Hello everyone, I am Dr. X.
Originally inspired by Japanese novelists, then remade into a movie, and finally in video games, "Battle Royale" has evolved from a concept to a compulsory course that must be fought with the brothers a few times a night.
As one of the best, PUBG even set a myth of the highest simultaneous online record of 3.25 million Steam, and the simple difficulty of getting started made the game series quickly explode.
There are many manufacturers who try to take advantage of this wave of east wind to do battle royale games, but there are few games that really make money and can last for a long time, and today the game market has been basically divided by several giants such as "PUBG", "Fortnite", "APEX" and so on.
↑Apex has more than 100 million players↑
However, to this day, there are still various manufacturers who continue to join the battle royale team, trying to play more tricks of battle royale.
Recently, Dr. X found that Steam has launched a free battle royale game with vampires as the protagonist on Steam, so let's take a look at it today.
Key point one: Vampire battle royale, but also with a gun to burst
The vampire battle royale game developed by Sharkmob AB is called Vampire: The Masquerade - BloodHunt (hereinafter referred to as "Blood Hunt"), and the game takes place in Prague, and the overall style is dark and realistic.
↑No fall damage↑
As a traditional FPS battle royale game, the most important thing in the game is naturally the gun.
A pair of hands in the opening, the weapons are all picked up, and in "Blood Hunt" is no exception. Fortunately, in Blood Hunt, players can choose their own spawn points, and can see the distribution of enemies around them in advance, avoiding the tragedy of landing in boxes to the greatest extent.
The weapons that players can use in Blood Hunt include pistols, crossbows, shotguns, machine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles and other weapons. Weapon levels are divided into green, blue, purple, and orange, and players cannot change accessories on their own.
In Blood Hunt, players generally move faster and have a higher initial amount of health, so weapons that can continuously output such as submachine guns can play a greater role than sniper rifles with slower rate of fire.
Most of the weapons in the game have very little recoil, which the player can easily control. However, except for weapons such as sniper rifles with large scopes, the right button of the rest of the weapons cannot be opened, and can only be aimed and fired using crosshairs.
In addition to using guns to poke and pry, players can also use a variety of melee weapons in the game, such as wolf's tooth sticks, fire axes, and katanas. In order to compensate for the short attack range of melee weapons, players can obtain a corresponding special skill after carrying different melee weapons. For example, when using a katana, it can bounce bullets when swinging.
↑Blood Hunt Player: Kaikuro, I Katana Thief 6↑
However, in battlefields full of guns, it is always difficult to gain benefits from fighting alone with cold weapons, and compared to the risks required to approach the enemy, the initial damage of melee weapons in a single row becomes a fatal hard wound.
↑Adult, times have changed↑
Key point two: vampire battle royale, but also have to do some vampires should do
A group of vampires always feel a little out of place with a gun, and vampires have to do what vampires should do.
In Blood Hunt, players can suck the blood of various NPCs, and after sucking blood, they can directly replenish their health. Smoking certain NPCs with special blood can give you special effects such as sustained blood return, reduced CD, and increased melee attack power.
The more special blood of the same kind is sucked, the higher the effect superimposes. Melee weapons with insufficient initial damage are terrifying with the bonus of full melee damage.
However, the city of Prague in the game is not an illegal place, and as a vampire good citizen, you need to keep a low profile.
When the player is sucking blood, if it is discovered by other NPCs, the player will break the disguise and be wanted by the whole network for 60 seconds. During this period, the player's position will be seen by all players on the field, which is equivalent to sending a perspective plug-in to everyone else, only you do not.
In addition to being discovered as a bloodsucker, players will also be wanted if they accidentally kill NPCs in Chaos. According to Dr. X's rich experience in landing into a box, when there are more players in the early stage, they are generally not wanted for more than 60 seconds.
In addition to bloodsucking, Blood Hunt has also added a skill system similar to that found in APEX. In the game, the six characters are divided into three clans, each with two active skills and one passive skill. One of the active skills is the Clan Generic Skill.
The Bruch Clan is the most suitable clan for hard steel, the Clan skill is to jump forward, in which the passive of the destroyer can reduce the damage caused by the enemy in close combat, while the mob's wind wall can withstand bullets in front of it.
↑Face the wind↑
Dr. X was never a brainless person (actually a dish!). Therefore, the favorite to use is the Beast Exorcist of the Nosferatu Clan, the Clan Skill of the Beast Exorcist is the same as the Q of the Evil Spirit in APEX, which can run invisibly and invincible, and the character active skill is similar to Hanzo's reconnaissance arrow in Overwatch, which can detect the location of enemies within a specified range.
The passive of the beast exorcist is similar to the werewolf in League of Legends, and after maiming an enemy, there will be a red line indicating the escape route of the player's bloodied enemy. The character is a perfect blend of reconnaissance, hunting, and running, and Dr. X feels that the future will definitely weaken, and it can be used for a day.
Key point three: Tencent subsidiaries can not save the plug-in? The main reason for the bad reviews of Steam
On the whole, Blood Hunt has a certain innovation based on the original battle royale, and the large-scale roof battle makes the game more vertical, which has a certain similarity with Ubisoft's Super Hunting City.
Blood Hunt is a fast-paced game with only 45 people per battle, usually ending in less than 15 minutes. Moreover, even if the player dies without being rescued by his teammates, the player can stand up on his own after a while, and this mechanism is also effective in a single row, which is very friendly to Meng Xin.
Dr. X feels good overall, but there are still many problems with this game.
The first is the plug-in problem. Dr. X was mentally prepared to see the combination of "Battle Royale" + "Free" before playing this game. However, after actually starting the game, I found that this mental preparation was far from enough. It's probably like you feel like you're only slapped in the face by someone else, only to be kicked straight into the pit and then filled in with dirt by the way.
Not only are the chat boxes in the lobby filled with various plug-in advertisements, but teammates also give you the entire hanging voice broadcast from time to time. Just a few days after the launch, the game has a variety of perspective, self-aiming, large gyroscope, Flash, and more outrageously, there is no reporting function in this game, which has the feeling of "APEX" when it was first launched.
↑Steam bad reviews 80% are scolding plug-in ↑
Compared with the plug-in problem, the balance of game weapons, the long game TTK and various small bugs are not so prominent. Regarding Sharkmob AB, the main producer of "Blood Hunt", dr. X understands that this company has been sold to Tencent in 2019, so you have been scolding the plug-in game company all day long that it is essentially a subsidiary of Tencent.
However, if the rich Tencent feels that this game really has potential, it should still have the ability to assist developers to solve the plug-in problem to a certain extent, after all, anti-cheating is very expensive, and Tencent is not lacking in money.
Post-lesson summary:
Overall, although the "Blood Hunt" produced by Tencent's subsidiary has not completely stepped out of the basic framework of battle royale FPS, there are certain micro-innovations in the game mechanics, and players who like FPS games are still worth experiencing.