BattleBit Remastered: One Year Later - What Happened? 

For me it was a great game that was worth my money at the time and I got what I wanted out of it

Put 200+ hours into the game and only had like half of the guns unlocked. The grind sucked dick.

For me the reason I stopped playing were 1) The movement speed was just way too coked up for my taste. 2) It felt like the vehicles were abandoned. As a heli and tank main you just felt so exposed and easy pray for any Tom, Dick and Andy that you had to camp at base. No buildable repair spots and no-one ever used the repair tool. 3) People just stopped communicating and it turned into TDM with people speeding and bunny hopping around.

Devs aren't even doing small bug fixes anymore, weekly missions keeps resetting many times a week, buildings don't make any noise when they are about to collapse, and also sometimes when you try to spawn, you get a weird black screen bug that lasts for like 10 seconds.

Becoming popular so fast can kill projects.

what made this game great was the size of lobbies and proximity chat made an environment that "casuals" and more tryhard players could all enjoy at the same time in the same match. but once the casuals and roleplayers left it was just meta tryhard players with no noobs to farm and no funny roleplay going on in the middle of all the chaos.

The game simply diverged from its own vision and identity. It went from a halfway point between Battlefield and Squad to somehow being more cracked out than Call of Duty, but with even worse maps and gameplay flow. Game developers need to not just blindly listen to suggestions from short-sighted fans who are mad about a game's perceived skill curve.

If the devs want a resurgence with this game, their gonna have to add more than just audio with their next update.

It really was the server update that killed it for me, I just want to play the game NORMALY, not snipers only, not this entire CLASS is banned, no snipers or DMRs, like... screw all of that, I just want to play the game on a normal ass server with normal rules... and I can't even find that anymore

Here's what did it for me: -Heavily monitored VOIP -Constant balancing of weapons despite keeping guns like the badger or vector meta for a long time -Sniper receiving 3 nerfs in one go -Vehicles, especially choppers getting nerfed to the point of not being a threat (blackhawk). -Updates. The game may have succeeded had the devs grew the team to keep it going with the money that was made.

I love how they literally did a AAA move and disappeared ironically

I think that there's some truth to what you said, but I think that the main thing that killed the game was the movement. Once people figured out the game's movement, it became clear that the movement speed was way too high, mantling was way too fast, and leaning was way to spammable. Once that was figured out by the community, tactical, team-oriented, and objective play plummeted in favor of movement-oriented play. That completely killed the style of the game that brought people to the game in the first place--massive teams playing for objectives.

I just wonder how they figured the TTK was the issue with the game. It wasn’t, the speed of player movement was. Shooting a guy and seeing him spin around at Mach 3 then turn around when you’re out of ammo isn’t fun.

Absolutely legendary early access when it first dropped. Most fun I've had for my money in any FPS game. I don't play anymore because I just have other things to play like CS2 and iRacing. I have come back to it once or twice, and it just didn't hit the same. Most of the casuals are gone, so there's a lot less player interaction and TTK is almost 0.0s.

The grind and the balance were the worst parts for me. Rambos, with their Vectors, ruined the game. Within a week, you were either a Vector tryhard, a medic healing people for 20 hours so you could unlock it, or you were an average person getting farmed. It became a team deathmatch because you could just out strafe bullets and lean spam like the infuriating garbage from Siege. I just quit.

The audio update was the killer for me. It sounded unnatural as enemy foot steps were louder than the gun fire and explosions. Everything was muffled and there were no settings for me to revert. I thought to myself how could anyone think this is a good idea. I ranked it up there next to no scoreboard in an competitive fps for great ideas.

You missed the part where Oki pushed out a half assed audio rework/update in December dispitte being told it needed more time. Or how Oki.. the main dev nearly having mental breakdown in the BB discord server responding to the feedback from the bad audio... You also failed to mention how Oki decided not to hire other developers to assist in the games development and back fired heavily as he's the only person who can implement the new audio that was supposed to come out in April... Hence the delay with no real launch window in sight.

