The MOBA That Tried To Be A Battle Royale - What Happened To Battlerite?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2021
- Battlerite is a game that at one point showed signs of greatness but sadly succumbed to a series of issues and poor developer decisions that have resulted in many labeling it as a failure.
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Battlerite Royale had so much potential but putting a price on it and splitting it from Battlerite was a huge fail.
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Yeah but the thing is both games had different developers and basically a different code so to put an example it could happen a situation like league and TFT that even tho theyre conpletely different when they made changes to TFT the changes would apply to league and viceversa which if u now how the league code kinda works u wouldnt be surprised but yeah basically even tho the champions were the same the only way to balance both needed to be separate ,but the part of being payd is tru tho
@@pineaplejuicegg7667 I agree, the price tag screws it over. If your title is purely multiplayer, and isnt a huge tripple A release with a shit load of marketing, you are going to struggle with getting enough people to play. Given that a skin system is essentially already implemented in this royale (due to the other game already having skins ready for porting over), I think not making it free to play was a brain dead decision.
Had it just been free to play, it would have had a significantly larger player base since anyone can try it with no risk, and with a larger base, it has a chance to grow organically from players enjoying it and telling their friends to play it.
Really stupid decision there. The game literally can't run without enough players to fill lobbies.
@@Zaszz1 the game was free to play what i mean what that it was basically a free to play with ways to get skins just like overwatch the only thing is many skins werent recolours like overwatch so u basically never had to put money on the game besides if u wanted to have all the champs and only had to pay 15 bucks for all of them and that makes that even is non f20 put money on the game u werent gonna make anough
@@pineaplejuicegg7667 Doesn't quite excuse it. Give a free copy of the game mode to people who already paid for the game! It was early access, they literally stopped adding content to the base game and focused on trying to make a new money-grabbing game... so 6 months later, maybe they would make a new game and leave battle royale customers hanging there again? It only built distrust, we all left, the game could have strived as the only MOBA battle royale out there, and TBH it was amazing and unique. Maybe not the next DotA 2, but it certainly would have had no competition in its market.
have over 1300 hours in battlerite, having reached the top rank in the game several times. having followed the game's development since early access, it was such a pain to see it go. good night sweet prince
You and me both... and a fee hundred hours in Bloodline Champions :/
Same but with BBR :/
Why is the game still on steam store if it is dead?
@@zakurn1086 developers are leaving the servers on so that the fans can keep playing. playerbase is steadily decreasing though and updates have ceased
@@sardines7436 Sad. But on the plus side, Paragon is returning as Predecessor, if you like some different mobas you should check out.
When I hear the words battle royale, I begin to feel a sudden urge to go home, even tho I am already there.
the base game is fun tho
I love Battlerite, and I was full of hope when I heard they were making something big, and when I saw the page my heart just screamed „NO! HOW DARE YOU GO DOWN THIS PATH?!“
I really miss battlerite it was like a moba that my brain could work with I understood moving with wasd it was so fast and smooth
Then play it, you can still do it. :)
@@dqzai6101 fuck it I'll download it now
@@WaterBias This is what I wanted to hear!
Tried smite?
Consider the following.
Battlerite isn't a MOBA, and not even close to being a MOBA. Everyone who claims it is a MOBA lacks quite a few brain cells.
It's a TAB game, inspired by WoW arena. Team Arena Brawler.
Not even knowing this game existed tells a story in itself
@Reformed i had no idea what battlerite was i thought it was another paladin battle royale
I feel bad for you bro. Battle rite release is so fun to play
@Reformed there is a world outside America
I had no clue, and now I'm sad I didnt get to try 😔😭
@@sainkanzaki The game was actually pretty big in Europe as well.
This game was really fun, I played in the early access with a couple of friends and hoped on once in a while
Why did you quit
imo it deserved a better run
@@thadex454 Not enough content tbh. I did love the brawling fun, but it was too shallow to be played “forever” like other games-as-service like LoL, DotA or Overwatch. I do wish they had a better run. I’d revisit the game again if it weren’t dead.
