Why the fuck is this game so fun? It's the most fun I've had with a shooter recently, besides Titanfall 2...

Why the fuck is this game so fun? It's the most fun I've had with a shooter recently, besides Titanfall 2. Why do people flock to shit like Paladins when this has an average player count of ~2-4k?

Any of you niggers play?

>inb4 someone calls it p2w

GTFO shill, the game is utter shit and you know it.

how do you shill a free game?

nah, it's fucking fun. reminds me of the era of quake and HL mods.

Should have been WolfET with a facelift.

I prefer the smaller maps and character focus TBQH

What can you buy with real money?
I’ve been wanting a fun casual fps, specifically ones that you don’t have to ADS but my only other option is csgo and that’s never happening

Try midair, unless you hate EA

Cosmetic shit and characters. Buying characters pisses me off, but the balance is good. It's worth it if you want a new shooter for a while.

>25 average daily players
Lad?

>Why do people flock to shit like Paladins when this has an average player count of ~2-4k?
Paladins gets a retarded amount of updates and constant new characters, which is able to keep the casual player base invested in the game. DB started out by inviting old ET comp players to the alpha, and then shortly after the OB started they alienated all of them with the aimpunch update. There was a very, very long stretch of time where DB was receiving almost no updates because they launched into OB while the game was still being handled by a skeleton crew, so a lot of people stopped playing.

It'll start trickling more players back in once they add community servers (which were promised by the end of the year), since a good chunk of people left after they removed objective servers. When they finally decide to launch out of "beta" they'll probably get a big surge of new and returning players.

It's fun. Got 200 or so hours played. You gain the credits you need to unlock the mercs reasonably fast, though it wouldn't hurt if it was a bit faster. It's totally possible to walk over the locked mercs if you've ever used a mouse before.

But as stated above, it's not ET.

I enjoyed playing it for many hours myself, but it's been stuck in open beta limbo for years and people don't want to play the same 4 maps forever. The system for unlocking new cards without paying is also kind of bullshit and never gives you anything decent.

This game is dead.

this game needs Steam Market/Inventory integration. It's retarded to get a camo for a gun you don't use on a merc you don't use, or to get a hyper-rare card for a merc you hate. You're just left there with your thumb up your ass.

will probably come by next year now that they made skins a thing.

It's has a few thousand players at any moment Not PUBG/CSGO or even TF2, but not "dead."

>Lootbox mechanics
>Lootbox loses friction when over valuable sides

What's this game about? Never heard of it.

Yeah, they probably will get steam market integration now that they've added weapon skins. I agree on the merc card thing. While you can choose which merc to craft cards for, you can't control the perks the card has.

Personally I played it for a while back in the day and then dropped the $20 for the starter pack. Has kept me going since.

Did they go back on matchmaking and bring the server browser back yet? I was going to come back and play the game until I heard about the matchmaking cancer.

server browser never left. matchmaking thing still exists, but only new players really use it. Every old player just goes into Stopwatch through the browser.

There's like two niggers and a chink and literally everyone else is either a cute girl or an Anglo guy.

it's a spiritual succesor to Enemy Terrtory. Picture Team Fortress mixed with old school Call of Duty, or other "realistic" shooters of that era (late 90s/early 2000s). Role based an objective based gameplay. Movement mechanics like wall-jumping and shit. Good old school vibes.

I see. A little annoying that it's only stopwatch but I guess it's better than nothing.

thanks user!
is there a ps4 release planned?

Is it on PS4?

Makes me wonder how much cash they are milking from these 1000 or so players to stay afloat.

not now but seems inevitable.

Probably not much. But as far as I know SD has been involved in developing multiplayers aspects for other games on the side.

They got bought by some chinese chicken meat company that's expanding into film and vidya. They're investing in the game apparently, new influx of capital.

i've never heard of it, or when i did, didnt know it was free. downloading now

because Paladins is better game

Paladins is unbalanced as fuck, simple as shit, and has legitimately awful map design

name 1 hero shooter more balanced than paladins

Dirty Bomb

gawt boolits forya

No, because they forced the match size to be boring 5v5, or whatever. I wanted a fun fragfest, not constant competitive shit.

dirty bomb is class based shooter
try again

TF2

No, there's no classes. Try again.

Paladins is also going to kill itself soon with the P2W update so I think Dirty Bomb might get an influx of new players if they do some smart marketing(even though both games plays very differently).

DB has a high skill ceiling with a small playerbase so there are huge gaps which turns players off. Doesn't help that Phantom was OP on release and scared off a lot of people.

I play Turtle/All Medics/Arty

You can buy specific loadouts from the store. They cost 17k credits IIRC.

Right. I forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me.

Not for long. With OB64, Paladins is as good as dead.

I miss the days when I could find a server in the server browser that wasn't some 200 ping bullshit from all the way in China.
But hey, why would I want to go through the trouble of finding a game on my own in seconds when I can let the matchmaking system do it for me in minutes?

They should just use MM for ranked only and let casual play use server browsers. That's how it works in Asia server and I've been having fun since I quit Paladins and play DB.

>f2p p2w game
>with lootboxes
oof

>here comes the usual retard who can't even do a little bit of research.
oof

>Oof
Quite literally a reddit meme

Thunder best boy

>lootboxes
actually, they're lootcrates, do your research you doofus

watch it boi, lest the shills insult you

How are the new character? Guardian in particular?

spread lies
get insulted
easy as that boi

Jav fires her rocket far too quickly with little counterplay when she got released, not much better with rebalanced
Guardian is insanely situational and dependent on the enemy team's comp

Javelin is OP
Guardian has utility for escorting EV, good guns, but she is shit as a medic. Right now they are reworking her medic ability, but she is solid as fuck if you can team up with an Aura and Turtle. Borderline unbeatable trinity unless you play against a team of high levels.

