Finally some newshttps://x.com/thegameawards/status/2013256361489191058
>>731142563Oh no! Geoff, stop! You are killing them!
>>731142563>all those replies saying they feel bad for the devsYou are the reason why shit like this keeps happening you damn sheep.
>>731142950Geoff doesn't care, he was paid anyway, he just need to finish his marketing contract he has with them
>>731143052>50 people on Xitterim sure devs will be happy that 50 people will play the game
>ack face in the posterthey knew
>>731143276That's just the dev team...
WARRDENNSSOON WE RIDE
>>731142563Choosing this mystery meat as face of the game was a choice that might have killed it
HIGH = OVER GUARD = WATCH
What's fucked up is I'm gonna see what's so shit about it specifically because it's free. Sometimes it's fun to play a shit game if you can laugh about it with people.
Can’t wait! Concord was my favorite game of all time can’t believe they did the sequel so soon!
>>731142563Cant wait
The character design is bad but I hope the game is fun, if it even still exists. I'm ready for something new.
>>731143097The news has broken recently that they did not pay for the slot, actually. Something else was intended for the one more thing final slot, but they dropped out last minute and Geoff offered it to Highguard.
So is this Concord 2?>will release but die within a monthor is it Hyenas 2?>devs have already cancelled it to save themselves from total humiliation
>>731144798The total radio silence tells me they are torn between delaying or just outright canceling.
>>731144691>"news"Unverified rumor by a literal whoHighguard paid for the slot because they thought being the big reveal was all that they needed.Let's entertain the thought that geoff offered the slot to highguard due to the kindness of the heart: What did the studio expect to happen if he didn't? There's ZERO marketing for this game. The only world in which that makes sense is if they expected the final VGA slot to carry them, so they would've paid for it.
This isn't even Concord tier because Concord was at least funny-bad, this is just background noise slop.
>>731144939It was originally just a literally who reporting it for weeks, but there are now multiple sources corroborating it.
as an empath, i feel bad for the devs. imagine putting years into something and everyone just shits on it for no real reason. release it or cancel it, people will get their schadenfreude.
>>731145121Maybe they should have made the characters appealing instead of disgusting?
>>731142563POST YOURE PLAYER COUNT PREDICTION I'LL START - 1500.
Hope this game doesn't flop, because a loud minority will think this proves something
>>731144798It'll be APEX 2>Just throw it out there with no news, and normies eat it up
>>731145224they look fine. you're just a mean person.
>>731145224They're not disgusting, they're worse: they're boring. Again, they're not even so bad they wrap around to becoming memorable like Concord, they're just nothingburgers.
>>731145345They do not look fine.
>>731142563It's going to be free and fun for a week. Why y'all niggas crying?
>>731145121I feel a bit more for them than the Concord retards, who were far more active and insufferable on social media. The Highguard devs seem a lot more introspective and accepting of reality, by virtue of none of them going online to post anything at all.
>>731144798I expect a generic corpo statement delaying it with the usual "we have have heard your feedback" then a quiet cancellation. I think even the most stubborn out of touch exec understands that the game is dead and might as well cut the losses
>>731145415i look like this
>>731145423I am not enabling TMP for this turd.
>>731145390The only memorably bad Concord character is Bazz.
>>731145423>i can afford it so it's fineWhy are you poor?
>>731142563They haven't even set up a PS5 store page yet. 0 chance that this releases this month.
>>731145415It's fine from a technical level, there's nothing 'wrong' with it objectively, but it tells me nothing of the character - is this some raider from a post-apocalyptic wasteland? Is this a mongolian warrior with guns? Is he Turkish? Who the fuck knows, the character designs tells me nothing.
>>731145519Buzz Lightqueer was pretty memorable. They had gay a Mr. Freeze, and generic plant guy right?
>>731145513I'm sorry
>>731142563Lmfao, thanks Geoff
>>731142563>the game awards aka geoffis this geoff's game or something?
