BattleBit Remastered has more concurrent players than Battlefield on Steam... What is it about this game that's made it so popular? #battlefield #battlebit
Can not understate the importance on how fast you can open the game and get into a 256 player server. No obnoxious intro, no music straight into gaming, brilliant.
Not to mention the ability to run it on a potato. Shit, no dedicated graphics? You can maybe still play it. Other games are demanding an insane amount of VRAM, and here's Battlebit kicking their asses showing that you don't need it.
They literally got tired of the bullshit and pulled a "Fuck it! I'll do it myself" and honestly I respect that a lot, because it's the mood I think a lot of gamers have been in for quite a while now.
Yeah we are all fed up with those unfinished games. Those predatory action from AAA studios. Only game that I still play and feels still awesome is csgo. I am not excited about new cod or battlefield anymore, haven't been for 5+ years. And 3 people make game, that capture all the fun I had in the past, no bs.
imo what is dragging battlefield (and the majority of AAA titles) is threefold: design by committee, overly large budgets, and public investors expecting massive return on investment on everything their developers push out. design by committee irons out developers' vision to an extent, overly large budgets make publishers wary about investing in new IPs, and investors push for nonsense like microtransactions, season passes, games as a service, etc. the modern environment leaves little room for an agile smallish development studio to put out the game they want. I think the huge scale of the gaming industry has been its downfall
@@stride3842You couldn't be more wrong. Just look at the steam Charts - Battlefield 2042 Average Player count last 30 days: 8,149 Battlefield 5 Average Player count last 30 days: 17,470 Battlefield 1 Average Player count last 30 days: 13,512 Battlefield 4 Average Player count last 30 days: 2,002 Battlebit Average player count last 30 days: 47,063 Even combining all recent Battlefield titles gets you to 41,133 players. Nearly 6k shy of Battlebit.
@@sellsjeeps wait until you realize that battlefield isnt only on steam... Battlefield is on multiple game launchers on pc and on all of your modern consoles. Adding all of those equates to more players than battlebit. Also keep in mind battlefield had way more players than battlebit on steam alone right after launch. Battlebit will drop in numbers in the coming weeks and will be a dead game by the end of the year.
I like how being a medic in the game is supper rewarding score-wise, making it worthy for new players to farm XP by reviving and healing everyone. In Battlefield V medics used to run over everyone not giving AF, in this game they'll run straight into the line of fire 3 times in a row to revive you and heal you up 😂
Part of the problem with Medics in V as well was how they gave them the CQB weapons with the idea that "oh well they're gonna be in the fustercluck Frontlines reviving everyone when they die, should give them a cqb weapon to defend themselves" when in practice it just means all the close quarters sweats will just pick up the class
I loved being a medic in BF4 because it was rewarding. Seeing me with 1.0 or less k/d didn’t matter since I was top of the scoreboard due to revives and heals.
and then when they die to that line of fire some random support player who just finished throwing 17 granades bandages them up and they continue to heal everyone haha
The VOIP is so good. My first game I was backed behind a wall almost dead while the enemies pushed past me. I shot one of them that almost spotted me and I said "I'm sorry I didn't mean to" he replied "didn't meant too? DIDN'T MEAN TOO? IM DEAD. I HAVE A FAMILY. I'LL NEVER SEE MY KIDS AGAIN BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T MEAN TO SHOOT ME. HELP ME, HELP ME IM DYING" I was in tears the entire time. 10/10 game just from community alone.
I've used the VoIP to start spontaneous sing along sessions with enemy players after I've died 😂 I've been taken "prisoner" so many times just because I'm singing and "can keep troops morale up"
@@grimm_8819 shame thats literally bannable. really hope they will add self hosted servers where you cant have your 15$ taken away for messing around on the mic.
I love that the spot we are in within the games industry is, "You have forgotten where you came from. Let me show you." I keep seeing reviews for games that say they are not "reinventing the wheel", but are just fun, they focus on fun. And honestly, these indie developers are the future. Across the Obelisk, Vampire Survivors, BattleBit, were all games that we and the industry needed.
remember saying this a while ago to some OWI devs for squad and they all got super defensive, like, squad is a good game, but the absolute lack of all progression and a poor new player experience combined with untill recently their random hatred of modded servers made so little sense. Like i understand they want to keep all guns and classes accessable from the start for all players but they 100% need some rising strom vietnam esque appearance progression in the least, i understand its a milsim but that doesnt mean every player needs to look like Random soldier no 63.
genuinely think squad could have filled this battle bit niche if they only realised that having ; smaller fast paced map rotation for some servers / hardcore and casual servers with and without friendly fire and weapon damage changes to help newer players. And a progression system. Those two things would have massively helped them onboard and keep more players.
> not "reinventing the wheel" Reviews people, they are reinventing the wheel. Because over time the wheel has had all this unneccessary stuff put on it so that it doesn't spin very well any more. Battlebit has looked at the last 20 years of wheel developments, kept the 5% that have improved the function of the wheel, and discarded 95% of the developments that haven't.
If you can waste money on companies that don't care about you, then you can for sure support devs that do care I havn't bought a battlefield game since bf1 because any game after that is trash
@@InternalxHDsame, I wanted to try 2042 but glad I waited for the free play weekends to ultimately not spend $50. Battlebit however has been a great purchase for me. I suck at mouse and keyboard but I’m still having a blast just reviving people and playing my class which is what I missed from battlefield
tried it today and was in tears from the proximity voice chat. the "medic" yells from idiots while barbie girl is blasting on the background is amazing. the shooting is so crisp.
@@RealEvilLordExdeath "To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. "
VOIP really adds so much to this game in so many little ways. It goes such a long way towards encouraging players to work as a team and help eachother out, because everyone around you has a voice and personality. Way more fun for people to drag downed players into cover and revive them when they’re shouting for help and getting crazy on the mic. Not only are the huge battles intense and action-packed, but people can make it so funny and entertaining. I’ve died laughing so many times while pinned down in a big building with 10 other people, just all huddling around and reviving eachother while shouting and making goofy milsim callouts, while the dude in the tank next to us is blaring fortunate son on the mic the whole time
I just hate how they threaten me with a ban every time i load the game if i talk about any of the topics they banned. Kinda fascist imo, but the game itself is good and i hope it gets better. I get 60fps on a super old laptop. Better fps than minecraft
I think part of what makes the voip so enjoyable is everyone is genuinely having a good time above all. Being able to locally talk to others + needing help from your teammates + being able to jokingly trash talk the enemy when you die/they kill you, just kinda means everyone is genuinely having a good time
I honestly hope this is the start of a renaissance for FPS shooters. We’ve been in a preverbal “dark age” for the past 5-6 years without a decent online FPS shooter from a AAA developer. I’m hoping more indie companies will step up and make games like BattleBit and force the big studios to either step up their game or be left behind.
Well I think it depends on what you view as FPS. You’re discounting Valorant that was released 3 years ago and has a crazy successful pro league and player base.
could say games like doom 2016/eternal has kickstarted more indie devs to go back to the basics to just make an enjoyable fps game than try to make a esports scene
3 guys outdoing a multi billion dollar company! I hope to see more of these stories in the future, I'm so sick of being milked by companies trying to get every dollar out of me. I haven't bought a AAA online game in years because of that. Looking forward to trying this one out! It's got a very interesting history
@@nonope7592 My youngest brother (17) did the same only he's more into the older sports games. All he plays is 2KFootball and the older NCAA football games. Can't blame him tho really, Madden 23 is complete horse 💩 💩
That's the problem with modern AAA studios. They doing business, not games. But they dont realize, that core of business success is a making a good passionate product. They wasting a tons of money on wrong things instead of wasting just fraction of that on right stuff, because, again, they think as a game entrepreneur, not as a game artists.
Very true. Sucks that we have to endure the lackluster efforts of corporations that do only the bare minimum in order to make a profit. Oh well, gotta love capitalism
The helicopter crashing down mechanics are probably the most ironically cinematic stuff ever put into gaming. Everyone just screaming “we’re going doowwn!!!” 😂
I forget about the graphics fidelity within a minute each match. It's such an immersive game in so many other ways that sucks you in. It is amazing how your pre-judgment just melts away when the gameplay is so damn good. Battlebit has made me do an complete 180 on what is really important for the best experience.
Have never cared for graphics in all my gaming history, so I find it baffling that there's people who will prefer it OVER gameplay, like wtf go watch a movie instead LMFAO
It’s kinda like how I thought OOT LOZ had really good Pixar graphics only to see footage a year later and be like damn it’s aged, but then play it again see it the same way
I hope this game stays populated for years to come. It's a total breath of fresh air and I've been playing it consistently, which I usually have trouble doing with most games. Very interested in seeing how Battlefield responds to it's success. Will they try to improve the game they're currently developing? Start over from scratch to create something new? Ignore it entirely and keep making the same mistakes?
Still love the proximity voice chat so much. Always gets me going when you spawn in a chopper with 11 other people and one guys is blasting fortunate son, or paint it black as we fly into a barrage of rockets. Most of the time my deaths don't make me upset I just find it funny that a guy would suicide c4 himself into 4 of us. Kills feel so rewarding and the fact that you can place spawn beacons is really nice too. Only thing I would gripe about is the lack of people that understand they're squad leader as they sit 400m away sniping people and never place a spawn beacon once in the game, or that your teammates all play the same class. An easy way around this would to give the squad leader to whoever has the biggest party say I'm grouped with 3 friends compared to someone with only 2, I would get squad leader, if everyone is solo, give it to the highest ranking person. This game gives me that breath of fresh air again that many games lately haven't been able to ; Reminds me of the early days of TF2 where people would fool around and not take everything too serious, voice coms are good fun and there's no pressure if you just want to sit in a tank the whole game and do your own thing. (Unless you're squad leader)
and also its a rock solid game, by gamers, for gamers. no bullshit. so no distractions either, everyone can have fun without feeling like they are selling their souls to the microtransaction gods.
@@OilHutJoneshe graphics also just make the game way more accessible to people with low-end systems which opens the game up to a much wider audience than Battlefield on PC
Always been a huge BF fan and ended up drifting away from it because I thought I just got bored of the formula after BF1. Battlebit truly opened my eyes on the Battlefield franchise. It really hit all the notes that the recent BF titles couldnt. This video is spot on
Same for me. I thought I grew out of it. I've bought every BF since BF4 and I couldn't reach that same high again after BF4. Battlebit proves that it was Dice that drifted away from what truly made their games special.
@@T33K4Y Wasn't a great WW1 game either with all the experimental semi and full auto guns everywhere and the bolt action rifles that 99% used in WW1 almost nowhere to be found.
The banter, arguing among team mates and enemies, made me enjoy this game so much. Had so much joy giving directions or chatting with people in the game. 10/10
The best moment I’ve had so far is that my squad was shown mercy by one random person on the enemy team who dragged my body over to them to be revived. Fast forward 10 minutes later and I was baiting enemies over to my body because I died as I was putting down a mine. Lone behold it was the guy who was nice to us earlier and I blew both him and his squad mate up. I have it clipped as well and it was hilarious.
I've genuinely always wondered if a game that barely cared about graphics at all and just focused entirely on being made fun could succeed. I'm glad it worked
@@SirGrassy that's its own design though. I mostly mean a game in a style that is already established. If you don't make it thag specific, then most good indie games would apply
The tradeoff of graphics vs accessibility I think is one aspect you didn't touch on. Folks who played the older BF titles may not have the best rig as life priorities change, but jumping on with old friends playing a cheap title that prioritizes smooth gameplay on a potato over pretty setpieces is very unique in the FPS space. Even as someone with a more powerful rig, having super consistent framerates with 0 effort is a big reduction in the frustration with the game.
exactly, I think one aspect levelcap missed is how accessible the game is, its potato pc-proof which isn't said about a lot of games coming out now, all the milsim games as well as new battlefield titles would need relatively up-to date rigs and so there is a swathe of people just coming in droves to battlebit for the gameplay that they can't run, and the game has been on a weekly stress test for so long and every time there was never a shortage of full servers.
