BattleBit Remastered is an online multiplayer first-person shooter with destructible environments. The game is in early access, but now more than 50,000 players are online every day. Today we will tell you what kind of project it is, why everyone compares the game with the series Battlefield and what are the developers’ plans.
What is Battlebit Remastered?
This is a low poly shooting game designed for a large number of players. There are 3 modes in which 64, 128 or 254 players can play simultaneously. Thanks to the “simple” graphics, you don’t need a powerful gaming computer and the servers are light, so you don’t have to wait in line for hours for an epic battle. The game was created by 3 developers who worked on the project for 6 years. The current version is subtitled Remastered, as enthusiasts have made the game almost from scratch over the course of its three years of development.
Main gameplay features
There are several points that distinguish the game from the huge number of “Battlefield clones”:
- Voxel graphics that game fans will love minecraft and roblox;
- Object destructibility – you can level the environment without losing FPS;
- Spare capacity and servers – multiplayer games at release often experience drops in frames per second and many hours of waiting in line. This is not the case in BattleBit Remastered. The servers will be able to handle about 80,000 players;
- Work and various equipment – the player can control tanks, helicopters, cars and ships.
Why does everyone compare the game to Battlefield?
Even on the official Discord channel, there was a discussion about “How’s the game?”. Most noted that on Battlefield 3-4.
But it’s more about the genre. Create a 100 person cartoon style battle royale that you will surely compare to Fortnite. The main mechanisms have long been invented and work well, so why complicate gamers’ lives by introducing new rules? The developers of Battlefield in this regard have made a great leap in the development of the genre and have long been entrenched in the memory of the players, even among those who did not play these games.
We recently discussed why Atomic heart is called “Russian”. Bioshock. BattleBit Remastered has a similar situation.
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How did BattleBit Remastered get to the top of Steam online?
Games of this genre are not uncommon, but they always arouse interest among players. And the more gamers can play online at the same time, the more people want to try themselves in such battles. There can be up to 254 players on one map in BattleBit and 64 players in Battlefield 4.
The game is still in early access, public interest will depend on the authors’ support of the game. But already today 19 maps, 45 types of weapons and a variety of equipment are presented, which will hold the attention of players for several weeks. The time for the release is also well chosen – from this month’s main new products, Diablo 4, many have already made it.
What’s wrong with “Battle” against the background of this project
EA DICE is a large company with over 700 developers. They make large-scale projects with great graphics and gameplay, but they do it for a long time, expensive and with various “buts” on the release. You can play BattleBit Remastered for only 700 rubles, getting everything the same, but without lags, many hours of downloads and other problems. As practice shows, in multiplayer games people follow emotions and are ready to sacrifice visuals.
Today’s player needs constant updates and new sensations, otherwise the project will quickly get bored, it will become covered with dust in the game “library”. For games of this genre, this is a death sentence – the fewer players play, the less variety, the less interest in staying.
What fate awaits the project
There are several development options:
- Developers, having received tremendous feedback, will work even harder on the game and develop their project;
- After receiving significant funding, the company will close. In a year’s time there will be a similar project using the same resources to try again to hit the jackpot;
- After receiving funding, the authors will set up their own companies, hire more people and make games until they are bought out by a major studio.
What the outcome will be exactly is difficult to predict, especially after such a “sharp” start.
The hype around the project on the network
In short, the game is discussed for its sharp jump in online, and is used as an example for the creators of Battlefield. There are no funny memes or situations yet, but the game has everything going for it. In the official Discord channel, players share their findings and interesting shots, mostly bugs, that are plenty in the game.
Have you played BattleBit Remastered yet?
Source: VG Times
Christina Moncayo is a contributing writer for “Social Bites”. Her focus is on the gaming industry and she provides in-depth coverage of the latest news and trends in the world of gaming.