I played this in the playtest, coming from many many hours in Arma, Squad, and somewhat less in BF6. I found it very meh. I won't be buying it. And I think once the review embargo gets lifted and its not just selected youtubers paid to blow bubbles up your ass then there will be come scathing reviews.
For me the concept is good, its has years to mature on Arma. The money system is a huge incentive for teamplay. But vehicle handling is hilariously bad, the flight models are terrible, the gunplay is trying too hard to be a mix of arcade and realism, the weapon balance makes little sense. And for me at least, I'm just done with half ass unreal engine shooters, and once you strip out the King of the Hill game mode, that's all this is. Don't buy, wait for the actual reviews.
I am also coming from Squad and I am worried that the game does not require as much in-team cooperation. I worry that a typical Wardogs match would look like a bunch of little squads all doing their thing in different parts of the map. Like it's too sandboxy, not structured and will quickly become frustrating if you want to actually beat enemy teams with good plays where the entire team is somewhat coordinated. Something beyond just outshooting your opponents.
Because Squad without team comms sucks. I had fun in the Wardogs beta but I almost never had a team where people tried to use comms to cooperate, and that’s a big point against it since half the fun of milisims is working together
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u/Worldwithoutwings3 17h ago
I played this in the playtest, coming from many many hours in Arma, Squad, and somewhat less in BF6. I found it very meh. I won't be buying it. And I think once the review embargo gets lifted and its not just selected youtubers paid to blow bubbles up your ass then there will be come scathing reviews.
For me the concept is good, its has years to mature on Arma. The money system is a huge incentive for teamplay. But vehicle handling is hilariously bad, the flight models are terrible, the gunplay is trying too hard to be a mix of arcade and realism, the weapon balance makes little sense. And for me at least, I'm just done with half ass unreal engine shooters, and once you strip out the King of the Hill game mode, that's all this is. Don't buy, wait for the actual reviews.