Yep, if I get a smooth framerate, I don't give two turds what the graphics look like. So many games come out now with choppy frames it hurts my eyes to play.
Performance in this game is a huge plus. I wanted to try BF1/V/2048 but none of them even have a chance of running on my GTX 660, leaving me on what was left of bf3/bad company 2 servers. This is the first new battlefield style game I've been able to actually play in years.
This game deserves so much more. they hit the nail on the head for everything needed in a good FPS title. They proved gameplay and the players matter more than looking the best. Every time I boot it up and play I'm filled with a nostalgic feeling of what older BF titles used to make me feel. I can jump into any random match and have a blast because it feels like the BF game I always wanted. I hope the player count continues to stay consistent or grow even more, and I can't wait to see what more new content may await us leading up to this game's full release
The thing that I love about this game like many others have pointed out is the VOIP. Just being able to talk with not only your teammates but also the enemy is such a breath of fresh air. You'd think that having VOIP it would be toxic but in reality everyone is just super chill, I've met a few toxic people here and there but they are a few out of the many interactions I've had with the enemy.
@@v4skunk739disagree heavily. BFBC2 was a great game with fantastic gunplay that paved the way for 3 and 4. BFBC2 is still the best experience I’ve had in an online shooter to date, and the Vietnam DLC was one of the best value DLCs I’ve ever purchased
In battlefield 1942 you could spend as much of the match as you wanted on the main front line fight wherever it happened to be or you could go around the peripherals and do goofy stuff like setup traps. Had so much fun playing that game back in the day
I remember playing Battlefield 1943 on Wake Island and I'd go to the enemy peninsula solely to use the enemy AA to shoot down enemy planes as they leave their aircraft carrier and once the enemy wised up, hide after leaving TNT on the AA and wait for the enemy to use the AA then blow it up.
@@BubblesTheAmoeba I did 1 better than using dynamite on the carrier. I'd take control of the AA on their carrier and just wait for the plane's propeller to start up and blast the plane. If any infantry got any wise ideas they'd have no cover so I'd shoot them with the AA too. It was the dominant way to win Air Supremacy matches until they patched it so carriers were out of bounds for enemies.
There used to be a clan in BF1942, something in the lines of Nordic Ice, that made crazy stunt videos. I can to comment on this video, on how BF1942 was like BattleBit for me. In 1942 as an engineer, you could keep a mine in your hand and with the correct timing, blew up a jeep trying to run you over without dying or the mine leaving your hand. Or when you flew with a bf109 and then try to land on the enemy bombers roof while it was full of players.
I am playing BattleBit and I absolutely love it. The best way I heard it described was by Operator Drewski and I'm paraphrasing it, but he said it's like going to a milsim airsoft event. The way everyone interacts with each other, even to opposing teams is pretty fun. My only complaint with the game is the uniform choice. While, I understand that they picked them based off of environment, it does sort of confuse me sometimes if I'm aiming at an enemy or an ally, especially if the friendly marker blends into the environment based on my angle. But I do love that game.
I love discovering the unexpected details in this game. The sequence when a heli crashes, visual loadout actually having impact on your stats, the realistic "blindness" when you play a map on nightmode. The feelings are very similiar to those i had when i started playing bf3 back in the days.
One thing I *_ADORE_* about Battlebit is the visual clarity! I don't have to worry about people laying down in a shadow or hiding in a dark spot with some ridiculous camo/customized appearance to cheese kills or make me strain my eyes on guard everywhere I go. I look somewhere, and I can *see* the enemy if they're there. The lack of advanced shading and shadows along with the very defined character models especially with their "enemy vs. friendly" glowy bits - really helps both urban combat and forest firefights feel fun instead of endlessly frustrating!
This. I remember loading up BF1 for the first time, it was that forest map with a train line down the middle. And all I could think was "Where the bloody hell is the enemy?" Even with a 4K monitor i struggled to see through the intricate bushes grasses and trees, with shadows covering the landscape. Its great to see everything so clearly in Battlebit.
This is why games like halo where so popular for so long. Along with being traditional arena shooters, there was pretty much constant action because everything was right in front of you.
This is why I love games with this simple style. I don't care about realism -- I want to have fun and I feel like most AAA games have left this audience behind for years now.
This indeed. Its why this 30yo boomer has been stuck on UT99 until now. This is the first fps since that actually looks appealing to me. Focussed on movement and skill; not eyestrain and gimmicks.
I think its got a lot of staying power, as it allows anyone with a machien to run it, take next to no space which is super nice, its OPTIMIZED, and its super fun. That gives it a lot of protection, plus its style is timeless and not state of the art, so art quality isnt an issue
It really depends on how much they expand on the player experience and potentially add more sandbox elements for long-term user generated content. Because in many other regards it can be compared to a timeless game like Minecraft: Also has a visual style that is entirely standalone and not reliant on contemporary visual fidelity standards. Its gameplay is also very accessible for multiple playstyles and easy to get into. There is true potential for longevity for Battlebits, their main obstacle initially will be to ensure the game doesn't grow stale after the initial popularity and intrigue dies off. How well does it retain its players when the next genuinely good AAA game in the genre comes out- because it will happen eventually. Long-term player retention is one of the hardest things to master in any game, especially in shooters that aren't highly competitive (like counter strike for example).
@@Real_MisterSir the long but constant drip of progression will really help it out, im 200 hours into it and I think I have another 200 to go before I can prestige, and there is no way in hell ill have all the attachments for all the guns by then either. It is literally the same progression formula that won call of duty its fans and support when MW1 came out all those years ago. It was a hit then, and it still works just as well now. slow continuous drip is how you keep people around, and its how battlebit does it, you will get at least something every 5-20 kills, be it an attachment or a new gun with lvl up and with the sheer number of unlockables, that can continue for 100's if not 1000's of hours.
@@EthanolTailor I think the main important part is that they manage to stay relevant. It got a lot of hype and traction, mostly as a breath of fresh air, but one thing going against it is that it's not free to play, and it doesn't have the outreach of an AAA title either. Player number will always decline after the initial spike, even now 1 month later it's 30% down in player count from 90k to 60k - which of course is normal for any game, but the key part is if they can keep attracting new players or if they primarily rely on the existing player base. Drip-feeding is good when you have a solid core community, but the game is still too young to have an established base and foundation to rely on. Keeping people around doesn't earn them any money, selling more copies or having a form of in-game monetization does. They earned great on the opening month, but if everything from now on is just an expense to maintain players, rather than bring in new / or monetize existing players further, then drip feeding content will not be the game's savior. This is of course not to argue against your main point, for that I fully agree that drip feeding will be great for the core player base to stay invested. Absolutely. But what is the dev team's benefits from this? How much are they actually getting in return for the hours of work that drip feed content gives them? It got mass market exposure quickly, but staying power and further marketing is questionable. There is also the issue of cheating, which demands exponentially more dev work and practically gives zero money in return, but is still something that must be tackled if the game is going to survive and grow long term. I hope the game sticks around and becomes a mainstay classic. Time will tell.
An oft-unmentioned aspect of the graphics style is that the flat textures really help with target recognition. I have never lost a gunfight because I couldn't pick out an enemy from the background. I always saw who I was shooting at clearly.
Those hardcore mechanics, actual gun customization and voice chat, those are things that keep me addicted to it. It is definitely not game that would die quick.
"Voice Chat? Oh, you must want to call people the N word! Can't allow that! Sorry just stare at the score board and pretend you're bantering with enemies" -DICE
@@dadqqader ? My point is some people say the N word so DICE removed the ability to talk to enemies. That is my point. Not that I "want to say the N word" Although let's be real words are words and banning them doesn't make them not exist, those people just find ways of saying the same thing in "Coded" language anyways.
@@dadqqader It is funny because of people like you saying it isn't funny. If you just ignored it then people would just shut up or would find another thing to get you mad, and racism is an easy bait for most people to go insane.
Battlebit is a response to years of player & quality-of-life neglect from DICE, plus over management from EA; it doesn’t seem like it’s a quick burner per-say but it’ll most likely stabilize into a smaller but still respectable player base moving forward. A staple that everyone can come back to because it’s just so easy to get into and the mechanics, for the time being, are solid as hell-so long as the developers keep chugging along with the player focused mindset they’ve been utilizing, it’ll become a poster child for how to properly maintain an FPS
Had 2042 been like BF3 or 4 I honestly don't know if I'd be playing this game, but Battlebit definitly fills an FPS gap that has been there for me since BFV was abandoned.
You're not really solo if you join a full squad and actually use VOIP. Lot of people actually playing together, it's quite wholesome actually. Don't like the squad's vibe? Leave and join a different one. Easy enough.
No one's talking about the importance of VOIP and proxy chat. It ties the community together so well. It's nice to know you're playing with actual people
I really was hesitant about purchasing this game. I didn't think it looked bad at all, but my previous experiences with battlefield (and my general hesitance with multiplayer fps games) made me think it wouldn't be fun for me. I thought "why not, let's see how this goes", got on with 5 of my friends, and had the best time I've ever had playing an fps. I'm so excited to see where this game goes in the future, especially with all of the game modes that aren't even available yet.
People really have to commit to the smaller games to see a genuine change in the big ones, I fear. They made their money, they’re not in it for the love of video games
I also just love how positive the playerbase is. One of my favorite pastimes in the game is being overly-positive in voip and everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) is just so kind back. Even when I'm not being overly kind and just saying gg at the end of a match, the chat is always super positive and there's never any bad blood. Hope we can keep cultivating a positive, sportsman-like atmosphere that has seemed to evade other titles
@@juggernautknight2749 From watching this video, I went to go play a game, and I literally JUST had an encounter with two enemies where we all had our mics on and were laughing at the goofiness of our situation New favorite memory of the game
It really helps that a single player can’t lead to a victory or sweat their way to a team W. So if you’re not playing in a perfectly min-maxed way, it’s not that big of a deal
A great thing about this game as well is that sniper play and counter play is amazing. The scope flare that appears to show where they are and that they take a device that makes that same flare feels good to play as and against.
I'm happy about BattleBit's success. One thing I've been very annoyed with over the last decade plus of the gaming industry is there is a loss of focus on the actual game mechanics, and instead in things like animations, particle FX, and other things that comes secondary to the experience. When you don't have to make an animation, particle effect, whatever, for every little thing you want to make a feature for, suddenly you can make tons of features, and very quickly. And the game runs smoothly, and high tick rates. Truth is, most people can't run modern games well with all this bullshit. So why are they creating games that can be enjoyed at their peak by only 5% of people who have 2k dollar computers?
I get very irritated any time I hear someone mention low-poly graphics as if it is holding Battlebit back. The hardware requirements being equivalent to a basic work laptop from 2010 means that anyone can play Battlebit. Even that cheap desktop your family bought grandma so she could have something to browse Facebook on can run Battlebit.
So much fun. It's simple and not so serious. Even the banter between players for the most part is jovial, light-hearted. Which is refreshing. People aren't taking themselves too seriously, and it's made this FPS enjoyable for me.
@@maj_pr0blems It often happens as games age (if they become really popular). People stop tolerating new player mistakes and cheating and exploiting glitches etc. becomes more common. Maybe the light hearted Roblox look will negate some of that, but isn't Minecraft community also toxic. Sadly almost all games that become popular, become also toxic
Reminds me of counter strike. Everyone was fairly "normal" for being on the internet because everyone knew the whole purpose was to have fun, not be the best.
Friend asked me to play this this past weekend and I bought it on a whim because why not? Ended up playing for 3 hours straight with him and never once cared how graphically good it was because I was having so much fun! I love the drag mechanic to bring a downed soldier into cover before reviving them and to me seems like a no brainer feature that any new Battlefield game should have had at the outset. I really hope EA and DICE take notes but they probably won't.
3 incredibly good former triple A devs got sick of the shit the studios they once worked for are doing and made a game that is rivaling their once employers, absolutely insane and amazing callout to the modern big studio gaming industry.
