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Not Recommended
0.3 hrs last two weeks / 921.7 hrs on record (373.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: 1 Nov, 2021 @ 7:34am
Updated: 24 Jun, 2024 @ 10:30am

This game has 3 fundamental flaws. Two of them are technical, one of them concerning gameplay/balancing.

1) Mousecapturing.

It doesn't have it. For a game where the mouse is used to attack but not as a directional control (position of the mouse is irrelevant), it is unbearable to die because you accidentally click outside of your window. For single-screen setups it is no issue, but for anyone with two or more screens, it's ANNOYING. The display settings "Window", Maximized" and "fullscreen" are meaningless. They are basically two Window settings and a borderless window, as real fullscreen includes Mousecapturing. Real Fullscreen also doesn't allow other windows on top of it.

This either concludes to the developers complete incompetence or ignorance toward that issue that has been reported for over 5 years by many players.

2) Input Lag.

Every now and then, the game gains intensive input lag. This means, in the middle of a ranked game, your inputs take up to 1s until they reach the game and are executed. Sometimes keyboard inputs do not reach the game before mouse inputs, sometimes it's reversed. All suggestions you can find online talk about wireless devices, but input lag in Brawlhalla INCLUDES input from devices that are DIRECTLY plugged into the mother board with USB. This input lag also exclusively affects Brawlhallla. No other game I played in the past 10 years had this issue.

3) New Characters

Since Tezca, they almost exclusively introduced Characters whose abilities you can shamelessly spam, have a high attack speed and due to animations are sometimes annoying to dodge. Legends from Tezca up until today don't require you to be able to do anything but spam your buttons. They live in the fallacy that only adding new legends is game-development. But balancing, bugfixes or fixes of said technical issues are not in their interest.

Those 3 points are almost game-breaking and will let the game die off whenever there will be another f2p brawlgame on the market that compares to this game and has the competency Brawlhalla is lacking. It is a game without competition and only survives as long there is none.
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