I think highguard will reach 10k peak players before it starts to fall off and soon die. The failure wont quite be concord tier but will be very close and widely laughed at.
28k but it'll be boring as piss or something will be horribly broken and it'll be 10k by the weekend then 5k the following
>>731613591Thats a generous estimate
Its a F2P gameId say 50,000, the highest possible if theyre absolutely lucky is maybe 100,000 just from people being really curious enough to see if its really that bad.I dont see it being over 100,000It was mentioned at the game awards and people have meme'd it enough (even if negative) to keep it in mind.
>>731613396150k, /v/ is understimating the fact that it's free
600 players
>>731613396Hard to say, the game is aimed at normalfags (hero shooter) and outside of TGA which no normalfag watches I haven't seen or heard anything about this game. Yeah it's free but do people even know it's coming?
Anywhere between 50k-100k with the possibility of it breaking 100k later if it's actually appealing to normalfags. Right now BF6 and CoD 7 kinda suck and Shart Raiders is losing steam so there's the attention of the average normalfag ripe for the picking. Also I think Burgers are buried under 10 meters of snow right now. If they get some ecelebs to shill it, it won't be a problem to reach decent numbers at launch.10k peak CCU on launch is delusional no matter how much I want it to bomb for t3h lulz.
Its gonna be 100k+ you retardsThe game is free
>game journos gave it free publicity>twitchfags stream it for content>their zoomer audience ate it up and play the game tooall according to keikaku
>>731613823People will look at it and think, "oh thats like concord" and then ignore it
>>731613912It looks bad enough that it being free won't help it. The characters are not good enough to draw people in
>>731614029Itll have a huge streamer blowout eventTheyll be forcing the Apex equivalents and get that crowd to try it for a bit
yeah im too lazy to do that gonna play something else
>>731613942Anon 95% of people who might play this game don't even know concord happened, you guys really overestimate the amount of people who actually pay attention to vidya news.
>>731614137Your average gaymer, especially competitive gaymer, is going to be a young person. Young people are addicted to the internet. You act like normie gamers are boomers who dont use the internet.
20k
>>731614256>>731614137Dude the fucking TGA chats during the reveal all lit up with CONCORD 2 lmao
>>731614324Exactly. People know, and they are smarter than /v/ seems to think
>>731614106Rootkit anticheat aside (and I won't be playing highguard just like I didn't play bf6 or helldivers2), there is no reason not to have secure boot enabled. VBS is the feature that fucks with performance, not secure boot or tpm2>>731614256Your average gaymer plays fifa/madden, fortnite and roblox/minecraft while having an attention span of 10 seconds top which is why he only watches tiktoks/reels/youtube shorts and will genuinely not have paid attention to TGA. I guarantee normies already forgot and the only people who think about highguard are the people here who actually don't play videogames and just want to see another game flop.
>>731614469If only /v/ cares about your game. That is a VERY bad sign.
>>731613396Its free to play. The curiosity of it from Geoffs shilling and media blackout will attract 100k+ easily. People will check it out simply to find ways to mock it
>>731613591>it'll be boring as piss or something will be horribly brokenI love how optimistic and totally not-depressed everyone is here
>>731613912Concord beta was free
gonna play it and throw every match to make the people curious about it dislike it
>>7316133960 because it won't come out
25k
>>731613396The game is gonna be fun and will get a steady 20k players to 10k later on and stay there for awhile
>>731614710That's was a way to piss off more audience at launch because they tried before and didn't like it. With Highguard they are smart into not post any news since announcement, so people must try the game if they want to know about it, and you wont piss off audience with beta or demo
>>73161339615-20k but only because its f2p5k next week
WARRDEEENNNSASSSEMMBBBLEEE
>>731613396The game is going to reach 100k by the end of the week.
it will have a higher playerbase than battlefield 1 month from now and people will still call it a flop
>>7316152189 hours left, and I am more excited for the numbers than the game itself kek.Excited to watch it flop in real time
>>731615317Absolutely delusional
50k for the first week, then 18k following after. Within a month it'll be at 5k.
It's going to be 100k+ because it's free, and everyone's going to want to experience this after all the "hype" around it. There's also almost definitely going to be a bunch of big streamers playing/pushing it. How long it'll last, I have no idea, but this isn't going to be anywhere near as inactive as Concord launch.
>>731613832>Shart Raiders is losing steamit still does the same numbers
>>731614707Optimism is best reserved for things that will actually make your life better.
>>731613396As it's F2P and there is nothing coming out.100k+
>>731615317you are not a human you retard
>>731613832Arc Raiders has incredible holdIt still does 400k ccu every week
>>731615924What about you who doesn't understand windows of opportunity? Shooter normalfags are all playing Arc Raiders right now and that's only because there's nothing else to play. Any F2P functional product with some marketing releasing today would do good numbers, their only mistake is releasing it on a monday for some reason but might be salvaged with burger snowstorm.At least don't ask surprised with the game does 50k+ peak concurrent user today.
>>731613396Pros and streamers are backing it and will ensure plenty of interest in Highguard
>>731613396It's a free game. There is no way it will be less than 100k. I think it will do 250k+ but will lose players very fast.
>>731616091Soulless opinions for a soulless game
60k+ it's f2p and a new thingcould be completely wrong because it's nothing i'm interested in
>>731616091>it's not battle royale, but it's also not an extraction shooterThen what the fuck is it then? Make up your minds already, retards
theres no big release so far and its freeI think anons should hold back a bit and assume upwards to 150k maybe more
I'm calling last minute delay for at least 2 weeks
>>731616139Just because it's free doesn't mean people will bother playing it.
>>731616139I want this to succeed only because I want to see Marathon underperform compared to it, the meltdown would be glorious
100k+ since zoomies are probably getting bored with their current fotm game, i will try it for few hours and go back to other vidya
who should i play as Bazz main?
>>731616278Kill yourself FotMOnigger, because of subhuman slurpers like you game companies shit out hundreds of slop games every year and you just lap it up like a good goy piggie you are
Easy 100k
>>731616394The brocolli hair man, John Highguard
>>731613396I'm a bit out of the loop, why do we want this game to fail?
>>731614469>no reason not to have secure boot enabledexcept granting backdoor to microsoft or to government agencies....
Why don't we just play it? It's free after all.
>>731616403Companies will continue to shit out of slop games regardless of my 2 hours of time played because faggots spend money to the games
Betting 90k that's my last offer
>>731616567You couldn't pay me to play this
>>731614707How brown do you have to be to lack this much pattern recognition skills? A game coming out as a broken mess is one of the safest assumptions you make about a AAA game nowadays
>>731616470The developers behind Titanfall bring you a forgettable hero shooter in an era where forgettable hero shooters are obnoxiously common.
HIGHGUARD SWEEP HIGHGUARD SWEEP
>>731614707>I love how optimistic and totally not-depressed everyone is herehow to spot a retarded shill
>>731616470"A new breed of shooter" that looks like a mobile game. In fact standards have risen so much for mobile games that they deserve more respect than to be compared to Highguard. You look at China producing Arknight Endfield and you ask yourself how the fuck the American industry is supposed to compete against Chinese games.
>>731616723>The developers behind Titanfallyou mean some retards working as janitors
>>731616139Concord beta was free, it did shit numbers
125k, then it will drop to a tenth of that within the week. Will stabilize at 5k until they roll out some slop content with will summon maybe extra 10k players for a few weeks. EOS in a year like XDefiant.
>>731616567It's monday. Most people aren't going to bother with a new game that they barely knew existed not too long ago.
