The Rise and Downfall of Rogue Company 

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Rogue Company carried me through lockdown 😢

Hi-rez is definitely one of the main contributors to it's downfall.

As an OG RoCo player myself It is sad to see the game fizzle out like this I play it every now and then Honestly surprised they haven’t shut the servers down by now

I will never give up on rogue no matter what the devs do

I use to play this game everyday with my girlfriend. I remember we took like a 2 or 3 month break from the game came back and it was dead. It was actually a good game in its prime it just couldn’t keep an audience.

Remember when you couldn't wait to get home and play this game?

I played this game for a long time. Eventually it just felt hollow. For a long time i felt that Weapon mastery was revolutionary. But then i realized it wasnt when someone explained it to me. It was simple and didnt need much tweaking. You can easlilly add more rouges. Then speed and toughness. Lost everything.

This use to be my daily game, it's a shame it went the way it did

The game had so much potential Maybe they will make a new game some time down the line

I was yet another one of the people playing this daily. The simplicity of the game was the selling point. The tight and well-controlled gun fights in the extraction mode what I liked about the game the most .Then came all the different modes and the respawn. Kills felt like they meant nothing and all the lobbies were stretched thin because there were so many modes after a while. They added way too much content way too frequently, being free to play they could have just coasted and remained the premiere, go-to, low fidelity shooter option and I think people would have kept showing up for years because it was polished and tight. They got sloppy and loose.

Miss this game so much I stopped playing a few months after kestrel came out I think

I have been playing this game on and off for awhile but, since the last couple of months I have invested a lot of time playing roco with 3 of my buddies. Honestly, I have been having a blast. Yes, I do see a skill gap between my team and opponents every once in awhile but earning reputation points & unlocking new rogues and grinding weapon mastery has been so much fun.

Great video, I agree with pretty much 100% of what you said! Realistically though, the MAIN reason me and my friends stopped playing was the servers/bugs. The constant stuttering, frame drops and just dumb glitches/bugs that they seemed to never patch out. Coupled with the lack of content after year 1 and that any time they DID add 'new content' it'd just add more bugs and glitches. Hell, I can't even count the amount of times I returned to check out RoCo and the contracts were broken.

I played rogue in the betas and like you mentioned it definitely helped connect to people and was fun to play with friends, but eventually after everyone i knew stopped playing the game i quit as well, ive played some game here and there and they definitely brought some nostalgia back, but i am a bit bummed that this game ended up where it ended. If there was better support for it it definitely could've a high game for free to play.

the game was lovely but they wouldnt really balance things out like i rember i left the game cuz my favorite character gl1tch was useless while lancer was free the game was fun but they could have done better like when the game got better thye would advertize it more or even bring on something new

every time i remember rogue company i remember the full release trailer when gl1tch was hacking into that AI and his mask said "doomsday event imminent", some seasons later hi rez announced that they won't update rogue company anymore great game but bad management i can remember most of the bugs and glitches, all the bronken metas and dumb balancing decisions but i can't stop the nostalgia

I love this game, it has serious potential, I nearly play it everyday because of the good gameplay, but in needs a lot of updates and maps. It still has bugs that needs to be rectified, but they are still being lazy ! The worst thing they have done is split up deathmatch maps. All the maps should be on deathmatch please.

Just found this game yesterday. Definitely love this game already. Haven’t spent hours on a game in a few years

8K subs bro.also if just someone good buys rouge company and does a good job in it,it will probably succeed more and actually have a chance at getting a lot more players.i love this game and I play it all the time.sad to see it struggling.but I believe it will come back stronger.

I quit this game 8 months ago because of the excessive hacking and last week I went to the game page to see if any updates happend since and it's still exactly the same as when I left it. No new rogues nothing. This game is literally on life support begging for the plug to get pulled 😂

I'm 30 years old, I play fighting games mostly. Shooters are relatively new to me. I tried all sorts of titles but Rogue stood out for me. So many great memories, especially during lockdown. It's very important to me to have other PvP games (I enjoy them so much more than solo) when I need down time from travelling the country for fighting games. I hope in the future there will be a shooting game that will grab me like Rogue Company did. I have League of Legends for MOBA and just got back into Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel for Card Games to keep me going but it be nice to have a Shooting game. Marvel Rivals looks Promising. I like the Hero Shooters more but sadly other Hero Shooters aren't doing it for me right now. Always keeping an eye out though.