>>731145519there was the trashcan robot and the cactus lady and the most low effort white guy ever
>>731142563Another one of those plain as toast games that got shown once months ago and then suddenly gets released. Are they even marketing this?
>>731145415why is this mongolian beast warrior pulling out peashooter?
>>731145872Okay I'll give you Tactical White Man.
>>731144394you need to install a rootkit+ safe boot to play, it's not free, it costs your dignity
>>731146037Your coworker named Jake who's really into guns and goes to Softair matches but loses every single game he participates in.
>>731142563Lmao can't wait
>>731146037He's Hispanic
>>731142563>they made him whiter on the adKek
>>731142563im better for you
>>731142563So realistically..how many players does it need day one to be considered a success in /v/ expert opinion?
I will play for 5 mins then uninstall it to fuck with their player retention
>>731144691pretty sure that everyone who wants a spot at TGA has to pay (a lot), like 200k/300k dollaridoos for a 3 minute trailer
>>731146362geoff gave them a freebie because someone pulled out last minute
>>731146323it's a f2p, so a lot, since they want mtx money to keep the game alive
>>731142563Are chuds the only literal people interested in this game?
>>731146437>>731146362It is unclear if they paid for a normal trailer slot and got a freebie upgrade to the final slot (which normally costs millions), or if they didn't buy in for a slot at all.
>>731146037John Concord
>>731144969>because Concord was at least funny-badno it wasn't
>>731146635still cant understand why didnt Geoff put Divinity or Control 2 at last then
>>731142563>generic PS3 era man is back>he's not bald anymoreHOLYYYYY
>>731146859Geoff either really likes the game and thinks he's helping, or he hates their guts and fully knows what he did and is still doing.
>>731146892pissfilter era had healthier skintone
>>731144271The plot thickens.
>>73114526850k, streamers will boost the numbers during the first week3-5k by the end of the 2nd weekeos at the end of the yearWhat people seem to forget is that this is f2p, so lots of people will check it out just by curiosity, even if its to see how bad it is.
>>731145121>as an empath, i feel bad for the devs.why are you posting the same comment in every thread you retarded shill turd?https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/730247130/#730252717
>>731142563*low attacks*
>>731142563The more I look at the trailer footage the more I think this is meant to be a FPS-MOBA hybrid game meant to be closer to Deadlock rather than Overwatch. >Sword powerup in middle of the map>Objective is destroying other teams castle/base>What looks like NPC's scattered aboutProblem is the game looks so generic and marketing seemingly gave up on this so quick it's hard to tell.
>>731146892>generic PS3 era man is backhe's also not white or masculine
>>731147072Deadlock looks just as bad as this but retards eat it up because Valve
>>731146037>someone was paid to "design" this
>>731146859Geoff got frustrated all the games he's showing are many years away from release and probably will not be anywhere close to what the devs are showing. He wants more devs to be doing what the Highguard devs are doing which is to announce the game and then release it soon. Problem is that the shadowdrop meta only works for games that players have reasons to be excited for and not for games by new studios with no track record.
>>731147072My guess would be the studio paid an outside firm to cut a trailer together for them and they got hardcore scammed.
>>731144691This has to be bullshit. The companies that did actually pay would be pissed and boycott the awards if this was true
lol highguard devs can sue geoff for ruining their marketing
>>731142563The hell?! Game wants to take over my system for just trying it? I'm not even curious anymore.
>>731142563Can't wait for another Concord.That shitshow was hilarious, I wouldn't mind a rerun.
>>731147148(you)
>>731147381Need more Milku...
>>731142563
>>731147072unfortunately for them it's releasing at the same time as the biggest deadlock update yetthey're going to get btfo by a playtest
>>731147392You are using an outdated OS
>>731147006Nobody checked out Concord even when it had a free beta. People are delusional if they think Concord would have been played by much more people if it was a free game.
>>731147534Win 11 is already dated? Well that's good news, I think.
>>731146037they're told in game dev school that every hero shooter needs the generic cod man to serve as a gateway character for normalfags
>>731147030because it was true then and it's true now. nothing changed and this isn't /r9k/ where every comment needs to be original.
