Quick Look: Spellbreak

Wow, this spelling bee looks intense.

This may actually be a battle royale I check out. Points for trying something new with the genre!

Shades of Tribes with the sliding, gliding and meter management

I just want a Tribes BR, really

@digaumgrunge: TRIBES

Seems kinda cool. Might actually be a BR I care about

This game is sooo fun. The movement systems are crazy and the spell synergies add a ton. Stoked to see where they take this game.

@noobsauce: TRIBES...TRIBES, TRIBES TRIIIIIIEIIEIEIIEIIBES.

Noticed that @benpack 's voice audio is out of sync with @brad and @janman . Really becomes apparent around the 25 minute mark, unsure if it desyncs earlier than that.

"Cayman Rider"? "CAYMAN Rider"?! It's Kaw-men! Say it right!

This is the only traditional battle royale (so not counting Fall Guys) I've ever enjoyed. It's also the only shooter I enjoy more on console than PC because the aim assist helps make aerial combat more fun. Just make sure to map jumping to a toggle instead of the default hold X so you can aim and hover at the same time.

Worth noting in case that angers PC players that the PC aim assist is overly aggressive apparently at high framerate and console players it enter the PC queue if they party up together.

don't see the appeal here. someone grab me my RE2 on ps1

I've been waiting to see a cool, fantasy-themed take on the genre. I may check this out!

Ben liked this so much he bought the $120 pack! I was like damn, that is a lot of gold.

This game is great. My 1st BR and I can't stop playing it. The interaction between spells is cool as hell. They make sense too, why earth doesn't have many options. It's not that big as well, 13.2 GB. The size of the other BRs really turned me off to even trying them.

This game is great.

This looks really cool

Why Do people skip scrolls i don't get it if there not maxed out why skip them

Im now further in the QL and ben picking up scrolls now but still my point still stands for the rando i team up with

I played a heck of a lot of Tribes, Tribes 2, and Tribes: Vengeance back in the day, and that was immediately what this game reminded me of when I first played the beta. A lot of the different elemental gauntles feel like Tribes weapons. I forget which is the analogue to the spinfusor or plasma gun etc, but they're in there.

Absolutely love the look of this. It has that WoW colour palette and the texture style is very similar. Also, it's a lot like WoW pvp in a way. At least it shares a lot of similarities in that you're in a tactical fight more so than a shooty pew pew fight. Love that stuff.

RIP Tribes: Ascend... You were murdered much too soon in Hi-Rez Studios' rush to hit it big in the various free-to-play archetype genres

BTW, I"m a big fan of Spellbreak

Spinfusor spells.... I'm downloading this right now

Did @janman say, "Lay in wake", as opposed to "Lay in wait", at around 28:30?

@rohay: A few of reasons I can think of. 1, they have a fight to get to, left them and forgot. 2, they have starter runes that they feel aren't worth upgrading. An extra .5 sec on tracking isn't great. 3, They left them for teammates, but they didn't get them.

I don't mind though. I'll take all those scrolls people leave behind. Having 3/3 on some perks are game breaking late game. ie. +50 hp and armor on exile.

That actually looks cool, I'll give it a try, the look and spells are surprisingly appealing to me lol

Ha, i was watching this and the name Tribes also came to mind here. Especially the gliding , vertical movement & very small enemy targets give me that vibe.

At the same time i'm thinking about Cuisine Royale and Fortnite. I swear that if we look back on the multiplayer games of these years, we will stumble on hundreds of hero shooters with colorful cartoony characters and a low poly artstyle that scales well with lower specs. What was that one with the screaming commentator at e3? Darwin Project? Mirage Arcane Warfare?

It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does give me the feeling that this is a laser-focused product designed to take advantage of the latest, most profitable, trends and standards of the industry. Instead of the romantic idea of a team sitting down and really starting from scratch to transform their unique ideas into a functioning game. where Bob can create a menu-screen that includes a whimsical joke or a woodgrain-theme instead of the standard function over form menu's that we see in all the other multiplayer games as well.