Rogue company was the best in lockdown the vids on you channel were the best and you should play South Park snow day

Good video and great to see youre still making content. As someone who started playing in closed alpha id say they promised too much ddnt manage to deliver it. They released the game too soon after the cbt just a bit after some massive server issues and bugs. We also got the year 1 roadmap wich included the weapon mastery system etc that got delayed quite a bit. We also never got the promised weekly updates. When you release a game in a state like that with not enough content im not supriced the peapol who hoppen on early quit the game. Then they rushed content out wich eventually with the early issues not being fixed started causing more and more issues/making it harder the fix the core of the game.

I really hope they don’t shut the game down cuz I still go through phases of playing it and I remember playing it with friends so much in 2020 with friends it was so fun they kinda messed up the UI or armory to choose weapons or something I forgot. I also really liked the each character’s have their own weapons or things to buy start of the rounds felt really fresh and fun I’m sure I will re download it at some point and play it

cosmetics were much too expensive to me. I also with my three hours of play with my friend and a random managed to beat a whole squad of cosmetic buying sweats after losing our fourth man because of how hard we were getting smashed. Forever the highlight of my career in that game and I quit playing after that.

Wow, I echo everything you said, this game was huge for me, it was a HUGE alternative to me from Fortnite, I loved the gameplay and the world of Rogue Company, it was to the point where I wanted to make content just on this game alone, but one of the biggest issues with the game is the matchmaking. I could never EVER get competent players on my team. Plus the lack of communication to the community led to the downfall as well. We can only hope a team can pick it up and restore what has been lost 💔

Great job in highlighting the flaws that brought the enthusiasm level down for so many. This was done with heart. Respect. 💯❤

even tho my nintendo account was connected to my steam when i signed onto the computer all of my stuff from my switch including all characters unlocked, multiple weapons mastered, and multiple battle passes were deleted when the switch got taken down

You know it's over for RoCo when Brad posted this video. End of an era.

ninja also did a stream with scott when the game realesed in open beta. Just thought id point it out since it wasnt mentioned with the other creators

I still play this once in a while. I remember when my friends and I got to rogue ranked in season 1. Good times

What killed the game for me is when skins that was previously "limited time" from the battle passes - you can now buy from tbe store.. Not to mention event skins you grinded for, you can just buy now... I cried about this back then saying it will kill this "sense of invesment".. maybe i was right.

I lowkey wouldn’t be surprised if they did a Rogue Reforged, i kinda hope so. But that could be another few years away if they did..

This game was so fun and was a great palette cleanser from competitive shooters like siege. Ik its a competitive game but it felt new but still allowed for good casual fun, i miss it and wish i could get back into it but the player base just isnt there 😢

i would like to see the game return. It was such a great game, but they removed dev's who were trying and let the community stay in the dark to the point people were just dipping. Such a fantastic game though with fond memories of it.

Totally agree with you Brad! Rogue will always have a place in my heart because it was the game that made me like shooter games and now i have bought my first gamer pc or more like laptop but anyways🤷🏻‍♀️😅 great video Brad!

1200+ hours and most of that sniping. I have hundreds of clips and its super fun to snipe and hit clips. The game ended when they introduced kestrel. Now every character has a 1 shot ability or some grenade that instantly kills you. They changed the guns so now the strongest gun is on the strongest characters... with aim assist. Made it hard to snipe, and then they added flinch and it became REALLY hard to snipe. I still stomp lobbies but it sucks now.

RoCo was one of my favorite competitive games, spent countless hours grinding ranked with Chaac xd

This just made me remeber I did play this game when it was like it's alpha stage. I played wi5h my brother and we got destroyed so we didn't play and then when the game changed or got more hype a fee months ago we played again for a fee days and then quit again

This is a nostalgic game. 😢

You can you this exact video format for when The Finals inevitably reaches the same player count

Honestly, I still love ❤️ this game😢. Rogue Company is my favorite videogame, and I hope that developers will save it somehow. But I will play it even if this game have a problems. I'm not giving up guys, even if the developers don't care about the game. Love you all, guys. And yeah, great 👍 video, buddy! It's the first time I see you, but I am your new subscriber 😊

I think it still has a chance to come back. I still play today and matchmaking isnt too bad apart from the hackers every now and then, one of themn literally shooting from an unplayable area.