>>731147805>this isn't /r9k/ where every comment needs to be original.this is why /r9k/ is better because it isn't swarmed with Europeans making the same threads and posts day after day
Do (You) hate these type of games?Just open the game up once, quit mid match and uninstall.This sends a signal to the devs that it wasn't just a marketing failure, but that the game sucks too.
>>731147569This has the Titanfall/Apex names on it. It might get an underwhelming console audience that lasts a couple of months.
>>731146037You can tell the devs absolutely did not want to put a white guy into their game but they knew they needed to give the game even a tiny bit of normie appeal so they added… this dude.
>>731147947>hmmm, looks like players like how the game looked but gave up because of the learning curve. we need to make the next game simpler and easier to play.
>>731148071Yeah and then they made him a manlet and gave him a mexican accent too
>>731148092>wastes another few million fixing the gameplay
>>731148164>Europeans are whitekek
>>731148216then who are these mythical White people if not european?native american?
>>731148316Today it's not Europeans just low IQ brown people who think repetition is funny
>>731142563>now they are coping the devs didn't even pay the game awards for the promotionis geoff a shareholder on their company or something?
>>731147148This, i remember when they leaked the native american grandma with a bro and everyone was laughing their ass off, but suddenly everyone loves it, funny huh?
>>731145070Thats the journo cabal covering for their friends.>no we weren't so out of touch that we actually thought our garbage hero shooter game was worthy of the award show finale, we arent retards, we had minimal trust the game would be a success thats why we arent doing marketing nowLooks a lot better then>we thought this was appealing and put our heart and soul into this and spent millions making sure everyone could see this awesome game we madeLike with concord devs.
>>731142563Outside of the awkward placement of being the last Game Awards announcement, I honestly don't know why this game specifically has become the internet's biggest punching bag just because people are burnt out on hero shooters. If people can still bring themselves to play Overwatch 2 and Marvel Rivals I don't know why Highguard is automatically written off.
>>731148618Overwatch 2 is irrelevant now, and was the butt of the joke for a while, remember Venture? Even the fags at Blizzard pretend she (he?) doesn't exist, Marvel Rivals only survived because of the goon appeal and capeshit söylords
>>731142563lol geoff is such a fucking cucknobody will respect him anymore after being a such a sellout, hopefully his shitty show dies with him too
>>731145415It is amazing to see how creatively bankrupt leftists are lol
Do you think Geoff feels bad for putting the trailer at the end, thus making people's derision of it ten times worse
>>731148618Because there is a genuine market for ripping on things. There's a lot of people on Tw*tter (primarily Indians) whose entire job is to just snidely mock shit, and when Highguard looked generic and people were disappointed with it as the final reveal, they thought they had another Concord on their hands and were gonna ride a whole new wave of edits and shitposts all the way to the bank. They desperately wanted to push that angle, even if it in no way fit, given that instead of a $400,000,000 paid release from one of THE major publishers, this is just a F2P indie game from a new studio that apparently didn't even pay any extra to have that final major reveal slot.Those people come and post here as well. If you ever thought hate for a particular game was forced, or if certain threads get repeated no matter how routine or droll they are: chances are it's no longer a schizo, it's instead just a third worlder trying to farm posts to take back home and sell.
>>731144939your post makes no sense. if you have to pay for the final slot, how did a new non famous indie dev studio outbid fucking capcom, larian, Chinese gacha companies, net ease, ect ect?
>>731146617Yes lol. Its free entertainment for me. Leftist devs are a comedic gold mine. You gay or something?
>>731149058>the hate is fakecope you retarded shill
>>731146362>everyone who wants a spot at TGA has to pay (a lot), like 200k/300k dollaridooThis is actually not that much as far as marketing goes, and there's a lot of ways to avoid paying directly out of pocket for that. Plus, it seems like that was their entire marketing budget, lol.