Gotta say i had a lot of good times shredding people with c4 and vectors, or joyriding in the humvees with my brother, and farming sledgehammer kills on enemy snipers. All we can do is hope and pray that the devs are cooking..

I had a lot of fun playing, but it really feels dead and honestly abandoned. Don't get me wrong the game still has like 3k players so its far from a "dead game" but 8 months for an update is pretty insane especially for a title that IS in early access. You're supposed to be pushing out updates regularly or your game just dies before it fully releases. I think early on the devs were doing a great job, but they should have expanded the team right away (beyond hiring the people that made the skin update). 3 people is not enough to handle a game that was exponentially growing. I understand that maybe they want to keep their vision in house but look where its taken us. 8 months waiting on an audio update, that turned into a major overhaul update. They could have just given us parts of the update over time so they could fix any issues that come about.

Personally the reason I haven't played much in a long while is that exact fragmentation of the community that happened with community servers. I used to be a massive tank main in BF3/4 and was really excited to have a game with tanks back in the conversation. They were a bit underwhelm at first but I was still excited to play the rest of the game with friends and hope that as early access rolled along, the tanks (and guns like the vector lets be real) would see a balance pass to get everything in line with each other. That slowly started to be true, but once community serves popped up and the classic 24/7 Tensa, no vehicle, 2x reload, bandage full heal (See 24/7 Metro games) servers started cropping up, I knew the game was going in that direction steadily away from what I hoped it would be. It lost it's true "vision" for what the game wanted to be; a ship without a captain set adrift in a sea of infantry only, cracked out, bunny hopping, lean spamming, servers which is the whole reason I don't play CoD/BF anymore.

The movement speed is wayy too fast. That and the crazy grind to unlock weapons and attachments both killed the game for me and many others.

The hype wasn't just unreal, it was disproportionately massive. It had no right having so many players, so many sales. Unfortunately that kind of curses the game's reputation, once the population drops down to what a 3man indie game should have, people scream "The sky is falling! They had 80k players!"

Something I don't think was touched on, is that the "audio update" that still hasn't released was supposed to be a patch for the audio that was broken in the last update over 8 months ago. The audio in this game is unbelievably broken, you can extremely audibly hear enemy footsteps from over 30m away, which causes these blind witchhunts whenever footsteps are heard through multiple buildings, and it also prevents anyone from like pushing flanks or sneaking up on a snipers nest. It really hinders and hurts the current gameplay, and was acknowledged as such by the devs almost as soon as it was released 8 months ago, but instead of fixing it immediately Oki said he was going to do a full audio rework; to which has now been prolonged for almost a year, which is insane that it wasn't just reverted the day it was released, and it's even worse that it was prolonged for almost a year. In NA there's only 1 or 2 servers that are populated at any one time anymore; at peak days/times you might get a 3rd or 4th. The game isn't just settling to normal playercounts, it's dying rapidly.

for what it is its a pretty good game my issue with it is it cant make its mind up if it wants to be like battlefield or squad and i would much rather it be a battlefield game than squad

I stopped playing because I don't have time to grind out getting weapons that are good, as well as the time it takes to unlock everything. It takes me several games to get warmed up to even be competitive nowadays, and I don't enjoy several hours of losing gunfights. So, I stopped playing. The movement speed/bunny hopping stuff killed it for me too. I stopped playing CoD because of that stuff.

8 months since an update?????

