Where Did Everyone Go? - BattleBits Frantic Decline

The life of Battlebit has suffered severely just a month after release. Player counts dwindled under ten thousand by September and did not get any better. Fortunately, as I was editing this video, very slowly, update 2.2.2 came out and created new life in the game. Player counts just barely missing 40k players by hitting 39k peaks players 3 days after the update. The reason player counts soared is obviously the free weekend but I don't think it's a bad thing and I'm hopeful that by doing these free weekends every now and then more and more players can be grabbed into the game. They just need to keep their passion flowing so that one day we can get the lively BattleBit experience back again.
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[@madcyber647]

I just need 64+hour to reach 160level

[@DoublePIayer]

💀💀💀 Too Real

[@bradenmcivor6525]

I am Prestige 1 level 53 with 47.8 hours. And i'm pretty below average maybe lol. 64+ hour for level 160 sounds like you're just trolling instead of playing the game

[@DoublePIayer]

The first month was rough dog

[@bradenmcivor6525]

@@DoublePIayer 😂😂😂

[@andymak8822]

Conquest, repair tool. Easy xp

[@Aliothale]

No one went anywhere, this isn't a game you play everyday. Its player count is insane for an indie shooter and there's always people playing. Let it sink in that there are dozens of 127 vs 127 servers going on at any given time.

[@talesvinicius598]

Yup, I'm from SA, and at weekends there's usually 4-6 127x127 servers and there's even a queue to play. A lot o people are still playing the game right now.

[@luisvidal4690]

​@@talesvinicius598 gotta agree with tales, the game feels far from dead, even on weekdays there are always at least 2 filled up servers. Im from SA too if you want to play some matches together.

[@CruelSun69]

Obviously a lot of people went away. The devs could cut the player count by even more because they pander to shitters. And punish the people that put the most time into the game.

[@bottleofcat]

@@CruelSun69as someone who just found the game i have no clue what you mean

[@Elenrai]

Squad had under 1000 players ingame for years and it is still a healthy game in the genre, BattleBit is here to stay

[@ninertactics]

I love Battlebit but I get what you mean "It does not innovate". It's just a shooter through and through and that is okay. My suggestion they should eventually add a whole lot of modding capability, a mission editor, LAN capability and maybe singleplayer capability just like what Arma did, for maximum replayability.

[@DoublePIayer]

Modeling after Arma would be sick. Battlebit is more casual unlike Arma which could definitely only help the game.

[@pazsion]

do not copy arma... or any other games... be battle bit. havent played yet... one, i cant pay before playing, and i dont have a pc... price for performance dictates i buy a phone. and wait for cross platform. didnt they say they were going crossplatform?

[@teapouter6109]

​@@pazsion Price for performance? What price? What performance? Just say you don't play games and leave

[@UsurperDogheart]

@@pazsionbro what is your ur channel? Consistent uploads for 15 years is insane

[@Shiftrade]

They Introduced a ping limiter and prevented my entire friend group from playing with each other, we all quit.

[@DoublePIayer]

That does suck. I wonder if it'll ever be reverted after some more development of their servers.

[@CRAiCED.]

That sucks for you but it does benefit the rest if the lobby. Having high ping can be an advantage in fights

[@-cactus.raven-]

@@CRAiCED.ah yes, not knowing where the fuck you are is a MASSIVE advantage,, totally

[@roxrequiem2935]

​@chadyhd6612 i used to play on the CN server masquarading as a JP server and they do not have ping limiter. Shooting a high ping player (80% of the lobby) will not get you hitmarkers you need to account for lag and shoot 2-5 meters in front of they direction they are running to. But if its you with high ping, my condolences for this PTSD but "Your hit was denied by server due to packet loss" for half a lmg magazine is common.

[@spinyslasher6586]

Ping limiters are common in shooters. It's more of a you problem here mate.

[@dasfinalgaming]

It is also important to note that there is one fact that many people seem to miss or quickly gloss over with the game's decline: the difference between this game's decline compared to other games' decline is that BBR players left HAPPY and SATISFIED. It is very easy to be pessimistic about the player decline because we are so used to games flopping on release mainly due to corporate greed. However, BBR players left only with positive impressions for the most part before moving on to bigger, more popular games. This game is special to us not because it didn't "innovate" enough to be different from your Battlefields or Squads but because it celebrated the best of those games and, overall, gaming in general! That fact coupled with the game's casual, no FOMO approach, the game allows itself to be easily picked up and left alone until your return. In short, the game allows itself to be just a game, not a grind. The game did declined, yes. But I'm not exactly worried that it will die any time soon. If it did, it will be because this is a *huge* indie game made entirely by 3-4 guys and that is its biggest weakness. If the game did die however, sgtokidoki and the rest can be proud of the fact that they made an amazing game of this scale with just a bunch of blocks and cubes screaming and making monkey noises to the sound of Fortunate Son.

[@ninjireal]

Hoping it’ll boost during christmas break.

[@turtles3240]

quite literally the biggest lie I've ever heard lmao, like 3-5 months ago when I played daily every lobby was some person saying they were leaving or complaining about issues that had existed for a while and saying it was making them want to stop playing, BBR players did NOT leave happy, now I can't find a single 127v127 that's full and none of the issues I saw raised previously had been fixed(often these bugs) so again no, BBR players didn't leave happy, the game sucks, if it was anything other than just a shitty rendition of what a game like that COULD be, it wouldn't have seen such a massive population drop, you don't see those population drops at such massive sharp turns without them making mistakes quit coping. I literally watched in real time as every time I got on there would be less and less populated servers or less pop in them, and EVERY day there were players in chat talking about game issues and saying it was making them consider play something else, BBR killed itself there is nothing to be proud of other than a spectacular suicide by the devs of their product.

[@Mochachocakon]

I think what killed a lot of hype was just the overall design of the maps, so many objectives were CQ focused which just made the SMG meta even more overbearing. This and the fact that with the right attachments, a lot of guns could just full auto laser beam people from absurd distances reduced a lot of the general skill expression and created a lot of frustration.

[@Ashen_Night116]

On top of the armour in the game being incredibly poorly designed, I don't know any game with armour that incentivizes you to shoot the legs, hell even in Tarkov you want to aim for the thorax/head because your bullets can in fact, go through the armour.