>>731616761>You look at China producing Arknight EndfieldThat game is a disaster though
>>731616761>You look at China producing Arknight Endfield and you ask yourself how the fuck the American industry is supposed to compete against Chinese games.it looks like shit you retarded shill
To those predicting any number better than Concord, why? Concord was free in beta and no one played the game, why would more people play a game that looks worse?
>>73161339630k-50k. Max 75k. After streamers are done with the game the player numbers collapse.
>>731616470Its generic slop hero shooter #15161The game looks like someone prompted AI with, "Make a generic hero fantasy shooter. Make sure the characters are brown and all look the same."
>>731616761No one plays Endfail except brainrotten gachatards lil' bro. Call me when China makes a game with gacha-tier production values without shit monetization, actually engaging gameplay and actually original designs (protip: show a ZZZ/Arknights/Genshit/WuWa character to a normalfag and ask them to say what game they're from).
>>731616615YOU WILL PLAY ZE FREE GAMEYou have nothing else to play or do anyway.
>>731616889its free to playits gonna have some people playing it for a short whileif they can get some retard to spend at least 5 dollars on their cash shop its already made more than concord
>>731616889Curiosity
>>731616470>why do we want this game to fail?you know why you retarded shill>>731616974nobody cares you retard
>>731616969>gacha-tier production values without shit monetizationliterally impossible, chinks think if they can't make more than their competitors then they're in the red
Breaks 100K on launch. Stabilizes at 50K for the first week. Sheds 10K every week until it hits 5K. At that point, who knows if it continues to die or it just stays like that as most people forget about it.
>>731616889It obviously has more appeal than Concord and it is releasing at a much better time. You're also forgetting that Concord was 40€, no one is going to try a game that they won't be buying anyway even if there is a free test. Highguard is F2P, though the devs are retarded for adding secure boot and releasing at the start of the week, target audience is normalfags who wageslave.
>>731616974Playing the game would be like accidently stepping in dogshit. I would rather walk around it.
>>731616889Concord had 6K followers on Steam before it had its Advanced Access. Highguard currently has 10K. Not the best metric to go by, but I'd say there's a bit more interest in Highguard than Concord. And part of that is because of Concord. People want to see the next flop.
>>731613396I'd say over 200k on the first week of launch
>>731613396Im not saying this game will be amazing, but everyone was shitting on apex legends when it came out and it still managed to be successful
>>731617269Apex did not arrive on the heels of concord.
>>731617269People are sick and tired of these type of games.
>BUT APEXYou cuckers Apex cashed in on a RED HOT trend at the time. No one even has any fucking idea what genre Highguard is.
>>731617306Arc Raiders did. >>731617448You don't speak for the millions of gamers who have yet to be consumed by the apathy and cynicism of your average /v/ chud
WHO ELSE IS HOIYPE????
What if it's >acktchually fun
>>731617627This looks like actual slop
>>731617627sex with Mara
No switch 2 port. Sad day for shitendo fannys
>>731617627What are they even trying to do here? What's the theme?
I think they'll have a lot of people checking it out but the falloff is going to be sheer- like a cliff face by the sea.
>>731617673looks like sovl to me
>>731617627Yeah sorry this has no chanceUtterly bland cast and the chicks arent even hotApex Legends had some ugly fuckers too but at least it had SOURCE movement kino
Geoff knows it's the next GOTY, that's why he's shilling it so hard
>>731617006>you know why you retarded shillI actually don't. I rarely visit /v/ these days because it's just full of seething retards that hate videogames.
>>731617627god, this is shit
>>731617627Imagine hanging all that on your wall. Holy mother of cringe
>>731617627>/v/ shit on this but praise deadlock's new heroesHypocrites...
>>731617941it's from the creators event you dingus
>>731618017Why do you deadlock trannies always insert your garbage in every thread, no one cares about your shitty DOA artifact 2.0
>>731617510Highguard's genre is Raid Shooter Legends
>>731617673no, concept art of the last 16 years just looks like that now
Not installing some rootkit garbage on my computer
>>731617627Only exciting design is the Mad Max rifle on top and even then I bet in-game version shoots neon bullets with little "trrrr" sound and it takes 2 clips to the head to actually kill anyone.
>>731613914What do they have on him that he shilled it so hard
>>731618302Paid promoters praised the game? Holy shit I'm so excited.
59kpeakcall it
>>731617627Pure fucking ass.What genre of design is this.
>>731618302>>731613914The Hybris is off the charts
>>731618302>chatGPT, make a quick post praising the shooter slop game nobody have heard about but it will be released worlwide in a few hours!!
>>731617627i hate this fucking weird fantasy scifi mishmash especially with the guns
People reading the PSN trophies for the game that leaked mention a lot of MOBA elements like items, vendors, roles, bosses, raids. My guess is it’s about you and your 3man squad claiming fortresses while using moba elements like minion farming and item builds to get an upper hand, as well as stuff from Mage Arena where you’re building weapons as you move around the map through PvP fights. Doesn’t sound bad, probably won’t mesh with Titanfalls ADS game feel, but whatever. As long as the horse feels good. Real good.
I'm actually happy that /v/'s contrarian nature is going to get you all to actually try a game before you begin shitposting it to death. I was so tired of all the performative hate for such a generic looking game. At least now I'll have some confidence that the endless "Concord 2" threads that are spammed will come from people that played it.
>>731618705>is going to get you all to actually try a gameYou wish Geoff.
>>731613396I honestly can see it being quite popular at launch because everyone wants to play the shitty meme game
How similar will it be to Overwatch or Marvel Rivals? If it's in the same light as those games the slop pigs will eat it up.
>>731618705I'm not trying this trash.
>>731618775>admitting that he's going to shitpost endlessly about a free game that will most likely flop for the next few months without even having played itYes, I know you're proud of being a retard. I'm not talking to you though, I'm trying to compliment the few people that might actually try the game and dislike it before they join in on the performative two-minute hate until the next social target is decided and you all move onto that.
>>731618867Nobody plays Overwatch, people played Marvel Rivals because its a hero shooter with Marvel superheroes. Everyone finds Wolverine, Spider-Man and Storm's tight butt exciting. Nobody finds generic baby blue neon colored spic and generic strong woman #782 exciting.
>>731618302>Feel of gunplay is a favoriteWhy does that sound like something you'd find on the box of a Chinese bootleg LCD game?
>>731618983>the performative two-minute hateI don't hate the game, I love to laugh at game developers misfortunes.
Geoff is still shilling this shit with like "PR disaster intern" tier tweets
>>731618804Ah yes the shitty meme game made by apex legends and titanfall creators
>>731617627they aren't completely butt ugly like Apex characters but the aesthetic is still all over the place and looks like fruit roll-up vomit
I'm going to try it just because it's free and I played titanfall to death basically.
>>731617627The only good design her is the red slut
>>731613396>every shill praises it>nobody knows what the game is even aboutI wont make predictions because APEX should DOA but for some reason asians love it
>>731619086Looks boring as fuck, I'm just going to play some streamer playing it on the background when I'm eating breakfast and getting ready to work.
>>731619086Honestly I put up with Apex despite finding almost everything about it repulsive because the movement felt good so I can't say I won't do the same at some point, assuming it doesn't die immediately
>>731619076Yeah? Saying something is made by the creators of a game just means that someone is involved that was involved in that game as well.Doesn't mean shit when those games have hundreds / thousands of people working on it. If you take a look at who these "creators" are, it's often just nobodies
Either this or Marathon has to die to satisfy tortanicfags. I'm betting on this one.