What killed it for me was how they started trying to wreck community servers after the fact, I mained a server run by RSclan where it was more of a hardcore gamemode based off the old BF3/BF4 hardcore modes, SgtOkidoki kept telling us how to run our server but with no set in stone guidelines with other servers like ours being able to do what we were doing originally but telling us to stop it for instance with it being hardcore we modified weapon damage (as health itself was not modable) so we got our weapons to a reasonable TTK for a hardcore mentality well despite Oki never (to my knowledge) being in our server he said our modifications were to much and to tone it back which lead to inconsisant TTK on our server but they wouldn't inforce it on other servers and a lot of us were honestly pissed off, a lot of what I think is missed by people who didn't run community servers is the constant trying to get set in stone guidelines on how they would like us to run our servers despite it being OUR server and then the constant backend server errors which caused even more issues for our server and community, not to mention at one point and to my knowledge this is still the case, the only way for a community server to even appear to the masses is to have people seed the server which is about 8-16 people which sucks when a community server itself has a small amount of players dedicated to it so its hard to bring it to a full capacity server I agree with your point of they should not have let us have our own servers if they A were going to cycle back on it when it was to late and B have maybe tried to make their own official versions of servers like ours to maybe appeal more to their taste but then still have community run spin offs either way if what they really wanted was a milsim game it should have had more time to cook before even touching early access and thus community servers, "QoL improvements" that further stepped from what they actually wanted etc etc

Back in the beta and around release there was an energy that I just don't see now in Battle Bit. Personally I think something that made the Beta so much more fun for me was it was like an event every weekend. So many people were using the local voice back then to talk shit the the enemy or scream medic when they got downed, you could hear the fun they were having. But now I very rarely if ever hear any voice it feels like something is missing when I'm running around, like one of the pillars that made this game so much fun is no longer there.

Yeah when it was first released to the public I played the shit out of it. I stopped playing when community servers came out. It didn’t exactly ruin the game for me, but things definitely died down compared to how I initially felt. Love the game and never hated it, but it started to feel off and not as exciting

The explosive popularity of this game is what transforms a team of solo devs into a gaming company. These guys have failed to do so and this is the result unfortunately. After a year this game still doesn't know what it wants to be and is rapidly dying.

I still play every few days but the game needs that content bad I don't want it to die.

I tried playing with friends receintly, but there was just so many sweaties in the community server that it felt bad to play coming back from a long break. Played one game and everyone decided "that's enough battlebit for the next couple months."

2042 portal made the same mistake. Was supposed to be a nostalgia trip but wound up being xp boosting or god awful GWOT "milsim" servers

Love the text boxes that explain some things and show the gun stats. Could use some tweaks and more of them, but it's great to have them.

Currently (for me at least) I can only find 2 servers I can join. The 32v32 Australian server which is populated half the time and a 124v124 server in Asia where I get 120-280 ping. The only thing I want from battlebit is to be able to play it.

I knew its been a while since the games had an update but I didn't think its been that long

A game I really wanted to main since the dropoff of PS2, but was hit with issues I could not overcome. Thinking of that movement meta still increases my blood pressure. At the end, I am just not sure the devs wanted a pseudo live service model out of their game. I believe they thought they could approach early access like the playtest, rolling things out when they were ready, and expecting the community to roll with the lumps and gaps like early access titles of old. But then they got the massive sales and tried to do a half and half, and the results speak for themselves. But I also think Battlebit entered during a year of dearth of good FPS titles. But since then, BF 2042 and BF 5 had a resurgence of players, COD had new releases, and other F2P shooters came out and drew players away. Even if Battlebit had done everything right, this game was designed to replicate those titles, and once they caught up, BB became a hard sell.

This celebrates 1 year since I found your channel. Cheers mate

I miss the team play that we used to see in battlebit, I haven’t played in months because I got sort of burned out. The guns felt like they took a little too long to unlock to keep me engaged personally. I do think that if battlebit was more of a isonzo frontline system instead of the battlefield conquest system we’d see allot more team play. But it is an amazing game at the end of the day and I’m glad I have the fond memories of playing it with my brother and close mates.

Played demo instantly refused to buy it when I figured out they record your voice chat for when you get reported and my friend got banned for calling some toxic guy screaming at him an idiot.

This is what happens when you "listen to the community". Start giving everything they ask for and bam, now it's a puddle of mud.