They should put this game on mobile 👍
i was very competitive and believed the game would get very big... A year ago i tried it again and it wouldn't even find a game, was so popular at release too what a waste. Akshon hit my wound this time. Why do good games die ?
Battlerite seemed like a fighting game in many aspects and I will never forget it.
Yeah that's what it looks like to me, though I've never actually played it
@@ChandlerKeithFlow If you ever find other 3 friends to play some duos I really recommend it. Fun as hell.
There wasn't enough to depth to individual characters, which is why the game was so popular initially but faded away. It's fun at first, but for most people gets less and less fun as you figure everything out. Unlike a fighting game, which has far more micro depth to get into, or a normal MOBA which has far more macro depth to get into, Battlerite just kinda had nothing after you got in deep enough.
@@jy61 It became a, "Who used their escape tool?" in higher levels of play
It's more like a fighting game with remotely moba-esque area control, than moba with fighting game mechanics
If I see dead island epidemic on this I will cry a single tear in this video
Brb crying rn thanks akshon
It's a fun game and very unique 3 Teams are raiding each other and PvE by the way. Simple, no complicated.
Went shut down just because of weak advertising.
@@stanisk.942 DIE didn't just have weak advertising, it was also straight up detrimental advertising. They presented it as a competitor to LoL and Dota 2 by coining the godawful acronym ZOMBA. It then failed to dig moba fans out of their entrenchment to the two top dogs, scared away outsiders due to the genre's reputation for being obtuse and toxic, and then probably let down quite a few of the moba fans who did try it since it wasn't very similar to a proper moba at all.
I'm still a bit salted over how badly that game was bungled. It was one of the most fun and unique online gaming experiences I've had.
It was such a good experience that never got the start or marketing it deserved. it was a good 50 hours I got to play before they cancelled it :(
oh my heart... i poured almost 200+ hours into this game. i loved it so much- it hurt to see it would stop development. ill have to watch this asap
Based on the video what do you think it could have done to improve content for casuals like myself? Personally I went back to mobas cause the wasd was wonky and I missed how in Moba u can lose the micro but win on the macro. I like royale a lot cool concept!
@@ajwaddanwarr3409 idk what happened, but i bought the game then play awhile and dropped it. Came back when battle royale mode is out and found out i have to pay for it, and the game is f2p, then i pressed uninstall and the rest is history
200 lol, I put over 1200 hrs into it, and a lot of people on my ingame friend list have put much more hrs into it than I have
@@ek9349 well its closer to 400 hrs but impressive time that u put in!
@@ek9349 and?
Died so quickly I didn’t even hear about it till now.
Same
fortnite give the battle royale mode out for free, this game make already paid players buy the mode, then make the game f2p, reeeeeeeeeeeee
Death by mismanagement and battle royale FOMO
Same
If you never heard of it but play mobas you litterly lived under a rock
I played Battlerite, it had the most fluid and active gameplay out of all the MOBA's i played.
Hitting skill shots felt really statisfying. Sad that that there aren't many players anymore.
My friends and I just started playing a few days ago. We are only playing customs. Anyone else who wants to join add me on Discord lol Ezna#8059
i am one of those 360 players, i have an active squad we will play custom games and inhouses with its still so much fun to do anything in the game.
@@devinhohtx Added you :3
I just discovered the game. It's free now. Very fun. But even with Free to play, having two independent games with the same characters feels awkward. At least, all skins, loot, and currencies are under one account. But heroes, I had to buy separately for both games. So those inconsistencies put off the game a little bit. I understand why people left when they had to pay for the same heroes in a new game.
Its not a moba xd its like calling diablo a moba
I really want an MMO with battlerite combat, I feel like it would be a perfect blend of smooth action and readability
someone suggested this in the discord server a couple days ago lol
it was met with backlash
Lost ark then
@@Exel3nce That seems to be similar to what I had in mind aside from being a korean MMO thats 3 years behind its main servers lol.