When this ends up bombing, what is Geoff's reaction gonna be?
>>731613396200k
I think it's gonna reach 100k lmfao, I have shat on the game big time but I will play it because of all the shitpost hype and all the controversy. Also after Concord people are not going to want to miss on another potential historical flop. Lastly it's f2p and that's a big deal, if I had to buy this game to try it there would be a much much much MUCH lower chance of playing it for me. And it might legit be kinda good enough to be something I play from time to time, again it's fucking free and I'm an Apex player there is nothing to lose. Thoughts?
>>731619347Are you a movement god bro? Do you mantle jump and shit?
>>731618357He fucked a bunch of trannies during 2024 tga
>>731616567I use linux, the built in anti-slop measures prevent it from working on my system
>>731620056based
Its f2pBrowns will obviously keep it alive longer than concord
280-330k, with 400-600k watched on twitch because of a stealth sponsorship campaign to over a 100 streamers
>just install windows 11 bro>just turn on secure boot and tpm bro>just let us spy on your computer broall for a free game which, if popular enough, will have cheaters on day 1 or 2 ANYWAY
>>731613396geoff has basically put his entire credibility on the line by incessantly shilling this game, it might start off rough - but i don't believe he'd risk this shit if it wasn't actually a great game. It'll probably launch at 40k and climb to 300k+
>>731619939I'm this guy and because of the last posts I read on this thread I might not play it, I hate shit like this >>731620248
500k+ easily.
>>731619983haters gonna hate bros??
>>731620285unless the gameplay trailer was bait and switch, somehow, it's just a generic OW clone with destructible environments
Instant redflag, they don't even have any of the features that made titanfall great.FFS EVEN OW HAS A HERO WITH A MECH.>raid shooterwha?
>>731619980I'm no streamer-building adderall kid but it's funny you mention mantle jumping because that was the last thing I learned how to do after people posted videos about it, but I also stopped playing shortly after because of general boredom
>>731620361>>731619983KekLove to see it again
>>731619023It was one of the things said about Concord, funnily enough.
The best thing that could happen is once you download and launch this shit, you get an unskippable 10 hour long rickroll vid and then your PC explodeswhere gameplay? where screenshots? where anything at all that isnt corpospeak or AI-generated buzzwords? it feels more like a psychological experiment rather than an actual video game
>>731620750>it's actually a Half Life 3 demo
ayylmao, that's a negative from me, chong
are we sure this isn't a bait & switch??
>>731616204a new breed of shooter like the trailer says you goddamn fucking braindead piece of shit zoomer
>>731621130>a new breed of shooterWhat's "new" abour this?Everything shown is something i've seen before in other games
I swear this game will become the new Shazbot for here I can feel it
>>731621204they're telling you it's new, therefore it's new!
>>731621204the trailer did a terrible job showcasing the fucking game, go look at the leaked trophies list to give you a better look at what the game is actually about
>>73161339629k peak, drops down to under 1k before the month's endshuts down on jan 26, 2027
>>73161339650-60k if they are really really lucky and everyone is saying the game is great then 100k but not betting on that
>>731621043lmao i was going to play it but yeah skip
>>731613396I don't even know what this is
>>731621974gay millenial shootslop
>>731621974That's their tacticMaking you curious, so you're forced to play and see for yourself
>>731613914>Keighly trying to hype it up posting screenshots of the owner of jurassic park trying to sell his park>That story ends with the park being a disaster purely through the hubris of man and corporate magical thinking denying reality staring them in the faceI think he has become the jonkler.
>>731622139If that's the case then they failed spectacularly in that regard because I'm not even slightly interested yet
>secure boot and tpm2.0less than 10k players at launch.I think a lottttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt of people are gonna be extremely pissy they can't play it.
>>731622414I would play it for a meme, but my computer doesn't support tpm2
>>731622383and yet.... and yet.... here you are
32k, There's way too much curiosity because of the silence.
>people saying 10k players or lessNow I understand why TORtanicfags are ridiculed. Can't even understand context or think for two seconds about why this isn't going to be a Concord situation.>hurr durr Concord beta was free and it had X amounts of playersYou don't understand the difference between a beta for a future paid product and an actual launch for a free to play game? I'm not saying the game will be a success by the way, but with the current state of multiplayer FPS games it's an easy 10k-50k.
>>731622723I was in the same boat honestly, woke up this morning and went to see if there was a preload cause "eh it's free", and saw that, and went "ohhhhhh". I mean look at bf6, it's numbers got like quartered after the test where they didn't need all that shit, even in the f2p modes.
F2P and its the full release, people shitting on the game has in itself because marketing and advertising for the game, a lot of people know about the game despite the devs not marketing it themselves so I expect a lot of people to give it a try, its just down to whether people dig the game or not.
>>731613396i'd say 5k peak then hovering around 1.5k players for a week while gradually dippingits f2p so i see it getting a somewhat ok playerbase definitely no where near concord shit tier.The great thing is it won't be dead in under a month so people will be able to content farm it for a while.
>>731618302This reads like I'm having a stroke
>>731616243more people will then concord, I think the people saying it'll break 100k are mental though
>>731623165They're holding an in-person live "event" to launch the game, spanning several hours. It's going to have a huge marketing budget and there are already like 20 of the top 100 streamers having been paid to play today for an indeterminate amount of time.Their marketing budget is fucking ginormous.
ok but post female waifus from said game and how big their asses are
>>731616091What the fuck are these subtitles
>>731623193It's hard to learn the "Game Mode" and the horse is most liked.It's like BRs, but constant action.Pre-shieldbreaker thing is fast.
Okay what the fuck does this mean?Do they mean: I have never seen a shooter where you use a mount.Like Paladins?? That game is a decade old and also a f2p hero shooter.
>>731623385Lara Croft wrote it
Why is there no PS5 store page yet?
>>731623385Yes, but no one played paladins. They probably mean how the horse is easily usable and isn't like a fucking vehicle it's basically just a speed boost because it barely impacts aim.
>>731614710The Concord beta was closed, retard
>>731613396Million on release, dips to 100k then 2 milly steady
>>731623225i guess that'll give them a bit of a bump i doubt the conversions are going to be particularly good though. Gonna be funny if highguard launching ends up just making people go back to play other hero shooters like overwatch and marvel rivals instead.
>>731623456marvel rivals peaked at 640k there is a ghost of a chance this gets anywhere close.
>>731623308Based on the leaked achievements it just comes off as an fps moba like battleborn but I guess there's no bots or enemies?The achievements state that there's a store in the match where you can buy gear and upgrades and there's atleast 2 ways to win a match.
>>731623304this is how zoomers like to read captions these days
>>731623490I don't think that it will convert either but no way it launches with only 5k-10k, I'm expecting 40k-50k on just steam, no way it launches without crossplay in this day and age, and I figure it'll hold depending on update cadence. Anything slower than weekly and they're doomed after a couple months just like spellbreak (who are a significant portion of this game's devs, btw)
>>731617627It doesn't look offensively bad desuBut then I will be playing deadlock today
>>731623535Marvel Rivals also blatantly had a ton of Chinese players on launch day due to being a Chinese game.
>>731617627would it kill western devs to make something besides battle royal or fps arenas.Like evolve was a really fun concept 1v4 with special abilities, give us another game like that but with better balancing and pve modes.
>>731623737and an actual big ip, highguard looks like an indie game asthetically. All i can remember is generic tanned knight guy on horse with gun
>>731613396I've been shitting on the art direction pretty relentlessly, but honestly the funniest end result would be it turning out genuinely good and they just fucked up outsourcing the trailer to some fuckass idiot who couldn't advertise a game to save his own life.
