Hello everyone, this is Dr. X.
In recent years, various simulation management games, including domestic games, have begun to be accepted by more and more players, and when it comes to simulation management games, we have to mention Supercell, which has developed popular models such as "Clash Royale" and "Clash of Clans".
After being acquired by Tencent, Supercell started the difficult birth mode, and after many years of silence, in May this year, Supercell is finally going to release a new game, and its latest competitive action RPG battle mobile game "Squad Busters" will be launched globally on May 29, can this game be successful? Let Dr. X take you through it.
Key point 1: The soft online dominates the 8 countries on the list, with simple operation and full strategy
"Burst Squad" game incorporates many IP characters from Supercell, and from the character book, Dr. X can find the Barbarian in Clash Royale, Greg in "Cartoon Farm", and Colt in "Brawl Stars".
In "Burst Squad", players and opponents compete in the same large map, players need to constantly jungle, chop trees, etc. to collect map resources to earn gold, and after earning enough gold, players can open treasure chests to increase the number of squad members.
Battles in the game are automatic, and the enemy will automatically engage when they enter our attack range, and in general, the difficulty of the operation of "Burst Squad" is not high, and players can devote more energy to strategy in the game.
The characters opened in the treasure chest in the game are random, and if the player chooses different characters from the treasure chest at the beginning, it means that different strategies and tactics need to be used in the early stage. For example, when Greg, whose speed is doubled to cut down trees, players need to cut down trees more to avoid combat development.
If you draw a character with strong combat ability in the early stage, players can try to focus on junglers to quickly accumulate resources. Trouble-prone combat players may even try to pull in high-level mobs to help them kill the developing team.
As the number of people in the squad increases, the cost of opening the chest will also increase, and in addition, the maximum number of people per player in "Burst Squad" is fixed, so players need to consider the composition of the team when choosing a character when opening the box, and if you open three characters of the same type, you can synthesize a powerful character with three times the stats of only one population.
↑Sometimes you can open powerful super units out of the box↑
The game will shrink the safe area over time, and the mines in the middle of the map will also make the battles between players more frequent, and the top five players with the highest number of gems will be counted as winning after the countdown is over, and consecutive wins will give you a chance to open chests to draw more rare characters.
From the perspective of the overall gameplay, the PVP concentration of "Burst Squad" is not high, even if players are far away from the battle group and continue to cut down trees to develop, as long as they can maintain the top five steadily, they can still win after the countdown is over.
The random map and diverse character combinations make the strategy in "Burst Squad" vividly realized, and the fast-paced pace of the game allows players to make improvisation decisions quickly, making each game a new experience.
On April 23rd, the game was first launched in Canada, Mexico and other countries, and the game was so successful that after just three days of testing, Supercell decided to launch the game globally.
Judging from the gameplay of "Burst Squad", Supercell needs to continue to control the balance of the game in the future, while continuing to add more characters and gameplay to keep the game evergreen.
Key point 2: Childbirth in six years is the hope of the whole village
Since the success of 2012's Clash of Clans, the little-known Supercell has skyrocketed to $6.5 billion around the world, and Cartoon Farm, which was launched in the same period in 2012, has also achieved great results.
Taking advantage of the "Clash of Clans", Supercell launched "Boom Island" in 2013, compared with "Clash of Clans", the new game "Boom Deck" pays more attention to infrastructure and development, but the mechanics of the growth system in the game have caused the game revenue to be at the bottom of the Supercell family.
The follow-up hit "Clash Royale" launched in early 2016 recovered the decline, and the revenue of "Clash Royale" exceeded 100 million US dollars in the first year of its launch, which directly pushed SC to the altar.
In 2016, Tencent leaders almost deducted their children's milk powder money, and even took out a loan of $4 billion, and finally won most of Supercell's shares for $8.6 billion (about 55 billion RMB).
Launched at the end of '18, Brawl Stars had a good start in the early days, but the game data declined in the following years, and then underwent a major overhaul to remove loot chests, introduce new features, and adjust the reward mechanism to achieve a reverse growth in game revenue.
After seeing the potential of Brawl Stars, Tencent began to find ways to increase the equity of Supercell in 2019 and convert it into a subsidiary, with Tencent holding 70% of the shares as of 2020.
However, after Tencent's second increase in holdings, Supercell seems to have fallen into the curse of "difficult birth", with the PVP strategy game "Rush Wars" closing in public beta after only 3 months in 2019, and "Hay Day Pop", which was launched in 20, was cut after only 8 months of operation.
The follow-up turn-based tactical adventure strategy game Clash Quest was launched in April '21 and survived less than 5 months before being axed by Supercell. Everdale, which launched in August of the same year, survived for more than a year, but eventually the game's servers were permanently shut down on October 31 of the following year.
As a Supercell that has not launched a game globally for six years, "Burst Squad" can be said to carry the full expectations of the producer and Tencent and other shareholders, although the initial game has achieved good results, but the long-term performance of the game still needs to be further verified by the market.
Summary after class:
"Burst Squad" was launched worldwide on May 29, although the game has not yet received a version number in China, but for the name of Supercell, Dr. X feels that it is still worth experiencing, Dr. X and his friends from the previous "Clash of Clans" can't wait to meet again in the new game.