the enemy to come to you. Why would you take it to their base and be exposed but also the enemy spawns there so you're at a disadvantage?This game makes no fucking sense.
>>731829991>PC gamer has a half dozen articles aloneOh wow, PC Gamer has a whopping SIX whole articles you say? That's uh, not a lot. Considering that you people have spent the last couple months making hundreds of threads and constant videos and were endlessly active everywhere shitting on the game well before the game was remotely close to releasing>bukake glazeOnly would a brainrotted tourist like yourself would consider "hey maybe wait until the game's even out first" to be "bukake glaze">and blame us?You're not getting blamed for anything, you retard. Highguard was obviously going to fail because it's a mediocre and hollow mishmash of ideas releasing into a bloated market. What people are saying is that being a TORtanicfag like you is absolute faggotry, which is not a new stance to have in the slightest.>Plenty of people here gave it a shotThe endless shitposting and ghoulish hyping up of failure happened every day long before launch, so no, eventually trying the game isn't a part of any of that.
>>731784521>>731785771HARNESS THE POWER!
>>731830519>Why would you take it to their base and be exposed but also the enemy spawns there so you're at a disadvantage?Mainly to have quick access to the shop and attacker respawns. If you die while stalling out then instead of being back at the siege you're put in total disadvantage. Risk and reward, as they say.
>>731783415Look, child, we manufacture outrage in order to remind ourselves that we're alive and to give us the energy needed to rage against all we deem our enemies. This is a massive and exhaustive undertaking which requires lots of fuel. If we aren't continually angry, we'll collapse, die, and disintegrate, if our enemies don't overpower and destroy us first.
>>731784767>not a good hill to die on, but your kind DOES love suicidesYour kind worships them so fervently and religiously it's hilariously unreal.
>>731816739>a year>a monthNigga it's been 3 days and the peak have been>97k>18k>12kI give it a month before it gets sub 1k numbers.
>>731830519>>731830750yeah, it's the same as when people say>why don't you just go after the anchorstone each timelike sure if the risk pays off it's big but if it's doesn't then you end up fucking yourself over big time, especially since the risk is ultimately harder to pull off as well
The first thing that a publisher should start asking lead devs before handing out a lot of money is: What should female characters look like?If they start describing an idealized character (especially one with big breasts, which is the taboo), you might have your guy. Move on to the next phase. Otherwise, ask some bullshit question so that the gig lasts for as long as possible and then send them on their way. Sure, a lot of devs will self-censor, but the ones that don't are the ones who are male-oriented (AKA oriented towards the majority of your potential customers) and have the balls to stand by it. The T&A won't be the end of the benefits.
>>731824615that's Western games for you
It's not concord 2, but it is just a boring mediocre game with mediocre gameplay and mediocre designs.solid 4-5/10
>>731784420We're not the ones constantly posting these threads and screaming about how all games are woke and shit and the entire hobby needs to die along with everyone we hate.
>>731831014It was never going to be Concord 2. It'd have to have a $400,000,000 budget and a major publisher behind it (plus releasing to a paid price tag) to be anywhere close to Concord 2.
>>731830985MBAs are deathly afraid of game journos for some reason. I dunno how they don't see a game news article of "this game has extremely sexist female characters who wear nothing but bikini and high heels" is not a ringing endorsement, but MBAs went to the same schools as the journos and both are told the same shit.
>>731783415You and I both know that the game probably had troons and fatties that hurriedly had to be removed from the game after Concord happened.And despite it, the remains of Concord character design sensibilities still stick out.And you know all well that behind closed dors all these "male characters" suck some serious cock.It's ashamed Concord that has to hide it's sexuality against it's will, it's Concord hasn't come out of the closet, even though it really wants to...
>>731830997one glance at that maid and I know whose rant it is, lol
>>731785931I'm glad I'm nothing like you animals, going blood-rabid feral with retard rage over fictional nonexistent collections of pixels and computer code.
>>731786646>Racemixing is a sinAccording to who?
>>731786940You tell us, dipshit, we're not psychic.
>>731787059>and an aggressively homosexual lookI'm sure you're the foremost expert on gay men, have a lot of hands-on experience.
>>731788868I'm German/Swiss, are you saying those people aren't white?
I uninstalled the game and removed it from my library and it re-added and re-installed itself lol. I’m stuck with it.
So when are all you games going to rise up and do something about this? What's that, never? Just like everything else you spent years and years tantruming about and never lifted a finger to take action against. Sit down and shut up.
