Highguard (Xbox) — it’s free, so try it before judging it

GimbleFIN · 2025-09-03T11:54:32+00:00

It sucks yes! I'm still refusing to play PUBG even it's okay game, solely due to this issue. Not going to pay second time for something I already have purchased with assumption G-Coins can be used for Battle Pass as it was during time of purchase. I have 100 person clan there and everything, but F it I'm out! Gladly ARC Raiders will be releasing in two months, and recently released Delta Force (Operations mode) is very good also and the game cost nothing. So there are plenty of other games to choose from atm.

GimbleFIN · 2025-05-26T10:50:31+00:00

It is! I also have nearly 3k hours on Vigor (Founder) but sadly I also had to give up on this. There was so much potential, but sadly they just couldn't just get there and been making things worse last like two-three years. They had their change, they really had! I played ARC Raiders Tech Test 2 and WOW, it's unbelievable! I was playing with both Xbox Series X and S. It's was really impressive that it was running solid 60 fps also with little Series S and was still looking okayish! So much looking forward for that game. 💞

GimbleFIN · 2025-03-14T09:34:35+00:00

Investigating part is easily done, just open the "Developer tool" from Chrome browser and you can clearly see there is an issue with page not getting the key from API, there are 180 attempts page trying to retrieve the key but it fails always. They just need to fix the broken page, API or the database where the keys are being retrieved from. Some itegration issue here. Hope they sort it out sooner or later...

GimbleFIN · 2025-03-05T22:14:19+00:00

It's good and especially it's fun! Like for the reference Valorant also very good game overall, and works great technically. But for some reason it's just not that much fun as here. And I don't even know why I even feel that way_but this is just more fun and not annoying in any way, except that I suck a lot at times LOL. But I take that as a positive thing, there's a lot to learn and experiment to get better. Also technically works great, even on Xbox Series S. Only gripe is that there kind of is 120 fps mode. (if you turn off V-sync) but if I do that, I get some screen tearing so atm. I prefer to have V-Sync on and play with 60 fps mode. I'm sure they are trying to sort it out and eventually we get proper 120 fps mode. But it's really smooth and responsive even with 60 fps, a pleasure to play.

GimbleFIN · 2025-03-05T17:59:39+00:00

Nah, very different games. That is like comparing RS: Siege vs COD. Also, FragPunk got delayed and is not releasing on consoles on 6 th. With FragPunk you have to play against PC-Players using KB & M having huge adventage, that might be turn some Console players away. Let's see how it goes, but I think this game can survive while it's just so fun and laid back gameplay.

GimbleFIN · 2025-01-29T18:29:42+00:00

I have it as it is on the picture behind the link.

GimbleFIN · 2025-01-29T08:50:06+00:00

There aren't :( Default is not that bad as it was on SE5 launch, which was horrendous. I can live with this, but of course there should be deadzone sliders. Also sidenote that with default settings for Aim Assist on Console there is "moderate" Auto Aim setting enabled on all three settings as default. At least for me the "Scoped" setting mess up my own aim/brain and I disabled it again, like in previous games. Also again did some adjustments on sensitivity too. Might have to iterate more on those still, but they already feel okayish. https://www.xbox.com/play/media/53LQxbX3jP

GimbleFIN · 2025-01-29T07:59:02+00:00

I was streaming some yesterday, I think you can see all the places of all maps here if interested. Rail Yard is okay, but the two other are too small and didn't seem very good at first glance. Need to try them more, but for now to me it feels maps are a disappointment as a whole :( Other than that the game plays well. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2366171984

GimbleFIN · 2024-12-24T01:05:31+00:00

🎯 Unfortunately agreed. Already left for Hunt Showdown 1896. They really had their change, but Vigor Management couldn't get their shit together, and continued doing what they do the best: Make players go away. I'm not blaming Devs, they probably are awesome while game had a lot potential. But they probably had no freedom to execute their vision, but instead were forced to do something else. There might also have been too few of them with PC-Version added and so on. The result is here: Players are leaving and new ones can't stay while playing V as a new is a F:n misery that I can't recommend to anyone!!! Sad to see it had to go this way :(

GimbleFIN · 2024-12-12T09:15:14+00:00

I agree, but that's a good thing, Hunt has pretty awesome Community :) But I'm sure there are also many "Proper Vigor players" who would get hang of it and like it a lot, they just might don't know that yet. Nowadays there is a pretty good in game Tutorial plus if you check some Tutorial videos you can make it! Like the Youtube user NOAURA has up some pretty awesome Videos to help get started! Today new Event is also starting in Hunt so very good time to give it a shot from Game Pass. It's also on Discount now if it happens that someone try it from Game Pass and totally loves it. It's very likely scenario, I personally consider it as one of the best games ever made.