>>731623786This is the end result of all the rush to develop by major studios in the late 2010s, and that weird timegap in the early 2020s. All that shit is getting farted out now, same with the extraction shooters. And in about 2 years there should be a reset.
The horse is most liked.
>>731623737rivals is still around because its better than overwatchim not too impressed with the highguard trailer because it just showed a bunch of rehashed abilities like hela ult and mei's icewall
>>731617627that promo nigger pose looks a bit lil zesty ngl.
This game will probably succeed because there will be a bunch of gamers that will have fun since it is mixing different objectives in one game mode. It's like Quake Wars Enemy Territory but shitty destructable panels with Overwatch abilities because they have never played a game that had modded selectable abilties. If the game has unreal tournament movement it will probably find success.
>>731623408
>>731624252The question is, will the different objectives matter or will there be one path to the most efficient success? Cause thats what everyone will expect you to do every time and if you do anything else you'll get banned. Like literally every other "made-for-esports" slopfest.
>>731616275Marathon will clear this shit easily, if anything for not requiring Bios fiddling lmao>>731624252>It's like Quake Wars Enemy TerritoryExcept 3vs3 loo
>>731624720>bios fiddlingliterally the only time bios fiddling is required is to turn the shit OFF.No prebuilt which 99% of these tards will use will have tpm2 or secure boot turned off by default, it's literally an OEM requirement.
Yep yep yep looks like Highguard won and /v/ lost, again. I want every person who said 10k or less in this thread to get a trip after the game reaches 100k today so we can filter you and never have to see your dogshit takes again.
>>731622881And I'm still not buying it. Your point being?
>>731614707m8 if you are really looking for us to get excited about Generic Hero Shooter With Ugly Characters #3247 I dunno what to tell you.
>>731625345It's f2p silly
HYGUARDFUCKINGWON.THEY WATCH THE SKIES.
>>731625396And?
>>731613396>free to playit'll hit 100k easilynow will it maintain those playercounts over the next months or even weeks? probably not
>>731613396Can't even preload this dumb shit on consoleDoesn't even have a store page
Has no one actually explained what the game is yet? They're banking on some mystery box appeal because if someone did explain it it wouldn't sound interesting?
>>731625470You can't buy it if it's free
>>731625772it's a bog standard hero shooter like overwatch, paladins or battleborn
4 HOURS TIL GARDIN' TIME BROS
>>731618705nobody posting itt has even played a video game
When was the last time a F2P hero shooter actually happened? Saturation is less of an issue when the game is free. It might be hard to get players that are already good at one game to jump to another game, but the fact still remains that it's free and not competing for your wallet for another, outside of cosmetic shit.I also feel like no marketing is actually better than Concord's marketing.
If it really is moba inspired it's doa, normalfags can't into that level of meta-game complexity and the game will be unplayable if you're just public filling a squad
>>731626021>When was the last time a F2P hero shooter actually happened?marvel rivals
>>731626021marvel rivals isn't fps but clearly is exactly what you mean.overwatch, despite it's massive falloff is still objectively a success.
>>731625772Only a few articles when it was initially announced.>Hero shooter with a PvE aspect too. Apparently unlike similar games it starts PvP focused and turns more PvE as the round goes on.>Main goal is to gain control of a shield breaker, escort it to the enemy base to break into it and destroy it>There are side objectives that help you win as well.
>>731626064>>731626071I'm not interested in Highguard at all, but I can't see a complete failure happening even if it doesn't top the charts of F2P shooters. The last F2P failure I played was Multiversus but keep in mind the game was literally broken for half its life, was taken offline for a long time, and then came back worse.Shooters also hold people's attention longer and it always feels like you can get better at them by playing in fun ways compared to Smash and the clones where you have to play like a giant faggot to be good.
>>731626174So Paladins?
>>731625772its a MOBA. it's battleborn.Start match, do level 1 deathblob to get first blood advantage, everyone breaks apart to their "areas" (not lanes, but lanes basically), then kills mobs to gather energy for their golem.
>>731614106lmfao and to think joeeff would shill it, doa
>>731626234sounds kino, shame I can't play it
>>731613396300k peak just because people want to experience Concord 2
The game is guaranteed at least 200k players because you KNOW scumbag twitch streamers and youtubers will make "I WAS WRONG ABOUT HIGHGUARD?!" eyes looking to the left at a terrible screenshot mouth open Twitch streamers and youtubers are literal scum they will want to be THEE Highguard Streamer so if the game maybe is a success they'll get the followers and subs
>>731626631nobody went>I WAS WRONG ABOUT CONCORD? IT'S ACUTALLY AMAZING?
>>731626675retardKING...don't come whining like a little BITCH when Highguard does 100k
>>731626631>scumbag twitch streamers and youtubersI mean if I'm being honest I'd take the paycheck to make a video or stream it too, even if it sucks you only have to do it through your contract then never mention it again like literally every other shilled game.
We should create a discord server to play together my fellow high guardians
>>731626675It was way way too late Concord's damage was already done Highguard has a sliver of a chance it is not the same
in 3 more hours I will guard the high...
>>731626836>completely blacked out all media presence because they know the game is shitbuys it a couple days tops.
if highguard is not a success, why did geoff tweet this out?
>>731620575I couldn't super glide for the life of me brother
>>731626880
Why the fuck couldnt this be a cool fantasy game with swords and stuff instead of generic sci fi game #41213 and dont tell me its because 'black people and mixed race people wouldnt make sense!' as if that stopped them before
It needs secure boot and doesn't run on Linux so probably 20k max
>>731613396Free to play + From the guys behind Titanfall means there will definitely be some initial normie interest. Wouldn't be surprised to see this peak at 100k.The real test is what the numbers will be after 1 week, which I'm betting completely falls off a cliff and goes down to below 10k peak concurrent players next week
>>731615598>It's going to be 100k+ because it's freeYeah it's easily hitting 100k-150k within it's say 3day launch window. If I need a set number I'll go with 125k.. Being HG is a free game in winter during a week of no other big releases or content drops happening. Every streamer will be playing it for easy content. Simps will try it to hopefully stream snipe a streamer. StarRupture, a $20 early access automation base building game hit nearly a 30k peak on launch last week being it's winter and people are inside. So I'm not sure why people think HG will go off at like 15k.I still think HG is doomed being gamers just don't like modern guns and fantasy but whatever. I hope I'm wrong.
>>731626880who did the actual original tweet again? was it Randy or Cliff?
>>731626967Because magi-tech got popular after 'steampunk' was pushed to the side as cringe redditslop. So because companies are always 5 years behind we're now seeing magitech shit EVERYWHERE. forspoken, immortals of aveum (that one was actually pretty fun, sadly), and this are probably the ones people would recognize.
>>731614106Holy shit and I was considering trying it out today too. Fuck off, I'm not enabling Secure Boot just to play your shitty F2P Concord trash.
>>731627047randycliff is a retard but he was nowhere near as bad as randy during battleborn.
>>731627047randy because he wanted to one up OW's r34 marketing
>>731627059magitech is fucking lamer than steampunk all of these games have this rancid odour on them I cant place it especially the game you mentioned aveum theres this like slop stink on it I cannot place it
>>731613396It's gonna get a cult following in Japan and a bunch of vtubers and westaboos will play it and make it a success like what happened to fucking Apex.
>>731616091I don't know any of those people
>4 more hours until GotY launchesI'm ready.