@@Unknown_Genius people have complained in one way or another about the state of AAA gaming for a good 10-15 years.. when DLC was making it's ever-so-important entry into the market in the mid to late 200x's alot of people were criticizing even call of duty's 4 map DLC model for modern warfare 1.. >:X trends pick up, it's just in the last 10 that the problem has become vastly more inflated with microtransactions replacing DLC as a defacto money source for games and inflating profits.
The fact that it’s probably the best shooter on the pc market atm makes me think this game will stick around for awhile. The player count is going to decline it’s inevitable, but I honestly think it will retain a solid player base for awhile.
Makes me wonder if they should do a Free Weekend to ride this hype even further. Get tons of additional people into the game who have no doubt heard about it from one of their friends. I'd imagine retention would be decent seeing as it's only a $15 purchase.
the biggest thing imo would be the number of people on a single map. i dont know when it happened but there has been like a 60 player cap on most games. even on hll its 100. There were games like 20 years ago with more than that. Planetside 1 for instance.
BattleBit absolutely rules, picked it up on a whim because it was recommended on my steam home page. LevelCap nailed it here by accurately assessing that it just does what other AAA large scale FPS games refuse to, focus on being fun first. Personally I could care less what a game looks like if it has all the other features I really enjoy. Hopefully BattleBit sticks around for the long haul, I'll definitely be recommending it to my friends.
I think it's important to remember that it's not only a $15 game, but they're in early access aswell, so there's bound to be some quality of life stuff to the game aswell. Even though it's a solid base right now, it'll surely get even better down the line if they continue their already great work
@@Brent-jj6qi Agreed, but I do believe this team thinks there is a lot more to be added. Similar to squad who were early access for years until releasing there massive update and showing us what they really wanted the game to be front the start.
@@mad_elf sure but how hard is it to add more maps and guns? I mean the early access thing you’re describing is generally for big AAA studios to cover their asses for buggy and poor quality of life releases, but this game doesn’t really suffer from those kinds of issues. It’s a very quality experience already, so I think you’re being overly pessimistic. This game will definitely continue being developed and supported with more new content because the player base is determined to show Dice how dumb they are for abandoning support for their games, releasing content devoid and unfinished garbage, ignoring community feedback, and publicly shaming and admonishing the fans for having expectations
@@cdf360 you're diving homie. I was just saying that games are never going to be finished products at release. AAA or indie. I'm not saying that makes them a bad game.
The Beauty of Battlebit is pretty much the fact that you don't need a visually impressive game just a game with a good or digestible art direction and a focus on the gameplay, I always felt that AAA studios forgot that they were making a game instead of a graphical tech demo.
I'm absolutely obsessed with this game. I got it a week ago and played with a couple friends and at first I thought it's alright, you know something goofy to play with friends every now and then but now I've suddenly racked up over 40hrs mostly playing alone and I'm having so much fun. Like you said, it's also something you can easily hop on. It takes about 20 seconds from your desktop and you're right in the middle of the action. I like that the progression system is pretty grindy and long, it'll keep players interested longer because there's always a new gun or an attachment to unlock. And when it comes to visuals it's actually surprisingly atmospheric with the nice lighting and weather changes despite having a low poly art style. 10/10 would buy again.
Biggest thing that stuck out to me was how responsive and immediate the hitreg feels. It immediately makes battlefield's gunplay feel way too laggy. Also I think player hosted servers will help give it a lasting hold vs retail Battlefield.
I feel like the basic graphics will add to the games lifespan. All modern games are always so "realistic" that it's not only boring, but also confusing at times. People want to have fun, not try to see an enemy blending in because of the realistic terrain. Additionally, the gun models are pretty neat.
i can see them updating the character models and giving them more polygons, cause they are a little bit behind of the weapons on that sense, but it 100% agree with you, visual clarity is never an issue and i love how the game runs fine on my kind of old rig with 254 players
Yeah, I don’t really place a high degree of importance on photorealistic graphics. I prefer a low polygon art style. I don’t need super realistic water reflections or real time shadows if that processing power could be used to do something more interesting like adding destructible terrain.
@@GusCraft460 same, better game mechanics over better graphics. Take project Zomboid for example it won’t win any graphically awards but it has insanely deep core mechanics
One thing I dont see people mentioning is when you dont restrict the voice chat and allow people to have casual trash talk it makes your game bleed positivity and banter. Purposely limiting it or not having it all makes people toxic.
For sure, there has been a lot of funny banter between the teams at times, its quite wholesome. I haven't seen like any toxicity at all, it seems like everyone is having a fun time even if they are dying.
I remember when I play CS source on servers owned by players. The mods keep the banter moderated and kick obnoxious kids/manchildren. Building a relationship in a private server was fun and rewarding. I think that was really important in making the community positive.
I just got the game about 5 days ago, and I'm now at 50+ hours and rank 53. I know some people think having to hit level 100 sounds crazy to use a new gun, but because of the different classes and all the attachments for the guns, it hasn't been a problem and makes me excited to grind out a gun. I finally got the SCAR-H last night and it made grinding out the first 50 levels feel so good. The only gripe I really have with the game is there are a lot of snipers on some maps, but as a sniper myself I guess I can't complain. This is also the first time I've ever played a competitive game with VOIP and I love it. Being able to talk to other squad leaders and actually out attacks adds a new layer to online gaming that I haven't had before.
But the huge problem is at rank 70 and rank 105 the guns Vector, and AS Val seem to be extremely stronger than any other smg and rifle you get before it. I just unlocked Vector and it has a 1200 fire rate and makes close combat give me a extreme edge. Locking the best weapons behind extreme level walls is very annoying.
I actually liked it when they introduced Levolution in BF4. It made it a very cinematic and unique experience. The problem is they began sacrificing the basic elements we all loved for these features. Battlebit is the competition Battlefield needs.
Exactly. The problem with a game like 2042 was never that they had these big cinematic elements that provide great immersion. The problem is that they got fucking lost in the sauce and tried to add elements that nobody associate with the BF experience, such as big hero-shooter elements with specialists, sacrifice of old features that were loved, scaling back on actual environment destruction / interaction, and ofc the fact that the game was nowhere near finished when it launched and ran like a potato even on the best hardware. It was just insanely poorly managed with no vision behind whatsoever. That's why it failed.
I love the blocky graphics I always get lost in all the visual noise of battlefield and war zone, having simple graphics helps me actually enjoy playing on these large maps and be able to see enemies so much easier
same. back as a teen glad i checked unturned, w/ games like it, its content was literally imagination as its limits. edit: blocky graphics does compensate for being a comprehensive game of being an amalgamation of the biggest fps titles
@@R3TR0J4NI really don’t get why people say the obvious blocky style choice Is because the games early access like Unturned exists and so does a lot of other blocky games
@@seasons1745 Because other blocky games are consistent with their textures and shading. Compare battlebit's ground texture to any of the buildings and the difference in detail is way too drastic.
lol yea cause war is so crisp and clear...the reason why other milsims are so much further superior is cause of that. There is literally 0 realism in this and defeats the entire purpose of its goal people rant on about
I think easier accessibility will make this game strive even more than the actual Battlefield franchise. Because people usually get drawn into a game with a lot of people playing it, especially large-scale multiplayer game like this. Not only people with 'potato' PC can run this game, but that $15 price tag on the game is also more appealing to a wider audience with different monetary condition. In contrast, the current Battlefield franchise can only be accessed by people with high-end pc and a fat stack of change because of that AAA pricing.
I’d like to see the play test player counts over the last few years. People have been playing it for a long time and sticking with the game before the early access launch
Been watching you for about 10 years now. Crazy to see where Battlefield was then vs. now, and how a game like this is taking over. And you're still covering Star Citizen!
In my opinion besides it being a functionally fun game, it is winning with compatibility. You don't need a $1000+ computer to just play a fun game and i think it being more than playable on non gamer pcs is really what is helping this game spread as much as it has. I think while it is awesome for graphics to keep evolving, it is expensive to try and keep up with it.
One thing that I’ve noticed and haven’t seen anyone mention is that they have tons of weapons but no “fire and forget” weapons like Stinger AA. All the weapons take at least some level of skill to use…with the exception of grenade spam. I think, for me at least, the gameplay that requires at least a minimal skill level makes it more fun
All weapons except the Vector*. That thing is easy mode. I racked up 500 kills with it in no time [60-round Drum Mag is nuts lol...can just lay into a group and drop 5-6 of them]. It's even decent at mid range. It's stupid, and makes a bunch of other weapons not worthwhile unless you want to "challenge yourself". When a weapon is so dominant that it makes you feel like you're nerfing yourself by using something else, there's a problem imo.
Plus poly stylized look is really big right now. I LOVE it. Ultra realistic is kind of frustrating because it makes it hard to see what’s going on, stylized makes everything pop out much more and makes it easier for me to instantly understand things in the heat of the moment, which I prefer in competitive games over pretty graphics.
@@HemlockRC On the other hand, you can say that whenever something looks not as sharp as something else. I think it's fair to say it looks shit, but this seems to be done intentionally to save resources on the developers end, provide fluent gameplay even on weaker machines, allow for bigger game lobbies and enhance performance. Overall this sacrifice is well worth it since good games are not just about graphics.
@@ColdGhost01 If they were trying to make it look realistic, and it wasn’t high fidelity, then you could say the graphics suck. The developers made a decision to make it a low poly art style. Nobody complains about terraria and Minecraft, because that’s the intended art style. If call of duty 2024 has bad textures, then I would say that they failed to meet their own standards of “graphics”
This time of year isn't reflecting well how popular this, or any other new game is..there's festivals, people travelling because of vacation etc. Battlebit will be gathering more people for sure with more updates. I wish nothing but the best to the devs.
It’s SO refreshing that the visuals are so simple. I don’t need my GAMES to look like real life, I need them to be fun and have good core gameplay and progression systems.
I think the success is a combo of ease of use, good matchmaking, listening to the community and the fact that due to its graphics and looks, it takes far less of an investment to play than more recent games with insane graphics. Just goes to show that smaller studios can do things vastly better than larger ones and I hope larger companies take notice and get their shit together
This game absolutely rocks. I only got it last week and have 40+ h in it already. Almost got sentimental when playing it the first time when I started understanding it's exactly what I have been wanting BF to be for a decade now. I like the elements they took from Squad and made it just a little more hardcore than BF but not as hardcore as Squad, it still has plenty of "only in battlefield" insane moments but it feels also more tactical and deliberate.
Local positional audio communication is the most important feature that battlefield games are lacking. If they implement that like onward has it will be a game changer. I dislike how recent battlefield games lack any socialization aspects. I always feel like i’m playing the game with an AI where everyone is just silent. I want to talk to my whole team and have fun. 3D positional voice audio is a must have in any multiplayer game.
Battlebit gives me BF3 vibes and level of excitement. It's mind blowing 3 people can develop a game that gives 80% of what FPS gamers want. I want BBR to be more successful than BF and COD. Let's be honest, Triple A publishers are greedy, money hungry pigs. EA I absolutely hate you as a publisher. Activision I hate you as well. These days the triple A clowns care more about political BS than creating a great game. 2042 is playable but not nearly as enjoyable as Battlebit is. Overall BBR is actually pretty balanced. AR's aren't complete lasers. MGs don't shread like they do in Battlefield which is good in my eyes. Snipers are useful but not nearly as cracked as people would think. SMGs are SMGs. Some may argue the vector is broken. The gun irl was meant to be a laser so I would assume.
snipers are pretty strong but only on the big open maps like the one wtih the ship in the middle but on smaller maps they are actually pretty weak because of the slow fire rate. most of the time the medics or assists have the most kills and deaths because they are always in the front fighting. i have seen match leaderboard winners with 100+ kills and 50+ deaths in one match.
The craziest thing I’ve experienced in the game was colliding with another helicopter crashing and having the screen black out like your character had a concussion. Then he woke up and started pushing with the rest of the squad. It was a only in battlebit moment
@@NahBNah Uh yeah? This is the first game I played that simulates helicopter crashes and makes you black out until you regain consciousness. The whole point of this is that I did not expect that to happen at all it was just one random moment.
