4 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 8.9 hrs on record (7.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 26 Aug, 2023 @ 12:57am
Updated: 26 Aug, 2023 @ 12:58am

Early Access Review
It's just not living up to its own hype.
I've been around BattleBit since prerelease but I must say, its just not as good as people make it out to be. It has lots and lots of issues as well as minor and greater problems that interfere with the gameplay, that are just outright frustrating.

The Mapdesign is absolutely terrible: It feels like you are unable to move anywhere in 64v64 or 127v127 Modes, there is no real cover and no notable flanks to take advantage off. When you have a City Map, the problem gets reversed: It is so complex with so many buildings around that you just get picked off from every second window without any way to work around it.

The graphics make the gameplay worse: UI elements outright block your view, sometimes all of the time. The flat textures make depth perception hard to impossible. The screen shake when moving, even on lowest possible setting, still gives you motion sickness if you are susceptible to this.

The Movement is clunky and interferes with fluent gameplay: Characters feel really stiff to control and some hand movement is so hectic, that it gets distracting. Sprinting and jumping feels completely off. While I can't really pinpoint what gives me this feeling, I still notice its a big problem for me.

Sounddesign is terrible: You only hear a few things around you, even when you are in the biggest battle of the map. It makes it impossible to react to audio. Steps are pretty much non existant and bullet cracks when you are being shot at are not representing the direction from where they are coming. Most guns sound terrible and use stock sounds from over a decade ago. It doesn't really make the game more enjoyable.

The UI and Map/Respawn System is terrible: Having to hold LMB to spawn somewhere or old F to get into a vehicle feels terrible for a PC control scheme. Navigating the map on the respawn screen is tedious and usually your main base is off the grid so you need to zoom around. Not a great idea.


Overall I just cannot bring myself to like this game. So many simple things are done terribly, don't work like they should or where done in a way I simply can not agree with. It is comical to me that people, from a technical standpoint, see this as the superior battlefield game. I just can not agree with this opinion.
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