Highguard just isn’t having a superb time on Steam proper now, having lastly launched after a rocky debut at The Recreation Awards final month. The consumer evaluations don’t paint an amazing image.
Issues began out fairly properly, 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 mentioned they don’t want a whole lot 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 consumer evaluations aren’t type. Proper now, it has a “Largely Damaging” score from simply over 9,000 evaluations.
One of the vital widespread complains I’m seeing within the evaluations is that the maps are far too giant for the 3v3 gameplay as a result of it means you spend a whole lot 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 goals, shoot different gamers, farm sources, craft and extra.
And there’s the standard efficiency complaints too.
However there are a couple of folks defending it within the evaluations, 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 have to be mentioned. It was proven on the very finish of The Recreation Awards, apparently on the behest of Geoff Keighley himself. Normally such a spot could be a large boon to a developer, particularly one debuting its recreation. Sadly, the trailer didn’t impress and viewers have been fast to activate the sport, viewing it as yet one more free-to-play live-service recreation.
At this level, we don’t know how properly the sport is faring over on console. And actually, it’s the subsequent few weeks that can rely. Both the evaluations will likely be confirmed true and the gamers will shortly disperse, or it can shock us and other people will stick round. Greatest case situation, it can regularly flip the evaluations constructive.
What’s it gonna be, of us? Crash and burn, or a contented turnaround of fortune?