They focused more on collaborations rather than growing an organic player base, making the game the best it can be should be their first priority. & just like a fighting game never tweak your weapons after lunch. Make sure to get weapons balanced before lunch. & for Gamers sake the visuals are very enticing give us a campaign story once a year using e ery rogue. Even if its a 2hr linear but open combat campaign like call of duty. It would keep the game alice for up to ten years

ayee props to u brad . i feel like u simplified all of it in not just a concise easy to follow way , but you also brought up some really valid points and tidbits of info here n there that i didnt even know fr...for ex your point abt how their way more successful titles were run on the fine tuned machine that is unreal engine 3 so since they probably rushed the jump to UE 4 its most likely the main contributing factor for the endless server/lag issues/frame drops etc that have been present since day one. n i think its safe to say that when us rogue lifers complain abt those key fundamental issues ,we're just complainin to complain and in hopes that they do somethin to fix it. but we're not takin the extra second to think abt the actual why behind it and how its tied to their jump in UE. (at least i know i wasnt lol) ,,but thats beyond logical...

good old rogue company, not touched in 4 months

I occasionally come back to this game... i loved it

Honestly i think this game lacked 2 things to stay relevant: 1. New content 2. A core audience In live service games like this you need to constantly have some reason to comeback, for this look at fortnite, every season there's new or remixed content which keeps you coming back to "just check it out" And also you need a core audience that will no matter what stick with you, if you have no one to be with you during the hardest moments you'll never be able to achieve your peaks, as a comparison look at rainbow six siege, a game that has been on the brink of death multiple times, but it has a dedicated core audience that will play until the last moment the servers are up. Now you can make it with just one or the other, cs:go has dedicated players but not much new content, and cod warzone has new content but not much in the way of truly dedicated fans. if you have both you're golden, fortnite r6s LoL warframe etc. but if you have neither you're not making it long, rogue company did have new content but they did so much so grandly in the first year that after that it felt like a slow trickle of new content in comparison the following year, and while it did have a small group of dedicated fans for most people it seems this was just a pandemic time waster or filler until the next big thing.

The bugs were bad but i think what ultimately put the nail in the coffin for this game was the severe lack of content. At one point this game used to be my favorite shooter in the world and now it's the most dead game i've ever played and that's sad. Wouldve hoped for a rogue company 2 with a release kinda similar to overwatch 2 on paper in terms of new content on launch and all that but once i saw that rogue was going the mobile game route i lost hope in that ever happening.

You gotta try HAWKED

The game is actually incredible and very unique in a landscape of so many first person shooters. Keep playing with friends till the end!

I respect the game. I tried it with friends and it was fun. But i personally don’t like 3rd person shooters. Plus it just felt a bit too slow for my taste.

Rogue company has a lot of potential. I would’ve continue to play if they didn’t let the same glitches from year one persist like 4 years later. Constant crashing, constant hackers , than after like year 2. And he servers seemed a bit more unstable and don’t let me start about the lack of content

That thumbnail continuity is clean 👌

Why doesn't anyone talk about why the MPs are no longer precise or, better yet, no longer capable of long distances?🤔

I had so much fun from rogue company. i still have clips of crossmaps saved on my xbox

I played this with my buddies during lockdown and afterwards. It was fun for awhile but sadly went down bad fast

Some months ago they did a survey asking what will make you return to the game

Any way to look up stats on this game I’m pretty sure I have countless hours and only lost like 10 games max

Is anyone dealing with a server had a unknown error 4? I have never experienced this before and other people i know are currently play8ng rogue right now. Its at the main login where I'm currently trying to log in. This has been going on for the past few days and have not been able to log in since as it currently says server had a unknown error 4. Help please!?

Just recently came back to this game, severs a lil dookie juice but the game itself is still fire

Chaac is Goat

in-game voice chat has been down for a month for many PC users.

used to be my FAVOURITE game but now i really miss the times it was great

My boys and I were amazing at this game and we played this other team over and over again in strikeout and on rank and it was amazing….but rogue company made it hard to simply PLAY the game and that was the saddest part

This was my main game i had 70 days on it all weapons and 16 rogues mastered i had every leg skin i spent 1500$+ supporting it and its sad to see where it is

This game also had some pretty great trailers btw

This game was honestly super fun when it first came around. I remember getting into it in 2022. Me and my boyfriend met the same year and we would play it all night together. Good times but now the game is so dead and it changed so much unfortunately