[@snakegum9288]

SMG meta is the meta in all modern games because of high mobility and fast kill time. It's like fighting a TF2 scout with little experience fighting them, I can relate to what you're saying because I'm honestly terrible at shooters. (Not implying that you are) The only thing I can do is support my teammates in any game anyway I can.

[@satorumayokohama1133]

wait na hold the fuck up you telling me its better to chew at their Legs than the fuckin thorax? @@Ashen_Night116

[@turtles3240]

I uninstalled the game when a dude from 200m beamed me(a player who only uses the fastest movement possible on assault class and a suicide c4, that's all I did for a while cause it was fun, run at max speed and blow people up when I ran into em) without missing a shot with a vector, I had 80ish hours but it was just getting out of hand to be honest "oh the dude who picked the short range weapon killed me from AR distances...again, how fun" eventually I just resorted to getting into helis as a passenger and using myself as a guided bomb landing on peoples heads and exploding them all, fun again but now there's less pilots and even less competent ones so rarely do I get to enjoy my strategy, if they'd fixed helis when they should've there would be more pilots, but the fact that they immediately begin descending/stop moving when you release W is just cringe as f u c k and why I won't pilot though it's my favorite thing in other games, it's almost like me letting go of W...doesn't make my rotors stop spinning immediately... but the retarded devs seem to think so.

[@kowismo]

no the cheaters

[@fpsdecimal]

Player count went up because of free weekend that lasted from November 30th - December 4th, not really the update itself haha

[@zombie7232]

I mean for 15 dollars and the coverage it got it’s a success. Like a good chunk of fps on PC it was bound to decline but there is a good size community as I see numbers average around 10-13k players which is good for a indie shooter like BBR, I still play it as it’s one of the best games I’ve played in 2023. Hope this game can keep the niche community it has because the game is really fun.

[@crezzyt]

A map editor and faster progression would definitely keep me going

[@epic8923]

faster progression? i can level up like 3 times in a single match without doing much

[@crezzyt]

at lvl 1-20 maybe stop talking bs@@epic8923

[@Anarko55555]

@@epic8923 because you get fucking x4 exp now

[@Les537]

The followers of fashion come and go. The people who are there cause they love the game remain. Who cares about the visitors. The game is solid and great fun.

[@beschterrowley3749]

The BBR team has demonstrated MASSIVE value for effort... - They do not have AAA funding and marketing - It's more of a niche game for those who get the minimalism - Comparing BBR to larger franchise games is just disingenuous It's not about comparing them to larger franchises.. it's about the unique minimalism and hardware performance you can expect. Yes I'm biased but the BBR guys are doing it right in so many ways. Let's hope they scale with care and integrity.

[@kajmak64bit76]

I don't know what other people do and how... But i am definitelly comparing this to Battlefield 3 and Squad... and somehow... it's still amazing game But all these games come with their positives and negatives... For example BattleBit doesn't have attack helicopters and only a littleBird with miniguns ( it's like shooting a really fast AK or something ) Where rockets? Where bigger guns for helicopter? Where attack helicopter? Also where a plane like Battlefield 3 or 2? Another thing for recon class i miss from Battlefield 3 and idk about 4 but... it's basically it's ability to place down a rally point and everybody can spawn on it... and in BF3 usually it spawns you in the air with a parachute Which reminds me.. no parachutes like in Battlefield 3? No meelee? No knifing and no dogtag collection like in Battlefield 3? I think i like the mechanic of magazines that's from Squad... mags are independent and the repacking thing.. that's very cool And rappeling down from the heli

[@dexorne9753]

​​@@kajmak64bit76I'd like to see things like mortars

[@kajmak64bit76]

@@dexorne9753 Yes... especially because they can drop smoke and flares too... Night battles should get reworked somehow... more realistic NVD's... Thermals on certain vehicles... LAV doesn't get NVD for some reason i am somewhat sure ( LAV / BTR = APC's ) So Flare Mortar will be very cool to have especially in those Infantry Only modes and somebody pops flare and get some sort of assists... perhaps like a Spotting mechanic... you get like 50 points / xp what ever per kill that happend in the area where flare is illuminating lol

[@LightTrack-]

10k players every day is where we're at and that is healthy enough to sustain a decent sized playerbase. Nobody expected the numbers to maintain 80k+ players. Not sure what is this video supposed to be. I've played the game since release and it's always been between 8 - 12 k every single day. There is no "decline" any more.

[@minikilla3568]

The free weekend ended up having 3 of my friends pick up the game and absolutely fell in love with it

[@DoublePIayer]

The average player count of November was 5.4k. Down from 6.9k from October which was down 8.3k from September. December will hopefully be up because of the free weekend and hopefully they can continue to give numbers some bumps but these numbers are real and represent a declining interest.

[@LightTrack-]

@@DoublePIayer And between Dec 1 - 3 there were around 35 000 people playing because of a major update. People have already bought the game, the devs don't need them to play every day since the servers are at a healthy state right now. I have never struggled to find a game and i mainly play the 128 player one. Naturally as more games come out and divert people's attention, they will go do something else. Battlebit's main "downside" is it's lack of graphical fidelity. But with new content, it will compensate for the novelty wearing off just as it always has.

[@Ashen_Night116]

@@LightTrack- The lack of graphical fidelity is a lie, people don't particularly care about that too much, especially in a PvP shooter. The movement is just CoD but autistically faster.

[@LightTrack-]

@@Ashen_Night116 A "lie"? Bro what are you on about? Do you need glasses?

[@groundedman8790]

138 hours in and I just got prestige 1. I’ve had a blast with it and I’m sad to see it die off. I missed out on classic battlefield days, so it’s been fun to experience what it was like(kinda)

[@clalam5241]

What did you only play medic and run around healing for 138 hours ?

[@groundedman8790]

@@clalam5241 Yes.

[@Brandon-bc1fz]

​@clalam5241 gotta abuse that ez af experience lol.

[@minikilla3568]

I get the whole not innovating thing but for just a small team to nail what we loved in old battlefields always gets me back on for an hour or 2 everyday. Even got most of my friend group to play and they suck at shooters

[@cld3752]

BB had its 2 months of fame, and i think thats great, but I never saw this game keeping up those numbers. Battlebit is solid and i doubt its going to completely die, a smaller indie game like this would make sense for the playerbase to stay around 3-10k.

