I assumed the game had released and was then shut down, but it was just an open beta I guess. Hopefully this version stays alive.
Reports vary but….
They had some issues with hit detection. There were some really basic things you would think they had like ranking that was apparently really hard to implement. Servers could be unstable sometimes. the monetization sucked as they had a battle pass that was like half toast and a lot of the content would unlock for characters you may not have access to.
…then the killer,.. they had a lot of content drop almost immediately and then suddenly nothing but really lazy skins that were just color pallet swaps. It was said they were going to introduce the lord of the rings as a big content drop but then embracer bought up the rights and the content had to be scrapped.
Long story short,.. all of a sudden they pulled the game and claimed to have learned soo much form the "beta" and they'd be back at the EoY with the full game. I honestly didn't think it would ever return especially after EoY came and when with nothing.
I will be happy if it does. It was good overall. Mostly they need to figure out the business stategy. No one is going to buy battle passes the way they structured them. They should do character specific "warbonds" imo. I'd probably buy shame if the shame was at least for a character i play.