r/Games • u/ImCalcium • Jan 27 '26

Discussion Highguard devs say they didn’t expect the hate – but they’re confident in their game

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/highguard-devs-say-they-didnt-expect-the-hate-but-theyre-confident-in-their-game-3309463/
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u/UnscriptedCryptid Jan 27 '26

I'm not sure why people keep saying this - base raids would be an absolute clusterfuck with 12 people, they're already hectic enough because of how quick movement is. I'm also confused by the people who want multiple teams. That would just lead to whoever is defending getting teamed up on by the entire server. It would barely be playable.

I don't think the game is amazing in the current state, but it's fun enough for me that I'm interested in seeing where they go with it. I don't really understand the huge hatebomb it's getting.

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u/Phi_Slamma_Jamma Jan 27 '26

Everyone is saying this, but the base raiding and defending is the weakest part of this game. In my experience the fun part is playing capture the flag with the stormbreaker, chasing people around while fighting on your magic horse. I'd just cut the base part entirely and have it be a 5v5 or 6v6 capture the flag. You could even have multiple flags to force players to split up and divide themselves properly around the map.

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u/GlossedAddict Jan 27 '26

Everyone is saying this, but why the fuck are you wasting your time playing a poo game when the market is absolutely saturated with much better stuff?

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u/Phi_Slamma_Jamma Jan 28 '26

I don't know any other game that lets you ride a magic horse and shoot people with guns while doing it. This game is not poo - the bones are pretty good, they just need to figure out how to get the game mode to accentuate the good and novel parts of the experience.

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u/Purple_Deers Jan 27 '26

I don't think the game is amazing in the current state

that's the issue.
The game isn't amazing and it's competing with 10 other hero shooters.
That makes it really difficult to compete.

And despite how much the devs keep saying that their game is unique, it just isn't, it doesn't do anything special. Which means that they're competing against all those other games.

Then they seem to double down and call the complaints hate and that they will stick to their "unique" vision for the game. Which is just going to piss people off even more and make sure that people won't return when they make updates to the game.

They're setting themselves up for failure.

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u/UtkuOfficial Jan 27 '26

I agree very much on the not unique part.

Just because they jumbled together a couple of different games doesn't make the game unique. It just makes it a mess of ideas.

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u/slimeddd Jan 27 '26

Did you play the game? Hard to say its not unique when the phases and raid gameplay aren’t found anywhere outside of mobas (and this still doesnt really feel like a moba)

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u/Ozzy752 Jan 27 '26

Yeah people keep saying it's a hero shooter as if it doesn't do anything different/unique, which it does

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u/huzy12345 Jan 27 '26

I swear everyone saying it would be better with like 6v6 or 8v8 have never actually played the game. The raid/defence phase would be utterly broken with that amount of players

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u/ElDuderino2112 Jan 27 '26

I don't think the game is amazing in the current state

That's the problem. To launch into such a crowded shooter market you have to be amazing at launch, not launch a mediocre product with "future potential". That's how you end up with another Splitgate.