[@turtles3240]

it could've kept the numbers if they would've fixed the issues instead of adding new guns, past updates have just been new maps new guns VERY VERY few actual fixes to real issues that fundamentally reduce player enjoyment and thus player count.

[@SuwinTzi]

10k concurrent is still really good numbers for an online game. Most MMOs for that matter average between 10k - 20k.

[@maverickiwnl]

What a great video, nice job man.

[@DoublePIayer]

Thanks a lot!

[@stonepiper1035]

I may have stuck around longer if the customization system utilized an in-game currency earned by playing, which could be used to unlock guns, attachments, etc. at any time. Also, like you said, there just is not enough content. I was hoping they would add jets, boats, and other such over time, but I've not seen anything noteworthy to bring in more players like that since launch.

[@AmelpsXett]

Erm skill issue?

[@kdzero3687]

if they added in-game currency it would eventually become useless to most players at max rank. i dont get your point since unlocking attachments isnt hard?

[@minikilla3568]

@@kdzero3687 the people acting like leveling up now is a pain? I couldn't imagine these people playing day1. The grind was a little insane and only led to me getting like 4 levels in an hour

[@Les537]

In game currency and jets? LOL

[@kdzero3687]

@@minikilla3568 Fr bro i barely hop on, waiting for the quick ping fix. but i gain like 10 levels each time i hop on, its not hard in the slightest lmao

[@Halopanther09]

you deserve WAY more subscribers for the quality of content you are making

[@DoublePIayer]

Thanks for the praise, just takes time to get things going!

[@ironwoodkid9577]

There's one other reason. Lack of coverage from BIG youtubers, like jackfrags. The reason why there were so many players at launch is in part thanks to big fps youtubers making videos on it. That's how i learned about the game. 2nd reason is the Kriss Vector, i don't think that needs explaining.

[@DoublePIayer]

lmao the vector first couple months ruined some servers

[@toontownlegomaster]

It's ok just reacting to the title because it's created by 3 indie devs and the fact they made just as much money and ppl were memeing this when compared to 2042 if that was there goal they did it

[@DoublePIayer]

There goal was to make a successful shooter. Their continued support shows they want more than something like that shitty clownfield 2042 game.

[@rezboy8]

The game felt so hot on release but now is like an after thought when I choose what to play.

[@fourohsevenfishing]

what massive online fps isn't that way? doing the same thing over and over again gets old quick

[@rezboy8]

@@fourohsevenfishing Idk because I don't play every game that comes out. This one was very cool looking. I played had a blast but now with less people it doesn't have the same atmosphere.

[@Pappagar]

The game was trimmed down to its core playerbase. Gamers move on to other games, BG3, Starfield, Armored Core, etc. That all

[@trickydiagram5267]

In the business we call them tourists.

[@kkjunior29]

thats what you get when ur game is all hype

[@aldoambrosiomagana5119]

my biggest problem with battlebit is that it is an arcade shooter forcing tactical settings into it (at least the last time I played it months ago), thats just imo tho, it got fast movement and ttk, yet you have the injury system that slows the game down, in the way that you cant regen health automatically and you got slow reload times (also the magazine system) if I wanted to play a tactical shooter I'd go with something like insurgency, but the game doesn't seem to have an identity of its own, it tries to do everything at the cost of consistency, and again its imo because in a game where speed is the meta, I expect run and gun in battlefield style as it is the biggest inspiration the game took, yet it has all these slow-paced mechanics that makes the whole experience tedious, and honestly, I would rather this be a tactical shooter considering it has the mechanics to be that way, as I bet that if they nerfed the whole movement as a whole, it would have a better gameplay because of the consistency which was compromised with fast movement and such, in the exact same way that this could turn out like a tactical shooter, they could also deliver both styles of gameplay for everyone: fast and slow pace, where in slow pace they just need to, again, nerf the movement, and in fast pace, allowing automatic health regen and removing the restrictive ammo system, it would feel much better to play there are also mechanics like single to burst fire selection that feels rather gimmicky as it has no true value in the game, you're better off reducing recoil as much as possible just to keep bursting the whole magazine on medium - long distances, than relying on single fire where you'd be taken down by a player using, precisely, auto fire... I like battlebit, but its kind of hard to get "decent" on it because of the mix of these interesting mechanics countering each other, and nowadays the people who play it are there just to grind it so of course they'd be leaps ahead of you in every way again, all of this was my personal opinion

[@turtles3240]

I'm in agreeance with your opinion I'd find it correct, I've got over 100 hours of making myself the fastest possible and using THAT to get my kills, my main method of play, going assault class, making my character as fast as possible bby the loadout, taking suicide c4, and running at people or jumping out of helis to suicide c4 them, 99% of my kills are because I'm running so fast at people that the moment I make a turn, they PHYSICALLY cannot react in time before I'm turning again, ie, only a few of their bullets will EVER be on target even with good reaction speed. then when my teammate rezzes me I have no more suicide c4, but a vector, so I just do the same thing, run behind them as fast as possible and shoot em, works 80% of the time because again, SMGs and speed in general is broken because the DEVS do not understand how to make a game.

[@fpsdecimal]

When did you get this footage? 3:31 when you shoot someone through the wall there? That was (supposedly) patched 3-4 months ago

[@DoublePIayer]

lol I think it was from November 7th. I guess it's still a work in progress.

[@Zorcky-2C]

Yeah I thought the same. It's not supposed to work anymore. I still do it everytime I see it, but it nerver works personally

[@TheU3Killer]

Free to Play would be an avenue to look into..

[@Moon_DK]

They made some recent improvements in sound where it feels so much more rewarding to play, small QOL changes made the game so much more fun, definitely going to play regularly now.

[@jonathanwisk5830]

to be fair, this past weekend was a free to play weekend so thats a big reason for the higher player count

[@minikilla3568]

I got 3 of my friends who suck at shooters to play and they had a huge blast. The content drops may be a little spaced out but most of them impact the gameplay a good bit. The leveling also feels way better than day 1 leveling imo

[@zaktheghost3289]

I still play at least once a week. I enjoy Battlebit more than the current COD and Battlefield.

[@BatJeff]

Same here. It's literally a perfect game to hop in for a quick session and then quit. No microtransactions, no long queue time, just a really fun time.