I started playing rouge through lockdown and it was my first shooting game ever. I thought it was pretty cool. After like 1,5 year I switched to apex and I realized how bad rouge was 😭

8-9 months later still cant change player identity For Fuck sakes Mark Rubin SAVE us lol

love your content broooo

Really good game, it should've get mobile realise too.. sad it went down like this 😢

Played this game so much, after weapon mastery felt like they started me over

I tried it again literally just now after playing 1 hour on release. The character design is amazing. I really love what they did with the rogues. It looks better than many games out there. The gunplay? Crap. The weapons feel plastic. There is no real feel to it. The movement? Absolute garbage. It plays like a mobile game. The roll happens 1 second after pressing making it hard to time. The controls are ridiculous, very unintuitive. However that might be changeable in the settings I haven't checked that far. After the tutorial I was put into a game which I thought was with real players but they played so ridiculous I realized it was a simulation. This game could've been amazing but honestly I understand why it is basically dead or dying. With games like COD, Apex, Overwatch etc. This doesnt come near any of those quality wise and gameplay wise. Deleted it after 30 minutes.

lack of updates and communication killed this game.

Only HiRez could burry such a great game with so much potential. I'm huge fan since closed beta and it saddens me to see Rogue Company's failure.

Yes your back remember me

I know you didn’t mention these -The Dr.Disrespect skin never coming back -The “Best Selling” shop slot having the same items and never changing -The melee throwing meta -Lack of fun rewards from S2 -Sniper players, spam pingers, and toxic players in the OG seasons made the experience worse

Hi-Rez is a master at killing games with a ton of hype. They killed Realm Royale, brought it back, and killed it again. They are doing the same with Rogue. They did it with smite too. and paladins

I loved playing rogue company and I was FUCKING GOOD. I usually am above average in shooter games but I felt unbeatable in this game. Felt great, but none of my friends ever wanted to play after the first couple weeks and so eventually I stoped playing for a few months and when I came back, getting into one game took 10 minutes and the balancing on the new rogues was always fucking horrible

I swear everytime I see a new free first/third person shooter game on ps4 or steam thats hardco I think its not gonna last a year and a half. Lets see if the finals last atleast 2 years

This too sad. While I never played a ton of this game, I would still love seeing it flourish. Im particularly fond of the cinematics more than the game itself tbh. I fw Hi-rez games as Im a long time player of Paladins but theres always the long standing issue of the publisher not bringing most of their IPs to long term successes.

I’ve been loyal to this game since its beta was released. I still play it to this day only now you’ll have to wait in queue for like 20 minutes to join a match

The only reason why I stopped loving the game and playing it consistently was because I would be going against players would only use the best weapons. It's like it didn't have any sbmm and if it did it was terrible 🤷 I would always just go against Lancer, kestrel, anvil and Dallas mainly.

Brad I have an intrest in buying the game from the owners and making the game as big as possible.. any ideas on how to go about it and if its even possible.

what ruined this game for me was the constant nerfing of every character and every weapon for example the smg bloom was the biggest then the lancer nerfs as well, vy nerfs. do you remember when you could repair your broken armor? those were the days

if they do a battle royal idk if that save the game 100 players drop in on one huge map 🤔

I am still playing this

Really enjoyed this game back when it released.

Just recently uninstalled it .. such a shame. 😞

Such a shame. I got fired due to covid cuts back in 2020 and this game just released. I used to play every day for hours! Ultimately i stopped because of very bad servers…😢 this game will always have a place in my hart.

I miss rogue they fumbled this. Man comp was so fun to watch and play some tournaments. They should of never took comp out and if they can figure out how to relaunch and do well i would certainly get back into it. But i miss the days of staying up late playing comp teams and making a name for yourself because if you were good people knew who u were which i guess was the good part about running into the same people.

do a video on Warface or CRSED F.O.A.D also known as Cusine Royal .

When such an ardent supporter of this game is talking about its downfall, you can clearly know that both the devs and publishers have screewed with RoCo beyond any possible repairs.

I only played this game for like 2 days it was fun tho

I keep trying to force it in Esports for my country 😂. I am fond of this game. They should listen to you man

We covid started and I needed new games to play this game kept me entertained for a while it eventually just wasn’t good enough way better games out there nd forgot this game existed

6v6 was a fire addition to the game

the down fall started where every game starts, the constant addition of content with no bug fixes and also as constant re-work of the games rouges and core mechanics to the point the game felt like a clunky mess.