Question- is this basically a Battle Royale game?

[Lithium]

so i watched Gameranx's review on the game and the gameplay footage and explanation of the game seems like Battle Royale though annoyingly he doesnt just say what it is. nonetheless it still has caught my attention but i must ask- is this basically a Battle Royale game?

[saurce]

I have an idea guys: Let's just create a brand new genre for this game specifically and see if we can petition Valve to add "Hunt" to the list of categories on the store! Then we can all enjoy as the copycats make games that are called "Hunt-Like" instead of "Souls-Like" and we can begin the cycle anew!

[Rinky]

The White Raven eredeti hozzászólása:

Marty Winfield eredeti hozzászólása:

This is not BR game

Agree. Unless you find too many people going just for frags.

There were such issues in the past, but it seems to me, that now it obstructs the process very rare. I'm PvP-oriented player and still prefer to go towards the gunshots, than to the bounty, but everything somehow still ends as it supposed to be. Fighting for the bounty

[Amur]

Sauce eredeti hozzászólása:

I have an idea guys: Let's just create a brand new genre for this game specifically and see if we can petition Valve to add "Hunt" to the list of categories on the store! Then we can all enjoy as the copycats make games that are called "Hunt-Like" instead of "Souls-Like" and we can begin the cycle anew!

Steam already have "hunting" tag. Here is for example: https://store.steampowered.com/app/518790/theHunter_Call_of_the_Wild/

[Emily Howard]

It isn't a Battle Royale in terms of:
- you have access to the whole map the whole time
- you choose your gear and then start the game
- there are no weapons laying around you can take with permanently
- there are creeps wandering around
- you search for clues to find a boss which drops a bounty and this is the intended goal
- the game doesn't end when you are the last one alive and you still can die

Yet you still look for other hunters and in most cases you try to kill them. So it's like TDM (or squad death match) with a parallel search for the boss fight.

Quickplay behaves more like a BR:
You look for the wellspring which is like the very middle of the inner zone in a BR because this is the point of interest everybody is going for, especially when the location is revealed to everyone. There are random weapons and other stuff which become the starting loadout if you make it out alive. Killing other people is essential because only the last player with a positive balance survives.

[The White Raven]

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Marty Winfield eredeti hozzászólása:

what changes turned this game into a battle royale one?

You're rewarded far more for going after other hunters than actually going for the bounty. Finding clues, killing the boss and extracting with the bounty gives no experience at all. Banishment of a boss gives 350xp. Killing a hunter around your skill level will net you 400xp. Aiming for the bounty is a noob trap. And this isn't even going into detail about how gunplay and balance have changed to encourage going after hunters rather than bounties.

Ok but this is not a battle royal mechanic game, for being like that you shouldn't have a team as first, and only have to go for killing.

[saurce]

Amur. My guy. I just realized you're trolling me as hard as I'm trolling you. Good one! :^)

This is a FPS game with Battle-Royale/TDM elements put into a western setting in a match-based format with permadeath rules and an incrementally unlocked weapon system that allows for prestiging to continue the sense of personalized numerical progression.

Is that good enough for ya'll? Probably not. I'm gonna smoke this blunt and play Remnant now.

[Amur]

Sauce eredeti hozzászólása:

Amur. My guy. I just realized you're trolling me as hard as I'm trolling you. Good one! :^)

This is a FPS game with Battle-Royale/TDM elements put into a western setting in a match-based format with permadeath rules and an incrementally unlocked weapon system that allows for prestiging to continue the sense of personalized numerical progression.

Is that good enough for ya'll? Probably not. I'm gonna smoke this blunt and play Remnant now.

If you want to play in this game like in BR (run to the boss point and die), then alright. Just another pray meat for hunters. Also please do not cry after what you do not have money or you can't win.

[The White Raven]

Marty Winfield eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm PvP-oriented player and still prefer to go towards the gunshots, than to the bounty, but everything somehow still ends as it supposed to be. Fighting for the bounty

That's true, i guess this is how most players take this game. Beacuse it's not battle royale oriented, so it makes you play in the way you're saying rather than running around seeking for hunters.
Killing hunters is a plus, ofc killing a lot of hunters worth more than taking bounties, and killing hunter plus taking bounties worth even more.
Guess it's up to the player how to play, and yours is a good lore oriented style, and the game discourages people to behave like a battle royal.

[Rinky]

The White Raven eredeti hozzászólása:

Marty Winfield eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm PvP-oriented player and still prefer to go towards the gunshots, than to the bounty, but everything somehow still ends as it supposed to be. Fighting for the bounty

That's true, i guess this is how most players take this game. Beacuse it's not battle royale oriented, so it makes you play in the way you're saying rather than running around seeking for hunters.
Killing hunters is a plus, ofc killing a lot of hunters worth more than taking bounties, and killing hunter plus taking bounties worth even more.
Guess it's up to the player how to play, and yours is a good lore oriented style, and the game discourages people to behave like a battle royal.

It is still technically has similarities with BR. All BR games somehow turn parts of the map into unwanted places to be and stimulate the rest of players to meet each other in one place. Taking clues (obv part of the main objective) greyes out zones of the map (In BR we have a shrinking circle which forces players to move closer to certain place) to show the players where the bounty is. Bounty is the same for every player, its position will also be shown to all the players, when the boss is banished. Game encourages players to meet each other and fight for the bounty (Circle in BR games forces players to meet eachother).

So yeah, this game can't be aknowledged as a BR, since it doesn't force players to meet in a certain zone, only encourages them. Almost every game encourages players to fight, but not all these games are BR.

[Amur]

Problem here what you can kill players with bounty on extraction point or in the middle of the map for example, so where is no "one place" in this game. BR only in people heads, that's why we have problems like 0 money, no weapons, useless deaths and etc.

[Civilian Squirrel Operator™]

This is not a BR game. BR's are last man/team standing where you find your weapons and gear. In Bounty mode, you pick your loadouts and you can extract any time you want. Everyone can live, actually. Or everyone can die. You extract, you live. Hardly anything about it is 'battle royale'. For some reason, having a random starting point confuses people. Game is nothing like a BR. Quickplay mode is. That's why they added it.

[The White Raven]

Amur eredeti hozzászólása:

Problem here what you can kill players with bounty on extraction point or in the middle of the map for example, so where is no "one place" in this game. BR only in people heads, that's why we have problems like 0 money, no weapons, useless deaths and etc.

Sorry i do not understand clearly what you wrote.

[peonHackerZapy]

Not a battle royale. TDM objective based FPS w/ permadeath.

[MacPhisto]

It has battle royale elements but isn't classified as a battle royale game

[Basimilus]

Sauce eredeti hozzászólása:

The guy asked a question about what type of game it was. You can't honestly tell me that using part of the game's name to define what kind of game it is to be accurate?

Examples:

Q: "Hey what does the word royalty mean?"
A: "It means to be royal."

Q: "Hey what does the term sarcastically mean?"
A: "It means to be sarcastic."

Q: "Hey this game called Hunt: Showdown has random teams and they're placed randomly into a map to compete with each other. Is this a battle royale game?"
A: "No its a game where you have hunts and showdown with others."

:^)

Nice strawman argument moron.