Unfinished: Realm Royale 6/22/2018

Winner winner poro dinner

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#playrealmroyale #itsfreeyouknow

This video is labeled "Real Royale" on youtube. My brain read it as "Reel Royale" and with the image used, I thought the chicken was a fish and it was a fishing battle royale game....

Lil Sisyphus and Big Brometheus

The battle royale came first, at least if you ask the creators of ark(tm).

who i'm sure are working on a battle royale with amazing dino lootdrops.

Remember when Tribes Ascend first came out and it was a really cool thing that showed promise for the studio? And then they went and mucked that up as well.

I'm been watching quite a lot of this on Twitch, it actually seems pretty fun and I like the changes they've made with the forge and classes.

Wow, developers really aren't even trying to disguise the fact that they are creatively bankrupt.

I guess they may as well pile onto the Bandwagon Royale while it is still rolling.

Despite being hugely influential on Overwatch, Team Fortress 2 is not a hero shooter.

Ben should do more Quick Looks with Jan. He seems most relaxed and more like himself whenever he's with Jan. Good stuff. I enjoyed this look, even though I want no part of this whole "Royale" with cheese business.

Surprisingly, this looks pretty fun. I guess I'm still okay with more BR games after all, as long as they offer something interesting.

The whole thing reminds me of MMOs in the mid-00s, though. You have one or two stupidly popular titles, a couple of smaller successes, and a billion others that just can't get their foot in the door regardless of quality.

... Also, are these chickens the ones supplying PUBG with its famous dinners? Are Battle Royale games all part of a greater shared universe?

Word

Good to know in 2018 we still have classy usernames like "N1gN0gExpr3ss"

I was hoping for a Bubb Rubb reference with that "lilsys", especially coming from two SF natives.

I guess these kids are too young for that meme

@trip___: I don't see why not though. Team based objective FPS where you choose characters rather than loadouts. Characters have abilities like double jump and uber.

I haven't been following - what are they doing to mess this up already?

Maybe I just haven't played enough Fortnite, but this looks a lot like it, except without all of the annoying building mechanics.

I dig the chickens, its incredibly dumb but I smile every time I heard the song.

Before seeing this QL I thought they were using the characters in the other game as playable classes allowing a dozen or so types of enemies on the field. Not just five generic character classes. That's bit disappointing.

They initially tried Paladins Battlegrounds which did just use the Paladins champs, but it was a balance nightmare. As it turns out, most characters with wacky kits and guns don't actually do well in a single life medium range combat BR game against a champ that just has a sniper rifle for example. So then they started limiting who you could play (I think it randomly chose 8 champs for the pool each match), and from there it just didn't add as much anymore. While it may seem initially less interesting, the current class system of making your own kit and swapping weapons definitely works much better for gameplay.

Watching this just made me sad. There's the bit where the game just looks dull and generic and going even further away from the things that makes these games enjoyable, but also the part where we see this repeated cycle of developers chasing the new thing. I guess it keeps their lights on though, considering it's their third game following this strategy.

Ben, you should turn your mouse sensitivity down. It will improve your aim

Maybe don't choose the header image with the name N1gN0gExpr3ss in it?

The gunplay in this looks real rotten.

@audiofatigue said:

I think the difference between class-based shooter and hero-based shooter is if you can have multiple on the same team or not.
Not that it really matters since genre labels are stupid and the games are pretty similar other than that one small, insignificant detail.

@nime: sure, I get it. There are solid reasons for not using existing heroes. But having unique and different looking units on the field imo can be a great undertaking for the devs, tons of work to get working right but at the same time would be something very cool to behold.

Different characters popping off abilities and ults, visuals unique to their movement and silhouette. Now? It looks like Fortnite with abilities in place of building. Fortnite could one day decide to have upgradable ability pickups one day and RealmRoyale's niche is practically nullified.

But like I said I get it. Maybe Overwatch could have BR mode with heroes. Blizzard is well known for working on their balance afaik.

Jan makes a Drew groan worthy pun, and then Ben says "I didn't know you were a Druid" (Drew-id?)

I don't think poople know how importy good gunplay is, even with how popuar Fortnite is, even in that it's pretty bad.

@fallopiantubes: Oh yeah.... that's not good....

Too bad this looks so much like Fortnite, the ideas here are quite interesting but the game does nothing to stand out graphically.

HiRez is just going to continue to chase whatever's popular aren't they?

It sucks because they make decent games, but they fail to actually support those games once the genre isn't flavor of the month anymore.

@frogfoot: And keep us from throwing up?

I guess people are just gonna make a lot of these type of games now. The idea behind battle royal is cool, but its weird how similar these games appear.

@bill_mcneal: LoL, yah. Almost as bad as Ryckert on VR.

I was thinking this looked kinda "OK but not my thing", and then I got to the end where they tried close quarters combat with the guns and wow that looks completely unmanageable.

According to Steam stats, Realm Royale and Paladins combined almost have as many current players as Team Fortress 2.

Jan QL!

Not sure why Ben scoffed at the idea of TF2 still being super popular. That game has a cult like following if I ever saw one.

This has some neat ideas, but it's still very unfinished and I really dislike the feel of the shooting, it feels really floaty.

All the best hot keys in the world won't help if you're turned into a chicken.

Played some of this game last week. I really really enjoyed it, but it is definitely early. I like the idea of a more casual Battle Royale game, but I hate the building in Fortnite. If they can continue to add classes, abilities, and tighten up the shooting I will play the hell out of this.

I was also coming in here to point this out. It might be prudent to switch the thumbnail out because... yeesh. Not a very friendly term, to say the least.

This is actually way more appealing to me than Fortnite because of the whole no-building thing.

I see they're going for the "fake video game from a movie" aesthetic...

as of 11:50 pm, June 24th 2018 Paladins currently has 11,971 players on steam, tf2 has 41,271.

I think the shooting is a bit more manageable than Fortnite, but not nearly as realistic as PUBG.

It is also very dependent on the weapon; specifically the precision and damage at range for said weapon. For instance, the poison pistol and shotgun are much more effective at hitting and dealing more damage at close range, while the rifles and bows are better at further range. I know this is true for most shooters, but with fantastical weapons, abilities, and things like damage numbers, it can be hard to tell just how well you are doing when you hit with your weapons.

Also, unfortunately, despite Ben realizing he should be charging his bow (around the 8:42 mark in the video), he fails to do this in the actual fight later (around 13:51). Charging the legendary hunter bow is required to do any real, late-game damage. Otherwise, if you just rapidly click, you end up shooting like Hanzo in Overwatch; shooting short-arched arrows with no real power behind them. It would have been awesome if he charged and pegged that mage.

It looks like Paladins because it's the same engine and developer, and that was released before Fortnite.

This looks magnitudes more interesting to me than Fortnite, to be honest. I think it's the WoW aesthetics and lack of building mechanics. Oh and the chicken song is great.

Remember when people were all like 'PALADINS WAS IN DEVELOPMENT BEFORE OVERWATCH THEY DIDN'T COPY EVERYTHING'?

Yeah, nah