pretty done
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CS:GO's numbers make this post look ridiculous. You don't need to make a babby game to sell these days, stop with this shit.
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LawBreakers' launch numbers are much lower than Battleborn's - PCGamesN
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CS:GO's numbers make this post look ridiculous. You don't need to make a babby game to sell these days, stop with this shit.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
I frequent GAF every day but even I said, "Huh, what game is LawBreakers?" :O
hydrophilic attack
Member
the shooter MOBA genre is getting very overcrowded
Iced Arcade
Member
legit never heard of it until the other day in a gaf thread
Dr. Black Jack
Member
lol of course the only modern shooter i really vibe with is being ignored
fucking kids
fucking kids
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
Not even a moba. It's an arena shooter. But that nobody knows that and why Lawbreakers isn't "Overwatch but not" seems to be a big part of the problem.
UltimateUnknown
Member
I honestly think people are just tired of these frantically paced futuristic boost jump all over the place shooters.
Successful shooters are now going back to classic boots on the ground gameplay (COD, BF, etc). Even OW is a very grounded and reasonably paced game.
Successful shooters are now going back to classic boots on the ground gameplay (COD, BF, etc). Even OW is a very grounded and reasonably paced game.
Almost spit out my dinner leftovers. 🤣
It isn't like OW when it plays. It isn't a moba. It's just a fast paced shooter ala Titanfall without mechs.
The core gameplay loop is fantastic, but can take a little to click. (5-10 matches)
Damn fine game worthy of anyone's $30.00. More folks should give it a chance, but I agree with everyone here that the media push didn't exist for this game at all. You can't send a game like this out and hope places like GAF, Reddit, and Twitch sell it for you. Unless all the big streamers gravitate towards it, then you won't reach realistic sales goals.
The core gameplay loop is fantastic, but can take a little to click. (5-10 matches)
Damn fine game worthy of anyone's $30.00. More folks should give it a chance, but I agree with everyone here that the media push didn't exist for this game at all. You can't send a game like this out and hope places like GAF, Reddit, and Twitch sell it for you. Unless all the big streamers gravitate towards it, then you won't reach realistic sales goals.
Demoskinos
Member
The trailers won't. I was entirely skeptical of the game as well. This is a game that you need to meet half way and actually give a try to get it to click.
Vanguard771
Member
I was actually put off the game by the trailer that had that awful rendition of Spirit in the Sky. It just grates my nerves whenever I think about it.
Brink didn't work. Awful netcode. This game is 100% fully functioning and fun. Plus, Brink had a marketing push from inception to release.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
I didnt even know it was releasing this year lmao
Ricerocket
Member
Huh I said it before in the beta #s thread, but this game suffers from an identity to get people looking or talking about it. The art is way too generic and we have Cliff making jokes about anime and Overwatch but when you do hero shooters, you should have heroes with some background and interesting personality that separates them from the others to entice people to a hero shooter.
epeternally
Member
How big was anyone expecting Lawbreakers to be? 1-3k players actually seems pretty good from where I'm sitting, it's much better than Deformers was able to pull off. Game was never going to be a major hit but if they can keep those people playing, I could see Lawbreakers finding its niche. I was expecting sub-500 player counts and this doesn't seem to be that level of a complete bomb.
No marketing. No waifus/husbandos. No sales.
Same lol.
I thought this was a ways off.
Same lol.
I thought this was a ways off.
sturgboski
Member
Thank God LRG set aside copies of Wonder Boy to bundle with this title. (still bitter).
Is this Cliffy B's new sorta hero shooter / unreal title? I watched stuff for it earlier this summer and it felt like an also-ran. You have Overwatch, you have Paladins, hell you have that new Quake Arena, you have UT, *shrugs*.
Is this Cliffy B's new sorta hero shooter / unreal title? I watched stuff for it earlier this summer and it felt like an also-ran. You have Overwatch, you have Paladins, hell you have that new Quake Arena, you have UT, *shrugs*.
Yeah, let's talk again in December
DirgeExtinction
Member
I didn't even know it already released.