I was so pumped for the original milsim idea when they first had open betas around 2016-17, and it's sad it changed over so heavily into the arcadey game it is today. Everyone's right in their comments on the crazy movement and parkour. If this could have been one to two steps more casual than Squad but still slower-paced and thoughtful, it would have been awesome. Somehow the maps have a really weird cluttered feel + flow too. I have fond memories of taking and holding objectives as a team in so many other shooters (RS2:Viet, TF2, BF1, BF4) and it's hard to even describe how the BattleBit ones are lacking. Still respect all the work the devs have put it and the hours of enjoyment, thanks for this vid.

what made me love the game was vehicles specifically the BTR and camera controlled gun jeep thing i used to go on 50kd with 100+ kills with them...

Holy shit its Cam, dude you're killing it. Love from ye old JB Hi-Fi crew. ❤️

For me, there was a few reasons why I stopped playing: 1. The game's pacing shifted from a more mil-sim pace to a fast past shooter. Armor cannot be repaired and will constantly slow you down even if it is broken or shot off, so players would simply just play Medic with no armor to move as fast as possible and heal as much as possible, it lead to the game feeling really imbalanced since Medic went from a support focused class to a highly aggressive class in which other glasses were basically left in the dust. Once we finally got self-healing, it was the actual nail in the coffin since Medic players got the idea that they could just outright ignore teammates and focus on themselves since "oh, my teammates can just heal themselves". 2. Weapon imbalance really killed the fun. A lot of the top-tier weapons were locked behind being a high rank which effectively made it so already good players would have access to better weaponry than less experienced players, which put the game much more in the favor of experienced players. It felt really hard to take the game casually when a player who is better than me is running Mach 10 with a Kriss Vector and beams me before I can even react since the TTK was insanely fast. During the Open Beta, the Kriss Vector was strong, but it felt more fair since you unlocked it early on, so every player practically had it, if I felt tired of dying to it I could just swap to it to be on equal footing but the Live Launch pushed it to a high rank and removed that. 3. The grind... oh dear lord where do I even begin. Medic was definitely the best way to play the game, you got high speed, actions and equipment that provide a lot of XP, and really good weaponry. Other support classes (or classes in general) did not earn enough XP to keep up with the grind. It is so bad that when they added weekly challenges, I never even bothered with them since the XP loss from using other classes was massive enough for me to warrant not changing up my gameplay. The grind itself shoehorned me into playing the game in a frankly boring way instead of actually having fun.

I love this game. I play it every day that I have a chance to play games. I just wish there were more players like in time of old. Hopefully the update comes out and we get a nice spike and prolonged bump. AND they update the weapon customization. I want to color specific components.

I am Brazilian. Over the past six months, the game has not received any major updates, which is really disappointing. What I wanted most was weapon customization like in real life, allowing me to attach two scopes to a weapon, for instance. Additionally, it would be amazing if the game included shotguns that are not yet available, new military vehicles, and artillery, making it a true war simulator. I can only imagine how exciting it would be to customize every detail of the weapons, choose different types of ammunition and accessories, and engage in intense battles with varied equipment. The realism of a battlefield filled with modern military vehicles, heavy artillery, and a wide range of customizable weapons would make the gaming experience truly immersive and rewarding.

I actually had no idea it hadn't updated since last year. I started playing again recently and it's still fun, but man, I forgot it dropped in early access also wow I forgot there was a milsim mode planned...... I do truly hope it still comes out someday.

Sad that the devs have left the game to die. Was my favorite game last year.

still playing… just got off 5 minutes ago. nice video! much love, i hope this game keeps growing tbh

I loved playing it and still love to play it from time to time. It's not my main game but I still enjoy it a lot

I might have missed it and I know you mentioned the audio in the next update, but what else will it have that will cement the game into it's needed identity?

As a battlefield player for like 15 years, I predicted the game would immediately fall off as a fad/game of the month. People were rightfully pissed at dice/BF2042 and such wanted to show that a dev that does it right can achieve success. The issue? Cheaters. The scale. Lack of content. It should’ve been obvious that 3 devs couldn’t compete with AAA dev process, and as such of course it fell off after people experienced all they could.