The only wake-up call was the fact that gamers are so quick to change their minds that instead of continuing to play this game they claim is better than 2042, it has 1/5 the player count.
When playing Battlebit there's just this sense that every decision was made in pursuit of a well thought through vision. I think that's also why FromSoft games are so loved. There's no moment where you get mad at a committee or publisher. Battlefield couldn't do this because there's too many people involved and too few of them actually care about the game.
At this point all I want from a battlefield game is to feel like a soldier in a modern setting, no hero skills and micro-transaction skins that just takeaway from the sandbox that made battlefield 3 & 4 so good back in the day
Having been play testing this for over a year, It’s been great to see the growth and improvements before launch. Definitely gives me optimism that it will continue to get better with time.
Crazy how fast weapons and vehicles were implemented. They'd add stuff over the course of a few days.. vs the 6 months to a year that higher resolution games add. I know it helps a lot that equipment and graphics aren't insane.. but I wish devs would not worried about having super realistic graphics, and just make the game fun
I fell out with FPS like CoD and Battlefield a long time ago. After hearing about thus game I was interested and eventually bought it and I've been hooked ever since. It really brought back the joy I originally felt playing classic shooters like Battlefield 3
this comment might have clinched it for me, in terms of buying it this weekend! BF3 was an amazing time in online multiplayer gaming. Hasn't been replicated in my experience since.
@@jonholbrook8821 I feel about same except the part where I dont really care for battlebit at all. It just doesnt click with me at all. I'd still rather play BF3 or BF4.
I think it will continue to grow as more people play this game. The fact that any pc can play it even a laptop is a winner. This isn't even on console yet. The playability of this game is what makes it fun . Took me a good few games to get into this game because of the graphics but playing a few games solo I don't even notice the graphics I was having fun. AAA games are to analytical they try to copy what the latest best game is doing That's why they all have heroes in them now and let's not go down the road of micro transaction that's a game killer right there.
This game has taught me that I actually don't care that much about graphics, because about 10 minutes into the game I stop caring about how it looks because it plays SOOOO good
If they change the player models from the blocky Roblox style to a more regular person kind of look, I think it would make the game a lot better for me. I just have the hardest getting past the character models, but otherwise, it's done everything near perfectly gameplay wise.
I played it today. Despite the blocky graphics it felt more than a war game than anything I have played in a long time while still being quick in the action and fun to play.
I love how snappy everything is. I can go from desktop to in a game in about 30 seconds. It'd be 20 if they got rid of the asinine agreements and if "Whats New" only popped up when there was something new. Either way, thats lightyears better than the 5 minutes it takes with Battlefield.
this is the first game in years that made me excited to get home and start playing games after work. even now a week after release im eager to get on and have fun shooting and messing around with friendlies and ennemies.
Battlebit has been a blast. My best memories with battlefield were the bf bad company 2 and bf3 eras and Battlebit has reminded me a lot of them. I really don't see myself buying another battlefield game anytime soon, but I'm looking forward to queueing up Battlebit with some friends this weekend.
I haven't played this game but just from watching it, one of the appealing things about it is how easy it is to see the player models, both friendly and enemy. Newer games may look good but it gets old being killed from players you can't see because of all the visual clutter of new games
I've been thinking a lot about Valheim ever since Battlebit's release. Both developers decided to use highly stylized "low-fi" graphics that emphasis only what is important for the player while also being highly atmospheric and it totally works. I hope more studios take this approach in the future.
I think ignoring the microscopic texture detail and tesselation and crap like that frees up a lot of time and resources to add all the content you can imagine into a game. You can still make it immersive without those tiny details. Just like back in the ps1 days, if a game was designed well enough you'd be just as immersed as any modern game, if not more than the shiny turds we have today.
@@chrisrichfield8906By focusing on the new nices to have like god rays and light volumetric fog, dynamic vegetation and trimming down textures and micro details we might be able to provide a nice experience, that tones down this "uncanney valley" effect I see on high graphics games. That's more unsettling to me
Theres a reason ive been giving battlebit my money on patreon for years now! The amount of fun i would have in the playtest was unrivaled. There's nothing quite like being damn near 30, and going to bed early so you can be up at 6am to play the playtest 😂
What's funny is that EA has whole research departments to find out what players want and despite that, it's so obvious that what players want is exactly this what battlebit delivers. It couldn't be more obvious even without doing a single survey.
Battlebit is doing so well because it's offering *what we wanted* slight innovations here and there and melding some of the best from all over the team-based FPS genre.
You nailed it on the head when you said Battlebit includes lots of features Battlefield vets have been asking for. Plenty of maps, squad management, map voting, easier reporting system, and a scoreboard (don't even get me started on why someone thought a completive fps shouldn't have a scoreboard at launch). The progression to unlock deadlier equipment is a juicier carrot than some wacky ass skin I don't give 2 shits about.
I think price has a lot to do with this also. When I buy a 60 70,80 or $90 game I’m constantly mentally checking to see if I feel like I got my value. It takes away from some of the joy of just being immersed in the game. Corporations need to realize that they will sell a lot more games if they would lower the price.
Agreed. Although if they're gonna lower the price, then they need to also work with a much smaller team. It's insane to see that just three devs brought this game to a deliverable, enjoyable state. In theory, big game studios should be able to do such small team experiments, too, but I imagine they're too ingrained in planning too much out from the start.
I think a big part to is that 90$ isn’t even the full price. Most companies openly tell you about the “dlc path” they have set up before the game is even finished or bug free.
Passionate Developers vs Career Developers. One makes the game because they want to achieve greatness, the other does it because a company with shareholders pays them to make the game.
I'm not constantly checking to feel if I got my value for a game but I do have certain expectations at those price points and Triple A gaming has been failing them for the most part for awhile now. It feels more like we are just paying that much money for pretty graphics than we are for a good game with good value.
This game is absolutely addicting, the amount of fun situations I run into when I can talk to enemies by proximity or drag an enemy body or suicide C4 are just so fun
there are 2 reasons i did not buy 2042, i did not have trust in the game would be finished and work and no classes. battlebit just WORKS and it is more satisfying and just better than i expected. they did not try to reinvent the wheel they just PERFECTED it and i love it!
Can not understate the importance on how fast you can open the game and get into a 256 player server. No obnoxious intro, no music straight into gaming, brilliant.
Overstate. You can understate and that would be terrible since the game is so amazing. God bless.
Inviting your friends and joining them is SO EASY it made my brain hurt. Crazy that BF couldn't even get that right.
You actually can because there are never any open servers. It usually takes me 15-20 minutes to find a game
@@noahcarr9977try a different game size
Not to mention the ability to run it on a potato. Shit, no dedicated graphics? You can maybe still play it.
Other games are demanding an insane amount of VRAM, and here's Battlebit kicking their asses showing that you don't need it.
They literally got tired of the bullshit and pulled a "Fuck it! I'll do it myself" and honestly I respect that a lot, because it's the mood I think a lot of gamers have been in for quite a while now.
same, seems like they have that attitude exactly lol
Reminds me of Thanos. Now if only we can get the finger snap for half the developers to disappear. Lmao
Yeah we are all fed up with those unfinished games. Those predatory action from AAA studios. Only game that I still play and feels still awesome is csgo. I am not excited about new cod or battlefield anymore, haven't been for 5+ years. And 3 people make game, that capture all the fun I had in the past, no bs.
imo what is dragging battlefield (and the majority of AAA titles) is threefold: design by committee, overly large budgets, and public investors expecting massive return on investment on everything their developers push out. design by committee irons out developers' vision to an extent, overly large budgets make publishers wary about investing in new IPs, and investors push for nonsense like microtransactions, season passes, games as a service, etc. the modern environment leaves little room for an agile smallish development studio to put out the game they want. I think the huge scale of the gaming industry has been its downfall
That's the indie game scene for ya!
Watching an indie game destroy the AAA scene always brings a smile to my face.
battlefield is lightyears ahead of battlebit
@@stride3842 Light-years ahead but with a lot less passengers on the ship.
@@GordonBowater Battlefield has more active players than battlebit atm
@@stride3842You couldn't be more wrong. Just look at the steam Charts -
Battlefield 2042 Average Player count last 30 days: 8,149
Battlefield 5 Average Player count last 30 days: 17,470
Battlefield 1 Average Player count last 30 days: 13,512
Battlefield 4 Average Player count last 30 days: 2,002
Battlebit Average player count last 30 days: 47,063
Even combining all recent Battlefield titles gets you to 41,133 players. Nearly 6k shy of Battlebit.
@@sellsjeeps wait until you realize that battlefield isnt only on steam... Battlefield is on multiple game launchers on pc and on all of your modern consoles. Adding all of those equates to more players than battlebit. Also keep in mind battlefield had way more players than battlebit on steam alone right after launch. Battlebit will drop in numbers in the coming weeks and will be a dead game by the end of the year.
I like how being a medic in the game is supper rewarding score-wise, making it worthy for new players to farm XP by reviving and healing everyone. In Battlefield V medics used to run over everyone not giving AF, in this game they'll run straight into the line of fire 3 times in a row to revive you and heal you up 😂
Part of the problem with Medics in V as well was how they gave them the CQB weapons with the idea that "oh well they're gonna be in the fustercluck Frontlines reviving everyone when they die, should give them a cqb weapon to defend themselves" when in practice it just means all the close quarters sweats will just pick up the class
Laughs in Hell Let Loose
@@ChungusTheLargeLaughs in unnecessarily complex game mechanics
I loved being a medic in BF4 because it was rewarding. Seeing me with 1.0 or less k/d didn’t matter since I was top of the scoreboard due to revives and heals.
and then when they die to that line of fire some random support player who just finished throwing 17 granades bandages them up and they continue to heal everyone haha
The VOIP is so good. My first game I was backed behind a wall almost dead while the enemies pushed past me. I shot one of them that almost spotted me and I said "I'm sorry I didn't mean to" he replied "didn't meant too? DIDN'T MEAN TOO? IM DEAD. I HAVE A FAMILY. I'LL NEVER SEE MY KIDS AGAIN BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T MEAN TO SHOOT ME. HELP ME, HELP ME IM DYING" I was in tears the entire time. 10/10 game just from community alone.
I've used the VoIP to start spontaneous sing along sessions with enemy players after I've died 😂
I've been taken "prisoner" so many times just because I'm singing and "can keep troops morale up"
This comment has me dying 😂
Soundboard time, I have a bunch of songs
Loaded into my first match and a tank zoomed by blaring the freebird solo. Immediately, I knew this game was gonna be a blast.
@@grimm_8819 shame thats literally bannable. really hope they will add self hosted servers where you cant have your 15$ taken away for messing around on the mic.
I love that the spot we are in within the games industry is, "You have forgotten where you came from. Let me show you." I keep seeing reviews for games that say they are not "reinventing the wheel", but are just fun, they focus on fun. And honestly, these indie developers are the future. Across the Obelisk, Vampire Survivors, BattleBit, were all games that we and the industry needed.
remember saying this a while ago to some OWI devs for squad and they all got super defensive, like, squad is a good game, but the absolute lack of all progression and a poor new player experience combined with untill recently their random hatred of modded servers made so little sense. Like i understand they want to keep all guns and classes accessable from the start for all players but they 100% need some rising strom vietnam esque appearance progression in the least, i understand its a milsim but that doesnt mean every player needs to look like Random soldier no 63.
genuinely think squad could have filled this battle bit niche if they only realised that having ; smaller fast paced map rotation for some servers / hardcore and casual servers with and without friendly fire and weapon damage changes to help newer players. And a progression system. Those two things would have massively helped them onboard and keep more players.
The games industry hasn't forgotten. It doesn't care. Because the AAA space is now run by money-men and their vampire overlords.
> not "reinventing the wheel"
Reviews people, they are reinventing the wheel. Because over time the wheel has had all this unneccessary stuff put on it so that it doesn't spin very well any more.
