A easy new low-poly on-line PvP army shooter that performs lots like Battlefield 3 and solely prices $15 won’t seem to be the subsequent huge factor. However in actual fact, it’s, and after enjoying it for per week I get why: It’s only a actually good shooter targeted on gameplay and chaos.
BattleBit Remastered doesn’t look real looking. In no way. It as a substitute seems extra like one thing made in Roblox, with blocky troopers and low-res textures. It additionally doesn’t characteristic big seasonal updates or crossovers with fashionable motion pictures. It has no beauty store or battle cross to grind. It additionally doesn’t characteristic superior raytracing results or an costly single-player marketing campaign starring some well-known actor you may keep in mind from that one film.
And but, this comparatively easy shooter has shortly turn into one of the fashionable video games on Steam—presently sitting at over 55k concurrent gamers—largely as a result of it remembers that folks primarily liked Battlefield and comparable shooters for his or her motion and enjoyable, not all the opposite crap that bought bolted onto so many multiplayer franchises through the years.
What’s BattleBit Remastered?
As a result of this new indie shooter performs a lot like older Battlefield video games—full with comparable controls, maps, and recreation modes—enjoying BattleBit Remastered felt like using an previous bicycle after being away for years. Inside lower than an hour of booting up the sport, I might really feel previous muscle reminiscences kicking in, letting me shortly dive into the chaotic motion of 254-player battles and never (fully) get my ass kicked.
Like Battlefield, BattleBit duties two groups of gamers with attempting to seize and maintain completely different places unfold throughout varied maps. (There are another modes, however this Conquest-style mode is by far the most well-liked amongst gamers.) Gamers can spawn as combat-focused assault troopers, medics that may heal individuals, snipers that may…nicely…snipe enemies, engineers who can restore and destroy autos, and at last, assist troopers who can present armor to teammates whereas laying down suppressing hearth with their giant machine weapons. There’s additionally a squad chief function that’s just like assault however with a couple of further perks, however I’m frightened of main individuals in a web-based online game so I averted that class like I averted landmines.
As you play with every class and weapon, you earn XP that helps you degree up and unlock new weapons and attachments. You may revive troopers, share ammo, get into autos, blow up buildings with explosives, and…look, you’re most likely already conversant in this kind of recreation. If you happen to performed older Battlefield video games, you get all of this.
Why play BattleBit Remastered instead of EA’s Battlefield 2042
You could be questioning: If BattleBit is so acquainted and performs a lot just like the Battlefield video games of previous, why play BattleBit Remastered over EA’s fashionable shooter collection? For 2 causes.
Primary is, as talked about beforehand, the Battlefield franchise (and plenty of different trendy video games) have turn into so bloated and finicky as video games get larger, costlier, and fewer dependable. And due to BattleBit’s simplified low-poly look, I used to be in a position to play it on my PC at 120fps with no points. That goes a good distance in an period the place it appears each different huge online game is launching half-broken. BattleBit Remastered’s return to much less cluttered menus, fewer loadouts, and no microtransaction-fueled beauty nonsense additionally made me understand that I’ve not loved a Battlefield recreation since Battlefield 1. It truly is great to have a multiplayer shooter that isn’t coated in all of the junk we affiliate with trendy on-line video games.
The opposite purpose I’d suggest testing BattleBit—particularly in case you are a Battlefield or Name of Obligation participant—is that the sport isn’t simply copying what got here earlier than it. As a lot as BattleBit performs lots like Battlefield 3 or different video games from that period, it additionally brings in some parts from extra sim-focused shooters.
For instance, you may drag fallen comrades into safer spots earlier than therapeutic them. The sport additionally punishes you for reloading earlier than you’re empty, with these bullets being left within the journal. Nonetheless, you may maintain a button to have your character mix half-empty mags into full ones. And you’ll all the time simply double-tap the reload button to immediately drop your previous magazine and shortly reload a brand new one. Simply keep in mind to select up your previous magazine in case you don’t wish to lose it.
It’s this mixture of basic Battlefield-like chaos and enjoyable—driving tanks via buildings, and so on.—-with barely extra milsim parts that actually bought me on BattleBit. It feels prefer it’s not merely attempting to supply gamers a throwback to when shooters had been extra targeted on enjoyable, but it surely’s additionally injecting some new parts and concepts. The top end result: BattleBit isn’t only a low-poly remake of one thing extra fashionable. It’s a profitable melding of latest concepts, previous concepts, basic gameplay, and simplified visuals, making BattleBit top-of-the-line PvP shooters I’ve performed in years, even when it seems like everybody within the recreation is a cousin of Steve from Minecraft.
If you happen to’ve grown uninterested in extraction shooters and battle royale video games and crave one thing extra targeted on gunplay, fight, and simply having enjoyable over grinding and seasons, I’d suggest BattleBit Remastered. It’s a really welcome palette cleanser after years of bland Battlefield video games and forgettable multiplayer shooters. Now depart me alone, I gotta go play extra BattleBit.