@@Lilybun Do you have Furi? Try it. I think you'll like it.
I always wondered what it'd look like if it was an MMO or at least had CO-OP
@@Lilybun this type of genre or pov isnt really that suited to be an (successful) mmo tbh
Battlerite had the best healer design I have ever seen in a game
Sirius was my favorite.
2 shacos... Which one is the clone?
you mean them just being op?
I started playing this game yesterday and i really enjoy it. All the sadder to see that the playerbase has become so small.
battlerite battleroyale basically killed the game
Do u know if que times are fast r really slow? I used to play it 2 years ago but stopped
@@jordanleon3347 you have to wait different lengths of time before a round begins. the last time i played, 30 seconds to 1 minute or even longer were not unusual.
@@unknown-qo5dt thats good. I been wanting to get back into the game
@@jordanleon3347 have fun :)
Battlerite was an exceptionally fun video game, still find games pretty often!
I played a bit of Battlerite, it wasn't quite my thing.
But man, those 2 seconds of footage from Paragon at the start. Now that brought some memories back.
Battlerite was soooo much fun. Rook was my favorite character, I loved charging and clobbering people like a caveman. Ultimately I dropped it when queue times became too long. It really deserved getting a proper playerbase though. It was fantastic
Hey! People are still playing it and we do private game with people, I don't know i I can send link here but search for the Official Discord! You'll find us here! It's a lot of fun! Battlerite or Royale!
I was under the impression that it was a dead game. Hopefully it doesn't get taken off Steam anytime soon
What region?
@@liamso00 Eu but there is for everyone!
It had a great run and then the devs said: „Yeah wouldnt it be fun if we just stopped right there?“
honestly this game was the greatest mechanically challenging games i ever played and wish it nvr died. This game will forever stay on the favorites list
Literally the best arena style pvp game to this day
This game had so much potential and I played it for 400 hours, it was so sad to see it go
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I had close to 120 hours in Battlerite. Really loved that game.
I'm about to download it again. Let's bring it back guys!
It might seem like a great idea. I too gave it a try not so long ago because i really liked the concept of the game. Sadly after playing 4 games, i didnt want to play it anymore because of the toxicity i encountered. I was pretty new so i was a little bad at it, but in all 4 games, i got trash talked and even threatend. This made me really sad because i wanted to play it but after seeing the community, the fun this game had to offer sadly faded away.
If you have some friends to play with you should try it. Its a great game.
Edit: i know every community is a little toxic, but because battlerites community is so small, its way more frequent than somewhere else.
Edit 2. I apologize for my bad english.
@@King1Z7 Game has increased 300% since this comment.
Let's go Battlerite!!
I remember when total biscuits introduce this game to me. Rip
I will always love Battlerite , game was so fun. Its still easy getting into games , but no content is just tragic. Wish this game would come back
man, what a great video. I discovered royale last week and have been almost addicted just to now want to drop out cuz the game is abandoned. I'm SO sad rn for it
Im gonna start playing this game after watching this, seems fun. Maybe we can revive it a bit?
I've been playing it on and off, and one time I was recommending it to a lot of friends, only days later they announced they would stop development, I think I remember the community wanting to show their love and I think it got a little more active AFTER they stop development lol
game is free to play and still great. If you have some friends to play it with, I highly recommend it.
Update: been playing it, its fantastic
@@acedtea9170 it really is, the gameplay is top notch
nobody plays in the SEA server
I remember finding this game in the "supported titles" section of Razer Synapse, and was happy to find a neat little game with addicting gameplay. I even got a friend hooked.
A week later they announced the end of development, talk about getting in at the worst time.
Damn, I played this on the pre-ranked era and had a blast, sadly my friends didn't get that much into it so we went back to our established titles. Had no idea it went this bad afterwards, a shame because it was so damn fun.
