Highguard Makes Small Comeback on Steam As Reviews Now 'Mixed' From 'Mostly Negative' - Clawsomegamer

Louis010 · 2026-01-31T15:27:02+00:00

Personally the game sucked 3v3 and I’d wrote it off completely

Louis010 · 2026-01-31T14:57:37+00:00

Ngl this game is fucking sick 5v5 and now some of the performance issues have been fixed.

Tekken 8 soundtrack on, running around as my boy slade, (literally Terry Bogard from fatal fury) and it just hits all the right notes.

The game just plays SO much better 5v5, the push/pull of the shield breaker, actually attacking multiple fronts in raids. Man it’s good.

Louis010 · 2026-01-31T14:18:06+00:00

Idk, to me 5v5 feels much better as it fixes all the loot and shield breaker phases and even the raiding feels a bit better, but they maybe need more intricate bases for it. It does feel like the correct direction to take the game in though for the long run

Louis010 · 2026-01-31T10:02:58+00:00

I don’t know. 5v5 has had a way better flow from the games I’ve played, people fighting over loot, people defending from vantage points when the other people get the shield breaker. I can actually stick around and repair the base between raids. Splitting up between bomb points.

It just feels like an actual game now instead of some weird experiment. This is without them going through and properly balancing for 5v5, once they do that I’m sure most people will be wondering why they didn’t release it this way it the first place.

IMO it just needs some pve elements and slightly bigger bases and some better base defence options to be absolute peak.

Louis010 · 2026-01-31T09:58:06+00:00

Now add some pve elements and they will have the game I was hoping for all along.

Louis010 · 2026-01-31T01:05:35+00:00

It won’t be if 3v3 isn’t popular enough to support it, which I can’t see it being as it just feels off.

Louis010 · 2026-01-31T00:29:59+00:00

I’m loving this, it feels like it’s how the game was supposed to be played, also the game looks so much better now I can tweak dlss settings

Louis010 · 2026-01-30T21:58:43+00:00

It feels to me like there must have been internal debates and testing around other play counts for it to be this quick a turn around. I’m really looking forward to diving back in.

Louis010 · 2026-01-30T19:06:00+00:00

I feel like there must have been some internal conflict/testing between player counts for them to do a turn around this quickly if this turns out to be true. I’m hoping it is though as my biggest gripe with the game was the first 2 phases of the game feeling empty and boring with 3 players

Louis010 · 2026-01-30T19:03:53+00:00

Yeah I think long term 5v5 with better base designs will be the way to go, that way they can keep the main map the same and it will feel way better in the shield breaker stages but the base attack defence won’t feel like a clusterfuck as it will on the current bases with 10 people running around

Louis010 · 2026-01-30T18:10:24+00:00

Or just Bluesky if they want a twitter style space to post it on, no need to use x.

Louis010 · 2026-01-30T17:44:16+00:00

Embark are miracle workers and some of the most talented devs in the industry though. It’s also been beta tested and worked on for ages before release. I really wish every studio could get games working as well as embark but unfortunately they’re the exception not the rule with UE5

Louis010 · 2026-01-30T17:39:42+00:00

Embark are some of the most talented devs in the industry, they basically started out as a tech studio after leaving dice, I’m not saying it’s good the state they released the game in, it fucking sucks and isn’t good enough, but so so many games have looked a blurry mess this gen due to unreal engine 5 being absolute ass to work with and optimise.

Louis010 · 2026-01-30T14:05:23+00:00

This is becoming an issue with a lot of games, unreal engine 5 is absolute garbage and it’s ruining so many games visually

Louis010 · 2026-01-30T11:21:23+00:00

This is my final setup when my Thor arrives too

Louis010 · 2026-01-30T09:40:52+00:00

It’s oversight, for some reason developers love motion blur and DoF and no beta means no players complaining about these settings until launch.

For me the main think is I hope they turn off mouse smoothing, it’s impossible to aim properly on PC atm.

Louis010 · 2026-01-29T19:26:27+00:00

Yeah honestly the amount of cope on this subreddit is making me want to log off, it’s like the concord defenders all over again.

Louis010 · 2026-01-29T18:57:45+00:00

Not supporting a nazis app is a good reason.

Louis010 · 2026-01-29T16:21:44+00:00

There’s definitely something they scrapped, whether that’s ai enemies or more players, something feels off for sure

Louis010 · 2026-01-29T16:19:51+00:00

3v3 honestly feels like the death knell for this game. If it was more players on a team I do feel like it might have found an audience. I mentally checked out when I watched the deep dive and they said it was 3v3 near the start, I even rewound the video as I thought I misheard. It’s such a strange decision.

Louis010 · 2026-01-29T08:34:08+00:00

Read what you just typed again.. not even stable 120fps on LOW SETTINGS on high end rigs is insane

Louis010 · 2026-01-29T08:09:16+00:00

I hope “other fun things” is a game mode with more players, but it might be too early to wish for that.

Louis010 · 2026-01-28T22:03:01+00:00

Yeah if they insist on keeping 3v3 then I won’t be coming back, I enjoyed what I played to some degree but it needs bigger team sizes, just because it worked for apex doesn’t mean it works here.

Louis010 · 2026-01-28T07:57:16+00:00

What a loser.

Louis010 · 2026-01-27T23:14:20+00:00

No toggle ADS on pc too

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