>>731831147made in abyss nigga?
>>731830632I see an entire diaper load of bitching, but nothing that gives you any logical or moral authority. >>731831602 I mean it's not like I'm tracking down individual employees that I think are responsible for the fuckups on this game, and following them for the rest of their career on this one. You think this game's worth that much effort?>>731831128Una is tranny as fuck, and Scarlet has a manface. Hide her body and see. I think they slapped midriff on scarlett to try to get more appeal, which was a good move, but that wasn't enough. Still, game got 100k people to try. Just couldn't close the deal.
>>731831676You people think everything that isn't an anime oppai loli is "tranny", "man-faced", etc.
>>731830985On the second thought, make it question #3. Let them ramble for twenty minutes about their pitch and whatnot so that you get a natural answer out of them (you can move on to your pointless question as question #3 if their answer is obvious; maybe some shit about how they'll promote diversity in the process, which can also act as a chance to redeem themselves). Keep it in mind, but the real interview starts after you learn their stance on female characters.>>731831115People who don't play videogames shouldn't be in charge of any stage of the process. This is just common sense. It's like having someone who knows nothing about boating or the military be a central part of the process of getting an aircraft carrier built and deployed with a crew. The industry will continue floundering until the clout-chasing MBAs are in their proper place, which is investors who are being educated by the people who know what they're doing.
>>731830916Suicide Squad and Anthem shambled around like corpses for a while before finally being put out of their misery.But they were backed by big publishers. So yeah, maybe it will go belly up in a couple months.
>>731831772>>731783415I was suspicious of OP, who picked a shot that covered half of scarletts face, and also cut out half of Una, but some niggas gotta ice skate uphill, as the saying goes.Highguard didn't die on this hill, but go ahead. Make Una the cover girl.
>>731831772If enough people think that, then the problem is probably with you
>>731832065>>731832027>if 4channers think this then it's true!Yeah, the incels who despise real women and worship trannies on the website best known for child porn are always right about everything.
>>731832027...Is that supposed to be a girl?
>>731832134Retarded faggot, if you took the picture of the so called "Una" and made a questionaire to the general public to guess the gender, what do you think the answer would be?
>>731831602You'd like that, wouldn't you?Not shutting up is obviously having an effect. Lara Croft is allowed to seductive again, for example.
>>731783415I keep thinking that's Aika for a millisecond whenever I glance at this thumbnail.
every day I'm thankful I actually like videogames and don't just use them as jerk off material
I got heroshooter fatigue
>>731783415I have some confidence it can be turned into a decent game but the performance issues are alarming>most gracious unpaid popular streamer plays the game with lowest settings on top tier rig>NONE of the shadows and lighting are baked so the game looks like a washed out messis this because devs want to solve everything with lumen? I can't recall a game looking so completely wrong on low settings like this. Arc Raiders for instance still looks fine on low settings.
>>731783415>I literally don't get the hate for HighguardI literally don't get the defense for Highguard
>>731832574>What's up, dog?>not our player numbers
>>731824615A MAN!
>>731832263Obviously the normies and boomers and zoomers and moomers and woomers and loomers and hoomers would absolutely 100% agree with you people because humanity is a hivemind and you are the queen.
>>731832172Yes.I'm assuming like most modern audience chasing games, she has big shoulders just because.
>>731832691>Video goes out of its way to hide her face as much as possibleHe didn't say manbody, he said manface.
>>731824615>>731832691She looks okay.But she doesn't look iconic.Giving her D-cups would go a long ways.>OMG are you 14I couldn't think of a better epitaph for the west's cultural influence. All of the shit that makes civilization run and life worth living for the ones who run it (men) gets bitching from women.
>>731785931>If there were no niggers/non-whites in the game, and the redhead chick was the face of the game, it wouldve fared much better.>if it made it even more evident that it was a womanslop in addition to a wokeflop it would have fared betterlmao
>>731831170your opinion on this image lilbro?
>>731786064because they're mutts with a random mix of seventeen different genotypes. nobody in europe says they're "european" because for thousands of years they've been racist towards each other as well as everyone else.
>>731833072What does it have to do with anything?
>>731833138>hurr durr nobody says they're european hurrrrrrof course there was good old banter when we were inventing everything, but we shared progress with each other as we weren't all leftist globalist wigger faggot cuckolds back then
>>731833224just wanted you're opinion lol :)
So this is not a hero shooter?