>>7311446912025: Highguard2024: Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet2023: Monster Hunter Wilds2022: FF16 Release Date Trailer2021: Matrix Awakens Tech Demo /Matrix 4 trailer2020: Mass Effect (Working Title)2019: Fast and Furious Crossroads2018: Joker in Smash2017: Metro Exodus2016: Mass Effect Andromeda2015: The Walking Dead Michonnehonestly it fits with the rest
>>731146617They only live to be outraged by shit
>>731146037It's funny because in the brief period where the game was out, I think Generic Paintball Gun Bro was still one of the most popular characters.
>>731145121The fact that these folks work for years in secrecy means they fucking deserves it. The number one lesson from Concord that all devs and publishers should have is that if you are making a GAAS in modern year you need to playtest it intensively and get people shitting on the game early so that you can react and change before it's too late.
>>731148912Is it just me or was he going to cry at the beginning? Also what was up with the argentinian fags in the chat donating money every second?
>>731142563Maybe the actual devs are just locked out of their twitter account
>>731148760>remember Venture?No
>>731149156The first fucking reply to Geoff's tweet is forced hate by someone whose tag is "The 4Chan Archives." You fucking reverse-astroturfers don't hide yourselves at all (and apparently don't learn how to properly type the name of the website you so desperately invade and rely on)
the problem with modern games is that they see what is popular now, start making a game. By the time they finish in 3-5 years the trend is already over and saturated and they are releasing a turd nobody cares
>>731144394I kinda want to try it because It's only 25 GB too, but I don't want to fuck around with the anti-cheat
>>731149058I get inciting hate on twitter for the sake of grifting, but what possible profit is there in shitposting here?
I think it will launch, have pathetic numbers, and the devs will take it down after a month or so. Then they'll post the "We hear you" message talking about "It needs some modifications".At which point, depending on how hard it flops and what feedback they get after pulling the plug, will decide if they try to pivot and salvage it, or just axe it.
>>731149404Exactly
>>731146037What I find funny is that he was the most played during the beta, along with the mildly attractive asian woman and the white guy painted greenI can only imagine the teeth-gnashing of some of those freaks who must have worked on these godawful characters
>>731149514They shitpost here so they can try to cultivate screencaps they can then take back to Tw*tter for even more engagement. There's entire accounts across all forms of social media that are just sharing and reading 4chan posts and they make money off of it.
I think it will somehow be even worse than Hyenas, at least that shit had the whole "Remember the 80s?! Also fuck corpos (pre-order now!!!)" schtick, this shit looks like if you asked Grok to make a gritty UE remake of Paladins
>>731144691>they dropped out last minuteit was valve.. wasn't it...
>>731149756Why would you need to cultivate screencaps if that's all you wanted to do? You could just photoshop posts of whatever bullshit you wanted.
>>731149760sega nuking hyenas before launching was the smartest decision they made in 20 years
>>731149813Rumors have it that it was probably Hello Games with Light no Fire since Sean Murray couldn't make it to the awards.
>>731148569the native american grandma is a literal placeholder model. all the new models look good.
>>731149982You really think that third worlders that share 4chan posts for a living can handle something even as simple as that? Let alone actually pick something to write. They're literally bottom feeders whose only capabilities are shitpost and screencap.
>>731142563Why the fuck did Elon rename it to X when Twitter was such a universally known name?
Don't make steam chart threads about this game. I WILL be there to spam there are actually millions of players on PS5 and derail your thread every time.
>>731144271What the fuck?
>>731150226he's an autist
>>731149132Why so emotional? Are you on your period?
>>731149582>what the fuck do any of these characters do>fuck it I'll play john concord at least he has an assault rifle
>>731142563>@PlayHighguardNo thanks
>>731149079As we’ve seen no other marketing maybe their entire budget went into the VGA slot?
>>731142563Besides the memes and dei garbageWhat is the gameplay even about? still no idea3v3(or 4v4)?battle royale like apex?overwatch?valorant?extraction shooter?the finals?Any1 knows?
