Is nothing sacred?

Mendel

I noticed today, that there is a patch queued for Civ 6 sometime early tomorrow morning (your times may vary).  Yep, Civ 6 is introducing a Battle Royal mode.

Firaxis--.

Amathe

And it's on a mobile phone? 

kenguru23

How is this going to even work? I remember playing the game with few friends and it took days or weeks to finish a match.

TheDarkrayne

TheDarkrayne

Saw it earlier myself and just thought.. WTF. lol

Mendel

I just realized the worst part!  I now own a Battle Royale game!  Heaven help me!  Firaxis--.  Firaxis--.  Firaxis--.  Uninstall!  Uninstall!

Albatroes

Aeander

My first question is "why?"

My second question is "how?"

Mendel

Just looked at some info from Eurogamer.  The basics:  post-apocalyptic setting, start with two units (1 infantry, 1 machine gun), move around a map to find/capture new units, upgrades, XP.  It seems like there's lots of fighting, with nothing else that says Civilization.  It's a free upgrade adding this new mode, so at least it doesn't cost anything.

I'll probably never play this.  The combat in Civ 6 is probably the least interesting aspect of the game to me.  And I'd prefer ancient units over modern units.  It's just the game speeds in every Civ game (starting at 20y/turn) pushes me out of the ancient era far before any decent ancient army can be built, so few wars happen.

Wizardry

The big black mark on the era of gaming began in two places.
Blizzard and SOE and then it just worse and worse.
Most likely don't even realize what Smedley did back in the EQ2 days,he tested the cash shop idea then turned SOE into a full blown cash shop studio.You know yoru a real failure when your pre testing showed it made a LOT more money than the subscriber servers and yet you still failed...sigh.

Blizzard banked on selling their products by using the Epsort and bragging tools,albeit Smedley was every bit in that area as well with the bragging "showoff" tools but not with the Esport which is  where Blizzard flourished.
IMO it catered to the immature side of gaming then again most at that time figured gaming in itself was a immature hobby.

Now fast forward,Epic games a bit of a loner,doing their own thing and doing it well decided to jump on the BR bandwagon and stop designing games.Now i do have to give Epic some credit because i was hooked into online play because of the Quake/Doom/Unreal series of games but it was Epic's Unreal that really took fps gaming to another level.
Bottom line is Epic had the people that understand shooters,so when Fortnite became a reality as a BR mode Epic is good at it.

However,popularity aside,money aside because to me as a gamer,idc about popularity or money,UT is stil the most highly skilled shooter on the market and by a landslide.Sp TueFue...Ninja,whoever else can ride around on their bicycle bragging,they are playing a very subpar shooter.I look at BR games as a lol joke.