>>731833543Kinda in a similar vein of Apex- there's abilities but they're not that strong over gunplay (except a few that are way too strong)
Out of all the possible games and genres they could have gone with for their first game, why would you go for a f2p hero shooter in the current year? What's next, starting with MMORPGs? I have no clue why don't AAA devs just copy some shitty popular indie games just to see how they do. Or study the fucking market before spending millions and 5 years on shit no one asked for.
>>731832172Yep. Anon is quite clear.The turistixs are saying that we're being unfair, and dogpiling like a bunch of chuds. I actually considered on the game awards discussing designs with her as lead character, sending it to cabbage, ect ect. Archives don't have her leading threads at all. Didn't track artstation to see who made what. But hey, turistix anon says everything's spectacular. Maybe I held back for no reason at all. >>731832263There was a thread on /lgbt/. They were unanimous.>>731832802LOL. You know exactly why "just because". The game's designated Bara for comparison. And you can see the weaseling. Oh, you just want to fap to the characters. Oh, it's just you chuds. Since they're not using slurs like GCJ are, I'm suspecting marketers.
>Look up SteamDB >Search Highguard >The peak yesterday was 12,000>Before that it was 19,000It's bleeding players like crazy. If the peak for today is under 10,000 then I don't see the game being up for very long. If it keeps losing thousands of players per day, then eventually it's just going to have maybe 3,000 people at a time playing it. Hell, Concord was so bad that by the end of it there was less than 100 people online playing. I actually think it only had 50 players in its final days.
>>731833721Hard to do with the dev cycles, this took 5 years I think I heard, but why it takes that long is a valid question.
>>731783415>Don't ask questions>Just blindly hate the current thing>Then get excited for hating the next thingSame shit over and over again.
>be out of loop>didn't know this was a game>read reviews>"Yeah everything was amazing but they didn't make it right, so yeah">"The characters are hot but that's all they've got going for them">look at characters>broccoli haired DEI uggo maxxing>sex appeal involves 1 latinx tummy for men (literally who cares safe horny) with danger hair>and a few twunks who would look more at home in a perfume advertAre people unable to call a duck a duck because chudda might win again?
>Characters are bland and uninspired, both in looks and abilities.>At least Concord is *trying* to be something, even though it failed.lmaaao, the modern audience is really upset their game isn't a big hit
I haven't played, but my opinion from watching gameplay: The gameplay loop breaks the tempo. You gather and craft for several minutes, then you fight. Okay, that's fine. But then after that fight, when your adrenaline is pumping, you're back to spending several minutes crafting? And then this cycle might repeat several more times in a close game? Even watching it, it's exhausting.I think that the 3 v. 3 and the large map with one objective at a time also shows a lack of understanding of multiplayer games. I'm not a big PvP guy, but everyone knows that you need to stay with a team or you're easy pickings. So what's the point of the large map when it's just going to be six players and one flag/goal? When you have huge teams, a splinter team of 3-4 people can make a big difference when they meet 2 enemy players protecting an objective, but that's not the case here. The team that moves as a group straight to the sword and then to be base will beat the split up team every time assuming that they can aim.
How does the character designer go from this to Highguard? Were they forced to make shit characters?
>>731834128That's not that great either.
>>731834154Its still way better then highguard.
>>731824615Is this the new prince of persia?
>>731834169Not really. Only middle is okay.Highguard also has a couple of designs that are okay.
>>731783476The character model is that of a male but the name/backstory and voice are female
>>731783476Its a muscular female. Not a troon.
>>731783415Doesn't matterI'm not playing it
>>731834314Not with hips like those.
>>731834198Samefag here.Even taking a closer look at him, what they hell are those leggings? Fire guy, muscle man, and ab chick are better than those designs, even though only fire guy's design should have passed review.
>>731834350Maybe.The point I wanted to get across is that this a biological female. Not a them/xir faggot.
>>731834335Damn you, economic terrorists, killing the industry by doing nothing!
>>731783415the characters arent ugly on purpose but they still look like the captain planet cast in the most lame forced muh representation type of way but the actual crime is that it just looks soulless.bland is worse than bad, really.
>>731783674me, being the customer who puts food in their table, get to be exactly as petty as I want to be when it comes to dismissing games.
>>731832691Her posture is truly Trumpian.
>>731834530>bland is worse than bad, really.How about bland AND bad?
