Lawbreakers

I just heard about this game today. What does Sup Forums think?

Everyone seems to be saying it's kinda dead. Are there bots though?

This thread is going to be taken over by Sup Forums in roughly five seconds, but:

Lawbreakers was a pretty good, if niche, combination of older arena shooter movement/TTK and modern class-based design. It had a million and one issues, from an art style that was a huge mistake to horrible beta periods to a total lack of marketing from Nexon.

After launch it lost most of it's players because of the high skill floor and emphasis on duels. Modern audiences at large just don't want to be challenged 1 on 1 or have to spend time learning in order to be effective, they want to jump in and instantly feel like they're doing something with a cute waifu.

It managed to keep a couple hundred players on the hook, though, and was well on its way to having a small but dedicated fanbase that it could build up over time with content updates.

Then patch 1.4 hit. It added 100 health to every character (base values had been ~300-500), added extremely fast health regen that kicked in after only 3 seconds, buffed a character that was already the best pick into total OP nonsense, and totally fucked over the under-performing Juggernaut. Overnight the game's entire meta shifted from duels and taking risks on whether to hold ground or run to heal to Overwatch-style clusterfuck teamfights.

This pissed off literally everyone who was left playing the game and it quickly dropped to low double-digit CCU's.

NIGGERS IN SPACE

Whoops, guess it wasn't five seconds. It was 38.

player numbers really do seem to be dead.
it's a decent game though, played it during the free weekend. I'm just sick of class based fps games, they should have just made it a pure arena game.
take from that what you will.

Thanks, good post.

So what recent FPS games would you guys recommend? I'm not into the PUBG/Fortnight style.

As someone who thoroughly enjoyed the game at one point and wishes it were still alive, it's not. It's dead. There are no bots. There's no one playing. They fucked up the base design. They've cancelled future content.

It's shit. It's not a 'decent game'. Decent games don't launch and have ZERO fucking players in under a few months. Fuck off you beta Blizzinkzi shills

Unfortunately there's not much out there at the moment if you're looking for games that are closer to UT2K4 than Overwatch.

Lawbreakers was going to be my new shooter but it died so I'm back to bouncing between things like Killing Floor and Natural Selection.

Hey at least you made it through a post without calling anyone a soyboy.

You do need to go back, though.

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nuff said

>Just pay a bunch of streamers, idiots will play the game anyway

irrelevant

there's a reason the game is dead, it's absolute dogshit. and dont listen to those idiots complaining about the overwatch boogieman

i played the game from alpha, then the game was bad but it was announced as f2p so whatever. then they found out they couldnt sustain on lootboxes alone and gave the game a $30 pricetag. in the two open betas it already showed that there was no interest in a bad game.
first beta had 5k players and the second one the next weekend had less than half of that, if it really was a good game that playercount should've increased with word of mouth, but it failed immensely. just wait until it goes f2p if the publisher even bothers to waste the few shekels of dev money on this game

I was using a gender neutral toilet 15 years ago in the army.

It's called a portable toilet

>Decent games don't launch and have ZERO fucking players in under a few months
Oh summer child, be grateful that you're ignorant of this matter

Clifford your game sucks and the player count reflects that. Deal with it you absolute faggot

Overwatch had a bigger player base which made it much easier to find a match. Don't get me wrong, Overwatch has its problems. But at least I can play on there.

I've seen some videos on lawbreakers characters and they just seem bland and uninteresting.

Basically, there's little reason to spend money on it.

I think there's really only room for one hero shooter. As its part of the multiplayer only genre that's already saturated.

But that's just my two cents.

quake champions is there if you like arena fps. theres still titanfall 2 as well. insurgency is still active i think, and siege is as popular as ever.

>lack of visual characters identity to make them recognizeable on the map
>lack of gameplay variety, just like in Overwatch each chracter have limited variation of weapon (except OW have 26 characters)
>poor movement system
>the only one actual gameplay features is zones with low gravity
>PS4

Maybe its due to me only playing the beta but it felt very generic to me.

>muh Sup Forums bogermans
If you can't handle someone calling you a nigger or faggot fuck off to resetera.

Thanks, I think quake champions is for me.

its a good game, just be prepared for a large learning curve, even if youve played quake in the past. your skills wont transfer over fully. theres a lot of the same maps and item placements, but each character has different movement styles to an extent, and different hitboxes.

yeah dude, totally!
#skilledAF