Got for free in epic

[julb]

tested the game for 10min at training mode, damn, can't even make my minibox work and had to use the 8bitdo ultimate control, but the game seens so empty in modes, gameplay, i think even for free the game was expensive, not worthy wasting ssd space with this installed, i feel bad for the people that bought this. Living and learning, even arcsys can do lame games nowodays

[ナオヤ]

It was my first fighting game I got on day 1...
I don't think it could've went worse (my 2nd was GBFV Rising and while it's playable it has plenty of it's own issues... wth ArcSys).

[Leo Ironfang]

I bought the game on day 1. And the game is pretty good gameplay and fun wise, specially now, after the patches and fixes. It hasn't much single player content indeed, but gameplay, graphics, music, fun is very good. The reason why the game don't survived well wasn't gameplay or fun. The vanilla version had some issues with balance and bugs and the devs gone. Absolute trash comunication. So after while (few months), etc, the devs reappeared to talk about the issues, fixes, improvement and roadmap for the game. The lack of crossplay too.

[ナオヤ]

Originally posted by Leo Ironfang:

I bought the game on day 1. And the game is pretty good gameplay and fun wise, specially now, after the patches and fixes. It hasn't much single player content indeed, but gameplay, graphics, music, fun is very good. The reason why the game don't survived well wasn't gameplay or fun. The vanilla version had some issues with balance and bugs and the devs gone. Absolute trash comunication. So after while (few months), etc, the devs reappeared to talk about the issues, fixes, improvement and roadmap for the game. The lack of crossplay too.

Nah, I don't think that the game could hold out in it's current state balance-wise assuming other issues were solved or dealt with properly.
Game is just too boring once you start to know what to do - nothing but the same combo loops over and over and most matches are 2-touch or 3-touch at most. It's simply boring, whether you are the one combo'ing or being combo'd.
A shame, really, since the game looks amazing, sounds just as good (though music is much worse compared to bangers from GG, BB or even GBFV). It's also my favourite fighting game to move around main menu in - it all feels so snappy and responsive! xD

[julb]

Originally posted by Naoya:

It was my first fighting game I got on day 1...
I don't think it could've went worse (my 2nd was GBFV Rising and while it's playable it has plenty of it's own issues... wth ArcSys).

that's real sad, arcsys is messing up a lot, maybe in two years they launch dnf duel rising with rollback and other contents and bring this game a second life

[ナオヤ]

Originally posted by julb:

Originally posted by Naoya:

It was my first fighting game I got on day 1...
I don't think it could've went worse (my 2nd was GBFV Rising and while it's playable it has plenty of it's own issues... wth ArcSys).

that's real sad, arcsys is messing up a lot, maybe in two years they launch dnf duel rising with rollback and other contents and bring this game a second life

But DNF already has rollback xD
It's netcode is really good assuming you don't try to play across continents (I had terrible time trying player matches against NA players but maybe I was also unlucky enough to play against wifi ppl that got game for free on epic).

Also I'm definitely not spending any more money on this game. Rising already is reused assets sold for full price (and even then PC version is technically priced higher since we didn't get GBF codes). This is probably the only game in my quite sizeable game library on steam that I didn't buy any DLCs for (and I think I'd really enjoy Brawler or Battle Mage).

[doesnt]

So it was free on Epic...I saw an article on Gamespot saying it was free on December 19th or 20th but I remember looking at the free game section that entire week and never saw it. I thought the guy that made the article got it's epic release and the free game of the week mixed up. Straight up shadow dropped on the platform and the fact of it being free not well advertised.

Glad they finally had this free trial though. It was something I suggested to them back in November. Been wanting to see what the buttons were like. I won't say this game is bad. I'm just bad at fighting games and I have such sour grapes over that.