[@wowddo]

Bro's complaining about a game with 5k players when at its low point meanwhile there's the likes of Eternal Crusade whose all-time peak was the same number. The player count was so bad during its prime that you couldn't even find a match to play as some factions because most players gravitated towards the main two which might not really have helped with the population to start off with. Marauders might've suffered the same fate had the instanced servers required more players. I get that in games with such big matches need players to feel lively but having at least like 39 possible servers filled up doesn't feel all that low for what it is honestly

[@theoverallguy6186]

this game was kinda meant for the players who wanted a classic bf style shooter that didnt innovate. this game is also meant to be come back to regularly for those same players. success isnt measured in terms of how massive a playerbase a game can keep for how long, realistically alot of games came out end of year, and people are going to be playing those games. the point is this game will still be here after, and for all the fps players who want to boot up a shooter on a semi regular basis, this is the best option for alot of people when comparing to the alternatives of cod and bf.

[@suppergenius]

I think another major reason is that most people playing these types of games have been back in school or college since August and just don't have time. I think once summer comes some players will return after an update

[@empty3306]

if it didnt take so long to rank up I would play it more.

[@queuedjar4578]

It was always going to shrink down to a more dedicated player base anyways. I think overall better mod support and maybe bot support will strengthen the core that's already there and keep people playing for a long time, even outside of official dev released content because then the community themselves will just create better content. The time I put into Battlebit though honestly to a point just felt kinda like a "I've been here before", especially since the game is just Battlefield 4 again with robloxed graphics and I put a ton of time into BF4 in the past so its novelty wore out pretty quick personally.

[@grimtygranule5125]

"Wow this game is fun!" "Where did everyone go"

[@joeallen4454]

I'm 57 & have been playing online since dialup. My reflexes arent up to run and gun efficiently anymore so as I've aged I've gone more towards support class and sniping. Specifically love counter sniping but with the scope flash penalty makes this very challenging. Seems to me with all the classes and wep options sniping isnt favored by devs and is penalized. Rarely do I play more than 15 mins due to run n gun style gameplay.

[@wollebay]

Sniping is very much favoured by the devs, Vilaskis (the map dev) designs every map with sniper spots in mind (some quite unfair). The scope glint is only fair imo, its not fun to randomly die with no clue where the sniper might have been.

[@CrispyMuffin2]

personally, i think the scope glint is a fair trade. but something many people seem to miss is the Recon's ability of having binoculars that dont have a glint. you can use that to look for enemies or spot them, then swap to the sniper

[@joeallen4454]

I agree its not fun having no clue where sniper is. I like it when this is addressed with loud gunfire reports and big muzzle flashes. Heck if sniper could only shoot tracer ammo I'd at least be able to take my time hunting other snipers and have ability to relocate or find really good angles to survive after shot is taken. @@wollebay

[@joeallen4454]

I agree with binoc usage. But then i pull my rifle up and everyone sees me thru foliage, in low light battles, and its just a big here i am shoot me flag im waving. @@CrispyMuffin2

[@Les537]

Snipping is already too strong and ruins games. There is nothing more depressing to player base then being hit by a bunch of campers 1000m away while you are trying to have a game.

[@guillermoelnino]

if chat wasn't moderated by so many Reddit Karens it would still be popular.

[@major3336]

Battlebit would’ve been great a few years ago. But from what I see nowadays and even in the comments is people don’t just want shooters. They want all the fluffy stuff that games like COD have done yet are pointless to a shooter. Shooters don’t need in game currency’s. BF3 and BF4, which is what BBR mostly resembles, didn’t have a silly in game currency. You just used the first gun you got and got kills with it to unlock attachments. Then got kills in that class to unlock the other guns. It was kills that got you unlocks not some silly money thing. BBR is an “old” style shooter and that’s why I love it. Also be complaining about it being to chaotic. I mean it sounds like FPS games ain’t for you if you don’t like chaos cause a lot of battlefield games get chaotic too. Surviving or sometimes even just saying “oh well, let’s see what happens” and running into the chaos is the fun of the game. It’s a battle. It’s gonna be chaotic. The FPS community are too spoiled nowadays to see what made these game great years ago. Shooting, killing, and maybe not always winning but just having a blast in the chaotic battles that took place.

[@DoublePIayer]

The game was so fun early on when the community was hot with everyone yelling and communicating pushes. It was really just fun. Miss how full the game felt.

[@evmanbutts]

Slowly trickling out needed balancing while introducing new modes/mechanics/layouts that further throw off balancing is what turned me off, nevermind how fast paced the gameplay is becoming. Some maps used to have long, strategic fights, now its just point rushing, 100mph bridge fights, and getting steamrolled by smg runners.. Oh and the 2 weeks where they ruined the ping system didnt help.

[@anonviewerciv]

18:36 I think that's more the Steam Winter Sale introducing some new players. I would know since I was one of them. ❄🖥💳

[@howdiscipline]

Bruh COD is made by the biggest names in the industry and yet it has been team death match and and search and destroy for 20 years and y’all still pay $70 every years for the same game rereleased under a new name with better graphics but you’re complaining about an indie dev not adding new content?

[@paradoxal69420]

I watched a clip of battlebit, then thought ''damn this game is probably facing a decline because what comes up super fast, comes down fast aswell.'' And five minutes later, this video appeared on my recommended.

[@ArjunTheRageGuy]

The game better have choppers added in that training course for learning how to drive one of them without going to multiplayer for it. Also add parachutes for planning to fall on high altitudes if there is fall damage.

[@JuanEsquitin]

Well tbh I'd wish they gave you more guns during progression. The guns are really limited and the way to 200 every prestige is long and the Gun unlocks are not really there yet specially. Grinding to get one of those competitive guns is quite the challenge Specially if you like the P-90 or the FAL amongst others.

[@Cifer77]

Disclaimer: I had to stop watching at 9:20 Not only does this video seem like pure "the sky is falling", but "not enough content being added" is just ridiculous, when you consider this is a 3 person dev team. 8,000 active players is AMAZING, for a 3 person dev team. People keep comparing Battle bit against CoD, Battle Bit, even making ludicrous comparisons like BG3 and Elden Ring, when this game was made by a THREE PERSON DEV TEAM! I'm not denying the playerbase has dropped, but this was after the game had a MASSIVE bubble. A game not meant for most of those players, people who just flocked to it thinking it was a "Battlefield killer" when again, it's a THREE PERSON DEV TEAM! It may seem like a complement to compare it to these AAA games, but you're really doing it a disservice. I know I didn't finish the video, but it seems like all your research comes from peoples' opinions, and not actual data.