>>731627146Because it's trend-chasing. It's the same thing as all the steampunk games. It's companies and out of touch VC-funded IPO-chasing """""indies""""" trying to appeal to what they perceive as the general market while only looking at a highly curated clique like reddit.Anyone with a soul can see the slop a mile away, you're normal, anon, don't worry.
>>731627090>I'm not enabling Secure Boot just to play your shitty F2PYeah that's where I'm at too. I'm willing to dork around in HG with some friends if the effort level was low enough. Yet I don't want to bother to go into my bios setting. I have dozens of other games I could play.
I see this game advertised here on 4chins more than anywhere else. I don't see these going over... 70k.
>>731627047>>731627109Can't beat Randy bo-Bandy on sleeze
>>731627203Hope it mogs Shart Raiders hard so that /v/ seethes extra hard (they won't admit it but those retard slurped that shit up like good piggies).
>>731627304arc raiders is just tarkov for people who don't stream 24/7, of course it was popular.This has no market because no one's looking for a new game right now.
>>731619983no fucking way he posted thispeople are going to make him eat those words, but then again he didn't seem that phased about being a laughing stock after the whole halo/doritos/mountain dew thing
How are the waifus looking?
>>731627463Body Type B-core.
>>731627146>magitechIt should work, but it doesn't for some reason. Being made up sci-fi tech is everywhere in games and the line between my tech them shield armor VS muh magic shield armor is pretty thin.But people really hate magitech or any medieval meets modern wep sort of theme.
>we want an Overwatch now>what do we call it?>uhhhh....High....Guard....
>>731613396there’s no marketing outside of these shitpost threadsso… 10k at most
GOTY 2022 coming out in 2026
>>731627536RIP
>>731627542>but it doesn't for some reasonfor me it's because the well is poisoned. I see magitech and I immediately associate it with shit like Forspoken.
>>731613396Maybe don't try to hype up your games at an event where everyone is expecting Half-Life 3 and isn't giving a fuck about anything else, and you won't have this problem of failure, devs.
RRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! ONLY FOUR (4) BONGS LEFT GENTLEMEN, GET FUCKING HYPEEEEE
>>731627837>at an event where everyone is expecting Half-Life 3to be fair, how the hell were the people planning the event supposed to know that everyone was going to enter another retarded Half-Life 3 frenzy?
>>731627965because they do every single year and geoff deliberately fans the flames by retweeting, responding to, and acknowledging those retards in the week leading up to the event?
>>731627837>where everyone is expecting Half-Life 3only retard newfags retards whose first Valve game was TF2 (F2P update) were expecting an announcement at a big event like that, once again proving that Highguard haters are below room temperature IQ
>>731627963fookin EPIC!
>>731623445It had another beta open to anyone and did worse than the paid closed one. Retard.
>>731627965i'm expected to believe these people know better than us who they should cater to, but they also are ignorant of any customer sentiment existing online?
>>731617627why does John Highguard and the ranger chick have the same pose?
Its ftp and getting released on a monday in a winter storm, so about 300k on steam easy
>>731627983>giving your game battleborn energyThat's not the W you think it is Geoff.
why the fuck dont they just make the cover character cool looking he looks so fucking hideous and off putting no one and I mean NO ONE who will maybe actually play your game would care if it was some big tough cool looking white guy but they had to put in an ugly dickhead with a broccoli cut who the fuck is going to look at that and go "ZAMN THATS BUSSIN"
>>731628218it's literally an edit of Randy's desperate Battleborn r34 tweet. it's a joke, son, you missed it, flew right over your head.
highbros... what the fuck is this? should I be concerned?
Geoff is gonna be so goddamn vindicated by the end of the day. Can't wait to see all the fudders quietly downloading and playing the game in their steam profiles
>>731628293after reading some of the posts in this thread I'm convinced hating on highguard is actually the low IQ opinion
>>731628312Just more proof this game is console sloppa for normalfaggots.
>>7316282781. MC looks cool2. There's already a white beast dude character, just play him instead
>>73161339651k release day83k Peak all time 8~12 k after until the game is shutdown November 2026The game Will fail because right wing grifters will b8 with it using thumbnails of ugly brown chicks in the game, also because the game while it has some unique mechanics it's fun for 20 hrs max
>>731628312>anti-cheat>"should I be concerned?"are you a cheater? No? Then you shouldn't be concerned.
>>731628375Bro, /v/ is Highguard territory. This game is gonna be the epicness, it's like Overwatch, but there's motherflipping HORSES!?Epic. Just epic. That's all there is to say. I will GUARD the HIGH.
>>731628492>it's like Overwatch, but there's motherflipping HORSES!?Paladins already did that
>>731628492Let's flippin go kikebros!I literally dropped my manorah from excitement
>>731613396They are paying every big and semi big streamer under the sun, even the ones that never play these types of games, or even multiplayer games. That alone is probably enough for 100k+ for the first day or two.
>>731628403He looks like a jak doing the face
>>731613396probably 50k-75k
>>731628403>we want a russian tough guy but we cant make him too masculine we might upset the 'better man' audience
>>731627090This. Was planning to try it out but they need to cut out of with the secure boot bullshit
>>731628312>secure boot and tpm on a F2P gameoh no what are you retards doing?there goes the poors who should have been able to play your game
FOR HIGHGUARDIAAAA LETS GOOOOO
>>731618302>apex comparisonmight do decent if the japanese audience embrace it like they do apex
>>731628081That means absolutely nothing. I don't understand how your pea sized brain can't grasp the difference between a small limited time beta for an unknown game and a release of a new F2P game. Limited betas only do well if they are part of an early access move for a known AAA franchise or a huge hype game. Concord flopped being it looked terrible in every way. Bland maps and absolutely horrible hero design. While asking $40.Highguard is a rather generic looking shooter with what sound like a different game play spin, but it's free. One is a rotten apple with a worm in it for $$. The other is just another Orange in a huge pile of same same oranges, but free. So HG has a chance to at least be average for 6 months....... before it flops out. Concord was doomed from the jump.
>>731617627Launch player numbers aside, how do they plan to sell skins for characters like these. They have whole departments thinking about nothing but monetization and this is what they are going with.
It's a f2p game on steam, and of course they bought out all the twitch/youtube faggots in existence to shill their game on launch. Even if the game was a complete dogshit, the coordinated financed shilling by content creators will give it minimum 15k players imo. If the game is really dogshit, once twitch/youtube fags stop shilling the game it will die in 1-2 weeks.
3 hours for the shit
>>731628449I'm concerned about the TPM crap What the fuck is that? Isn't that hardware shit? I don't think I'll be actually able to even run this game.
>>731629215*the hitdon't let me catch you whining and asking "HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN FUCK THIS INDUSTRY ABLOOBLOO" when this does big numbers
>>731628175ZAMN THIS NIGGA ZESTY AF
>>731613396>F2P>paid streamersThink about it. 250-500K
they could have made one of the white characters the poster boy/girl but no they just couldn't help putting the zesty nigger with the zoomer haircut front and center couldn't they?
>>731617627Do they hire the same guy for the concept art of every western piece of shit game what the fuck
>>731616042That's a lot of bot accounts running notepad as gayraiders.exe
>>731617627HIGHGUARDTHEY GUARD THE HIGHHIGH STATUS: GUARDED
>>7316133963 more hours until the crow serving starts
>>731613914>twitchfags stream it for contentThey only take bribes when they have no better things to play, with that minecraft clone and talk shooter being FOTM that generate tons of clips there is no chance they will play it outside the 1h sponsored stream.
