55% rating. What went wrong?

[ThatZenoGuy]

What went wrong?

[Terotrous]

It's expensive and the polish isn't there yet. Comparisons to Starcraft 2 are also inevitable and almost no game looks good next to SC2. The campaign also needs a lot of work.

Core gameplay of 1v1 and co-op is pretty solid at least. There's definitely still hope, but there's a lot of work to be done.

[ocean pollen]

There are lots of small things, but the big one is really the early-release schedule. If F2P at launch the disappointed reviews would've been drowned out by free players who only have access to the best parts of the game.

[ThatZenoGuy]

Originally posted by Terotrous:

It's expensive and the polish isn't there yet. Comparisons to Starcraft 2 are also inevitable and almost no game looks good next to SC2. The campaign also needs a lot of work.

Core gameplay of 1v1 and co-op is pretty solid at least. There's definitely still hope, but there's a lot of work to be done.

Yeah but how can a 2024 RTS be so comically backwards in technology? Compare this game to the recent Terminator RTS which has crazy stuff like destructible buildings, different modifiers for damage like ERA/Composite armour, actual semi-realistic ranges and so on.

It's night and day. Like comparing Doom 1 to Crysis.

[ocean pollen]

Originally posted by ThatZenoGuy:

crazy stuff like destructible buildings

Company of Heroes (2006 game) has that, but neither WC3 and SC2 have it, and that's the kind of game SG's going for. I'm happy as is that trees can be cut down.

[ThatZenoGuy]

Originally posted by ocean pollen:

Originally posted by ThatZenoGuy:

crazy stuff like destructible buildings

Company of Heroes (2006 game) has that, but neither WC3 and SC2 have it, and that's the kind of game SG's going for. I'm happy as is that trees can be cut down.

Company of heroes has it in a very simplified manner, basic HP pool until the building just turns to powder.
Better RTS games have the buildings fall apart slowly, exposing more of the people within it. Such as Men of War.

[djcarey]

Add some Achievements & get the game more updated than it already is & ill probably drop some bones on this.

[ThatZenoGuy]

Originally posted by Nick:

Backed for 211$ and still expected to pay for day 1 dlc

Originally posted by Nick:

FrostGiant employees (like spartak) are making inflammatory posts and saying that its perfectly normal to charge people who have paid 150$+ for your game to be hit with day 1 dlc

Lmao, no way!

[Middy]

According to reviews in Steam, cartoon graphics and poor design, stupid ai, lack of balance.

It’s unclear who the target audience of the game is, the developers were shouting everywhere about the fact that they were developing sc2 and wc3, the audience that played sc2 and wc3 had already grown up and had an average age of 30 years old, did they think that 30 years old men would love the cartoon graphics from fortnite?

[ThatZenoGuy]

Originally posted by Middy:

According to reviews in Steam, cartoon graphics and poor design, stupid ai, lack of balance.

It’s unclear who the target audience of the game is, the developers were shouting everywhere about the fact that they were developing sc2 and wc3, the audience that played sc2 and wc3 had already grown up and had an average age of 30 years old, did they think that 30 years old men would love the cartoon graphics from fortnite?

That's what I don't get. I dislike SC2's story and whatnot, gameplay itself isn't even great, but I still enjoyed playing through all three parts of SC2.

This?...Zero interest in playing this.

[Jack_Burton]

I think its the usual first week steam reviews. It will bounce back forward once they start fixing things.

[ThatZenoGuy]

Originally posted by Jack_Burton:

I think its the usual first week steam reviews. It will bounce back forward once they start fixing things.

Some things are unfixable though, how do you propose they alter every art asset in game?

[FrankSriracha]

Originally posted by ThatZenoGuy:

Some things are unfixable though, how do you propose they alter every art asset in game?

computers would be my guess

[ThatZenoGuy]

Originally posted by FrankSriracha:

Originally posted by ThatZenoGuy:

Some things are unfixable though, how do you propose they alter every art asset in game?

computers would be my guess

That's not economically viable at all though.

[Jayhobs]

Originally posted by Middy:

According to reviews in Steam, cartoon graphics and poor design, stupid ai, lack of balance.

It’s unclear who the target audience of the game is, the developers were shouting everywhere about the fact that they were developing sc2 and wc3, the audience that played sc2 and wc3 had already grown up and had an average age of 30 years old, did they think that 30 years old men would love the cartoon graphics from fortnite?

Exactly makes zero sense. Their core fans are or where w3 and sc2 fans. They seemed to assume these fans only cared about 1v1 gameplay and not visuals or story.

They then made the art style try and appeal to zoomers or something.

This is my only reasonable explanation. Regardless it's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stylistically I think most can agree on that and it's going to almost impossible to turn around.

Even if you look at something like No man sky's success story the main issue in that game was primarily lack of content. The game was hype enough and the genre was also popular enough for them to have enough money post launch to actually fix the game

[ShuXamR]

I prefer that game instead of starcraft 2. I'm d2 player on sc2 and lv 1000 master coop