[@DoublePIayer]

That's cool man, the video isn't to dog pile the game but rather look at why the bubble popped. Sucks that a game I thought I could put 100+ hours in just lost a lot of its life.

[@Ajee02]

idk man maybe they should expand the team? They have TONS of customers now

[@kajmak64bit76]

Honestly... to me BattleBit is the Battlefield Killer It actually killed it... atleast the new ones... after Battlefield 1 Before BF1 however... nah... that shit invincible lol can't kill that New ones? Especially 2042? That thing is dead lol

[@MrLense]

tbf for what it is, it's still great. Even the great battlefields dwindle to its core playerbase

[@kiideva]

I knew from a couple games of playing that this was gonna be another game that has 1-4 months of hype, and then have a super low player count. The Finals game is next.

[@RW1A]

I played battlebit on my oc when it couldn't run a battlefield game. At first i found it fun but over time it just felt stale and wasn't what i really wanted. Big lobbys are amazing but it feels absolutely chaotic when you see 60 people in front of you and you cant do nothing because half of them are running around killing people. With my pc dying on me i got an Xbox and since battlebit isnt on xbox- yeah. I started playing battlefield V and Honestly love it, Something about the feel of the game has an odd polished feeling to it and I'm pretty decent in it too. While battlebit is a good game i feel the game gets old quick when it takes hundreds of kills for an attachment on a gun that isnt fun to use as stock. Also with the devs deciding not to have shotguns made it worse for me because im not an automatic gun fan in games. The recoil is always too much and the semi-auto is not strong enough to fight against the beamers. In BFV the guns feel really balanced and honestly the fortifications are a game changer. I know BB has it too but its more restricted and not that effective at times. Honestly i just stopped playing games on pc and thats what killed Battlebit for me. I enjoyed it but i got burnt out quick

[@json17]

Dang, just started playing it too...

[@TheKiddingStar]

Play medic on 127v127 conquest and tell me that you have trouble leveling up spamming heals and revives. I got to like level 140 with around 57 hours, that and if you play non conquest game modes you can flank alot easier and in this game flanking pretty much just means you win if you play your cards right, its not that hard to catch like 15 dudes off guard because they are engaging in a team fight and just throw c4 in the middle and get all those kills.

[@DoublePIayer]

Dog 57 hours for 140 levels is a fucking grind. Couldn't imagine grind only on medic too.

[@TheKiddingStar]

@@DoublePIayer higher movement speed plus higher self bandage plus just playing flanks in between healing players, you get a shitload of kills. its fun - 57 hours isnt a grind over 5 months man, been playing since July that's just dedicating a few hours a day

[@wollebay]

40 hours for one prestige is quite okay @@DoublePIayer

[@clalam5241]

​@@TheKiddingStarso it took you 5 months to get to 140? Some people dont have a few hours every day , some of us have a few hours on the weekend

[@clalam5241]

" im not grinding dude im just playing the same game in the same way for a few hours every day , been doin it for 5 months , its not a grind bro trust me "

[@Vantaz]

People started getting muted over literally nothing so people stopped talking, and when people around them stop talking they stop talking. The game isn't social anymore

[@Brandon-bc1fz]

Sure maybe in some cases but I've had plenty of fun interactions this past week. People are anxious and nervous to be that first one to talk. I usually just die very dramatically and that breaks the ice.

[@tomino5201]

It is 1600 now :D

[@revanisalive]

idk I play this game everyday since I got it. Not the best game of all time, but the shooting feels good and I love the visual style.

[@eternalvigilance5697]

Nearly impossible to find 32v32 games now, especially on maps you like.

[@kajmak64bit76]

I think because that's old school now That's 64 players... Battlefield had that for long time Now it's 128 players time and more I play on 64v64 / 128 player servers... didn't play below... why would i? 256 player servers are chaos... and a bit too much for my taste lol

[@eternalvigilance5697]

@@kajmak64bit76 I just prefer the pace of 64 player games, especially since a lot of the more fun maps are 32v32 only, such as Isle 32 Dom.

[@siaa9992]

i played ~200 hours in the first few months after launch. i intended to stay with it but none of my friends played more than a few dozen hours. the primary complaint i have heard is the game was chaotic and lacked clarity at launch. the chaos is part of the draw, for me at least. but this game suffers from information overload and lack of clear in match objectives for new players. the large early explosion of players burned less dedicated people out within a few weeks

[@taylorhumble3307]

make battle bit remasterd great again?!!

[@turtles3240]

4 months later, I can't find a single server that's full lmao, the devs murdered this game so hard.

[@ThatHomestar]

my friend got falsely banned and that kind of killed the motivation of our friendgroup to keep playing

[@smart1998]

i still play it casually daily cant play long enough i have a potato gaming laptop my fps drops to usually on 18-24fps on 128vs128, 64vs64s with vehicles on

[@SlampthChompth]

People always blame the game when the player base drops and try to find some singular reason for explanation. If there’s no community then you have nothing to come back for except the gameplay, and while they might work for a game like Skyrim, it doesn’t work for first person shooters. By default, your successful fps will eventually “die”. I’m still playing a “dead” fps game that’s 20 years old but there’s still a community who plays and it’s the most fun I’ve ever had in a multiplayer fps game. Nowadays people care too much about what everyone else is doing, and a big reason for that are content creators. They’re desperate to stay relevant and only play what the masses play, so when interest declines in [insert fps game of the week here] content creators freak out about it. I knew Battlebit’s player base would decline, just as every single fps game’s player base always does. In 2 years you’ll have these exact same videos saying “why are people no longer playing The Finals?!”

[@DoublePIayer]

Probably, but some people are just passionate :)

[@muggrootbeer]

First thing was using EAC for the anti cheat they should have used a different one that doesn't crash all the time or on rare occasions bluescreens my pc. I quit also because I sucked and just stuck around as my friends were playing it.

[@bizcut]

First week of Dec saw peaking near 40k players now we're back to that 6k-ish mark. I'm not sure what's happening but TTK seems to bounce all over the place, I feel like a lot of powerful guns feel like pea-shooters and guns like ARS and DMRs are meta now. Snipers and SMGs feel too undertuned, and adding glint to med range snipers makes me sadge. I think the sudden spike up and down says volumes about overall player satisfaction with the changes, but when you change too much too quickly without test marketing it on a smaller scale, you run the risk of alienating portions of your playerbase.