Then I guess you're retarded for not being able to deduct much from seeing the trailer
>>731834314>muscle>not a troon
>>731783476trannybase look = maleskin = femaleno, not making this up
>>731834612Not the most egregious part. Her shoulders are wider than her hips, which is just disturbing when it's trying to sell it as a woman.
>>731833881Throwing midriff on that one girl is enough to risk them points with the hyper feminists.>>731834530>>731834578Una looks ugly on purpose. I bet some designer saw Marissa on Street Fighter and thought they could get away with it as well, without having Cammy and Juri to balance the roster.>>731834634Imagine a FTP game where you have to pay money to not be a tranny. Don't let Ubisoft hear that one.
>>731834492I hate the term "terrorist", because if you analyze it, it could be applicable.You are invoking fear (terror) of financial failure to make the industry do what you want them to do.An -ist is someone who does something. A terrorist is someone who causes terror.You could also call them terrorists, because they're using the fear of ostracism and no more games to try to get you comply.It's a useless term that can be applied to anyone who applies any sort of negative pressure, no matter how within the bounds of the rules of a liberal capitalist society it might be. I prefer more descriptive terms, like "Islamic militant", "discerning, self-advocating customer", and "manipulative, entitled devs".
>>731834725If you're going to take it that far, every single racial , LGBT professional organization and SBI should count as well. The companies do not have a right to our dollars, attention, or even good will. They can try to recontextualize what we do all they want. you see at least a dozen attempts in this thread from people who I've bet have never spent a full round of the dumb QTE mining shit in this game.
>>731834725Its really not terrorism at all.Look up the definition. There is no violence and intimidation being used.Its an extremely jewish twisting of the word to make it apply to customers refusing to buy garbage from corporations.
>>731824615>man torsosure I guess>man faceonly if you think anime is real
>>731806417Did it take you this late in life to realize you're either colorblind or your IQ is in the double digits?Blonde hair has a massive spectrum of shades and depending on natural/artificial light sources, greasiness of the hair etc. it's looks different all the time, something that brown hair barely does, since it absorbs most of the light, same with black hair.My entire family is blonde, father has natural platinum blonde, (not grey hair), had it since he was a child. Mother has darker blonde (nowhere near the spectrum of "brown"), mixture of both was passed down onto me and my sibling.Why do you brownoids insist on talking about subjects you know nothing about?
>>731824615The characters themselves aren't that uglyThe clothing is absolutely atrocious, the designs are so incredibly safe and inoffensive and all the stupid "runic" paint lines on the skin are pointless and stupidGive the naked base character models to a better artist and they could absolutely fix the designs.
>>731834985I mean, there is intimidation. "You will lose your job and be publicly humiliated if you don't do as we say." And they're trying to intimidate us through efforts to boot us from polite society.But not all forms of intimidation or objectives for engaging in such behavior are created equal. In this case, we're well within our bounds as gamers to withhold money from and engage in public mockery of companies and devs who think that they get to move the industry in a direction that we don't want. Terms like "terrorist" dumb down public discourse by removing nuance.
>>731834578ThisAnyone who doesn't unequivocally condemn the designs actually likes trans brown power
I know high guard is called concord 2 but even concord had some meme appeal with its out there designs. Highguard has no identity and that's even worse.
I really do hope it goes the way of Concord. I hope they release a statement saying they decided to shut it down. It would be worse than Concord only because they fucking released a YEAR LONG plan for it, so imagine if it shut down in less than a month. How fucking embarrassing. Imagine if the entire studio just shuts down, but I don't think they're owned by anyone, so it's independent. They can still shut-down due to lack of funding, but I can't see that happening. It'll just be a massive embarrassment for their first game to be so horrifically bad that they have to shut it down in under a month. I honestly have no idea how you recover from that? The shame would be too great. I guess they could pull it and re-release it like six months later with massive improvements, like listening to criticism. Wildlight Entertainment is being obnoxious about it anyway, so they deserve whatever happens. They think the game is fantastic and will survive without a high player-base. I hope that shit drops down to like 500 players or some shit. I just want them to admit they were retarded. Concord's developer Firewalk was owned by Sony, so they had the rights to shut down the studio.
