This game should have been a slam dunk, but between the sneaking malware anticheat between betas and flooding the matchmaking with bots for no reason, it's no wonder it struggledApparently it got handed over to a smaller team that's actually fixing it up now though
>>740931985>flooding the matchmaking with bots for no reasonNo players is the reason.
I never touched it because>I don't like battle royales>I don't like hero shooters
>>740932028This was not a problem at the start, the first beta had hundreds of thousands of players
>>740932097It's not a battle royale thoughAt least not primarily, I'm pretty sure
>>740931985honestly the game just wasn't very fun.>>740932097
>>740931985too many bots in matches, and wasted dev time on the extraction mode
>>740931985Devs didn't listen to balance feedback after the open beta, that and the bots lead to a terminally shrinking playerbase that's smaller than marathon's. Also cosmetic monetisation is pretty harsh going from the beta to the game. It's a shame because the core of the game is fun, and the eyecandy is nice, but there's a lot of fundamental issues that they've dragged their feet on addressing.
It was fun for what it was but not running into human players until reaching Gold 1 was a major turn off, as well as putting 90% of the cosmetics in the extraction mode that literally no one played after the first week.
Combat was boring as balls button mashing
that stupid fucking chink kris had a good thing going but instead of making pvp rewarding, decided to add a god damn extraction shooter while leaving the core pvp to die a pitiful death. this fucker put all the good rewards (the paints, the cosmetics, the mods) into that dogshit tarkov mode, in a game about giant fucking robots beating the shit out of each other. an extraction shooter is by design not for super robots, it makes you not interact with players as much as possible. it makes you horde loot, and rat at extraction like a nigger. that dumbass just would not make his pvp rewarding for the longest god damn time. this new smaller team doesnt know what theyre doing either. new tower climbing mode? same shit, its not designed to be fully completed by all the mechs, only the meta ones, THAT ARE ALSO WEARING EVERY FUCKING TARKOV ITEM. you can bring in your gliders, your mods, your modular weapons, etc. you can reroll buffs in the tower using your tarkov currency, after you exchange it for the tower coins that are temporary by design. you can use those exchanged coins to clear out the tower shop between levels. Every. Fucking. Thing. Seems to lead back into fucking tarkov. fuck you kris, i hope your entire company goes under.
>>740931985The first beta was fun. Then it became a money-squeezing extraction slop with bots so that was already a doomed game in the second beta. Never played it after that and by the looks of it I was right to do so.
>>740931985Should have been a single player game instead of a fucking shitty online pvp game.
>>740938843I would have boughted it. Played and really enjoyed the campaign and did a bunch of matches. Multiplaye is too sweaty to keep coming back to.
>>740938776>make a fun game>add a ton of unfun bullshit to itwhat is this strategy called
>>740931985I just hate gachas. Why the fuck does it need to have so many menus, I have to spend more time in menus than actually playing the game. This sucks.
>>740932256If they are willing to put bots in ranked game, I wouldn't pass them on not jacking up player count
>>740941365It's called make as much money as possible with as little effort as possible and then kill the game off.
We could've had a cooler Front Mission...
>>740931985Was it worth it killing Snowbreak for this flop?
Starscream, my beloved
>>740946850Seasun is just kinda retarded I fear.>MICA was just fine making reverse collapse even if it didn't make gangbusters and is now making a new tps>Shift-UP made enough with Stellar Blade to immediately fund a sequel>Cygames is still updating and making dlc for RelinkOnly seasun really screwed the pooch with their attempt to branch out into non-gacha.
>>740931985>flooding the matchmaking with botsEven Fortnite, one of the most popular games ever does this shit, how come?
>>740947540So even the most retarded timmy can get at least some kills.
>>740947540Because no one plays it.
>>740941647How would they jack up steam player count?
>>740947540Some games do this for your starting matches. I assume the point is to try and get the (yellow) paint sniffers to understand basic mechanics in a controlled enviroment without being bodied by a more experienced player causing them to ragequit. Personally I think it's pointless and delays the inevitable, but maybe during that delay they buy the supergigadeluxe pack for $70, so I can see why it makes sense from business perspective if not from the developer oneGames that do this regardless of your playtime usually do it because the game is dying and they want to keep queue times shortI remember from MechaBreak release threads anons saying filling the game with bots so retards can brainlessly stomp them is popular in china, but I don't have any experience with that so can't verify
The game was great on the first beta. They then fucked it up really hard on the second beta with "rebalancing", and by the time the actual game came out, the balance had gone from "every mech can win a 1v1 if its good" to "you need a pocket healer or you die to the deathball". They ignored complaints about broken mechs and just added more new mechs that were more broken than the last one.Welkin at launch was a legitimate fucking joke, and when everyone complained they went "no it's fine", which is the point I dropped the game because it was obvious they had no fucking idea how to play their own game and had no interest in the player experience.