Battlebit has looked at the last 20 years of wheel developments, kept the 5% that have improved the function of the wheel, and discarded 95% of the developments that haven't.
They didn't reinvent the wheel,they just made a damn good one when there weren't many on the market
Best $15 I have ever spent in gaming, probably end up getting the supporter pack because they deserve the support.
If you can waste money on companies that don't care about you, then you can for sure support devs that do care
I havn't bought a battlefield game since bf1 because any game after that is trash
I get you like this game but please play more single player games if you think this is the "best"
@@InternalxHDsame, I wanted to try 2042 but glad I waited for the free play weekends to ultimately not spend $50. Battlebit however has been a great purchase for me. I suck at mouse and keyboard but I’m still having a blast just reviving people and playing my class which is what I missed from battlefield
Try hollow knight if you think battlebit is good value
The first money I've ever spent on a live service game that will eventually d ie never to be played after the servers shut down.
tried it today and was in tears from the proximity voice chat. the "medic" yells from idiots while barbie girl is blasting on the background is amazing. the shooting is so crisp.
too bad the sweats will be the only people playing the game in like 3 months. but that all FPS games these days
Sounds like a terrible child game
@@RealEvilLordExdeath "To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. "
@@RealEvilLordExdeathHave you ever played HLL?
@@reckergamer1879 what is HLL?
I played squad wich is 1000 Times better
VOIP really adds so much to this game in so many little ways. It goes such a long way towards encouraging players to work as a team and help eachother out, because everyone around you has a voice and personality.
Way more fun for people to drag downed players into cover and revive them when they’re shouting for help and getting crazy on the mic. Not only are the huge battles intense and action-packed, but people can make it so funny and entertaining.
I’ve died laughing so many times while pinned down in a big building with 10 other people, just all huddling around and reviving eachother while shouting and making goofy milsim callouts, while the dude in the tank next to us is blaring fortunate son on the mic the whole time
I just hate how they threaten me with a ban every time i load the game if i talk about any of the topics they banned. Kinda fascist imo, but the game itself is good and i hope it gets better. I get 60fps on a super old laptop. Better fps than minecraft
@@censored4christ162 almost like being toxic and using slurs should be punished?
@@雪底下bro really compared enforcing basic decency to actual fascism 💀
@@LiliumOrientalis ikr lmao
It's a known battlebit fact that you don't get revived if you don't have a wounded voice
I think part of what makes the voip so enjoyable is everyone is genuinely having a good time above all. Being able to locally talk to others + needing help from your teammates + being able to jokingly trash talk the enemy when you die/they kill you, just kinda means everyone is genuinely having a good time
i have yet to see any toxic shit. the death mics have been the most hilarious part of the game for me
I wish it were on console too, I have kids and don't want to hole up in my office to play.
bro every person that dies has a sound and its great lol
@@first_ones_free6556 The "What the fucks" are the best
It feels like LAN parties with your friends, its great fun.
I honestly hope this is the start of a renaissance for FPS shooters. We’ve been in a preverbal “dark age” for the past 5-6 years without a decent online FPS shooter from a AAA developer. I’m hoping more indie companies will step up and make games like BattleBit and force the big studios to either step up their game or be left behind.
there kinda has been, try looking up the long list of boomer shooters that had released within the past 5 to 6 years
Well I think it depends on what you view as FPS. You’re discounting Valorant that was released 3 years ago and has a crazy successful pro league and player base.
@@SlickyWickyy am refering to the indie fps scenes with games such as dusk, amid evil, nightmare reaper, ultrakill to name a few
could say games like doom 2016/eternal has kickstarted more indie devs to go back to the basics to just make an enjoyable fps game than try to make a esports scene
@@TheRyupichu fan of new blood games huh?
3 guys outdoing a multi billion dollar company! I hope to see more of these stories in the future, I'm so sick of being milked by companies trying to get every dollar out of me. I haven't bought a AAA online game in years because of that. Looking forward to trying this one out! It's got a very interesting history
@@nonope7592 My youngest brother (17) did the same only he's more into the older sports games. All he plays is 2KFootball and the older NCAA football games. Can't blame him tho really, Madden 23 is complete horse 💩 💩
That's the problem with modern AAA studios. They doing business, not games. But they dont realize, that core of business success is a making a good passionate product. They wasting a tons of money on wrong things instead of wasting just fraction of that on right stuff, because, again, they think as a game entrepreneur, not as a game artists.
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Very true. Sucks that we have to endure the lackluster efforts of corporations that do only the bare minimum in order to make a profit. Oh well, gotta love capitalism
Stardew Valley was it for me
The helicopter crashing down mechanics are probably the most ironically cinematic stuff ever put into gaming. Everyone just screaming “we’re going doowwn!!!” 😂
Just hop out when you are low enough and for the love of God get away from the crash site ASAP.
@@Faus4us it's fun to stay in the crashing helicopter
@@youngrich10THIS. Lol
cause everyone doesn't have a wingsuit or parachute so we're all in it together lol.
everyone roll plays when their downed or pinned or in a crashing helicopter
I forget about the graphics fidelity within a minute each match. It's such an immersive game in so many other ways that sucks you in. It is amazing how your pre-judgment just melts away when the gameplay is so damn good. Battlebit has made me do an complete 180 on what is really important for the best experience.
The gameplay experience is so solid that it lets your brain fill in the gaps for the graphics.
On the other hand, a super graphically intense 4k triple A game completely loses its magic when you realize the fundamentally broken game underneath.
Have never cared for graphics in all my gaming history, so I find it baffling that there's people who will prefer it OVER gameplay, like wtf go watch a movie instead LMFAO
I actually like battlebits graphics over the so called triple A games. Its easier to spot players and focus on what is happening.
It’s kinda like how I thought OOT LOZ had really good Pixar graphics only to see footage a year later and be like damn it’s aged, but then play it again see it the same way
I hope this game stays populated for years to come. It's a total breath of fresh air and I've been playing it consistently, which I usually have trouble doing with most games.
Very interested in seeing how Battlefield responds to it's success. Will they try to improve the game they're currently developing? Start over from scratch to create something new? Ignore it entirely and keep making the same mistakes?
Damn how do those three guys manage to do something so complex like put in a score board?
DICE has really made the standards extremely low 🤣
Considering that all their previous games had all this stuff! Lazy devs.
Games like this go to show that the "Game Industry" being so focused on graphical upgrades and nearly nothing else has lost its way. Gameplay is king
too bad the maps are all crap and the gameplay is worse than the roblox version that this game copied
FOR ROCK AND STONE
@@Sheepheadzit copied nothing it’s inspired by squad and battlefield nothing like roblox at all
@@Sheepheadz found battlefield’s burner
@@Sheepheadz found the battlefield fanboy...
Still love the proximity voice chat so much. Always gets me going when you spawn in a chopper with 11 other people and one guys is blasting fortunate son, or paint it black as we fly into a barrage of rockets. Most of the time my deaths don't make me upset I just find it funny that a guy would suicide c4 himself into 4 of us. Kills feel so rewarding and the fact that you can place spawn beacons is really nice too. Only thing I would gripe about is the lack of people that understand they're squad leader as they sit 400m away sniping people and never place a spawn beacon once in the game, or that your teammates all play the same class. An easy way around this would to give the squad leader to whoever has the biggest party say I'm grouped with 3 friends compared to someone with only 2, I would get squad leader, if everyone is solo, give it to the highest ranking person. This game gives me that breath of fresh air again that many games lately haven't been able to ; Reminds me of the early days of TF2 where people would fool around and not take everything too serious, voice coms are good fun and there's no pressure if you just want to sit in a tank the whole game and do your own thing. (Unless you're squad leader)
I love the community. I think the graphics give everyone a license to just chill out and have fun and I'm 100% behind that.
and also its a rock solid game, by gamers, for gamers. no bullshit. so no distractions either, everyone can have fun without feeling like they are selling their souls to the microtransaction gods.
@@OilHutJoneshe graphics also just make the game way more accessible to people with low-end systems which opens the game up to a much wider audience than Battlefield on PC
Playing music is a bannable offense, these devs are wound up tight.
Always been a huge BF fan and ended up drifting away from it because I thought I just got bored of the formula after BF1. Battlebit truly opened my eyes on the Battlefield franchise. It really hit all the notes that the recent BF titles couldnt. This video is spot on
Same for me. I thought I grew out of it. I've bought every BF since BF4 and I couldn't reach that same high again after BF4. Battlebit proves that it was Dice that drifted away from what truly made their games special.
bf1 just wasn't a good battlefield game, even though it was a great ww1 game.
@@T33K4Y what a good battlefield game is for you? Bf mfs just seem to never enjoy a battlefield game
@@T33K4YW trolling
@@T33K4Y Wasn't a great WW1 game either with all the experimental semi and full auto guns everywhere and the bolt action rifles that 99% used in WW1 almost nowhere to be found.
The banter, arguing among team mates and enemies, made me enjoy this game so much. Had so much joy giving directions or chatting with people in the game. 10/10
The best moment I’ve had so far is that my squad was shown mercy by one random person on the enemy team who dragged my body over to them to be revived. Fast forward 10 minutes later and I was baiting enemies over to my body because I died as I was putting down a mine. Lone behold it was the guy who was nice to us earlier and I blew both him and his squad mate up. I have it clipped as well and it was hilarious.
Ther banter is #1, especially when down waiting for a medic XD. Calling for help or talking mess to the enemy , i love it.
So Toxic. Not allowed in current year.
Serously tho, does anyone remember BFV Beta and Launch they banned the words "White man" but kept "Black man" ? Shit was Insane.
@@refugeehugsforfree4151 And the word "nuts", that's nuts...
I've genuinely always wondered if a game that barely cared about graphics at all and just focused entirely on being made fun could succeed. I'm glad it worked
Minecraft?
@@SirGrassy that's its own design though. I mostly mean a game in a style that is already established. If you don't make it thag specific, then most good indie games would apply
Factorio, cosmoteer, prison architect
my goto bad graphics fun game is OSRS
@@SirGrassy boring
The tradeoff of graphics vs accessibility I think is one aspect you didn't touch on. Folks who played the older BF titles may not have the best rig as life priorities change, but jumping on with old friends playing a cheap title that prioritizes smooth gameplay on a potato over pretty setpieces is very unique in the FPS space. Even as someone with a more powerful rig, having super consistent framerates with 0 effort is a big reduction in the frustration with the game.
Yep so when you get in the small spaces in 127 vs 127 the grenade grenade bullet spam doesn’t rank your game plus the game with shaders is even better
exactly, I think one aspect levelcap missed is how accessible the game is, its potato pc-proof which isn't said about a lot of games coming out now, all the milsim games as well as new battlefield titles would need relatively up-to date rigs and so there is a swathe of people just coming in droves to battlebit for the gameplay that they can't run, and the game has been on a weekly stress test for so long and every time there was never a shortage of full servers.
I agree, i can play this game on my laptop and not cook my hands at the same time while still getting decent consistent frames.
Yep, if I get a smooth framerate, I don't give two turds what the graphics look like. So many games come out now with choppy frames it hurts my eyes to play.
Performance in this game is a huge plus. I wanted to try BF1/V/2048 but none of them even have a chance of running on my GTX 660, leaving me on what was left of bf3/bad company 2 servers. This is the first new battlefield style game I've been able to actually play in years.
This game deserves so much more. they hit the nail on the head for everything needed in a good FPS title. They proved gameplay and the players matter more than looking the best. Every time I boot it up and play I'm filled with a nostalgic feeling of what older BF titles used to make me feel. I can jump into any random match and have a blast because it feels like the BF game I always wanted. I hope the player count continues to stay consistent or grow even more, and I can't wait to see what more new content may await us leading up to this game's full release
The thing that I love about this game like many others have pointed out is the VOIP. Just being able to talk with not only your teammates but also the enemy is such a breath of fresh air. You'd think that having VOIP it would be toxic but in reality everyone is just super chill, I've met a few toxic people here and there but they are a few out of the many interactions I've had with the enemy.
