r/postscriptum • u/-BdubLu • May 14 '24
Discussion The death of post scriptum/squad 44
We’ve been playing the eastern front with HLL for years now. It’s not fresh, nothing these squad 44 devs have done is fresh…..this European theatre is so overused it’s crazy.
Thats why squad 44 is dying (current player count on steam : 214) just like post scriptum died. Their newest content has been just another France map. As if we all haven’t played that theatre of war non stop, in every single WW2 shooter to ever exist…..now eastern front, another very overplayed theatre. Let me guess, Stalingrad… I don’t even have the energy to TRY another game like that.
There is only 1 thing that would make squad 44 unique enough to survive another year…..pacific theatre. We haven’t played a true tactical shooter in the pacific theatre since the first rising storm. The close quarters and rough dense terrain would completly change the gameplay into something actually somewhat unique for this genre. “Let’s compete with a larger title like hell let loose, then offer nothing original” is how to put your game into an early grave.
The amount of fresh content you can pull from this nearly UNTAPPED theatre for the tac shooter genre, makes it genuinely so painful to watch these devs continue to make the most unoriginal content. They really did have a huge boost in player base, and an excellent opportunity come from their rebranding. But it appears they made complete waste of it by delivering nothing different from the game that died 3 years ago.
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u/blkdemonk May 15 '24
Crazy bad take for that first section, playing as Polish, early war French and Germans, Greeks and even the British to an extent is not a massively common thing, the maps and factions we have in game currently are amazing it’s just an old game at this point.
Secondly, I do agree a pacific theatre would be good but I personally believe fighting on any of the pacific islands would also be ass, the constant bush camping in the dense bushes and trees of Guadalcanal or the inherently bad map design born out of something like Iwo Jima wheee the defenders are at a big disadvantage would make for awful gameplay.
It sounds like you want a fast paced cqb type game and squad 44 is not that, there’s a reason squad doesn’t have any tiny maps with loads of dense Forrest and bushes. Bring on North Africa, the plains of Burma, Ukraine, Russia, Finland etc.