Highguard is just not having a great time on Steam proper now, having lastly launched after a rocky debut at The Recreation Awards final month. The person critiques don’t paint an incredible image.
Issues began out fairly effectively, although, as the sport hit 97,249 concurrent gamers on its launch day. That’s a decent quantity of individuals, particularly when you think about the builders have stated they don’t want loads of gamers to make the sport worthwhile. It’s sitting at about 50,000 gamers as I write this.
However, enterprise onto Steam correct and the person critiques are usually not form. Proper now, it has a “Principally Detrimental” score from simply over 9,000 critiques.
One of the crucial widespread complains I’m seeing within the critiques is that the maps are far too massive for the 3v3 gameplay as a result of it means you spend loads of time searching for folks to shoot within the face. Different issues talked about embrace blurry visuals, and a muddled gameplay loop the place you seize targets, shoot different gamers, farm assets, craft and extra.
And there’s the standard efficiency complaints too.
However there are a number of folks defending it within the critiques, principally mentioning that whereas it isn’t astonishing, there may be enjoyable available and that the sport doesn’t deserve as a lot hatred as it’s getting.
Talking of that, Highguard’s unlucky beginnings should be mentioned. It was proven on the very finish of The Recreation Awards, apparently on the behest of Geoff Keighley himself. Often such a spot can be an enormous boon to a developer, particularly one debuting its sport. Sadly, the trailer did not impress and viewers have been fast to activate the sport, viewing it as one more free-to-play live-service sport.
At this level, we don’t know how effectively the sport is faring over on console. And actually, it’s the following few weeks that may rely. Both the critiques can be confirmed true and the gamers will shortly disperse, or it’s going to shock us and other people will stick round. Greatest case situation, it’s going to regularly flip the critiques optimistic.
What’s it gonna be, people? Crash and burn, or a cheerful turnaround of fortune?