Yeah but the recording us and getting triggered if we talk about anything they dont agree with warning us of perma bans has me suspicious
Why does everything have to be toxic God dang
@@censored4christ162what did you talk about specially that they had a problem with?
Battlebit went back to the basics on a level that everyone has been asking for.
BF needs to bring back spawn camping main bases, vehicles spawning on map instead of a menu. Be more a sandbox like all BF games prior to BF4.
@@v4skunk739no they need a Bad Company 2 Reboot and I'm not talking 2042
@@HumbertoHacked Bad Company 2 sucks compared to the full fat BF3+4.
@@v4skunk739disagree heavily. BFBC2 was a great game with fantastic gunplay that paved the way for 3 and 4. BFBC2 is still the best experience I’ve had in an online shooter to date, and the Vietnam DLC was one of the best value DLCs I’ve ever purchased
In battlefield 1942 you could spend as much of the match as you wanted on the main front line fight wherever it happened to be or you could go around the peripherals and do goofy stuff like setup traps. Had so much fun playing that game back in the day
I remember playing Battlefield 1943 on Wake Island and I'd go to the enemy peninsula solely to use the enemy AA to shoot down enemy planes as they leave their aircraft carrier and once the enemy wised up, hide after leaving TNT on the AA and wait for the enemy to use the AA then blow it up.
@PlebNC don't forget sneaking onto enemy carriers with dynamite and picking off the pilots before they launch
@@BubblesTheAmoeba I did 1 better than using dynamite on the carrier. I'd take control of the AA on their carrier and just wait for the plane's propeller to start up and blast the plane. If any infantry got any wise ideas they'd have no cover so I'd shoot them with the AA too.
It was the dominant way to win Air Supremacy matches until they patched it so carriers were out of bounds for enemies.
@@BubblesTheAmoeba Everyone was a navy seal in that game attacking the ships lol
There used to be a clan in BF1942, something in the lines of Nordic Ice, that made crazy stunt videos.
I can to comment on this video, on how BF1942 was like BattleBit for me.
In 1942 as an engineer, you could keep a mine in your hand and with the correct timing, blew up a jeep trying to run you over without dying or the mine leaving your hand.
Or when you flew with a bf109 and then try to land on the enemy bombers roof while it was full of players.
I am playing BattleBit and I absolutely love it. The best way I heard it described was by Operator Drewski and I'm paraphrasing it, but he said it's like going to a milsim airsoft event. The way everyone interacts with each other, even to opposing teams is pretty fun. My only complaint with the game is the uniform choice. While, I understand that they picked them based off of environment, it does sort of confuse me sometimes if I'm aiming at an enemy or an ally, especially if the friendly marker blends into the environment based on my angle. But I do love that game.
I like how i can chat with the enemy team about how we need a version of operation metro
Who is operator drewski?
Sounds like a porn star but surely it isn’t 🤣
I love discovering the unexpected details in this game.
The sequence when a heli crashes, visual loadout actually having impact on your stats, the realistic "blindness" when you play a map on nightmode.
The feelings are very similiar to those i had when i started playing bf3 back in the days.
One thing I *_ADORE_* about Battlebit is the visual clarity! I don't have to worry about people laying down in a shadow or hiding in a dark spot with some ridiculous camo/customized appearance to cheese kills or make me strain my eyes on guard everywhere I go. I look somewhere, and I can *see* the enemy if they're there.
The lack of advanced shading and shadows along with the very defined character models especially with their "enemy vs. friendly" glowy bits - really helps both urban combat and forest firefights feel fun instead of endlessly frustrating!
This. I remember loading up BF1 for the first time, it was that forest map with a train line down the middle. And all I could think was "Where the bloody hell is the enemy?" Even with a 4K monitor i struggled to see through the intricate bushes grasses and trees, with shadows covering the landscape. Its great to see everything so clearly in Battlebit.
This is why games like halo where so popular for so long. Along with being traditional arena shooters, there was pretty much constant action because everything was right in front of you.
Skill issue.
This is why I love games with this simple style. I don't care about realism -- I want to have fun and I feel like most AAA games have left this audience behind for years now.
This indeed. Its why this 30yo boomer has been stuck on UT99 until now. This is the first fps since that actually looks appealing to me. Focussed on movement and skill; not eyestrain and gimmicks.
I think its got a lot of staying power, as it allows anyone with a machien to run it, take next to no space which is super nice, its OPTIMIZED, and its super fun. That gives it a lot of protection, plus its style is timeless and not state of the art, so art quality isnt an issue
It really depends on how much they expand on the player experience and potentially add more sandbox elements for long-term user generated content. Because in many other regards it can be compared to a timeless game like Minecraft: Also has a visual style that is entirely standalone and not reliant on contemporary visual fidelity standards. Its gameplay is also very accessible for multiple playstyles and easy to get into. There is true potential for longevity for Battlebits, their main obstacle initially will be to ensure the game doesn't grow stale after the initial popularity and intrigue dies off. How well does it retain its players when the next genuinely good AAA game in the genre comes out- because it will happen eventually. Long-term player retention is one of the hardest things to master in any game, especially in shooters that aren't highly competitive (like counter strike for example).
@@Real_MisterSir the long but constant drip of progression will really help it out, im 200 hours into it and I think I have another 200 to go before I can prestige, and there is no way in hell ill have all the attachments for all the guns by then either.
It is literally the same progression formula that won call of duty its fans and support when MW1 came out all those years ago. It was a hit then, and it still works just as well now.
slow continuous drip is how you keep people around, and its how battlebit does it, you will get at least something every 5-20 kills, be it an attachment or a new gun with lvl up and with the sheer number of unlockables, that can continue for 100's if not 1000's of hours.
@@EthanolTailor I think the main important part is that they manage to stay relevant. It got a lot of hype and traction, mostly as a breath of fresh air, but one thing going against it is that it's not free to play, and it doesn't have the outreach of an AAA title either. Player number will always decline after the initial spike, even now 1 month later it's 30% down in player count from 90k to 60k - which of course is normal for any game, but the key part is if they can keep attracting new players or if they primarily rely on the existing player base. Drip-feeding is good when you have a solid core community, but the game is still too young to have an established base and foundation to rely on. Keeping people around doesn't earn them any money, selling more copies or having a form of in-game monetization does. They earned great on the opening month, but if everything from now on is just an expense to maintain players, rather than bring in new / or monetize existing players further, then drip feeding content will not be the game's savior.
This is of course not to argue against your main point, for that I fully agree that drip feeding will be great for the core player base to stay invested. Absolutely. But what is the dev team's benefits from this? How much are they actually getting in return for the hours of work that drip feed content gives them? It got mass market exposure quickly, but staying power and further marketing is questionable. There is also the issue of cheating, which demands exponentially more dev work and practically gives zero money in return, but is still something that must be tackled if the game is going to survive and grow long term.
I hope the game sticks around and becomes a mainstay classic. Time will tell.
Wouldn't say it's "optimized" but it doesn't run bad by any means. Should be running way better, sorry.
An oft-unmentioned aspect of the graphics style is that the flat textures really help with target recognition. I have never lost a gunfight because I couldn't pick out an enemy from the background. I always saw who I was shooting at clearly.
And the right camp works wonders, camo actually helps instead of just beeing a cosmetic
Theres a suprising amount of detail my old crummy latop stil runs on potato at 60fps so i get to crank it up
I wish the teams were a bit better differentiated, but its a small quibble
Those hardcore mechanics, actual gun customization and voice chat, those are things that keep me addicted to it. It is definitely not game that would die quick.
"Voice Chat? Oh, you must want to call people the N word! Can't allow that! Sorry just stare at the score board and pretend you're bantering with enemies" -DICE
@@refugeehugsforfree4151 don't destroy the game reputation just because you think saying the N word is funny. Racism is not cool bro.
@@dadqqader ? My point is some people say the N word so DICE removed the ability to talk to enemies. That is my point. Not that I "want to say the N word" Although let's be real words are words and banning them doesn't make them not exist, those people just find ways of saying the same thing in "Coded" language anyways.
@@dadqqader It is funny because of people like you saying it isn't funny. If you just ignored it then people would just shut up or would find another thing to get you mad, and racism is an easy bait for most people to go insane.
@@dadqqaderreading comprehension is hard
Battlebit is a response to years of player & quality-of-life neglect from DICE, plus over management from EA; it doesn’t seem like it’s a quick burner per-say but it’ll most likely stabilize into a smaller but still respectable player base moving forward. A staple that everyone can come back to because it’s just so easy to get into and the mechanics, for the time being, are solid as hell-so long as the developers keep chugging along with the player focused mindset they’ve been utilizing, it’ll become a poster child for how to properly maintain an FPS
Had 2042 been like BF3 or 4 I honestly don't know if I'd be playing this game, but Battlebit definitly fills an FPS gap that has been there for me since BFV was abandoned.
I really love this game. It is just so hard to play by yourself.
@@yotus3491 I find the 64v64 matches are better for rocking it solo.
You're not really solo if you join a full squad and actually use VOIP. Lot of people actually playing together, it's quite wholesome actually.
Don't like the squad's vibe? Leave and join a different one. Easy enough.
I don't want a BF4 remaster. This game is also NOT a BF4 remaster.
Yeah, Battlefield Vietnam truly was a masterpiece
No one's talking about the importance of VOIP and proxy chat. It ties the community together so well. It's nice to know you're playing with actual people
I was messing around yesterday with c4 jeeps and everytime i tried it or suceeded i would banter with my enemies and its just so refreshing and fun
I like how you fail to mention that its moderated and recorded.
literally every other comment is about the VOIP :D
@@shawno8253 Yeah, you gotta walk on eggshells or else you'll get, not just VC banned,but banned from the actual gameplay.
@tiandi5585 lmao what do u mean walk on eggshells? Just dont be a racist/bigot
I really was hesitant about purchasing this game. I didn't think it looked bad at all, but my previous experiences with battlefield (and my general hesitance with multiplayer fps games) made me think it wouldn't be fun for me. I thought "why not, let's see how this goes", got on with 5 of my friends, and had the best time I've ever had playing an fps. I'm so excited to see where this game goes in the future, especially with all of the game modes that aren't even available yet.
I love this hopefully big devs see that people are willing to leave their games for smaller developers that will listen to them
One can only hope. But AAA gaming is just a huge cash grab at this point.
@@nextisomi it really is sadly, it’s just a infinite money glitch
People really have to commit to the smaller games to see a genuine change in the big ones, I fear. They made their money, they’re not in it for the love of video games
@@nextisomi If Bud Light can be taken down, so can AAA game companies
I also just love how positive the playerbase is. One of my favorite pastimes in the game is being overly-positive in voip and everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) is just so kind back. Even when I'm not being overly kind and just saying gg at the end of a match, the chat is always super positive and there's never any bad blood. Hope we can keep cultivating a positive, sportsman-like atmosphere that has seemed to evade other titles
And funny af, too
@@juggernautknight2749 From watching this video, I went to go play a game, and I literally JUST had an encounter with two enemies where we all had our mics on and were laughing at the goofiness of our situation
New favorite memory of the game
@@juggernautknight2749I love when people act like they are really dying on the mic, "where's my leg, where's my leg!", "mommy, mommyyy!"😂
Everyone's almost always chill in every game I've played so far, it's a nice change of pace to be honest.
It really helps that a single player can’t lead to a victory or sweat their way to a team W. So if you’re not playing in a perfectly min-maxed way, it’s not that big of a deal
A great thing about this game as well is that sniper play and counter play is amazing. The scope flare that appears to show where they are and that they take a device that makes that same flare feels good to play as and against.
I'm happy about BattleBit's success. One thing I've been very annoyed with over the last decade plus of the gaming industry is there is a loss of focus on the actual game mechanics, and instead in things like animations, particle FX, and other things that comes secondary to the experience.
When you don't have to make an animation, particle effect, whatever, for every little thing you want to make a feature for, suddenly you can make tons of features, and very quickly.
And the game runs smoothly, and high tick rates. Truth is, most people can't run modern games well with all this bullshit. So why are they creating games that can be enjoyed at their peak by only 5% of people who have 2k dollar computers?