>>731151053this is some retarded cope
>>731147006This, also /v/aggots will spam the steamcharts threads every day for a few weeks claiming its dead or having good numbers and then occasionally post the peak with captions how did it fail
>>731151423Raid shooter, they told you
>>731151423PvPvE battle royale extraction moba hero shooter
KWAB of the year
>>731151465>Raid shooterelaborate or your gay
>>731151465that doesn't mean anything to me or anyone outside of the tallview team
>>731150035I'm sad we didn't get all the Galaxia memes.
>>731151660You raid and shoot.
>>731151465what the fuck is raid shooter
>>731151423The most they mention is that you'll be fighting over the ability to get a neutral objective to then attack the enemy team's base. It looks and sounds like 5v5, but you raise an interesting point: it doesn't mention explicitly that it is, they seem to be only showing off 3 players on a team at a time, and they seem to mention enemy teams in a plural sense.. It might actually end up being a 3v3v3v3 multiteam affair.
>>731146794It absolutely was we got Bazzposting from it for a good few months
>>731151473with cheese.
I refuse to believe this game actually exists
>>731145415>hmmm what weapons should we give our massive hulking mongonlian fantasy beserker man>how about just a normal-ass revolver?>genios, simply genusat least do something fucking stupidly funny like a fucking axe on a shotgun or something, this game just has no soul
>>731151747>>731151660It means there's a NPC raid boss
>>731151747It means it's sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends
>>731146307is ai ever gonna be advanced enough to let me have a harem of gachasluts?
>>731151795watching the trailer again it looks like>teams of 3-5 people>each team has starting base>huge map with objectives >(maybe pve?)>if you die you respawn to base>you lose only if a team with the sword breaks your base>maybe upgrades and shopSo like apex but with bases and no permadeath(unless you lose your base)It doesn't sound dogshit desu but they did a terrible job at marketing (also fuck dei shit,how are the chinese devs the only anti dei force in gaming when they are literally 'communists')
>>731145415He looks fine but why the fuck is some Mongolian berserker using a fucking revolver? His ability has him warcry just to pull out a tiny gun? LMAO
>>731142563I still don't get it, even if the game is doomed to fail usually they'd do something in the lead up to the release, try and keep spirits high, but this really feels like if Geoff didn't give them the TGA trailer slot they wouldn't even try, like the twitter is dead, it costs nothing to have someone write and schedule some tweets with screenshots and videos, NOTHING.
>>731152687It'll probably be nothing like that and that's the problem with them not explaining themselves. Everyone is making up their own idea what it actually is and it will be something else entirely. They need to manage expectations.
>>731152979Looking at Concord we know that developers can be utterly delusional about what their product is. My guess is that they didn't expect the reveal to be as negatively received as it was because the game was in a hug box for its entire development. Trailer came out and was pretty outright negatively received and they have utterly no idea how to respond to it. They are probably even still delusional and think that the game will "speak" for itself once it launches.
>>731145415>>731152447This, the game should've gone hard into the He-Man 80s toy direction because it's kinda almost there, dumb muscle dudes with silly gimmicks, big weapons to swing around, have castles to defend, summons giant panther tank thing, that would at least make it funny
>>7311495821 kill every 32k miles walked? something isn't adding up in that data
>>731152979I don't get their marketing strategy (or lack thereof) either. These games need to pull huge numbers so you'd think they would try to butter gamers up with gameplay and character trailers, but the TGA trailer was the first and presumably last time anyone even heard of this game.
Why Jeff doin em dirty likeis :skull:
>>731145415>>731152842He switches weapons a few times so there's likely a loadout or weapon pickup system, unless he just carries three weapons that can be cycled through (like tf2 but without the customization). They just wanted to match the trailer music here.The blonde sniper lady also uses three weapons, she has a machine gun and throwing knives.
>>731153840Jeff trying to get them to actually talk about the biggest game of the year so he doesn't look like an idiot.
>>731144691There is no evidence in existence they could show me that would convince me that money didn't change hands.