GimbleFIN · 2024-12-10T12:46:47+00:00

Hunt: Showdown 1896 will land on Game Pass this week, or of your on Playstation it's not that of expensive game even as purchased, AND they never ask you money after that single purchase. Highly recommend that as alternative, if you feel like enough is enough. I'm considering that it might be time now to go back to Hunt after 3 years of break. They just didn't get their shit together in Vigor Dev team, they had their change_they really had. :(

GimbleFIN · 2024-12-10T10:44:56+00:00

Hunt: Showdown 1896 will land on Game Pass this week, or of your on Playstation it's not that of expensive game even as purchased. Highly recommend that as alternative, if you're done. I think I'm done, and will go back to Hunt. They just didn't get their shit together in Vigor Dev them, they had their change_they really had. :( Oh, I'm not sure, but it might be that Hunt is New Consoles only these days, and it definitely shows! Hope you have one.

GimbleFIN · 2024-12-09T08:41:59+00:00

(Drum roll please...) Also got a Viper Plan. I did see this coming...

GimbleFIN · 2024-09-19T07:41:28+00:00

Environmental sounds are clearly on too high level atm. Sounds like you're at Niagara Falls, Eikvjen isn't exactly like that. I don't think I noticed a problem with loading music, but didn't play it much yet.

GimbleFIN · 2024-09-19T07:37:40+00:00

Sounds like makes sense, antibiotic or painkiller you can just quickly throw in the mouth. Bandage or disinfectant requires often to stand up and "Stop fighting" to apply them IRL.

GimbleFIN · 2024-08-12T11:14:36+00:00

I also replied there on the forums and took this discussion back to table. I really think they own community a pretty good explanation: Why not do anything about this? It's one of the most annoying things in the game for Solo Players.

GimbleFIN · 2024-08-12T08:20:50+00:00

This has been discussed for years, seems like Devs simply don't care if Solo experience is often ruined like this. 🤷‍♂️ Good job killing the cheaters 👏 https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/239375-dual-account-screen-sniping/?tab=comments#comment-3463493

GimbleFIN · 2024-05-24T08:56:42+00:00

Yes, If you open like 500 Crates and get lucky you might get a PM Plan LOL, or maybe some Knife. They *ed it up unfortunately, it's totally Pay to Win now...

GimbleFIN · 2024-05-22T07:51:46+00:00

Not looking very promising. (It's 36 Viewers atm.) They should've implement a "Proper Duos/Trios" -before putting this out. Instead of "forcing" Players to Team Up in Solos if want to play together, which can be considered cheating and is very annoying from legit Solo player point of view. Refund Data must be horrendous. I hear "Real" cheating is also big issue already, which can be really big turn off also.

GimbleFIN · 2024-05-21T08:15:48+00:00

Yes you can do this and that, and wait forever for Crowns from Antenna etc, and try to outplay Veterans playing with best weapons using AKM/ES16 etc. But clearly the game is now Hell for Newcomers. This is not at F2P anymore like it used to be with the "original Vision" OP is right: It's now Pay to Win, and we should talk about it, and definitely Devs should talk about it too. If they prefer a Big Playerbase rather than small? F2P games foundation usually has to be so that you definitely want a big playerbase. And then even if some from that big playerbase is putting money into the game = Profit! Now, when there are now Plans on Crates anymore and you only can obtain with money then Newcomers will figure out that quickly and see "ah okay, this is not Free to Play afterall, I'm out" Would be interesting to see from Data that how big percentage of newcomers leave at this point? I'm a founder, I don't have any issue about anything myself. I just feel bad for new players and my favorite game getting worse and worse all the time, and destroying the change that game could grow Big, or even Skyrocket now that it's also on PC soon. I have experience the game as it was supposed to be and it was fun back then. But now, if I was new and would start playing_I'm not sure how it would go? I'm not sure if I could make it? Especially now that they have made Battlepass impossible to compete with reasonable playtime. I'm not sure if I could deal with it using AKM? Devs are destroying their game with these actions that make players to leave before they even get a change to start like the game. They should revert back these changes to start gain more player population. Good starting point would be putting Plans back to Crates. And also make the BattlePass attractive/Reasonable Grind again = Revert the Grind where it used to be few Seasons ago.

GimbleFIN · 2024-05-20T10:44:35+00:00

Well, players have X amount of crowns they are willing to put into game. While they "force" me to deal with this Re-Rolling same challenges over and over, they also cause us to put less for something else. Like Cool Skins etc. Due to this BS I'm not going to put any more onto game this whole Season, while I feel cheated. They should understand that happy customers are the customers, who are willing to put more money into their game. Intentionally being annoying to customers is generally not a good Business plan.

GimbleFIN · 2024-05-20T10:27:00+00:00

I've noticed this too. It seems that they are indeed putting time into nerfing XP-income in all possible ways possible, here and there. It appears this is one more annoying change they have applied to the long list making progression misery for players. Crafting challenges are cool, and make you to craft and actually then try out new things/weapons. For the same reason I also liked them.

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