I showed BR to all my gaming friends but noone except me was hooked. It was too hard for them
My bro played this game a lot and loved it. I tried to get into it in 2018 and the playerbase was so small and thus dedicated that there was such a huge skill gap to close. The part about "if you can't beat the opponent head on then you're fucked" was spot on. So many punishing mechanics, with that being said, the skill potential of this game is deeeeeeep. reminds me of melee in some aspects of the depth of tech skill and player control.
I miss this game so much. It had some of my favorite elements of other mobas condensed into a tight, fast-paced package. Hopefully it gets revived as a new title in the future
Battlerite was so amazing, I actually think about this game a lot. I enjoyed it so much and really wish it took off
This is honestly one of the best games I ever played, but the difficulty was what made me leave. It came out right as I was finishing college and figuring out how to be a real adult and I just didn't have the time to commit to actually being any sort of decent at it. Such a fun experience at first though.
People who miss this game... just go in and play it. Me and a few friends did. Short ques at weekends at least and still as fun. Show SLS that they can revive it rather than just sulk about it dying.
This looks fun, sad to see it dying.
Maybe this is the boost it needed after all.
Would love to see you guys make a video on Ninja Theory's "Bleeding Edge"
It's a shame that Bleeding Edge ended up being Gamepass filler. Even though the gameplay had issues, the game world and characters were amazing.
Ohhh battlerite, this breaks my heart. My second most played game on steam 💔
I remember playing that deer char what was supposed to be support, but i always was able to fight even 3 v 1, only that ice char could defeat me.
Also there was an awesome gamemode called "Battlegrounds", which had a some usual MOBA aspects, such as a destroying main object or special events on the map. I still remember when I messing with my AMD Drivers to play this awesome gamemode, and after a short period this gamemode was removed to 'fix a main issues', but after that he was never been appeared again. Battlerite is a still my favourite game and i miss this good old times.
The problem for me was the game just had a way to steep learning curve. So you couldn't really play it with friends, since the skill gaps were just larger than in any game I've ever played. Therefore it never became the "main game" for most of the players.
Also people wouldn't really play it for a long time because the 7 min ultra-intense games were just so exhausting, you couldn't play for hours like you can in other games.
Yeah; comeback was incredibly hard. It becomes intense at the start of a match because everyone's fishing for the first mistake. Compared to the popular MOBAs, it was a lot more forgiving although games were 2x to 6x. longer.
I personally love the skill gap that was the best part. I wish league was more like it used to be focused way more on individual skill then team play. That's where battlerite royal was really fun where is focused on purely skill and fighting.
yo i loved this game, it was so sad watching it die
I loved the game but nothing would make me pay to play the battle royale.
ANd the playercount for the Battleroyal triples whenever Sp4zie decides to stream it... randomly
Gigantic, a MOBA with amazing visuals, with a mix of more 3rd person view instead of being top down. I hope you guys can make a video on it!
Dawngate should have his own video
Dawngate was amazing, I don't play mobas anymore but still really miss that game
I played this after I saw a video about how it failed. It was honestly the best competitive multiplayer game I have ever played.
2:17 - That Dungeon Meshi profile pic
Fortune's theme sent chills man
The memories
I never even heard about this before it sounds so cool
Hey lets combine the two genres that have the most fickle player bases, im sure it will be a smash hit.
Eternal return managed to do it
@@adamjoestar2001 Weebs are just too powerful
@@adamjoestar2001 game itself is not so popular
played this around late 2017 when it released. was a lot of fun and now i came back to this. just sad
You guys should do a story on the game Hyper Universe one day. A couple years ago, I remember there were ads everywhere for this zany side-scrolling moba. I played it and enjoyed my time. But it all came crashing down very suddenly.