You just described the target market known as whales
AAA games spend most their budget on marketing, graphics, and MTX department
As a peak 2k pc owner, I'd trade all the pretty graphics for solid Gameplay.
I get very irritated any time I hear someone mention low-poly graphics as if it is holding Battlebit back. The hardware requirements being equivalent to a basic work laptop from 2010 means that anyone can play Battlebit. Even that cheap desktop your family bought grandma so she could have something to browse Facebook on can run Battlebit.
@@carboncopy4183 cod doesnt even run that well on a 2k pc.
So much fun. It's simple and not so serious. Even the banter between players for the most part is jovial, light-hearted. Which is refreshing. People aren't taking themselves too seriously, and it's made this FPS enjoyable for me.
Wait until 1 year passes, people will be tryhard and toxic
@@shredd5705 that certainly is one of the more negative outcomes.
@@maj_pr0blems It often happens as games age (if they become really popular). People stop tolerating new player mistakes and cheating and exploiting glitches etc. becomes more common. Maybe the light hearted Roblox look will negate some of that, but isn't Minecraft community also toxic. Sadly almost all games that become popular, become also toxic
Reminds me of counter strike. Everyone was fairly "normal" for being on the internet because everyone knew the whole purpose was to have fun, not be the best.
Friend asked me to play this this past weekend and I bought it on a whim because why not? Ended up playing for 3 hours straight with him and never once cared how graphically good it was because I was having so much fun! I love the drag mechanic to bring a downed soldier into cover before reviving them and to me seems like a no brainer feature that any new Battlefield game should have had at the outset.
I really hope EA and DICE take notes but they probably won't.
3 incredibly good former triple A devs got sick of the shit the studios they once worked for are doing and made a game that is rivaling their once employers, absolutely insane and amazing callout to the modern big studio gaming industry.
@@Unknown_Genius people have complained in one way or another about the state of AAA gaming for a good 10-15 years.. when DLC was making it's ever-so-important entry into the market in the mid to late 200x's alot of people were criticizing even call of duty's 4 map DLC model for modern warfare 1.. >:X trends pick up, it's just in the last 10 that the problem has become vastly more inflated with microtransactions replacing DLC as a defacto money source for games and inflating profits.
@@ThatWhichObservesThis game has been in development longer than most triple A complainers have been alive kek
@@Unknown_Genius yet triple A games are still garbage
The fact that it’s probably the best shooter on the pc market atm makes me think this game will stick around for awhile. The player count is going to decline it’s inevitable, but I honestly think it will retain a solid player base for awhile.
I'm making it a goal for the rest of 2023 to play at least an hour a day. The game NEEDS community support, maybe that will wake AAA teams up.
@@drewber2006Wow! What a amazing goal. You are truely a hero. I REALLY REALLY hope you can achieve your pathetic goal.
Makes me wonder if they should do a Free Weekend to ride this hype even further. Get tons of additional people into the game who have no doubt heard about it from one of their friends. I'd imagine retention would be decent seeing as it's only a $15 purchase.
@@LeftJoystick this is genius and would honestly blow its playercount sky high
@@AceMyHighok but... Why the hate??
the biggest thing imo would be the number of people on a single map. i dont know when it happened but there has been like a 60 player cap on most games. even on hll its 100. There were games like 20 years ago with more than that. Planetside 1 for instance.
BattleBit absolutely rules, picked it up on a whim because it was recommended on my steam home page. LevelCap nailed it here by accurately assessing that it just does what other AAA large scale FPS games refuse to, focus on being fun first. Personally I could care less what a game looks like if it has all the other features I really enjoy. Hopefully BattleBit sticks around for the long haul, I'll definitely be recommending it to my friends.
I think it's important to remember that it's not only a $15 game, but they're in early access aswell, so there's bound to be some quality of life stuff to the game aswell. Even though it's a solid base right now, it'll surely get even better down the line if they continue their already great work
Majority of games are in early access. Devs just don't tell you that so you think you are getting a finished product.
@@mad_elfyeah early access doesn’t mean anything anymore, it’s just a bullshit marketing buzzword to lower your expectations
@@Brent-jj6qi Agreed, but I do believe this team thinks there is a lot more to be added. Similar to squad who were early access for years until releasing there massive update and showing us what they really wanted the game to be front the start.
@@mad_elf sure but how hard is it to add more maps and guns? I mean the early access thing you’re describing is generally for big AAA studios to cover their asses for buggy and poor quality of life releases, but this game doesn’t really suffer from those kinds of issues. It’s a very quality experience already, so I think you’re being overly pessimistic. This game will definitely continue being developed and supported with more new content because the player base is determined to show Dice how dumb they are for abandoning support for their games, releasing content devoid and unfinished garbage, ignoring community feedback, and publicly shaming and admonishing the fans for having expectations
@@cdf360 you're diving homie. I was just saying that games are never going to be finished products at release. AAA or indie. I'm not saying that makes them a bad game.
The Beauty of Battlebit is pretty much the fact that you don't need a visually impressive game just a game with a good or digestible art direction and a focus on the gameplay, I always felt that AAA studios forgot that they were making a game instead of a graphical tech demo.
proud to live in a time where people can enjoy battlefield at its peak. This game is incredible.
I'm absolutely obsessed with this game. I got it a week ago and played with a couple friends and at first I thought it's alright, you know something goofy to play with friends every now and then but now I've suddenly racked up over 40hrs mostly playing alone and I'm having so much fun. Like you said, it's also something you can easily hop on. It takes about 20 seconds from your desktop and you're right in the middle of the action.
I like that the progression system is pretty grindy and long, it'll keep players interested longer because there's always a new gun or an attachment to unlock.
And when it comes to visuals it's actually surprisingly atmospheric with the nice lighting and weather changes despite having a low poly art style.
10/10 would buy again.
Biggest thing that stuck out to me was how responsive and immediate the hitreg feels. It immediately makes battlefield's gunplay feel way too laggy. Also I think player hosted servers will help give it a lasting hold vs retail Battlefield.
I feel like the basic graphics will add to the games lifespan. All modern games are always so "realistic" that it's not only boring, but also confusing at times. People want to have fun, not try to see an enemy blending in because of the realistic terrain. Additionally, the gun models are pretty neat.
i can see them updating the character models and giving them more polygons, cause they are a little bit behind of the weapons on that sense, but it 100% agree with you, visual clarity is never an issue and i love how the game runs fine on my kind of old rig with 254 players
Yeah, I don’t really place a high degree of importance on photorealistic graphics. I prefer a low polygon art style. I don’t need super realistic water reflections or real time shadows if that processing power could be used to do something more interesting like adding destructible terrain.
Massive TF2 energy
My thoughts exactly, especially with the WARZONE 2
@@GusCraft460 same, better game mechanics over better graphics. Take project Zomboid for example it won’t win any graphically awards but it has insanely deep core mechanics
One thing I dont see people mentioning is when you dont restrict the voice chat and allow people to have casual trash talk it makes your game bleed positivity and banter. Purposely limiting it or not having it all makes people toxic.
Reminds me of how Deep Rock Galactic did the same
For sure, there has been a lot of funny banter between the teams at times, its quite wholesome. I haven't seen like any toxicity at all, it seems like everyone is having a fun time even if they are dying.
Because most games wouldn't be toxic if the devs and their moderators actually cared about people and getting them together for fun
I remember when I play CS source on servers owned by players. The mods keep the banter moderated and kick obnoxious kids/manchildren.
Building a relationship in a private server was fun and rewarding. I think that was really important in making the community positive.
I just got the game about 5 days ago, and I'm now at 50+ hours and rank 53. I know some people think having to hit level 100 sounds crazy to use a new gun, but because of the different classes and all the attachments for the guns, it hasn't been a problem and makes me excited to grind out a gun. I finally got the SCAR-H last night and it made grinding out the first 50 levels feel so good. The only gripe I really have with the game is there are a lot of snipers on some maps, but as a sniper myself I guess I can't complain. This is also the first time I've ever played a competitive game with VOIP and I love it. Being able to talk to other squad leaders and actually out attacks adds a new layer to online gaming that I haven't had before.
But the huge problem is at rank 70 and rank 105 the guns Vector, and AS Val seem to be extremely stronger than any other smg and rifle you get before it. I just unlocked Vector and it has a 1200 fire rate and makes close combat give me a extreme edge. Locking the best weapons behind extreme level walls is very annoying.
Games just chaotic and not competitive
I actually liked it when they introduced Levolution in BF4. It made it a very cinematic and unique experience. The problem is they began sacrificing the basic elements we all loved for these features. Battlebit is the competition Battlefield needs.
It also changed hw certain maps are played liked lancang damn or siege of Shanghai
Exactly. The problem with a game like 2042 was never that they had these big cinematic elements that provide great immersion. The problem is that they got fucking lost in the sauce and tried to add elements that nobody associate with the BF experience, such as big hero-shooter elements with specialists, sacrifice of old features that were loved, scaling back on actual environment destruction / interaction, and ofc the fact that the game was nowhere near finished when it launched and ran like a potato even on the best hardware.
It was just insanely poorly managed with no vision behind whatsoever. That's why it failed.
@@waynesmith7746that was the point of the levolution events. It actually made Siege of Shanghai bearable when the middle tower was destroyed
I love the blocky graphics I always get lost in all the visual noise of battlefield and war zone, having simple graphics helps me actually enjoy playing on these large maps and be able to see enemies so much easier
same. back as a teen glad i checked unturned, w/ games like it, its content was literally imagination as its limits. edit: blocky graphics does compensate for being a comprehensive game of being an amalgamation of the biggest fps titles
@@R3TR0J4NI really don’t get why people say the obvious blocky style choice Is because the games early access like Unturned exists and so does a lot of other blocky games
@@seasons1745 Because other blocky games are consistent with their textures and shading. Compare battlebit's ground texture to any of the buildings and the difference in detail is way too drastic.
lol yea cause war is so crisp and clear...the reason why other milsims are so much further superior is cause of that. There is literally 0 realism in this and defeats the entire purpose of its goal people rant on about
I think easier accessibility will make this game strive even more than the actual Battlefield franchise. Because people usually get drawn into a game with a lot of people playing it, especially large-scale multiplayer game like this. Not only people with 'potato' PC can run this game, but that $15 price tag on the game is also more appealing to a wider audience with different monetary condition. In contrast, the current Battlefield franchise can only be accessed by people with high-end pc and a fat stack of change because of that AAA pricing.
I’d like to see the play test player counts over the last few years. People have been playing it for a long time and sticking with the game before the early access launch
Was in one of the playtests over a year ago and the test i was in had 22k people. That would have been late 2021
its a sanctuary from recent fps genre
Been watching you for about 10 years now. Crazy to see where Battlefield was then vs. now, and how a game like this is taking over. And you're still covering Star Citizen!
In my opinion besides it being a functionally fun game, it is winning with compatibility. You don't need a $1000+ computer to just play a fun game and i think it being more than playable on non gamer pcs is really what is helping this game spread as much as it has. I think while it is awesome for graphics to keep evolving, it is expensive to try and keep up with it.
One thing that I’ve noticed and haven’t seen anyone mention is that they have tons of weapons but no “fire and forget” weapons like Stinger AA. All the weapons take at least some level of skill to use…with the exception of grenade spam. I think, for me at least, the gameplay that requires at least a minimal skill level makes it more fun
It makes it feel so rewarding when you finally slap a tandem warhead through a Blackhawk or Littlebird windshield
learning how to read and use the scope of the RPG is a unique experience no other game has made me do and I love it lol
All weapons except the Vector*. That thing is easy mode. I racked up 500 kills with it in no time [60-round Drum Mag is nuts lol...can just lay into a group and drop 5-6 of them]. It's even decent at mid range. It's stupid, and makes a bunch of other weapons not worthwhile unless you want to "challenge yourself".
When a weapon is so dominant that it makes you feel like you're nerfing yourself by using something else, there's a problem imo.
