i feel like everything that’s needed to be said has, in fact, been said! but i just spent the last 72 hours of my life playtesting royale and i wanted to blog about my experience!
THIS IS LONG BUT IF YOU DONT CARE ABOUT GAME FEEDBACK, THATS WHAT TAKES UP 50% OF THIS! (i encourage your tiktok rot brains to take 5 minutes to read something longer than 4 sentences tho)
my experience first:
i was so excited to get to play this with marwane, mittens and hwest14!!! i was convinced i wasn’t gonna make it through the morning but thankfully ryleigh and pgamer kept an eye out for me in the sandy dunes while i slept <3 much appreciated. the first night was very much getting a feel of a lot of people i’ve never spoken to and informing my day ones of what was going on. i found myself in another alliance (sandy dunes 6) with ryleigh, pgamer, leehoyminoy, hwest14 and marwane, as well as one (the careers) with evan, carltonrs, motherfart, snowglobe, surfersorbet and medusaluh. i knew going into this i am not the best at comps so i wanted to quickly establish relationships with those who were while i took the time to collect as many pop ups as i could for when i needed it.
on day 2, we tried to do our big one to protect our darling mittens (sorry bagel) but it ultimately wasn’t enough because i woke up that night to him and marwane DEAD! i was STUNNED and thought i was for sure next. i spent my time committed to chatting with other people to secure my spot and ensure people wouldn’t try to ambush me, which did pay off :) i found myself connected to so many strong players who were seemingly all targeting each other (kemi, cheesecake, to name a couple) and was able to sit back and watch the chaos ensue while feeling i was safe. all i was focused on was finding food at every pop up which was HARD!!! (i was at 0.9/100, 2.2/100…. i was skinnnnyyyy) i also secured a f3 with the lovely medusaluh and carltonrs <3
anyways a lot of people die and suddenly im in the f10???? feared for my life a tiny bit once mothers sophie and cristi started unleashing every bit of ammo they had on my allies but managed to call a somewhat truce with them to make sure i’d at least get home from work and be able to fight. (at the same time i was also a bit fake to yandertron21 and leaked his location so he could get bombed out.. i’m calling that an assist kill…)
carlton, medusa and i locked in with chibi and seanaconda to get to f5 and discussed the order of who should go next. unfortunately while i was at A BALLET THEY MURDERED SOPHIE CRISTI AND MOTHER IN PLAIN SIGHT… i was gagged and had some fomo.. but it’s ok it was for the greater good.
i deeply wish i could have gotten to final 3 with my loves medusa and carlton, but ultimately a girl needed her beauty sleep and couldn’t handle being up until 3am on another work night. sean did not make it easy for us to find and kill him and, had i not already been tired and irritable, i may have made it </3
i spent my final hours in royale as the only player who could move around the map as carlton was stuck in a nonexistent fight with a ghost and sean and medusa were stuck in a fight. i explored the entire map multiple times, chugging down energy drinks and chowing down on all the food i missed out on throughout the actual game. this was actually one of the highlights for me because i just spent two hours on call with medusa and carlton screaming sean’s location every time i found him so we could all shoot/bomb him… memories <3
i gave all of my health packs, arrows, and energy drinks to my two allies before teleporting and taking my final breaths in The Eye, the centre of the map. i knew if anything was gonna take me out i’d want it to be on my own accord, and i just so happened to have inherited some poisonous berries from mittens. 🩷
ALL IN ALL,
royale is incredibly stressful but so fun and i think everyone will love it once it is fleshed out! i feel a weird bond to everyone in the cast who i had the chance to talk to and im so grateful for that. i’ve been introduced to sooo many new people and rediscovered some old tgers i haven’t spoken to in years, so for friendships sake, i am extremely content :) i am so proud of myself for making it to 4th out of a whopping 51 people. that is seriously INSANE
thank you to everyone who showed me kindness in this game and to anyone who held trust in me! i can’t wait to get a full nights sleep tonight 😭
FINALLLYYY…
my feedback for sin:
firstly thank you for randomly selecting me! i genuinely had so much fun playing this even though it was mentally and physically draining. i think this game has a lot of potential and a good skeleton, but still could use some tweaks to make it better and more playable!
1. being reaped was genuinely SO fun. i would love if there would be a way to implement that into choosing the cast, but i know it would probably be hard. i feel like configuring a way to do a reaping for each royale would help with premades for at least a little bit and help ensure every game is different.
2. i have never seen battle royale so i am speaking about this game from the perspective of a hunger lover from TG — i really love the social aspects of this game. i do think there needs to be more incentive to attack people, be it gaining XP for future fights, being able to hold onto your health once you save and your opponent has not, etc. HOWEVER, i really enjoyed having the time to get to know people and flesh out my social strategy a bit to ensure i’d wake up each morning. i think there is a fine balance for a game like this. kovaze has comp-based games… something with a bit of both is really fun!
3. if this is going to be a special event type of game, PLEASE PUT IT ON WEEKENDS. i have never been so sleep deprived for work in my life 😔 this is obviously my own fault but if i join a game i wanna try to win! and with this one, it is so important to keep an eye out constantly.
4. please fix the bug of getting stuck in a fight if someone dies, it really halted things at the end and ultimately was a huge part of the reason i took myself out of the game :/
5. more food pop ups are needed; the amount of people who died based on food alone was so sad LMAO
6. the map should get smaller once there is maybe about half the cast left. i think eliminating the perimeter of the map once there’s 25 players left would be really fun and keep things moving along!
7. special events are needed!!!!! if there had been a feast for food on night 2 in the eye or something, you’d eliminate the problem of needing more food pop ups.
8. LESS BERRIES. holy fuck almost nobody is going to take them as actual food, there is no reason it should be spawning more than food or energy drinks (sorry cswaggerr i know you fell for it)
if you actually read all of this THANK YOU!!!!!! hugs hugs hugs
Sin
