BattleBit Remastered test

It slowly seems unusual and fresh when a person wants a fish, so he goes into a shop labeled “fish shop”, asks for a fish, and then they put a fish in front of him for a price. No sign-up, no customer points, no fish collection stickers, no fish upgrade, fish roadmap, fish store account, fish microtransactions or “Halfway became an octopus, can you stay?” – well, in our case, that vet fish is the BattleBit. He doesn’t swim, but he shoots pretty well.

And the last sentence is already a succinct explanation of how this Roblox-like Battlefield seriousness, developed by roughly four people, burst onto the prairie, and then fed dust with that momentum behind it in the rear-view mirror with the Big Names of the genre. The pitch is very simple: for 15 euros, the player gets three game sizes (127 players against 127, or the same with teams of 64 and 32 players), six selectable classes, as well as a handful of courses, where you can unlock additional levels by collecting experience points and frags. weapons and their accessories. The tracks are relatively diverse, the built environment can be destroyed to a large extent, or in addition to daytime, nighttime battles will also appear.

The player’s movement on the terrain is easy and fast, he can use vehicles, climbing rope, build shelters, advanced bases. The combination of movement, animations and weapon use results in fast-paced, easy-to-use, murderous, yet light-hearted arcade gameplay, with one or two small ideas (e.g. accurate record keeping of magazines and ammunition compensation), where the player is usually driven through the BattleBit Remastered on its own graphics, especially on character models that really require a significant amount of holy water.

The gameplay has such a stable foundation that it does not cause too much pain to turn a blind eye to the inconveniences that arise later. Examples include weak sounds, the clumsiness of some actions (e.g. throwing grenades), the lack of preset characters, some imbalance of character classes, or anomalies in the parameters of weapons and accessories and their unlocking order. These will presumably be modified by the development team, but on the one hand, within the framework of honest information, I cannot appeal to the uncertain future, and on the other hand, I don’t need to: even in its current state, BattleBit Remastered was more than capable of pulling me back into a genre from which I left somewhere at the height of Battlefield Vietnam. and the number of players at least suggests that this is not just an outlier measurement error.

Even though the disjointed elements of the game mechanics do not actually show anything revolutionary, or even somewhat new, the overall implementation is still able to achieve that about two hundred and fifty people per game will obliviously pull the fire button, plant the mine, drive the helicopter, bounce through the trenches with a machine gun or scan the rooftops with a thermal imager in search of Duplo figures with hideous faces. Although it’s natural that BattleBit Remastered won’t be for everyone, it’s worth not being alarmed by the screenshots and giving the game an hour or two to play. There is a tolerable chance that it will bring some unexpected refreshment to the summer.