It was a really fun game, I bought it I had my fun and I moved on, I still go back every now and then though

I had a blast with the game but I haven’t had that itch to play it in a while mostly just because I’m busy and helldivers 2 is amazing. Hope battle bit continues to get updates because it is a good game

To be honest im willing to wait however long it takes for the update to come out

Hey if the game dies out nearly entirely, the devs will have the perfect opportunity to remold it into what they were actually looking to make in the first place It's extremely risky to do something like that but it could work if they do it correctly and it goes smoothly

I Remember Team Fortress 2 at one point had a quickplay feature that allowed you to connect to Official and Community servers that followed a official ruleset that disallowed mods, MOTDs, and Official Maps only at the press of a button, which can be used in Battlebit to preserve the vanilla feel and promote a community hosted vanilla feel. There should be incentives for server hosts to create these Vanilla Servers for it to work however, but they could also allow some messaged to get newer players to try community modded servers but still have a fallback to vanilla servers.

I really appreciate that BattleBit made the design choice with the graphics to be inclusive. Not everyone has the most up-to-date systems (especially in certain countries of the world). I hoped that this would keep this game at the top of the charts for years to come.

Why they thought things like the vector and p90 was acceptable was beyond me. Certain guns made the game very unfun because they were massively OP so me and my friends got bored of it and quit. Also you forgot to mention that there was massive amounts of accounts banned for speech, music, ect. This company teamed up with unity to implement an AI censoring program that detected DMCA'd music, "inappropriate speech", and other typical AAA methods used to censor people.

I had a lot of fun for the month I bought the game. Spent 164 hours. The honeymoon phase wore off, and once small problems became more obvious. The most dangerous thing was taking a break. I came back for community servers, but the I didn't like the options available. So, I took a break again, but this time didn't come back. Game has remained uninstalled. Had a great time, voice comm was annoying as F#$% but also funny as F$(%.

i was there whe it was announced it will be out in beta, gave me goosebumps seeing it again, i really wanna come back to the game and play it like back in the days, i wish the team the best of luck cuz this update probably will be the most important update in battbelits life, its live or die

I haven't played in probably almost a year but I definitely still have this game in mind often enough that if it somehow morphs into something closer to what I was originally hoping for, I'll be back. Fingers crossed!

Tbh that's sad that they lose that opportunity to grow and stay with 3 people with zero purpose to explore that game...

100% behind you in what community servers did to the game.

Just hopped back on this week and this game still has so much promise. Just hoping the devs can bring it back

Great vid with some great points. Have to agree about the server discussion. The kibble notifications became annoying for me. The random rules that would limit kits got also annoying to deal with. You did a great job really nailing the core issues that hurt this game. Appreciate your mind. Take care.

I purchased on release played for about 200hours worth the money imo. One friend after another quit because they felt like they needed something like a battlepass, apparently the fun playing games is not enough of a reward for some people. When they all stopped playing I quit too

Oki has not implemented what most people consider the minimum requirements for most issues. For example, there was no official server provided for each region when the game was released. Community servers do not show what modifications have been made, making it impossible to know their specific content before joining. Community servers that have modified core content are matched with other servers instead of being matched separately. Battlebit has a sizable community, but it is evident that some features were designed without any input from the community. Additionally, there were no community tests conducted before these features were updated.

the game was so fun at first when every lobby you went into was full of people either yelling, roleplaying as a real soldiers or playing random music

I haven't played the game in a while, but I did really enjoy it. I really hope they come back swinging, because this game deserves it.

It's low attention span. Palworld, helldivers, and now this? It isn't a coincidence. People just don't have the attention spans that they used to. Games are now just trends that die in a few weeks or months.

They made their money and left people to play a paid version of phantom forces lmao

I didnt know they devs wanted it to be a milsim. When i picked it up in June last year i thought it was a silly but fun version of battlefield

Whenever the update comes out, they should do a free weekend to put more eyes on the game again, cause honestly i forgot about this game since the last time it was free to play for a bit.