@@joetatos8687 It's definitely got some mil-sim aspects to it, which is cool. Like Squad~ Can't wait for the Battlebit Milsim mode :D
@@LeftJoystick I think that’s my next weapon unlock.
I think one of the main reasons Battlebit is so successful is because it embraces its low poly art style, and actually uses it to its strength.
Gameplay loop is king
Agreed. I hate when people say this has “bad graphics”. It’s an art style
Plus poly stylized look is really big right now. I LOVE it. Ultra realistic is kind of frustrating because it makes it hard to see what’s going on, stylized makes everything pop out much more and makes it easier for me to instantly understand things in the heat of the moment, which I prefer in competitive games over pretty graphics.
@@HemlockRC On the other hand, you can say that whenever something looks not as sharp as something else.
I think it's fair to say it looks shit, but this seems to be done intentionally to save resources on the developers end, provide fluent gameplay even on weaker machines, allow for bigger game lobbies and enhance performance.
Overall this sacrifice is well worth it since good games are not just about graphics.
@@ColdGhost01 If they were trying to make it look realistic, and it wasn’t high fidelity, then you could say the graphics suck. The developers made a decision to make it a low poly art style. Nobody complains about terraria and Minecraft, because that’s the intended art style. If call of duty 2024 has bad textures, then I would say that they failed to meet their own standards of “graphics”
Battlebit gameplay + Battlefield graphics = Best War Game Ever.
This time of year isn't reflecting well how popular this, or any other new game is..there's festivals, people travelling because of vacation etc. Battlebit will be gathering more people for sure with more updates. I wish nothing but the best to the devs.
>festivals
>travelling
tiktok is that way, bye.
@@VinceR3000I think he is talking about real life.
@@VinceR3000touch grass lol
It’s SO refreshing that the visuals are so simple. I don’t need my GAMES to look like real life, I need them to be fun and have good core gameplay and progression systems.
Reminds me of phantom forces from roblox, plays similar too
@@RhomasTotevenaarPhantom Forces is amazing
I think the success is a combo of ease of use, good matchmaking, listening to the community and the fact that due to its graphics and looks, it takes far less of an investment to play than more recent games with insane graphics. Just goes to show that smaller studios can do things vastly better than larger ones and I hope larger companies take notice and get their shit together
This game absolutely rocks. I only got it last week and have 40+ h in it already. Almost got sentimental when playing it the first time when I started understanding it's exactly what I have been wanting BF to be for a decade now. I like the elements they took from Squad and made it just a little more hardcore than BF but not as hardcore as Squad, it still has plenty of "only in battlefield" insane moments but it feels also more tactical and deliberate.
Love the content LevelCap, keep up the great video. We appreciate you
Local positional audio communication is the most important feature that battlefield games are lacking. If they implement that like onward has it will be a game changer. I dislike how recent battlefield games lack any socialization aspects. I always feel like i’m playing the game with an AI where everyone is just silent. I want to talk to my whole team and have fun. 3D positional voice audio is a must have in any multiplayer game.
Battlebit gives me BF3 vibes and level of excitement. It's mind blowing 3 people can develop a game that gives 80% of what FPS gamers want. I want BBR to be more successful than BF and COD. Let's be honest, Triple A publishers are greedy, money hungry pigs. EA I absolutely hate you as a publisher. Activision I hate you as well. These days the triple A clowns care more about political BS than creating a great game. 2042 is playable but not nearly as enjoyable as Battlebit is.
Overall BBR is actually pretty balanced. AR's aren't complete lasers. MGs don't shread like they do in Battlefield which is good in my eyes. Snipers are useful but not nearly as cracked as people would think. SMGs are SMGs. Some may argue the vector is broken. The gun irl was meant to be a laser so I would assume.
I'd say the same thing about bbr when it comes to the political stuff. There's to many chat rules you can't say anything without getting banned.
snipers are pretty strong but only on the big open maps like the one wtih the ship in the middle but on smaller maps they are actually pretty weak because of the slow fire rate. most of the time the medics or assists have the most kills and deaths because they are always in the front fighting. i have seen match leaderboard winners with 100+ kills and 50+ deaths in one match.
true 100 %
@@The723343im sorry you can’t be an edgy teenager in chat, one day you’ll realize most people are normal and don’t think your jokes are that funny.
@@The723343 from what I remember you just can't really debate politics/religion or be racist and transphobic
You can absolutely shit talk all you want
The craziest thing I’ve experienced in the game was colliding with another helicopter crashing and having the screen black out like your character had a concussion. Then he woke up and started pushing with the rest of the squad. It was a only in battlebit moment
Out of all the other things going on in this game, your screen turning black is what amazed you…?
@@NahBNah Think you missed the point here lol
At least when your visuals return, you're back in Battlebit.
In many instances while playing 2042, I would honestly prefer the black screen.
@@NahBNah Simulated helo crashes where you're able to survive is a pretty neat feature man
@@NahBNah Uh yeah? This is the first game I played that simulates helicopter crashes and makes you black out until you regain consciousness. The whole point of this is that I did not expect that to happen at all it was just one random moment.
The only wake-up call was the fact that gamers are so quick to change their minds that instead of continuing to play this game they claim is better than 2042, it has 1/5 the player count.
I really hope it will hold the players in! Such a great reminder of how great multiplayer shooters can be.
When playing Battlebit there's just this sense that every decision was made in pursuit of a well thought through vision.
I think that's also why FromSoft games are so loved. There's no moment where you get mad at a committee or publisher.
Battlefield couldn't do this because there's too many people involved and too few of them actually care about the game.
At this point all I want from a battlefield game is to feel like a soldier in a modern setting, no hero skills and micro-transaction skins that just takeaway from the sandbox that made battlefield 3 & 4 so good back in the day
Having been play testing this for over a year, It’s been great to see the growth and improvements before launch. Definitely gives me optimism that it will continue to get better with time.
Crazy how fast weapons and vehicles were implemented. They'd add stuff over the course of a few days.. vs the 6 months to a year that higher resolution games add.
I know it helps a lot that equipment and graphics aren't insane.. but I wish devs would not worried about having super realistic graphics, and just make the game fun
I fell out with FPS like CoD and Battlefield a long time ago. After hearing about thus game I was interested and eventually bought it and I've been hooked ever since. It really brought back the joy I originally felt playing classic shooters like Battlefield 3
this comment might have clinched it for me, in terms of buying it this weekend! BF3 was an amazing time in online multiplayer gaming. Hasn't been replicated in my experience since.
@@jonholbrook8821 I feel about same except the part where I dont really care for battlebit at all. It just doesnt click with me at all. I'd still rather play BF3 or BF4.
Seeing someone call Battlefield 3 a "classic shooter" made me feel really old.
Yeah same I dont think ive had this much fun in a shooter since like bf3 or black ops 2
I think it will continue to grow as more people play this game. The fact that any pc can play it even a laptop is a winner. This isn't even on console yet. The playability of this game is what makes it fun . Took me a good few games to get into this game because of the graphics but playing a few games solo I don't even notice the graphics I was having fun. AAA games are to analytical they try to copy what the latest best game is doing That's why they all have heroes in them now and let's not go down the road of micro transaction that's a game killer right there.
This game has taught me that I actually don't care that much about graphics, because about 10 minutes into the game I stop caring about how it looks because it plays SOOOO good
I like how you can make things hilarious like slapping explosives to drones, or parkour, or become a human artillery.
If they change the player models from the blocky Roblox style to a more regular person kind of look, I think it would make the game a lot better for me. I just have the hardest getting past the character models, but otherwise, it's done everything near perfectly gameplay wise.
I played it today. Despite the blocky graphics it felt more than a war game than anything I have played in a long time while still being quick in the action and fun to play.
Dont always want new and innovative, sometimes just want fun and uncomplicated back to basics mechanics. Also a game that just works.
I love how snappy everything is. I can go from desktop to in a game in about 30 seconds. It'd be 20 if they got rid of the asinine agreements and if "Whats New" only popped up when there was something new. Either way, thats lightyears better than the 5 minutes it takes with Battlefield.
You said everything anyone who used to play battlefield games is thinking. Great video
this is the first game in years that made me excited to get home and start playing games after work. even now a week after release im eager to get on and have fun shooting and messing around with friendlies and ennemies.
I love that you're diving into this game so much and enjoying it! not sure anyone else could compare Bit and BF quite so clearly as LC - good stuff!
This game put me back in the FPS genre after years. I'm totally crap after so many time but still having fun.
Battlebit has been a blast. My best memories with battlefield were the bf bad company 2 and bf3 eras and Battlebit has reminded me a lot of them. I really don't see myself buying another battlefield game anytime soon, but I'm looking forward to queueing up Battlebit with some friends this weekend.
I haven't played this game but just from watching it, one of the appealing things about it is how easy it is to see the player models, both friendly and enemy. Newer games may look good but it gets old being killed from players you can't see because of all the visual clutter of new games
I've been thinking a lot about Valheim ever since Battlebit's release. Both developers decided to use highly stylized "low-fi" graphics that emphasis only what is important for the player while also being highly atmospheric and it totally works. I hope more studios take this approach in the future.
I think ignoring the microscopic texture detail and tesselation and crap like that frees up a lot of time and resources to add all the content you can imagine into a game. You can still make it immersive without those tiny details. Just like back in the ps1 days, if a game was designed well enough you'd be just as immersed as any modern game, if not more than the shiny turds we have today.
@@chrisrichfield8906By focusing on the new nices to have like god rays and light volumetric fog, dynamic vegetation and trimming down textures and micro details we might be able to provide a nice experience, that tones down this "uncanney valley" effect I see on high graphics games. That's more unsettling to me
Valheim is so great.
I've played over 2k hours in battlefield 2 and this game is bringing back all the good memories
Theres a reason ive been giving battlebit my money on patreon for years now! The amount of fun i would have in the playtest was unrivaled. There's nothing quite like being damn near 30, and going to bed early so you can be up at 6am to play the playtest 😂
What's funny is that EA has whole research departments to find out what players want and despite that, it's so obvious that what players want is exactly this what battlebit delivers. It couldn't be more obvious even without doing a single survey.
Battlebit is doing so well because it's offering *what we wanted* slight innovations here and there and melding some of the best from all over the team-based FPS genre.
Wake up call, that's exactly what this game is
You nailed it on the head when you said Battlebit includes lots of features Battlefield vets have been asking for. Plenty of maps, squad management, map voting, easier reporting system, and a scoreboard (don't even get me started on why someone thought a completive fps shouldn't have a scoreboard at launch). The progression to unlock deadlier equipment is a juicier carrot than some wacky ass skin I don't give 2 shits about.
I think price has a lot to do with this also. When I buy a 60 70,80 or $90 game I’m constantly mentally checking to see if I feel like I got my value. It takes away from some of the joy of just being immersed in the game. Corporations need to realize that they will sell a lot more games if they would lower the price.
Agreed. Although if they're gonna lower the price, then they need to also work with a much smaller team. It's insane to see that just three devs brought this game to a deliverable, enjoyable state. In theory, big game studios should be able to do such small team experiments, too, but I imagine they're too ingrained in planning too much out from the start.
I think a big part to is that 90$ isn’t even the full price. Most companies openly tell you about the “dlc path” they have set up before the game is even finished or bug free.
Passionate Developers vs Career Developers. One makes the game because they want to achieve greatness, the other does it because a company with shareholders pays them to make the game.
I'm not constantly checking to feel if I got my value for a game but I do have certain expectations at those price points and Triple A gaming has been failing them for the most part for awhile now. It feels more like we are just paying that much money for pretty graphics than we are for a good game with good value.
This game is absolutely addicting, the amount of fun situations I run into when I can talk to enemies by proximity or drag an enemy body or suicide C4 are just so fun
there are 2 reasons i did not buy 2042, i did not have trust in the game would be finished and work and no classes.
battlebit just WORKS and it is more satisfying and just better than i expected.
they did not try to reinvent the wheel they just PERFECTED it and i love it!
Most fun I've had playing battlefield since Bf3, playing BattleBit .