BATTALION 1944 | (Early Access) Video Game Review
BATTALION 1944 has the potential to be a great game, but it’s ruined by the jump and prone mechanic.
BATTALION 1944 is a online only game. No single player which means, Bulkhead, keep this game at a $15 price tag. Don’t raise to $30 or $60 like the ARK Devs after Early Access.
DLC? Bulkhead can easily create free DLC because they have ‘chests/microtransactions’ in the game. Probably why they implemented it in the first place so they don’t have to charge people for DLC like what Activision does. Based on the ‘ battaliongame.com ‘ website, they stated all future DLC is free.
The chests? The chests are like CS:GO cases, where they have rarity and different sub-classes. For example in this game it has ‘War Torn, Battle Hardened and Flawless.’ If a user wants to sell a skin they don’t want anymore, the skins can be bought on the Steam Marketplace (if you don’t want to open up chests). Being able to get chests from ranked games randomly when you do well or get one whenever the rank season ends and you placed well would be nice. Or have something similar like what Siege has.
Pros:
- The feeling between CoD 4 Promod and CoD 2.
- Good graphics from both the maps and weapon details.
- 7 or 8 maps (I don’t know the specific number), 4 game modes (SnD, Capture the Flag, TDM and Domination), 12 main weapons, 2 pistols and 1 knife in total.
- Unique concept of SnD with a mixture of Kill Confirmed (watch JackFrags video for a better detailed part about this mode for Unranked/Ranked).
- Custom servers
- Server browser
- Steam Marketplace, if you don’t want to open up chests.
- Steam Badges, for those badge collectors.
- Training, to test all the weapons.
- Clan Wars, not implemented yet.
Cons:
- The jumpers. Have you played any CoD game? Yeah that crap they do. They literally jump around each corner, I feel like I’m playing CoD Advanced Warfare.
- The dropshotters. Same as above, they now came into this game. They literally pre-dropshot a corner. How much of a tryhard are you?
- Read the below of all the issues so far.
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Issues with this game after spending 5 minutes with the game:
1) First time loading up the game and I get this bug because it’s in ‘Fullscreen’ mode, it flashes green and purple ( https://twitter.com/azgoodaz/status/959201994534776835 ). Unreal + graphic cards = terrible bug. Nice Closed Beta testing Bulkhead, what a great group of testers you have.
Fix? Play in Borderless or Windowed mode.
2) The game literally loads up super slow. Why? Why does it take that long from selecting your region to then having to wait 2+ minutes to load up the game? Why do I need to have 2 processes of BATTALION 1944 running (one for the launcher, one for the game itself). At least give us the ability to automatically close the launcher when the game opens.
3) Server browser… I can’t sort/filter between the servers the have the most people in/least people in. This goes towards the ping, server name, mode and if the server is locked or not via a password, the sort/filter feature isn’t present.
4) Ranked game mode that was featured in the Closed Beta, it’s not available yet… Not until February 8th. Why…
5) Matchmaking, I literally spent 10 minutes trying to find a match. With 10k players right now based on SteamCharts, how is it that it’s this impossible to find a match? How is it that the Closed Beta testing worked, but this doesn’t? Why do I have a feeling that it takes so long to find a match so that Bulkhead doesn’t want you to refund the game?
6) Server browser issue again. Servers state there full (no matter how many free slots the server has) or it just kicks you to the main menu when you try to join and load the map.
Later on after a few matches I noticed:
1) The spawn points suck, for example on map ‘Outpost.’ You’ll get spawn camped.
2) Jump and prone needs to be removed from the game. If not, the game will be taken over by CoD fan boys where they only use this to get kills. It’s not competitive at all. BATTALION 1944 doesn’t need to trash mechanic.
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Updates:
1) Maybe 9 hours later? They finally fixed the server/matchmaking issue. This is why companies need to have Open Beta’s and not just Closed Beta’s to a limited pool.