>>731616470v wants everything to fail
>>731613912100k brown third world kids is equal to like five actual people
>>731616470It's battle royale slop from a developer who made a fun single player game. This genre is unironically a dime a two four.
It's f2p multiplayer sloppa made by a decent developer I'm giving it a try no matter how bad it looks
when lame ass generic hero shooters become the modern equivalent to everyone wanting their own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles back in the 80s and 90s? was Overwatch really considered THAT much of a success?
>>731629712same since there's fuckall to play right now all I'm losing is some ssd durability
>>731616470Because it's not Half Life 3
Yup, this game is a lock. Gonna be a lot of apologizing over the next week
BRO IT'S LIKE FANTASY WITH HORSES AND MAGIC BUT THERE'S GUNS
>>731629540Holy fucking based I needed this apology form thanks
I actually do expect it to have generally high numbers at least at first due to being F2P but it would be really really funny if it flopped hard.
>talked to someone who played early>"is the game good?">"i had fun"this right here is all any of you need to know
>>731628175Yo the characters are looking alright
i feel like all this doom posting and mocking will actually do the reverse and get it the necessary salesnumbersif you actually wanted the game to shit the bed on release you'd just never talk about it hereI'm sure there are NIGGERS who will absolutely buy the shit out of it to spite us.
I hope you all archived thishttps://x.com/geoffkeighley/status/2015164852743065967
>>731627983Is this real?
>>731630497>I'm sure there are NIGGERS who will absolutely buy the shit out of it to spite usWell that would be impressive, especially seeing that the game is free to play
>>731630497It's f2p no one is buying shit that's why it will do just fine
HIGHGUARDIUM LEVIOSA!!!
>>731630579>the best anyone can say about it is just "Well I hope it does well because I'm tired of those jerkface gamers being so negative all the time!"Grim.
>>731613396>Steam chartHighguard has always been more popular on ps5 and xbox
>>731626234Sounds good honestly I'm actually playing it and everyone in here is gonna do the same lmao it's not gonna be concord 2
>>731629271if your computer can run windows 11 without a workaround, you'll have tpmsecureboot is a bios setting you may have to enable if it isn't already
>>731628175Get your eyes checked, for real.
>>731630804yes, yes steamcharts don't paint a complete picture blah blah blahbut it is a solid indicator of player interest and games with a poor steamchart usually indicate weak numbers overall
>>731623786That evolve game looks cool honestly if that shit was released in the early 2000 I bet it would have been an instant classic like cs1.6 and wc3. Maybe not as legendary but at least a game people played back in the day and remember fondly
>>731630579I can't wait until your shit eating grin gets slapped off your ugly face when the game turns out to be good, zoomer scum. Unlike you I did my research and the dev team is stacked with talent. Never judge the book by its cover, faggot
everyone on every social media platform wants this to flopso going by that i want this to succeed.
>>731631030You are a dev aren't you fucking lol we are playing your game relax
>>731631071It's not gonna flop because everyone is talking about it lmao. Some are gonna get in with a hateful attitude most are just gonna try it out as it's f2p and if it's decent enough it will be probably on the level of The Finals. 3v3 doesn't sound like something that will completely pop off, apex arenas, battlerite, all flopped. But who knows it's just my guess. Or maybe it will die slowly like that new BR moba Supervive.
Top 1 result on reddit today with "High guard" keyword is not even about the game, but about some fucking ladders. Second result is a troll copium post about Highguard being secretly Half Life 3, only 4th result is actually about the game and it only got 733 votes in 18h.This should tell you everything regarding how much interest the general normies have in this game.
>>731631450>intentionally mistype search term>woaw, nothing is showing up in the search, guiz!!1
>>731613396worst scenario: 50kexpected scenario: 150k/v/ suicide scenario: over 200k
>>731616889Concord's $40 price tag meant that people knew they wouldn't even try the free beta to see how good it is because they knew they would never pay for the game, so the beta was moot.
>2 more hours until GotY launches
>>731627298Go get a summer job you lazy ass our game is a premium game for premium gamers! Also code your own engine you retards!
>>731613396It will blow up to 100k+ and all "Concord 2" posters will go through five stages of grief.
>>731631774Go back to fixing Borderlands 4, Randy
>>731631792why Concord 2, anyway?why not Battleborn 4?
>>731616139That's ridiculous. Something like Mecha Break was able to break 100k because there weren't any current multiplayer games like it, and it had the advantage of a neat character creator to fuck around in.Highguard is a seemingly hyper generic entry into an oversaturated genre that everyone is already tired of. It'll probably hit around 50k on day 1 just due to the memes, will drop to 20k by day 2, will be down to 10k by day 4, and will probably level out at around 5k by day 7.
>>731631792>It'll get high numbers the first dayokay, what about the day after?
>>731631847Because nobody, NOBODY, remembers Battleborn.
>>731631856what genre is that? FPS as a whole? as far as game mode, its apparently entirely unique
>>731628492This game is gonnna be tiiiighhhttt!!!!LLLLLLLETTTS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
>>731631934we all remember Randy's meltdown on social media from itthe one that's actually completely forgotten about is Paladins
I don't know what will be funnier, if it flops or is a massive success.
I'm actually excited. The idea of riding around on bears and shit with your squad sounds fun. The skin potential with the mounts is huge. WoW has taught us there's a huge market for that.
>>731631912It's actually opposite. It will get low numbers today because game has only ~10k wishlists on steam but it will grow to 100k by the end of the week.
>>731632132>The idea of riding around on bears and shit with your squad sounds funHoly f*ckin epic I didn't know there were goshdang flipping BEARS in it!?!? Can this game get any more epic???
>>731632006This shot always makes me think of this
>>731632218DUDe it could be dragon mounts as well one way to inflict the HIGH GUARD experience
I’m gonna download it just to say “wow this game is ass” in every lobby while purposefully ruining matches or whatever the format is for a few hours, it’s gonna be funny.
>>731632006
damn they're really cranking up the paid babelmedia shilling with this crap
>tortanic posting has got so bad people are now making steam chart PREDICTION threadsfuck this game, but also fuck this board too. You all are such faggots
>>731632357same slopper? >>731630768? if so, who?
>>731632419>nooo everyone disagreeing with me is a paid shill!!!!!Medication
>>731632427Bro I am here to GUARD
>>731613396What is the appeal of this game?
>>731631856This sounds right but...
>>731632510Feel of gunplay is a favoriteDifferent than battle royales or extraction, none of those things and all of those thingsPretty fun; like BRs but constant actionGonna be super competetiveFast-paced FPSHad to learn the "Game Mode"Unsure if anything quite like irFeels smooth and familiarDefense-based; "pre-shieldbreaker thing" is fastThe horse is most liked; never played where the mount was like thatAmazing, fun. Best parts of Apex with movement and gun styleWhether 5 minutes or 30 minutes, it's constant action
No fucking preload?What's wrong with them?
>>731632573it's only 25GBYou do have fibre, right?
>>731632510it's free
>>731632608Coconut fiber connection
Will he play it?
People's jobs are at stake. And you are laughing.You are making fun of a passion project.It's fucking free. How heartless can you be.
>>731632070Both. We can't lose.
So it’s a “raid shooter” according to the website…what does that even mean? Any highguards wanna explain this shit to me?
>>731632568that tweet gave off the same energy as picrel
>>731628774That guy looks Turkish/Arabic tbf
>>731632795make an edit like picrel
>>731632795No shit. There's also no way he wrote all that in little over a minute in order to reply to that "other" anon.