Glass Rebel
Member
DCEU is actually making money.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Is it weird to have lost interest at the very title of the game?
I did because the name is so lame. I'll check out some videos.
I did because the name is so lame. I'll check out some videos.
copelandmaster
Member
It just wasn't super interesting. Every class felt like a mixed bag to play and it felt like the whole thing was being held back or something, like the game wasn't firing on all cylinders.
The two most frustrating classes for me were the Tracer/McCree expy and the jet pack character. Te/Mc had too much shit going on in terms of weapons (juggling a semi auto pistol with a magnum? Why?) and not enough in terms of powers ('just' teleportation, boring RAT-TA-TA spray n pray ULT). Jetpack had the jetpack, which would've been awesome if you weren't so restricted on fuel use or travel distance (the cramped lvl design). It was like I was playing a FPS Vanquish... for about 2 seconds at a time with baby's first rocket booster. Crank that shit up. The devs also managed to make a chain gun feel like a peashooter.
A few of the classes had a useless secondary weapon that you just forgot about while playing. Get rid of that junk and make the main weaponry and powers better.
The two most frustrating classes for me were the Tracer/McCree expy and the jet pack character. Te/Mc had too much shit going on in terms of weapons (juggling a semi auto pistol with a magnum? Why?) and not enough in terms of powers ('just' teleportation, boring RAT-TA-TA spray n pray ULT). Jetpack had the jetpack, which would've been awesome if you weren't so restricted on fuel use or travel distance (the cramped lvl design). It was like I was playing a FPS Vanquish... for about 2 seconds at a time with baby's first rocket booster. Crank that shit up. The devs also managed to make a chain gun feel like a peashooter.
A few of the classes had a useless secondary weapon that you just forgot about while playing. Get rid of that junk and make the main weaponry and powers better.
Cave Johnson
Member
I played the beta on the PS4. It felt like a high frame rate but not 60fps. It's a lot different watching a PC stream.
Nah, the name is so try hard that you just check out
I played an alpha and it ran really bad on my (admittedly mid-low tier) PC, and I had trouble not just dying over and over. I am sure things have improved since then, but it didn't feel encouraging.
Shame the game isn't doing better though, seems like it has its charms and unique selling points. I'm not against playing it at some point, just not high on my list.
Shame the game isn't doing better though, seems like it has its charms and unique selling points. I'm not against playing it at some point, just not high on my list.
Messofanego
Banned
Can someone explain the name? Lawbreakers was previously called Blue Streak, too, like that Martin Lawrence movie. I don't get it...
Forerunner
Member
One team are the authorities (Law) and the other are criminals (Breakers).
LawBreakers. It's pretty lame tbh.
Ok marketing is not gonna do much for a game like this. My belief is the design choices they made for the characters is what really did the game in. The design of the character are great and all but they look realisticly like people you would see on the street who would not be in that type of situation. For the FPS crowd and unrealistic but realistic design would work better than a fully realistic design like that. It really has no appeals.
Finaika
Member
Is that really the tagline for the game?
texhnolyze
Banned
The genre has over-saturated, time to jump on a new one, devs.
SpiceMelange
Member
The difference is CSGO is not very mechanically demanding. It's a very slow, "hold the angles" game instead of zipping around hitting mid air targets like quake or ut. Now I am not saying CSGO requires less skill (it's a very very tactical game, smokes, breaching, teamwork, gun economy, anticipating targets, map knowledge, etc) but it requires less of the mechanical skill subset, which really make or break newcomers in general I personally find (see: fighters, starcraft, quake, ut, etc)
UT, Quake Champions these are pretty close to what LB is doing.
Sleight of Jam
Banned
Yeah... I saw one of those ads on Facebook and Jesus I wanted to think it was ironic, but it comes across as sincere and its embarrassing really.
Tell that to Nexon this feels like an expensive try at mainstream western FPS. while not the biggest game the assets are of a high quality.
I was hoping Cliffy was making a MAP only PC Gears type game.