>>731142563I think the gameplay might be fine and maybe even kinda fun, but the designs are atrocious and John Highguard broccoli hair and nondescript race makes it vomitive, as well as Revolver Khan, utterly repulsive
strand type shooter
>>731142563the cover art guy screaming like he's struggling with an absolutely massive deuce is just mindbogglingthey couldn't have gone with a better pose, or character, or game or anything?
>>731153756People were running off the edge of the map continuously to suicide.This way the matches ended the quickest and they got their cheevos (?) before the game would be inaccessible.
>>731154723that was after release though
>>731154775Was it? Seems to me people were pretty sure what would happen in the beta already.
>>731154194shooting strands is for the h-game thread
>>731154910yeah, they got 1k players in the closed beta, 2.3k in the open beta and 700 players on release but it wasn't until they announced the servers closing down and refunds when they started to speedrun achievements, people probably tought they were going to keep it going until all the season pass stuff was released
>>731147286Yeah, I feel there would be devs or other people on social media bitching about this if this was true.
I'm actually going to try it. I don't really know what the mode is called as a genre standard, but the Battlefield-type progression fights where you unlock new objectives and map space as you complete them are fun. I think the mode was called Invasion in Halo Reach? The default guy they're using guy they're using for advertising looks pretty lame, but the trailer showed fights that go from zone control, to CTF, to summoning a big siege engine, to bomb planting. Could be fun. Worst thing that happens is I waste an afternoon because it's free.
>>731147286Why would they boycott or bitch on social media if they didn't actually pay because they backed out?
>>731147246A game by a literally who studio can be extremely appealing to people, the problem with this game is that everyone has already played it, plus, what they showed was extremely unappealing which is why they got so much backlash.If they showed something on par with bf6 for example in visuals and spectacle, they wouldn't be in this situation now.
>>731155261hmm, then they almost certainly just fucked up the statistic. Or there is some weird lore that all the characters are actually a million miles tall or something.
>>731144691>>731146437>retard who can't readThe article said that they didn't pay extra for being the last trailer of the show and the source of the article was "dude trust me". Faggots like you are so easy to manipulate by the media, you might as well be one of their golems.
>>731155680I choose to believe it because it's funnier this way
>>731145121>for no real reason If you can work on something like this for years without realizing that it looks terrible, you deserve a bit of ridicule.
>>731154183>ambigious race>setting whatever>weapon types yesJust no commitment whatsoever
>>731142563Budd why? :DDDDD
>>731154723that was not in the beta tho>>731155564excuse me what?
>>731155768ThisIts a mishmash of ideas without a coat to unify everything, unless the unifying coat is being ugly as sin and generic as a phone game
>>731156181what what?
>>731156036Dunno but kikes will try to convince you to turn it on by calling you a poorfag or something, I have noticed.
>>731156498Being F2P means they need security out the ass to even hope to put a dent in the number of cheaters. Because if the game is filled with cheaters, normalfags won't stick around, which means there's no one to buy MTX.
>>731156498It's insulting to me that devs think they can make me work to even have the privilege to play their game. In fact, they should be begging ME to launch it!I simply shan't play it and continue playing games in my backlog instead, when the game reaches EoS they will find no sympathy from me.
>>731144891>total radio silencebecause it's pointless to take on trolls with anything less than the game's full release. The game has already crossed over into that strange no press is bad press sort of range. Where people know and are waiting for the release, even if it's just to clown on it. So if, as a dev, you have any faith in the game being decent you just sit back and wait for the 26th. Then hope the game you made is at least ok and you will get an absolute flood of free youtube content of we where wrong about high guard etc. that said, I still assume it's going to flop being Ye old fantasy medieval with more modern guns isn't something people are looking for as a theme.
>>731156657TPM is not security when you can run a simple russian script and it completely changes your keyor even a more legit way is just upgrading your bios
>>731155378>The default guy they're using guy they're using for advertising looks pretty lameim not sure why they keep pushing for generic cookie cutter "modern" characters in every single one of these games when many other games have proven that fully masked characters can be as charismatic and relatableblizzard was the only company that managed to make an appealing cast with release overwatch and we all know how that ended up