>>731613396>"meh, i will give it a try">TPM 2.0 and Securboot active please sir>"ok, never mind."also i don't think it will go over the 30-50k but what do i know.
>>731632873>>731632795It's from a tweet, he copypasted a tweet from a guy that was shilling the game
>>73161339675-100k peak today and then never reaches that high again
>>731632873the source for that non sense
>>731617815You cried a little typing that didn’t you.
>>731632779gonna give me this dish with no sauce?
>>731613396I don't know if the same schadenfreude is felt for this game. People fucking hated Concord cause it was trying to do the "ugly is the FUTURE" thing. This will go more like XDefiant or Lawbreakers, where it will have a few people who like it but ultimately die from lack of interest.
>>731632948I know, dummy. I was referring to said tweet and saying that it gave off the same energy as Randy's "Epic Battleborn Heroes!" tweet.
>>731632879secure boot as a requirement ticks me off. it doesn't even help stop cheaters because you can just roll your own keys and boot whatever you want anyway. the secure boot/TPM stipulation just screams "we don't even know the threat model we're 'defending' against"
>>731613396its free and they are paying huge money to streamers, it will have a big peak but it wont last
>>731632963>never played anything where the mount was like thatLIKE WHAT. A FUCKING MOUNT!?
>>731613396i checked a few things for perspective;The Finals peak was almost 250k, and it was never the biggest hit. Apex surprised me at 635k, it didn't even release on Steam originally did it? Siege X was a shitty reboot of a fairly old but ok long running game in popularity, 200k. Paladins 60k. Delta Force 250k.obviously i think it depends how decent the gameplay looks, a lot of people will check the streams, no doubt it'll be the hottest thing on twitch for at least launch day. from there it'll either be a complete joke, or if it's at least decent it'll convert a lot because >free. don't see why it can't get 100k unless it's literally concord tier + technical issues.
>>731633008if nothing else, it'll probably get some engagement for a few weeks or months due to being free.
>>731633000>generic tattoo'd e-whore caked in 5kg of makeup and filtersget some standards my man
>>731632218you sound old and jaded
>>731632795wtf is choice +? some kind of subscription service?
>>731633104The horse is most liked.
Despite all the memes, this will get to around 50k day one then slowly build as streamers cover it, peaking at ~100k, with a sharp drop off two weeks later as the game gets taken over by sweats like every PvP shooter. There's big marketing bucks behind it so it will continue for a few months at least and push for e-sports slot but never take off like Apex did.
>>731617627so they race swapped the mc because he isnt that black in the trailers
chuds are frantically trying to cook up a smear campaign but the hype train has too much momentum. Geoff won.
>>731614106same plus the description on the steam store is a huge turn off>from the makers of apex legend, a shitty apex legend cloneYeah because that worked out great for the Megaman guy...
75k or slightly more and then somewhere around less than 1k by the end of next month
it will need gooner type skins. even if it;s good. you have to compromise a little on that aspect.
>>731633215there is no description, they don't say ANYTHING about the game
>>731632963>Pretty fun>Amazing, fun
>>731632963That sounds exhausting
>>731631450Your IQ is below 60 and I'm dead serious
>Requires TPM and securebootShan't play
>>731633208Chuddies has no idea how passionate Apex community is.
>>731633054i'm not that tech savvy but i don't want to play a game not to thinker my way around because i need to learn how to secure boot my Linux distro. let me play man.
>every single shill with this game>"is it good"?>"it's fun"example https://x.com/fairyfayaa/status/2015150108019732721i give this game a month tops. this is embarrassing
>>731633286>From the creators of Apex Legends and Titanfall, comes Highguard: a PvP raid shooterThey say enough for me not to care.
>>731633360it still won't run on linux>>731633054my hardware or windows version doesn't even support TPM I think, I can't find the option anywherecan't even play for the meme
Highguard Gold Prices:11,800 = $100 USD5,700 = $50 USD3,400 = $30 USD2,200 = $20 USD1,600 = $15 USD900 = $9 USDHighguard Gold is the in-game currency used to purchase War Chests, Warden Bundles, Exotic Mounts, and other cosmetic items in the premium store.
>DOA Concord 2.0>I-I give it one month>o-ok 6 months and it's dead...>TWO MORE WEEKS!!!
>>731613396I don't even hate this game like I did concord, but it's still woke with no white men and seems aggressively mediocre in general, so I don't see it capturing a big enough audience to sustain itself even as f2p.
>>731628852>>731627254>>731627090fecaloid work ethic>>731616495>sure I'll install their entire closed-source operating system but I'm not doing something crazy like enabling boot sector virus protection
>>731633493my credit card is ready.
>>731633493Niggas gonna pay the price of a full game to ride a rainbow pony in this fucking slop ass game lmao. Absolutely egregious
>>731633475>it still won't run on linuxi dual boot with w11 but at this point, i'm good
6 million players.
>>731632689>will e-celeb do a 15 minute ad farming video saying the most lukewarm opinions about <current thing>?what do you think bucko?
>>731633784Sounds like an overestimate
>>731632427What the fuck do you expect? The game drops in two hours and we know almost nothing about it. What can we do but have low-level discussions and shitpost?
i went back and rewatched the trailer and it looks better than what i remember honestlyill give it a try
>>731633693even worse, pay for a skin that you can only see on a menu, and only see the hands/sleeves of in game
>>731632963>Feel of gunplay is a favoriteFeels like I'm on the Ragnarok Online website
>>731613396Next King of Meat.
>>731633625>no white menbraindead retard
>>731633784They'll try to claim that kind of playerbase, but they'll never provide any solid data metrics. I'm thinking 200-300k players tops realistically.
>>731633360totally agree. I am pretty tech savvy (I do red teaming for a living) and I can say with 100% certainty, if you're not protecting against *physical presence* at a computer, it's worthless. even then, secure boot won't stop someone from just removing your disks and plugging them in elsewhere. only full disk encryption can stop that, so double-worthless. even further, if your BIOS doesn't have a password, I can just turn sboot off. so it's triple-worthless. and for games, you're not defending against a threat actor sitting at your computer trying to steal your data, so why have it anyway?I could bitch about this concept forever but basically:>it doesn't stop people from booting modified OSes>it raises the bar to entry for not tech-savvy people>microsoft is the devil because they have a deal with hardware manufacturers that TPM has their keys enrolled by default, so installing windows is easy but dual-booting is more complicatedeven from a theoretical perspective it doesn't properly defend against cheaters, it just slightly raises the bar to entry while also alienating a large swath of potential players. I have no idea why these retard devs still insist on requiring it>>731633475good, if a game has TPM/sboot it shows me that the devs are stupid and have not thought about the threat model. it only makes things harder for players
>>731613396I wanted to try it but apparently it requires secure bootlmao, not gonna bother
will the committeeslop hero shooters ever end?
>>731634345Are there literally no pros.
>>731634258>token maybe-white guy on one obscure promotional image nobody has seen beforeI hope your game does well in south america or MENA or whatever it is you're targeting.
>>731634894of course we now deny that this isn't a white guy, just admit you was wrong and move on, fucking zoomer
>>731634573There's only 2 which have active player base.