[@catm1nt]

free weekend

[@toothinm9paste]

You can program a robot to play any FPS game.

[@Pajama_Mike]

The thing for me was the absolute refusal to add in shotguns. At that point where they actively denied content because of “muh balance” despite the fact that SMGS ran the whole show, I knew it wasn’t gonna last. Battlefield has its problems, but a lack of weapons is not one of them.

[@satorumayokohama1133]

there will always be people that dislike shotguns in fps due to their lethality, i was suprised it had none honestly since its trying for that bf3,4,hardline feeling. if they did shotguns they would just need to balance it like you said if they are too lazy to balance a weapon platform idk what else they are "too lazy" to do honestly. many games made shotguns bearable it aint witchcraft

[@RubyMikotoGaming]

I just bought BFV on last autumn sell and it was a blast (but there always a cheater on each team lol), try battlebit when it was F2p weekend and it kinda not hitting with me and my friend. 1st I feel some map are just too small for the player count and the chaos is just chaos, no wonder alot of people choose to snipe, it's more relaxing exp. 2nd it just stale bread, BFV chaos of tank plane bomb run makes running from obj to obj feel cinematic and exciting. idk may be this is a hot take but i want more tank spawn and maybe later plane action (with this many player in each team taking down a tank shouldn't be that difficult right?). I know the game will get better and I will be there when that update release but for now... nah

[@jonathanwisk5830]

the devs said they will not add planes unfortunately

[@Ashen_Night116]

@@jonathanwisk5830 Yeah, if you see how the helicopters handle, you'd understand that planes would be fucking awful.

[@satorumayokohama1133]

i honestly feel the chaos is almost the right amount of chaos but theres something about bf5 and the others that the amount of chaos in them feels way more predictable and more fun no matter how dogshit the map design is. battlebit chaos feels like no one having a fucking clue where anyone is its like squad without the communication. may be the map design of battlebit idk of course 127vs127 is fucking insane but even on the regular 64v64 it feels off. i also feel very weird about the hitreg i can pump a guy full of bullets and he just 1 frames my cheeks giving of a strange feel. you can prone and it takes the server like legit a fucking second almost to realize you are prone

[@fuzzybloodpc9291]

Played since the day the playtest was available to play on steam and honestly my biggest compliant I have is that the new maps wouldn't show up anywhere at update day. I very much enjoy the game but then it comes to maps rotation its gets stale quick. Soo stale in fact I prestige just to feel like I'm progressing to something again. Also grind/progression is battle bit is much more easier and fast then it was in the playtests. The guns were easier to get then the attachments for them even with the old, rank 10 = 10,000 XP / rank 100 = 100.000 XP. For example, most guns and equipment would already be unlock after if you were at rank 50 but the attachments would take forever to get, like the flir sight was at 700-710 kills. The grind is now 1/3 of what it use to be, rank 200 is like what.... 57K now bruh. At least in my eyes, people with rank 200 pre-live game would be viewed as gods in terms of skill.

[@minikilla3568]

When I saw dudes rocking the lvl 200 uniforms on the other team I knew it's gonna be a wrap for us. I hope they keep dropping baller ass updates the game is extremely fun just to mindlessly play and just rack up kills.

[@boogie5]

I hope they make a REALISM mode or even mod... I playtested this game YEARS ago and it was going a total different direction, basically aiming to be a low poly "squad". I wish they stuck to that! but then again, money is money

[@queuedjar4578]

Recreating BF4 was what was going to get them the most players so I don't blame them for it. And the gameplay is really solid as it is. Still, there's no depth and a lot of its more realism mechanics (placing rallies, building stuff, revive mechanics etc.) kinda just feel really trivial in the final product especially since it was going to be a Squad style tac shooter eventually. You can only really hope for mod support or more server settings to hopefully restore that version of the game for those who still want to play that way, it's always nice to have both options available.

[@kajmak64bit76]

​@@queuedjar4578i agree... having a One Game only is kinda bad I would rather have BattleBit as a Base game / foundation and the community or the devs themself make other game modes ontop of it Currently it's Battlefield-like gameplay right? So just make a mode or a mod and change stuff so it turns into something like Squad or ArmA 3 So kinda like GMod or Roblox... Modding support and stuff and people can choose what they want to play and how You want BattleField? You got it You want Milsim tactical stuff like Squad or Project Reality? You got it lol

[@Tootis21]

good shooting but the ui makes me want to shove glass in my eyes

[@WaterMelwin]

i just cant play fps for long its like a every 6 months i just feel like playing a fps then i dont again

[@masterost1994]

Player count is fine, people play more than 1 game.

[@echomors9923]

the voice settings that u had to select were so intrusive i was like yeah nahhh id rather play pubg plus first game in someone was blasting some earpeircing indian music and for some reason there was toggle for everything besides grenades

[@DoublePIayer]

lol sometimes that's the best part and sometimes it's the worst part

[@satorumayokohama1133]

its honestly one of the best additions the frustration in some chinese, russian, british person´s "sigh" ,exhale, words they let out when they die is fucking amazing.

[@harunk]

All servers are invasion, invasion maps are open buffet for dmr and snipers. SMGs are killed and sniper dmr, support armor still op af. Most underbarrels doesnt help with horizontal recoil so u cant use most of the lvl80+ rifles. Pointless to lvl up.

[@analogsamurai9576]

The game needs time for more weapons and vehicles and custom content. All that is holding it back is more multirole warfare. It needs jets and more aircraft that are just flying gun that does reasonable damage with AA for engineers. Biggest drawback of squad is the laggy vehicles.

[@owenbunny4023]

Only thing that killed the game is players keep selecting conquest

[@DoublePIayer]

Can't hate on the best mode. Unfortunately, when the player count dipped, all the variety fell off.

[@Roman-xk7fk]

Getting conquest in a 32v32 server is an immediate leave for me

[@techpriestsgaming6525]

For me Battlebit is fun, but the grind is too much. I dont have that amount of time.

[@Brandon-bc1fz]

They got 4x exp right meow so its a lot less of a headache.

[@nonactive3654]

I just started and the hacking problem is too much

[@iLikeCarsFPS]

dude people left in less than 2 days. I dont get it

[@Les537]

Free weekend is over. It's not rocket surgery.