>>731835456Concord is way worse when you consider that it was supposed to be the killshot that served as proof-of-concept that beauty and gaming as a male space was finished. As one of the devs said->Pretty soon these weirdos won't have any games to play at all!We can laugh at it now because it failed, but Concord was what the industry had been planning for the future of gaming for decades, and the fact that it was an outright world-shattering catastrophe the likes of which we may never see again in our lifetimes is literally the best thing that's ever happened to the hobby. You wouldn't be laughing at what Concord was doing to the industry had it succeeded. Instead of investors pulling back out of fear, you'd see money pouring into your favorite studio to get them to hire their own professor to make their games look like Concord.
>>731835731>it would be worse than Concord only because they fucking released a YEAR LONG plan for itDo you not know how much shit sony planned for concord? They called it the future of playstation in some internal communications. Highguard is small beans in comparison.
>>731836178I know Concord released a roadmap, but I don't think it was for one year. I think it was six months, which is still really embarrassing, but it's very ambitious and cocky to release a one-year roadmap right at launch. They really do believe it'll last for a year.
>>731836287Nah, I'm talking all the extra stuff, like the concord themed playstation bundles and controllers, the weekly cinematics and netflix show appearance. It might not be as long be they poured tons of actual money into it rather than just saying they'll work on it.
>>731788840the beaner of bad news
>>731783415Can anyone explain this?>boomers making vidya for their kids (millennials):>cool characters>white characters>hot babes>no mullets, rat tails, or mohawks on the heroes>x'ers making vidya for their kids (zoomers):>everyone is brown>women are ugly>everyone is desperate and socially fucked up>every single character has some broccoli hair, swept forward undercuts, dreads and yard nigger hairDo zoomers really buy this shit, or are gen X just the most talentless self hating generation on earth?
>>731837023I've noticed its more late gen x/early millennial but yeah you're right
>>731832172No it's suppose to be a woman.
>>731835456I assume it being free is why it has people playing it, but it does make it hard to tell if it's doing worse>>731837023>Do zoomers really buy this shitSome of them do, it's why Undertale and Deltrune pays for its developer's lifestyleBut on an industry scale? Uhhhh...I think the difference is a lot of zoomers have swallowed the core values but if you actually focus tested, you'd probably find they still want white male characters, or animal cartoons like zootopia, no matter how much they say "It's time for me to move over and hand the torch to minorities and queers, the torch I still haven't been given control of"
>>731838641>Undertale and DeltruneI understand where you're coming from with this, but I wouldn't put it in the same category of purposely ugly characters and broccoli hair.
>>731835868Samefag here. I should word that better. What I meant to say is "Concord was the endpoint for the path that the industry heads have been trying to force the industry down for decades". Of course publishers in 2006 weren't thinking "someday, the average videogame design will be a black tranny". However, neoliberal institutions have feminism at their core and hold contempt for extremely male spaces like classic fantasy, classic sci-fi, and 90s videogames. The kinds with a masculine hero and idealized girls in sexy outfits and masculine writing, where a fraternity of men are making stories for each other. That's why they destroyed all of the above. And they also hold contempt for the men who fail to play by the rules of feminism by daring to like those things. That's why they wanted to move gaming in the opposite direction of that while punishing gamers with humiliation rituals. And they also wanted cookie cutter formulas that they could use to cynically monetize gamers endlessly. And they wanted this to be something that was familiar to them (like movies) and that could be ran by members of their club who think like they do.Concord was the embodiment of all of the above, and its failure was basically a bomb going off in their machine. They'll probably never be anywhere near as powerful and bold as they were before Concord again, which is great. Highguard is the whipped form of this. Not that we should tolerate the whipped form, either, but it's definitely not as dangerous to the hobby as Concord was.
>>731838785I agree, I'm probably viewing two different things too closely.
>>731783986Still crazy to me that this character has tiddy jiggle physics in the select screen. It's like they wanted to go for the marvel rivals approach but were too cowardly to fully commit, feels out of place in this game.
>>731839125too bad she has an A-cup, not exactly the most attractive thing in the world, especially on a grown ass woman
>>731839125I actually really like her design, like some other anon said it's likely because they removed appeal from the default designs to sell you cleavage and stuff later. Being a new IP that's obviously a bad choice kek
damn...I feel bad even making jokes about it now...
>>731839262I don't.
>>731839196This is what we call "safe horny".They recognize that they need to appeal to the male audience with the female characters, but their true #1 priority is still not offending Karen, so they're trying to find the bare minimum that they can get away with. And nothing triggers Karen's insecurities more than a voluptuous, feminine woman in her late teens or early 20s with decent tits (which is why Ryza made them melt down even though she shows less skin than Totori). There needs to be some kind of asterisk placed next to this formula, like "bad tits", "unfeminine/unremarkable body", or "unambiguously post-wall".