>>731634573nah out of like 10 flops 2 are usually successful but they are having a hard time culling the console herd due to having to pilfer from the ball and gun guys
who the fuck releases a game on monday
>>731635346We do :)
It will have 6 guardillion players
>>731634573fate trigger comes out feb/march with big gacha booba
grab your bingo card highguardianshttps://bingobaker.com/#697794e4ae1d467c
>>731619983>>731627434>it is realHooolyThe bag must have been massive
>>731634757from my interaction and usage with it, I have not found a single attack vector that it defends against better than a BIOS password and full disk encryption. but that's like enterprise stuff, not really for games, where the threat model doesn't even exist to begin withas far as I can see, the intention is to just make it more difficult to do things. sboot's history is riddled with politics from microsoft because they want it to be easy to use windows and not anything else, as evidenced by MS requiring sboot/TPM on windows 11. except you can get around that too! it's not a requirement, it's an arbitrary limitation from MS to make it harder to boot non-windows things!sboot was advertised it as a security feature which, as I mentioned, is easily circumvented and is better defended against with other methods. people who don't know better eat it up and claim it heightens your security posture, which is flat-out not true
Hey, i've seen this one beforehttps://x.com/Brokowski25/status/2015587502900334645
>secure boot, tpm 2DOA
im going to launch it to leave a negative review, feeling devilish
50k peak on Steam. Less than 5k after a month.
>>731633493Its dead Jim, why would anyone bother with this shit when there almost certainly will be no coomer skins and Marvel has that base covered?
>>731635572mischievous
100,000 ez
>>731633493This genuinely looks ai generated, maybe it's just low res.
>>731635529only 0.1% schizos care about this lets be real
>>731632410kek
>>731635819Well yeah, AI is the future of video games.
yep, so true
>>731635892Once you let microsoft know that your drivers are authenticated... you get sent to prison!
>>731636161yes because the people that make dogshit deserve to eat dogshit
>>731636161The characters in this game personally offend me, so if you don't want people to go on the warpath, maybe make cooler heroes next time around.
>>731636161Banned on Twitter or did you switch tabs by accident?
>>731636161do you scour xitter for screenshots of the opinion of random retards?
>>731636334what do you mean? John Highguard is unironically a great design
>>731635892>only 0.1% schizos care about this lets be real
So is this shit suppose to be 3rd person league of legends with destructible environment or overwatch with destructible environment? Or something else?
>>731635007>WE GAVE YOU HALF THE FACE OF MAYBE A WHITE GUY ON SOME AI GENERATED ART YOU FUCKING GOYIM NOW PLAY OUR BROWN DIVERISTYSLOPnah
>>731636413it's a hero shooter like overwatch
>>731636413that's the neat part! nobody knows!
>>731636161I swear it's this fucking zoomer generation, we were never this bad, we first wait for the game and then judge it but this fucking gen does nothing but ragebait and engagement farm. I fucking hate today's society so much it's unreal
>>731636413You can do anything
>>7316363762 PC setup solves any privacy concerns.
>>731636413see that tower? You can climb it
>>731636512>goddamn these stupid kids and their basic pattern recognition! how dare they notice trends and start making predictions!
>>731613701The Secureboot requirement will throw off a lot of people.
>>731636676Your pattern recognition is entirely based on shit you saw on TikTok.
>>731613396It's an Young Gen Z/ Gen Alpha game, so since it's free (as they don't work yet) it will do well, but probably won't have too much staying power, unless they find somethings unique and cool.
>>731636438the fuck you mean with maybe white guy... are you fucking blind? of course he's white and so is she showing her tummy so fuck off with your le woke slop posting, dumb faggot
>>731636670Kek
>>731636769Even if he is white, the fact that so many people think he isn't just proves how woke this slop is.
>>731636740my pattern recognition is entirely based on having eyes and seeing 83 other retarded ass games exactly like this one come out in the last 10 years.
>>731614830This is what I’m thinking. Honestly if it’s great and enough ecelebs like it enough to make videos titled something like “We Were Wrong About Highguard”, it might raise awareness for the game. Could be a decent comeback in reception
>>731618302I'll play Highguard if that caramel queen comes to my house, takes her top off and sucks my cock under the desk while I play.
>>731636813>the fact that so many people think he isn'tjust you dumb retard, everyone with an IQ above 85 immediately sees this nigga is white as fuck you obsessed le race fucktard
Why is this game getting so much visceral hate from the entire internet?
>>731636769zamn pit/tummy fags eating GOOD
>>731618302>gonna be competitive lol
>>731633634Kek. It is pretty fucking retarded eh?
>>731636921because yet it's another generic committeeslop hero shooter and it was the "big reveal" at an awards show that everyone thought was going to be Half-Life 3 for some reason.
It probably will manage to get some people as it's freeeven a game with almost zero marketing like Specter got like 40k players as a free to play gameEven the Ubisoft shooter from a few years ago, Defiant, had plenty of playersUnless it's a surprise hit though, I feels like HighGuard will last a year maximum.
>>731636921Ever since Concord there's been blood in the water and people clamoring for a new failure of that magnitude.
>>731629692they can play this game? interesting...
>>731636921Because you were conditioned to see every non positive comment as personal hateful attack.
>>731636921Concord started a TORtanic 2.0. Now every faggot wants to join in and call any new multiplayer game they don’t like a “Concord 2”.
>a PvP raid shooter where players will ride, fight, and raid as Wardens, arcane gunslingers sent to fight for control of a mythical continent.I'm retarded, what the fuck is the game even?
>>731637349That's the best part! No one fucking knows. It could be literally anything, but it's probably just another shitty heroshooter.
>>731637283Ironic how ToR wasn't such a huge flop in the end.
>>731637349You’ll find out in an hour. Why the developers chose to do a launch day stream detailing everything with zero news up until release is anyone’s guess
>>731637349its overwatch.
A quick reminder that only turdworlders are trying to make force a TORtanic because their PCs can't into TPM
>>731637349I think its like a battle royal but your team is only eliminated when your base is destroyed, there's also some kind of item and leveling system like LoL or Dota.
>>731637349Three player team battle royal where you play king of them hill, then the winner leaves the hill to capture an enemy base by holding E. It's pretty basic.There's also a loot and loadout system.
less than an hour left? Lets fucking goooooooooo
>>731636921Almost entirely because Geoff being the retard he is hyped it up as the big final announcement at a show where people were expecting something like HL3 or Elder Scrolls 6 in that same spot. If it was just announced out of the blue somewhere else literally nobody would have given a shit and would have forgotten about it in 5 minutes.
>>731637349Highguard is: hobby grade PvP Raid combat; genre-blended; multi-mode competitive e-sports; meta-growth; choice + epic Highguard heroes!
>>731638034He did not. What did you expect him to do anyways? Make a tweet about an upcoming game his friends made and say something neutral? His statements have been pretty boiler plate as it is.
I'm ready to BLAST!
>>731636769I wanna break her shield if you know what I mean
>retards thinking that Geoff would shill a bad gameare you all like retarded
>>731638272>dokev
>>731637907say it with me /v/ros... I AM A WARDEN.
HIGH = TEAMGUARD = FORTRESS
>>731632779It just sounds like paladins to me where the main gameplay is escort payload to enemy base.
>>731638272I don't even think it will be a *bad* gamehero shooters are just a very ho-hum genre that relies entirely on the designs of the characters being good, and this game just ain't got that.
The totally not paid twitch streamer shill brigade is getting ready to shill the game for the rest of the day.
>>731636724no it wont lol normal people dont care
I will wait for asmongoldif he loves it, I will give it a try
>>731638731i can't wait to see these numbers tomorrow
>>731638731And here come the first numbers
>>731638847I mean... if a retard like asmongold that get filtered by any game with more than 2 mechanics/keybinds like this game that means the normie cattle won't get filtered by it.