This game dying broke my heart. This was my first ever competitive online game
You want a moba battle royale you should play Eternal Return Black Survival
i really see a lot of potential in that game
Hopefully this game can be an example for other studios or dev team just how important it is to listen to its community and try to satisfy their needs instead of just trying to steal their money
Unfortunately, most company simply repeat the same mistake(intentionally or not). Battlerite is not thd first of such cases anyway. If company is really wanted to changes there are alot of great example well before battlerite, yet we still see the same stuff over and over again.
great video! Damn i never tought i'd be one of the 60 for any game.. i really love BRR since the start even tho i understand the anger people felt towards the price tag etc. for now even tho queue times are 4-5 min i still play it on a almost daily basis since it's so fun to me, sad to see it fall in obscurity
What “die hard fans” were excited for battle royale? Everyone I knew and played with hated it from the beginning.
Yea, I thought it's gonna be bad and man was it bad
Broyale was absolutely not bad. It's still the only battle royale I've ever enjoyed. It's fine if you guys don't enjoy it, but objectively it is not bad. What ruined things was charging for that mode as a separate game.
This game looks 10x better than league
Dota 2
dude this is the game of my dreams ive been thinkig about the mood like that in dota 2 for a long time lol
i asked Stunlock Studios if they are planning some updates for Battlerite Arena/Royale, they said no but will keep the servers running, at the moment they said to be working on a new Project
Damn... seeing paragon hurts... it wasn’t even failing, Epic just had to make a business decision and that cost it its life 😪
"Fortnite"
I think at this point SMITE needs its own video. It impressed me how underrated the game is, it's no less fun than league or Dota and it releases as much content as them. It's shocking that it only has like 1/100th of their playerbase.
To me it being 3d makes it weird to play, also it's heavier than lol so not many people are gonna be able to run it.
I tried playing the game like a year ago and it was so fun but really hard to find games due to low player count. Hopefully this video helps bring more attention back to it.
My second favorite game of all time. It's truly sad that they stopped supporting it. I was so pumped about this game. I even loved the Royale part of it. I really hope they restart it !!!
I’d buy battlerite 2 in a heartbeat
My soul hurt when I saw Paragon...
Ahh I remember the days I used to stream this was really fun once you got into it. Sad it’s gone just like paragon :( both times itried to get into mobas they died
It's been that long since it's release? Damn.. I still remember playing it when it just came out, fun times.
I didn't even know this existed lol
I have 200 hours in this game and it is quite frankly an awesome game.
I played it a few times here and there it was a really good game, I even tried getting friends and family into it but no one did so I didn't really play much
A was a fan of Battlerite right away from early accsess, because the gampley was so enjoyable. It was truly a painful journey to see the develpoers neglect the community who already wanted the game to thrive, and move on to chase a differnet goal. I still rember how i felt when they first announced the BR game-mode, and than making it into a distinct game. Whenever I think of Battlerite nowdays, i remember how much I enjoyed arena, and how devasteted it was to see the company make such poor decisions. This just shows how a truly amazing game can die so easily when paired with a few poor choices.
If this was a 3d game like WoW arenas it would have popped off so hard. I love Battlerite and played it a lot but god damn do I hate the top down bullshit.
No one cares
I remember when Battlerite came out and and almost every League youtuber milked it for all it was worth, announcing they were qutting LoL for it, only for literally a month later those same TH-camrs pretending the game didn't exist.
I still think about this game every day. I tell myself I’m going to play but I don’t because I feel like no one plays it anymore.
Oh man I remember playing this game. One of the things I always thought was going against it was the core gameplay being very fast all the time for the full round demanding constant attention. In most other MOBAs, there's peaks of action with stretches of calm; a game of league isn't going to be non-stop massive teamfights all the time for the full game but BR forced that. By design, BR only allowed for people with great reflexed and nonstop concentration to really win which could easily get exhausting even after a few games.
It's an amazing game. But playing alone is...
Battlerite still has the best Moba-esque combat imo.