>>731839125The premium skins are better, but nothing to write home about, you're right. That was one of the issues with this type of monetization, they can overshoot with making the base models mediocre and it can hurt the game in the long run.You can see how she crosses her legs like a model on a catwalk, so an attempt was made to make them look feminine. Usually this type of character in western games has the mannerisms of a sailor, with the same body language as a spartan warrior, projecting strength as if the animator had a feminist breathing down his neck the whole time.
>>731783415Speaking frankly, I've never really subscribed to the whole anti-woke nonsense this place evolved into. The trailer looked FINE, but I'm hearing the gameplay is really lacking. My personal problem is, I've been hero shooter'd out since since around the time they released that hamster in Overwatch. I tried Marvel Rivals for one match and promptly uninstalled. There is not a shortage of hero shooters on the market and you have to stand out, and maybe that's what they did, but it is not clicking with people.As for Concord, I had no opinions about that aside from the characters looking aggressively mediocre. The doomposters are generally just dogshit individuals. I personally was never going to play it because like I said, I'm hero shooter'd out.TLDR: The market is busting at the gills and if you want a crumb or marketshare, you actually just have to blow all existing IPs out of the water.
>>731837023You have that wrong, the people making the games your really loved in the 90s were mostly gen-x.
>>731783415Asmongold (leader of gamergate) said the game is bad so we have to hate it.
>>731783415>OP pretending to be retarded Every day
what does this ancient aliens looking dude even do for his job?the characters don't even have halfassed background stories, the world or island or whatever is not explained at all
>>731844054Minister of fuck-my-shit-up haircuts.
High Geoff!!
>>731783415just a few angry chuds again. i doubt this game is as bad as 4chan says. remember 4chan complains about everything
>I dont get itMaybe go back to school.
>>731844898>doubt this game is as bad as 4chan saysBro, it's not just 4chan.
>>731783415This is like the 3rd time you've tried this exact tactic with this exact character.
>>731783415I figured out what my problem with this game is. Big map, 3v3 only but because of the objective, most people do not engage in the open world. Its only there for looting and chasing the flag (sword). 99% of the time the fights are in each other bases making the match feel very VERY repetitive and samey. Basically, they do not utilize the big map. If they took out the first 2 phases and left the last one, it would feel exactly the same. Hell, it would only improve the game.
>>731834725>>731834985The real terrorism is subjecting generations of gamers to this anti-soul corporate greed infested, live service e-sports chasing uninnovative safe slop, while simultaneously having the absolute nerve to not choose even one demographic you want to pander to.100%>>731835382Can you even call it intimidation?Imagine you're a game studio, upstart or veteran>make game, it uses it's own engine, it's unique, fun and runs smoothly>game gets popular, fans want game 2>studio is big now, it takes california and blackrock money out of greed and decides to make game 2, but it's an antithesis to everything fans wanted>fans refuse to buy game 2, and are rightfully vocal and critical about it>collectively accuse gamers of terrorism, spitefully cite things like male gaze, manchildren and real world victims of harrassment>fans are now angrier at you than they would have been if you just took the loss gracefully, or had you worked on the game to appeal to the actual fans>lose stock value, Chinese buy you out and Tencent now owns another chunk of the western gaming scene, free to control the innerworkings of the studios (fire the problem people) as well as owning all the previously big brand names>blue hairs fired>ceos stepping down>white people replaced>AI maxedAnd somehow, the gamer is the terrorist
>>731845089Whats the problem here? Do people really not keep a spare tire in their car?
>>731833868How many hours of this wonderful game that people hate for no reason have you played, anon? Surely you aren't just being a contrarian on 4 channel dot org right now.
>>731845089Cowboys in the wild west era used to load their colt single action revolvers with five rounds and leave the one chamber under the hammer empty to prevent accidental discharges, these guns weren't drop safe. Still makes no sense in a high tech sci-fi setting though.
>>731846165>trivia fag too busy dropping his common knowledge to pay attention to what he's talking about It shows 6 bullets being loaded in. Very rude of you.
>>731846231All right, I realized this blurry image showed the rounds being loaded only after you said it, I stand corrected.
>>731832027wtf nothat's clearly more man than woman, at least from that anglehe looks like some eastern samurai shitif they're going to be this disingenuous about this shit then i hope their game dies