[@iLikeCarsFPS]

@@Les537...you failed to understand that it dropped a lot more than expected because the game couldn't retain a significant amount of free players

[@GumMagnum]

I didnt buy the game to buy a new game. I wanted a battlefield game that i actually wanted to play. The problem was that it was too different in terms of mechanics, especially the balance and health mechanics

[@Tenosyn]

I say this a lot and every time it makes people mad. The constant churn of battle passes, events and other stuff keeps live services in memory and forces you to interact when you don't always want to. These do degrade the "fun" factor but increase engagement, and engagement is what fuels live services to stay alive. I hate them as much as everyone else, but the system works. "Here's a good game, go play it" is the gamer's ideal but in practice "Here is a overpriced game, served slowly over time" has better results with longevity. This is assuming the base game is good, as you have to sacrifice "fun", if there isn't any the game just fails.

[@dusanrakic5955]

It needs user made content, workshop support, mods and stuff

[@fourohsevenfishing]

it's like any other online shooter really, fun for a short time then forgetful afterward

[@DoublePIayer]

If you're an empty shell ig

[@king124kine]

I mean who thought otherwise, it was a rather simple game in the end. They made out well but it adds nothing new. They should have stuck with their original vision.

[@Kallelinski]

Personally I think the gameplay is great, but this game has a lot of very frustrating mechanics, which can cause people to simply quit. Once I stared at a squad mate to respawn and he wasn't doing anything, not shooting, getting shot, anything. I couldn't spawn at him for a solid minute, however sometimes it is possible to spawn at a squad mate and die INSTANTLY, because you spawn right in front of an enemy. There were occasions where almost an entire squad spawned in front of me and I could shred them down. Reviving and giving up system is fine, if the players are using it. There are so many incidents in which 5 teammates are just walking by and not reviving me despite no enemy in sight. Sometimes my mate dies to 1 enemy, I go around kill that one, go back to revive my mate and he has already given up. A lot of times I run up to someone dead, already in the process of reviving and he gives up. Sometimes half of a team is just snipers sitting in their spawn, THE ENTIRE GAME. You can't approach them, because you can't enter the area, so you either have to avoid them or engage them with picking sniper as well. Why can't I modify my guns (and outfit) OUTSIDE of a game? Why do i have to join a server to do that? Why can't I modify and test them in shooting range? Despite joining European servers I see CONSTANTLY non-europeans, which not only cause communication problems, but also to network issues. If i have a ping of 20ms, but the enemy has 200ms, this will ultimately lead to problems if it comes to hit registration. Pinging/Spotting feels awful. A lot of times i want to spot an enemy only to put a ping somewhere else. The game doesn't explain a lot when it comes to attachments. I know what firerate, velocity etc. means, but a lot of new players won't. Why would they change an attachment to increase velocity? Not everybody wants to watch a 20min YT video for that. In general the game is fine, but its mechanics are putting off people. People who played it for 50-100-200-500hrs won't even realize any more how frustrating some mechanics are, because they are used to it.

[@satorumayokohama1133]

you know is funny you say that cuz the game this game is imitating actually had that feature in bf3 you could customize your class in the main menu select camos look at assignments etc, i enjoy this game alot what puts me off is the no minimap thing i know there is a Big map you can open but at the same time for what, you die so quick sometimes in this game and i can barely spare a sec to look at the map and gather valuable information because the movement and encounters are all rather close quarters. for someone that is fairly new aswell if your team looses an angle you wont notice shit because you got other shit to worry about, like it becomes such a large scale battle that you actually would want a minimap to keep track of which flanks are still held by teammates and which are not. fun game tho ngl

[@dochidesu]

I came into the game not as a battlefied fan, but as someone who enjoyed SWBF2 which is essentially space battlefield with laser swords. On that game, the thing I appreciated the most was there were bots in the big modes like Capital Supremacy, which is the mode where a vast majority of players go to. So even if they're new to the game, they can still get kills and contribute even if its just bots. While I like the points system in Battlebit where you gain a lot from playing the objective, getting killed the moment bullets start flying will put off any new player. Me and my friends tried it out during the free weekend and we we're getting hosed with bullets from players who has been playing since the game launched. Probably a skill issue on us but be real, what kind of new player would actually enjoy being used as cannon fodder for long time players. Which is a shame since it actually looks like a really good game compared to the AAA releases we've seen these last few years.

[@DoublePIayer]

Yeah it has got to suck to be new especially since the best weapons are tied to a high level and attachments require a bit of grining for each weapon.

[@loicthiant7448]

@@DoublePIayer Nah Dawg !! U r wrong asf the best gun are the level entry gun by far the Ak74 and the M4 are méta like crazy they r well balanced . The free weekend was a dble edge sword a lot of new players got to test the game but not in the best possible way . When u log into the prevalent mode on display was the new gamemode Invasion and it was badly executed . For someone whom is playing since launch u know the map a little and the flow so u can manage . But for a newbie it was a slaughter plain and simple . The playable are area were too wide and u get sniped from everywhere or pined down by hose fire . So i get the frustration . But coming from BF2042 and battlefield overall as a franchise this game is it . Yes it doesn't innovate but he doesn't have too just solid and fun stuff and let the players do their things . Shooting positionning movement everything count and when u don't a minimap always on display like CoD or BF every bushes every tree can be deadly . But u have too be more cautious . The content will come but either way for the price u pay it's just a blast man . Those recent years i've been fucked over by Farm51 and their game WW3 who had some fundamentals but didn't deliver and the price was around 25 /30 eur and it wasn't wort it at all . BF2042 i 've Xbox pass so i didn't bought it full price but it doesn't worth more than BBR for sure . The maps in BBR are well made and most of them are well executed the gunplay is solid Vs BF 2042 which is clearly a cash grab with battlepass bs for a bordeline bad game . If BBR was realeased maybe 2 years ago we wouldn't have that discussion .And i'm on my way toward prestige 2 , to sum it up BBR is not a great game a gem but it's an honest one and it's fun i laugh when i play it and the people u can hear on Voip seems to have fun also what more can we ask for ? BF2042 is not fun it's bland boring and tiresome BFV was harsh/frustrating at the beginning but he was satisfying in the end .