"The Battlefield Killer" they said 😂😂😂😂😂

It’s the most fun I ever had with an early access title where the dev cashed out and bailed

you are half right about the community servers. there are NO OFFICIAL SERVER for asia server at the time before community servers are allowed, all people wanting to play from asia suffers from 100+ ping in a extremely fast TTK shooter. after community servers dropped, there's only 2 main Asia server, and both of them using official progression with no custom ruleset bringing the authentic battlebit experience. even currently nowadays asia only have 1 server with consistent 250 player during peak times which allows the full battlebit experience for Asia players, if the community servers were not dropped back then, i don't think the current server will even have any players these days

I've got a feeling the devs are working hard behind the curtains. I think they'll make a massive update that will restore the game.

I haven't stopped playing. Still love this silly game.

Watching you play was enough to make me not want the game. You're flying around the map like you're playing Quake and it looks no different than COD gameplay.

10/10 video cami will never forget when you featured me on a highlights video 🫡 wish we could go back 😢

The only reason I stopped playing was that I got super busy in school. I was playing that fall pretty regularly, but then life got busy. After a while, I realized I hadn't played in a long time, but then I still didn't have time. Hopefully I pick it back up soon.

If this game is turning towards being a milsim the playerbase will for sure drop even more.

what killed Battlebit for me. -time to kill took too long, unless you land those headshots, or run high fire rate guns. -sniper scope have massive glare -every gun has tracers giving away your position easily. -removing the ability to make minefields -hackers, being able to see where you are at all times is not fun.

grind was insane and game itself was like apex/cod on crack with movement and wiggle speed, earlier versions were much more tactical and less W key vector.

Being able to spam jump and strafe like a fill 180 degrees everywhere puts the game in a wierd and annoying spot where you have to do the same thing or you are at a disadvantage

IM GONNA PLAY RIGHT NOW

still playing. still having fun!

As an Aussie the biggest problem for us was just well the way we interact with each other, the first week is something i'll always remember but after that week the game had already shifted, it was a lot more quiet in the servers as well lots of us were getting banned left and right. I disappeared after 2 weeks of playing, i came back mo ths later and there was only 2 aussie community servers left that even would have players in them rarely filled full and unfortunately with that community server power the servers were well boring, almost all explosives disabled, majority of vehicles disabled. Completely lobeoy experience with only meta and no fun being had... it's unfortunate what's happening and i hope it gets better for the devs and community because this game is something we've craved for a long time now and it's slipping through our fingers.

I bought a steam deck just to play it and have clocked in 80+ hours. Still enjoy it everyday and wish there were more active servers

From my own experience (I play in EU, usually in spans of two weeks with longer breaks in-between) the community servers only brought me more options to choose from, depending on my mood / or on challenges I'm looking to complete. As for now VS then, I personally think the novelty factor is the only reason we'll never experience the incredibly fun chaos that the game brought us in the beginning ... and frankly, I'm glad that a lot of not-so-patient players left the ship early, because I feel that the players who are still around today are the ones who TRULY embrace Battlebit. As long as there are even just a few people left, I'll keep coming back occasionally and just enjoy this fine game that once bent the rules of mainstream success ! ❤

It was fun for a time, but time went on new things came out. And well, some changes made no fucking sense, tracers in sniper rifles? ImmersionBeGoneInator shit like this kills it for me.

I've not played BB since release. I dont know whats going on but i could myself see hopping on when it gets released.

i got the game and played for days, i genuinely loved playing the game, i downloaded it again recently and there was 3 other players💀

Skip past BB history lesson 12:10 Alternatively 14:50

sucks that you ditched planetside for this...

RIP BB. You made last summer a ton of fun with friends with whom Ive not played vidya in a decade, but by September-October everybody just stopped playing.

I played the hell outta this game and loved it, Had multiple 100+ kill games and everything about it was fun and enjoyable. SO SO SAD IT DIED OFF SO FAST :(

I just don't like that nobody uses the proximity chat anymore. Maybe I just can't hear anyone but I remember warzones with people screaming, and the funniest things you'd ever hear as nothing but utter chaos unfolds around you. Men screaming, someone playing Pat Benetar's Heartbreaker, building crumbling around you. It was just so much fun when people actually spoke.