This was most likely inevitable given the less-than-spectacular participant numbers besides it is extremely disappointing: Sharkmob has introduced that there might be no additional improvement of its World of Darkness (opens in new tab) battle royale Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt (opens in new tab).
“Ever since launch, we’ve got been on a journey to excite and delight our gamers, nonetheless, whereas we’ve got an incredible and really engaged neighborhood, we haven’t been capable of attain the essential mass wanted to maintain improvement,” the studio mentioned right this moment (opens in new tab). ”This has led us to the choice to cease additional improvement of Bloodhunt.”
The excellent news is that Sharkmob intends to maintain the servers on-line “for so long as we’ve got an energetic participant base and neighborhood,” and it is making modifications to assist preserve the sport fascinating for gamers, together with a brand new in-game voting system “to frequently unlock new issues and preserve Bloodhunt contemporary.” Particulars on what precisely that signifies that might be introduced forward of the discharge of Bloodhunts’s subsequent patch, which—apart from obligatory bits of upkeep—might be its final.
Actual-money purchases are anticipated to be switched off on September 26, and in lieu of that Sharkmob will make tokens simpler to earn by means of gameplay, so gamers can proceed to choose up cosmetics.
To be blunt, this sucks. I am not a battle royale man however I began taking part in Bloodhunt on a whim very not too long ago, and it is actually good, each as a battle royale and, extra surprisingly, a Vampire: The Masquerade sport. The weapons are meaty and well-balanced, mobility is easy, quick, and straightforward, and the varied vampire courses help distinctly totally different, however not dominating, types of gameplay. Possibly better of all, Bloodhunt retains issues easy and does not get slowed down in numerous extraneous “gameplay”: You are a vampire, you are out to kill another vampires, and that’s it.
On the story facet, clearly it isn’t the second coming of Bloodlines however there’s sufficient lore within the streets and NPC politicking within the Elysium hub space to make for an fascinating and interesting narrative—for individuals who are into that kind of factor, anyway. (I’m, and it is a bummer that we’re not going to see how the ability wrestle between Em and Kirill shakes out.) The Previous City district of Prague is a superb setting too, very a lot the form of place you’d count on vampires with AK47s to be operating round in after after darkish.
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Sadly, pretty much as good as it’s, Bloodhunt was late to a celebration already dominated by a number of huge gamers—Fortnite, Apex, PUBG—and regardless of a powerful begin (opens in new tab) and early hope that it might stick round for whereas, its participant numbers tailed off precipitously. It is nice that the servers will stay on-line however with out energetic improvement and the prospect for brand new courses, characters, weapons, and different significant updates, I think that the present playerbase will drift away pretty rapidly—one other mildly profitable multiplayer sport introduced low by the scourge of reside service (opens in new tab).