[@DoublePIayer]

@@loicthiant7448 Damn bro make your own video. I ain't reading all that.

[@POVDEAD]

Dont even have to watch the video thats an ez answer, people come home from work and get shit on by a kid that has been playing for the 72 hours + consecutively and just cracked your entire squad with a sub machine gun in under 3 seconds while crouching jumping leaning and painting a picture all at the same time. I personally have been waiting for the milsim mode that has yet to arrive! Also the game is just kind of hollow, yeah its fun but it got boring really fast. Not sure why, havent given it any thought, thats just my experience. Would love to try it out when some changes are made :)

[@thesolersystemofgames841]

I think you guys that make these videos don't realize that people aren't playing this game like it's a job.

[@DoublePIayer]

Most of a games audience is children. They have the time to play a game like it's a job.

[@decarabiia]

I love this game, but there is a lot of games that was released that foreshadowed the game plus the recent black friday sale on steam, battlefield games was also on discount where most gamers probably went back to play some og battlefield games again. If they added some battle royale mode would be able to make this game alive again I think

[@jonathanwisk5830]

devs said the would not add BR

[@TheJacksomniac]

I played like 6 games and put it down cause I kept getting spawn killed by people camping across the map with full autos

[@DoublePIayer]

Never had that happen on the big maps, probably a skill issue.

[@charlescabbage2933]

I played the game during play test back in the day.. before release... i was excited with the game... but end up getting frustrated with the gameplay.. I know i suck but spotting players is really hard and getting 1 tap is pretty easy.. every engagement is a lose lose for me.. so i stopped

[@raihanrusli2720]

This begs a question. Why a game with low price, constant and tend to be positive updates, barely any big bugs, no mtx, pretty good progression, praised to be one of the best FPS games in the year; somehow lost on playercount to overpriced AAA games, released with fewer contents and tons of bugs (fixed overtime), tons of mtx, and being hated almost on every review video its made about. Sometimes I wonder that maybe what we want is actually not something as easy as "games woth contents and updates with barely bugs" because what happen irl is very different. BBR is like the dream of every game review, but now somehow its balloon popped. Is there a psychological condition in the players' heart that even the players dont even know but the AAA game devs know ? I mean they even hired psychologist to model their microtransaction, so there is probably more story than what we players want the devs to do. Ok I am also contributing to the playercount downfall because I also have another games that released its own updates. For now its also a little bit difficult for me to play BBR because I tend to play with my clanmates, so when I play it now it feels very lonely. Maybe I will play this a lot more after I can get rid of this feeling. But at least we play back again om the F2P weekend and it was fun

[@DoublePIayer]

Did you watch the video? It's literally what you just asked.

[@raihanrusli2720]

@@DoublePIayer yeah I did. I am still not satisfied, even though the points in the game are legit like releasing updates big batches periodically instead of it being released little by little. But I feel there are a lot more that we can and need learn from video game players. I think it would be an interesting topic for you to make a more in depth video. I am sure BBR isnt the only game that suffers from... idk "success but failing ?" While AAA games still have high playercount despite being hated

[@DoublePIayer]

Stuff like League of Legends ig but it's people just having biases or lacking skill to have fun.

[@EhSeta]

I cant play Minecraft with guns, Don't get me wrong, the game is so good in every other aspect but for me the graphics needed to be better.

[@philliprust6712]

releases the video as they are having F2P weekend curious what the numbers are lol

[@DoublePIayer]

I added a segment at the end with the numbers. It's a little rushed bc I wrote the rest probably a month ago but got caught up with other stuff.

[@philliprust6712]

Awesome I didn't quite make it that far obviously thanks @@DoublePIayer

[@Beatle1283]

Game went down the toilet. Now the only viable way to play is smg run and gun. There are huge amounts of different gameplay modes, all dead apart from conquest and infantry conquest. Don't bother with it.

[@daswiedertyp6297]

Ngl cant run battlefield and i wont be in the future so battlebit it is

[@lordkhunlord9210]

When I started playing , the game was fun and typical casual shooter. But after sometime , people started abusing meta, and corny movement making the game super sweaty at some point. Dont get me wrong , the game is really fun tho

[@blazegamer9896]

The reasion i dont really play that much is i love being a sniper but the way it is in this game it is so unfair as anyone can chuck a dam x4 optic on and snipe from well over 1200m away and happen to me more than times than someone one With an actual sniper scopei just hate how the devs are punishing the guy that has the high power optic bypod and that is sitting still provideing cover fire not only that but the probelm useing a x4 optic has no drawbacks but the guy with the sniper scope can barly see anything and everyone that looks somewhat in that direction Basically has a huge star shining in their face Dont get me wrong i understand snipergints i mained sniper in bf4 for years and the sniperglints where never as bad as they are in battlebit see in bf4 you could mistake a sniperglint for anything because they We re not huge but not tiny in battle bit you can see the glint as clear as day from allway the way accross the map and it look like a huge shinny star so the devs need to fix the x4 scopes and give them glints or remove it compleatly for the game

[@satorumayokohama1133]

honestly yuh you´re somewhat forced`? to use the medium range scopes that dont give a glint which is just annoying because they take the fun out of it, like i dont play sniper to goof around with a 1x zoom. the glint star is way to fucking huge imo the 3d model of the characters is already too easy to spot it makes it soo easy to headshot anyone with a glint in their scope. like you said you can still miss the star in bf because it could be anything if you position yourself right.

[@bizcut]

Med range scopes have glint between 200m - 800m from the last big update

[@satorumayokohama1133]

for real? damn@@bizcut

[@bizcut]

@@satorumayokohama1133 yeah that's been live since 2.2.2, and even moreso in 2.2.3/4 patches added 2000m sound spread and shot smoke trail to all snipers. Big nerf hammer

[@hgyuuuuhj098]

Finally people begin 2 see that it's garbage

[@sooz6092]

For me it’s because i am incredibly tired of multiplayer fps games, my final straw was The finals. Both games are good at their core but the communities make it anti fun, so I dropped the game because if a video game isn’t fun, it isn’t worth playing.

[@capt_c0ve688]

everyone camps and spams explosives

[@archduke0000]

I lost interest waiting for them to even attempt to balance the close range, extreme movement speed shenanigans. We got stuck waiting for some kind of update but the devs got stuck when making the custom servers. I LIKE the servers, but the gap between the update killed my motivation to keep playing.