- Highguard had a lot of hype riding on it based on its TGA spot and initial reviews.
- The game released a few hours ago and currently sits at overwhelmingly negative reviews.
- Players have reported many issues from bad gameplay, poor optimization, and more.
Highguard had a huge skepticism surrounding it, because of the limelight it was thrown into. Despite not even paying for it, it was showcased at TGA’s finale spot, which made it go through high scrutiny, and it has crumbled under the pressure.
Former Titanfall devs’ Highguard has launched to “Overwhelmingly Negative” reviews on Steam. The game did manage to hit about 100K concurrent players, but players have encountered all sorts of issues.
Why it matters: The title wasn’t meant for this much pressure and might even have flown under most people’s radars, but the events leading up to it created so much hype that everyone has now become too critical of it.
Early playtesters revealed that the game was great, and people would be pleasantly surprised by it, which unfortunately hasn’t been the case. With over 7,000 reviews, it currently sits at overwhelmingly negative.
The biggest gripe players have with Highguard is how bland it feels. The map is huge, and the 3v3 format doesn’t make sense with that. The art direction is a mixed bag, and the characters are quite bland as well.
Furthermore, optimization also seems to be a big issue, as users report bad performance with even high-end GPUs like the RTX 5080. All-in-all, the game is the disaster that everyone feared it would be.
Even the player count at first sounds respectable, but considering it’s an F2P game and how it has already fallen to half, the game might not survive for too long. Despite the promise, it has failed to deliver the hype.
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Abdullah is an avid gamer who primarily plays single-player titles. If you can’t find him anywhere, he’ll probably be at his desk playing The Witcher 3 for the millionth time. When he isn’t playing games, he’s either reading or writing about them.
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