>lies
heh...

DB/Extraction was a side project for SD, which is why it took so long to develop. SD's main staff made Arkham Origins, and the Gears HD and 4 MP.

Yeah, that's why they actually started releasing stuff. They've been hiring non-stop for the past 8-9 months.

Javelin is really good, playing her feels a lot like playing Fragger except you can also give out ammo.
I haven't played nearly as much Guardian, but she seems very situational. Her revive ability is neat in concept but doesn't get many chances to really shine in-game, and her airstrike barrier is really useful for offense on payload maps but tends to not do much anywhere else.

If they released content for this game when the player was still over 5k peak on most days this would have been a great game.
Its far far too late now
>one 5k peak after jav
>Forever floating around 2-4k

>Can't argue the fact that players can buy any loadout in the store with in-game credits and the lootcrates only contain cards for cosmetic purpose.
heh

I don't want to buy anything vidya this Christmas, besides my Battle for Azeroth pre-order that'll inevitably go up in a few days. Becuase of that, I was thinking about picking up the christmas fuck you $29 pack with the 3 new characters and a bunch of promo shit. Think it's worth it?

Thirty dollars for 3 mercs and some loadouts? No.
Those prices are just dumb, no matter how willing you are willing to spend money on microtransactions.

Does anyone in this thread have an extra one of the Humble Bundle codes? I could trade you some stuff.

If you really wanna spend $30, you're better off getting the strike force bundle. 10mercs, 15k credits and booster shit.

This is the thing that prevents me from throwing money into the game. The prices are ridiculous. If they have a $15-20 pack that unlocks every current and future mercs I'd buy it instantly. They should look towards Paladins for pack pricings(don't look at Paladins card system, it's going to shit).

I've been playing on/off since the earliest CB so I have all the characters in that bundle.

And the Christmas pack is: Turtle, Javelin, Phantom, and Guardian. Plus a weapon case, a trinket, 10 elite cases, and 7 event cases.

Personally I don't think it's worth it. It's $15-20 at most.

Too grindy.

Just finish the missions that the game give you every 3 hours. Finish a few missions every day and you'll have enough to unlock 3 mercs that you find the most interesting.

>Javelin is really good

>Javelin is released
>everybody calls her OP
>have some credits so I buy her
>rocket has a huge firing delay, end up shooting it in a wall or dying while trying to shoot it
>her rifle fires really slowly and I don't have good enough aim to get headshots with it

>buy Nader
>randomly lob grenades in corridors when on the defensive and do damage/get kills
>grenades inherit your momentum so you can sprint-jump-lob them across the map
>5 grenades in 40 seconds
>Crotzny is OP as shit, pray-and-spray at their heads, lob a grenade behind a corner as they retreat
>Martyrdom is hilarious because melee-finishing is like muscle memory for most people and cocky Proxy mains always feel like they can finish you and dodge the explosion
>get top scores without healing, giving ammo or playing the objective, just by killing people

I hope they have faster content release frequency. 1 new merc/map every map should be good I think(alternate their release).

That's why I compared Javelin to Fragger, you just have to get the timing down on her rockets and you can basically get free kills whenever you turn around a corner.

I love it when people call Javelin's rifle OP when they lose to it at close range with a Crotzni.

Who the fuck wants MORE mercs?

when Nader's in rotation I just stop playing for a week

I do

Name one online FPS that is better

Yeah, it's just pure salt.

She's always in my rotation, if you know what I mean.

Confirmed for January but it'll be a gradual rollout. Initially you can just sell boxes for cash but will be getting full market support

I haven't been able to play, what's the general consensus on Castle so far?

pretty good, last point is mediocre.

An absolute clusterfuck in 7on7 or higher. Clearly made for lower playercount. Other than that, it's cramped and feels like it's heaven for fragger, nader and fletcher.

personally I think it's allright but I heard some people saying it's unbalanced.

i like it it but it puts me on the defenders every time i play it

I played it 300 hours but I got bored. I tried to go back but it doesn't keep me hooked anymore

300 hours from a F2P game is mad decent.

i swear ive seen this same poster 4 times with different characters each time

Indeed, and I liked it enough to try going back. I wouldn't have played it this much if it weren't for the character packs on humblebundle and that one steam sale a while ago, I'm not a fan of the grind. Same reason I don't play Rainbow 6

Ye. Every game should learn from Valve TBQH. I hope they redo their monetization shit to just rip-off TF2/CSGO.

did they bring back the server browser for objective mode? not worth playing until then

Phoenix is the only character that's legitimately cancer. You should NOT be allowed to stack him. It's ridiculous.

>everyone says GG
>everyone means it

After 1 week of playing I just decide to mute everyone who speaks in chat. Most of them just blame their team for losing or the usual ggez crowd.
I wish there's an option to just auto-mute everything(chat, voice chat and voice commands).

Really? I only made that post because I keep getting total nail-biter rounds where everyone actually congratulates each other at the end. I haven't seen anything like it in a long time. Guess it helps when your late night community is like 50 people.

Quake Champions as soon as they fix their game

never, devs are inept and working on multiple projects.