Nice joke
@@quelldieu7263 it was a good game that was based on pure skill. pretty much no luck. the battle royal was really fun. alot more fun that spending 10 minutes hitting minions so you can get LP
I can only pray for an akshon video like this about titanfall 2, one of the best movement shooters today
I had so much fun playing this game, but as the player count started to dwindle the ques were un bearably long. I really wish this game had succeeded as I would still be playing it today.
The moba version was actually really fun, the BR didnt really feel good tho.
I found out about battlerite recently and loved it, but by the time I started playing and got into it, I found out it was already dead. Very sad, could only log about 50 hours and then I could no longer find matches in less than 20 minutes.
i didnt even know this game shutted down until today
used to play it with my friend who's pretty much casual gamer
Stunlock Studios announced a new game - V rising
besides that... what they could've finished implementing was player hosted tournaments via in-game feature. apparently it was present in bloodline champions and was the last thing they worked on before announcing and concentrating on royale.
such a shame
This was my favorite game, perfect mix between league and a versus fighter, easy to pick up but very deep can wait for the stunlock to create a new one like this
debt is a thing when u lose money on 3 games back to back
@@jordanwatts9419 the gameplay was insane, everyone agrees on it, theyneed to set up their shit well and tweak some things
@@jordanwatts9419 they got backed by tencent for battlerite, they're working on a new project but no news other then them working on something
I remember really liking Battlerite at first. It was basically "WoW Arenas with moba characters" the game and I loved it for that.
Sincerely didn't enjoy the battle royale mode, but I was a real fan of arena mode. Would love a MOBA with Battlerite's combat, the standart really bores me. The servers are still open, but development is paused, devs did said that a miracle will make them return. I don't really think it'll happen, but hope's still there, this game really is one of a kind and I will truly miss it.
I loved this game so much, I really hope a big TH-camr would revive it by giving it a spotlight
Ive been wanting to play this game since it got announced but I never had a pc till like 2 months ago. I got the game and some days you don’t find matches. I didnt mess with the br one that much but it was pretty cool. What i would of liked for modes, i would of put br in the battle rite game and also made an overwatch/paladins type mode. Like push a cart to the enemy zone type or capture zones from overwatch. It sucks that i just got a pc cause i really enjoy the game and try to play it frequently.
This just feels like the custom map warlocks from warcraft 3 and/or glaive masters also from warcraft 3
I've been playing Battlerite for a few years, and then I tried out Royale for the first time today, and I love it!! I don't care much that it borrows a lot from various other royale games. It feels like Battlerite's best brother, and I love the style, vibe, and exploration. I wish more people played both games. Ruh Kaan and Thorn are so cute, Anyway :D
Yeah, I bought this game in early access, really liked it, played with friends, a lot of fun. But for me it was when they released the BR as separated game and focused on it more than on their main game, lack of content and maps.. :(
It would be interesting to see you make a video about Atlas Reactor
Battlerite was one of my favorite games and a top game .e and my friends played through Grad School. Was really a shame that they weren't able to develop more casual modes to keep interest, and that they made that huge blunder with the BR mode.
clutching 1v2 is very satisfying, i was hoping that there would be a big esports for the game. it's just so sad it died.
I loved Dead Island Epidemic - I played it so much for that open beta period and had high hopes for it.
I didn't really think of some of what you said before. It's been the same way in their other games. In Bloodline Champions and Dead Island: Epidemic, both games were really sink or swim. You either learn how to connect with everything or you end up not really having any fun. It felt amazing playing it, but I saw my friends fall away very quickly from BLC.
I have over 650 hours played in Battlerite and live close to the studio. The city of Skövde and SLS took great pride in BR and it was even printed on an electric cabinet in the city center. Too bad the devs did all these bad decisions. I still play BR from time to time and it's not hard to find games but ranked gamemode is dead.
Played with my friends when it was F2P really really enjoyed it. Sadly they couldn't keep up. Wish they wpuld release Battlerite 2.
Battlerite itself is still a great time sink if you play while other teams in your Ranking are active or go for the casual mode.
Use some of the public Discords to find the right times :D