General pre-play feedback

My thread mysteriously vanished a minute or so after I posted it but luckily I had a copy in the clipboard so I updated it with the latest changes and posted it again. This forum has serious issues lol...

Update 2: The old thread mysteriously re-appeared hours later.. so I deleted that one.

I typically don't enjoy BR games, largely due to their inherently unfair design. When I face someone I want to have a fair fighting chance against them instead of being massively outgunned just out of chance... I shouldn't be losing battles to people who I'm 100x better than.

However, I have nothing to do and saw some people streaming it and thought it looked interesting.

So far I've just downloaded it and went through the settings. I haven't played yet because I want to sleep but I will be playing it some time today and/or this weekend.


Just based on looking over the menu I've noticed some positives and negatives... Most companies these days seem to release horribly created UIs which interfere with the user's operation of the UI as well as do things like lie about the game having fullscreen mode (oops, this game lies too) or create the game with unbearable binds for anyone aiming left-handed. I've noticed in this game there's a mix of good and bad so far, but hopefully those things that were missed or poorly decided means gameplay will be outstanding.

(Uhm, when I tried to add bullets below it added it to the TOP of this thread. That's really broken. I had the text highlighted and then I tried just having the line focused in the editor. Both resulted in the bullets being added at the TOP. Also, HTML? really???)

Positives:

• Steam link with an actual purpose/benefit to the user rather than just trying to collect user data like most companies offer when pushing account linking of any type. It also wasn't really pushed on us, but merely listed as an option/feature.
• Minor funny observation: I like that they called it "obituary" like it was called before it got renamed by COD losers to "kill feed".
• Skins look cool
• Can't believe I have to say this but the game doesn't consume 100% GPU while it's tabbed out...a rarity for many recent games.
• UI isn't confusing and doesn't have poorly placed elements which make it difficult to navigate. Things feel natural and easy to familiarize with.

(Also, wow I shouldn't have to go into HTML to break the bullet points. Using the return key adds another, which is fine but when I SHIFT+RETURN it should break the bullet points and go back to this normal style text. There are serious usability issues with this forum. Also, when switching between COMPOSE and HTML tabs this small box re-positions to the top so you have to keep scrolling down to see changes or edit things......)

(Next up, as I was typing the above, the forum showed this: "Authentication Failed. Authentication Ticket Mismatched, failed authentication." When trying to paste that here it added a bullet point before it..... I checked in another tab and I'm still logged in. I believe it has to do with the autosave function failing.)

Negatives:

• No setting to cap FPS. Why?
• Fullscreen mode does not exist. Stop labeling it fullscreen if it's borderless windowed. Add fullscreen to the game.
• Streamer mode setting is stupid. No reason to cater to the crybabies who whine about people trying to play with them. They CHOSE to broadcast their location on the internet. Even if they are getting demolished by those players it really doesn't matter. Some players in the game are better than them, so they need to learn to deal with that. If they don't want people to see they shouldn't stream it publicly.
• There's no forward key bound by default. I'm sure this annoyed many people considering most people don't even bother checking settings before playing for some unknown reason.
• Triple buffering enabled by default
• Game in windowed mode by default
• When looking at friends list you can't just click to view the profile. You have to press a keyboard key. This is nonsensical and utterly pointless obstruction of the user's wishes. Just make it clickable.
• The key for clicking on people's profile is "F" and cannot be rebound.
• After launching the game again it reverted to windowed mode.
• ALT+ENTER doesn't toggle fullscreen/windowed durint intro/loading screens

Concerns/Mixed:

• I sure hope shotguns are not overpowered and extremely easy like they tend to be in games... They always seem to be a crutch for awful players who can't aim and of course the community largely doesn't realize that fact because they're largely awful and awful at analyzing game balance as well.
• Options state that 16GB VRAM is recommended for settings above high, but high is the highest possible of the settings. This doesn't make sense.
• Hopefully the character composition isn't based on a leftist agenda because it looks like 1 person of one specific composition, 1 robot and all the others are the same, and a small % of population. The issue is merely if there was a "progressive" (regressive) agenda applied when selecting this rather than focusing on a great game being produced. I want game creators to care about the gameplay rather than appeasing whining losers who complain about things that don't matter. On the other hand, if the game is incredibly easy, allows for bad players to 1UP far better players and IS following this agenda I see that you're trying to take the Overwatch playerbase hahah.
• Is there no scoreboard? Because there's no bind for it. If there is, I hope a bind will be added soon. As I said, I haven't played but it's typical when no bind exists for the function to exist but not be bindable.
• I hear this is on Source engine. Hopefully no awful hitreg like CS and Garrys Mod.

Overall I think due to the low severity of the negatives and despite there being more negatives than positives listed, the experience so far works out as a net positive. I think the game has potential provided the gameplay and performance checks out. So I'm pretty interested in checking this one out later today after a nap.

UPDATE: With the realization fullscreen mode is actually non-existent despite the game claiming it exists, I'm more mixed on the potential.