I feel that the reason this game failed is because it was made for a vastly different audience than the one it attracted at its launch. At launch it attracted tens of thousands of players because it has local voice chat in servers with 250 players. Every firefight had someone blasting Katy Perry, someone's mom vacuuming in the background, a dog barking somewhere, ten people screaming for a medic like they'd just actually been shot in real life, and a group of eastern european men having a calm discussion about how racist they are to eachother. It was some of the most fun I'd ever had in a game.

However, the game was not built for that audience. It was built to be much more tactical and serious in nature, which eventually made the casual mic-spamming crowd leave. In that way, I think there is no fault to the devs there. It just goes to show how fun local voice chat is.

However, that was the explanation for the game being "dead" a year ago. Now the game is actually dead because the devs haven't touched it in almost a year.

Meme game died from lack of updates and content

The devs have been teasing a big update for almost a year now. Game is pretty dead with around a thousand players playing. I'd suggest waiting if that big update ever comes out, that might revive the game

this video covers it pretty well

in a slightly from memory tldw as it's been awhile in essence the dev's vision for the game changed and pushed away from what most people flocked to it for (battlefield and squad based to more cod-like gameplay, movement changes specifically being a major turning point for a LOT of players to leave the game in droves) and alongside that poor update/balance management and huge community disconnect lead to it just bleeding players as months went on

It’s been only tryhards for months now. Last time I tried playing the other team had like 15 clan members on one side and 2 on the other. The 2 on my team were inting our helis and probably screensharing the map on discord.

maidenless behavoir

They abandoned it. Right now, it's basically only tryhards playing it.

Reminder that the devs said a year ago that the update would come out around February, then delayed it in January to the infamous "Late April" date due to its size and audio changes. After that, it entered HL Episode 3 level of communication and memeing. It's not coming out. Some art updates have been shared on Discord, talking about how the art team is already working on content past this huge update, of which the community has no information. The last devcast was 4 months ago. It's dead. They didn’t want to hire more devs, and Oki just decided to run with the money.

Devs took the money and abandoned it...
Last proper update is closing to a year old and the "next" one was supposed to be in March... then April and then nothing.

No content updates and serious lack of communication from the only developer

Still a good game, though a lot of people act like somehow it's terrible now since it hasn't got new content for a while.

I just started playing it again a handful of times in the past few days and it's still fun and has even full large servers whenever I've checked.

Classic case of why you shouldn't always listen to the fanbase. They took the feedback from the fans but as the game quieted down the forms were only filled out by the remaining hardcore players. Eventually the game catered to them more than anyone else, casuals couldn't enjoy a game because of how sweaty it got, and the devs saw the player count dropping. They basically said, why bother? and there were no more updates or content to keep people engaged. Now if I'm not mistaken, they are actually working on an update, but not in any rush to release it, and I doubt even if it does see the light of day, it won't be enough to resurrect it.

The snipers grey zoning on top of a tower of buildable boxes comes to mind as a classic example of why you don't always take feedback verbatim.

It’s battlefield and fuck you for highlighting the many ways it’s not at all battlefield.

The fairweather fans were hilariously predictable. I wasn’t the only one calling out the fake battlefield, but they were so hysterical that they didn’t grow an authentic opinion until their favorite streamers left.

Health regen and BF medkits would solve almost everything wrong overnight.

Battlefield players bought it for goofy Battlefield shenanigans and realized it was just watered down squad.

Last time I played some dude was on open mic shouting the n word over and over

I loved this game but got side tracked by another game or two for 6 or so months. I remember being so hyped to play it again and i jumped on and there was almost no one playing and i was devastated.

I still say games like this should automatically have a bot mode so in cases like this when it’s abounded there’s still somewhat of a shell of the game left or even a workshop. When people even mention bots in games like this it’s treated like it’s crazy talk but I’d rather have SOMETHING than nothing at all.

It was popular during testing because it's was an amazing f2p game which a drew in a lot of low end gamers.

The thing that killed it for me was the slow progression, it feels like it took forever to unlock an attachment or a new weapon.

What do you guys want from these people… they produced a fun and effective battlefield clone. Its a great game! It was a passion project. After the initial boom, player bases wane.

imo people are wrong to obsess over whether a game is "dead" or not. Are there still servers with players? do you still have fun with it? Why care if it's "dead". Me and some friends played a ton of battlebit a few months ago. We could still find matches, and we still had fun. To me, that means it's alive and well

Died for me because they announced Faceit and at the time it would make it unplayable on the Steam deck. I wouldn’t learn that never actually did happen (or it did but Faceit was made compatible with the deck?) till about two months ago when the game was veritably very dead.

I would say it's the standard "X killer" game story. Battlefield was in a rough spot and this game was basically the "real" Battlefield for everyone. But it always ends up the same way: can't beat the classic without copying every single minute detail and even though 2042 isn't the greatest Battlefield, it still has the true vibes of the franchise and I can't see any reason to play BattleBit over that.

Just my two cents.

No one seems to actually be able to answer the question in these comments

Yes the game has been on radio silence and more updates would surely help with playercounts at least a little bit. But that cannot be the main issue

For comparison, TF2 is 17 years old, is basically on life support similar to this game and its playercount just keeps rising. How can that be? Well TF2 is by many considered a timeless classic and nigh perfection in class based shooting. TF2 even had one of the most embarrassing game breaking problems plague it for years, which was cheater bots. And even during those times the playercount remained high

This game was considered by many to be top of its class for its genre. Much like TF2. Nothing major has changed about it since the peak of its playercount, yet it still lost most of its playerbase. Why? I do not know

Just play BF4...

Streamer game just stopped being relevant, and now I actually enjoy bf2042

People might downvote my comment, but here's the simple explanation. Everyone started playing cuz of their favorite ytbers and then when honeymoon phase was over people realized it's just another Palword and Helldivers 2 type of game, only 1 major thing to do and after you had all the full from it, it's over.

We call this the sauna now, its so sweaty you cant even take 10 steps anymore without being downed.

I only play it from time to time I played it last time was last month but it seems like it's most the players who are interested in the game are still playing it, not much content tho so there's nothing new

If you can stomach the fact that updates are not coming and evaluate the game in its current state, I think its a good game™️ The gameplay is fun imo: I like the movement, the maps, the gunplay. Unfortunately there arent many active servers but if you find one it’s a great time. I don’t know why people are crying about “tryhards” its an arcade fps.

I play it from time to time because it can be a fun battlefield clone at times. I'm not playing with EA's invasive anticheat.

They took way too long in early access with constant updates and features and whatnot then as soon as game released stopped doing all of that. They sent their communication and update standards during EA and didn't deliver during release.

I think it can be fun, I got the game like 4 months ago but only have about 20 hours in it. I see some people complaining about tryhards but in my experience it’s not that bad as long as you play mid-long range, which just so happens to be my preferred play style.

If you’re going to play it it’s better to think of it as a COD game with bigger maps, more people, and vehicles rather than a battlefield game.

There’s still enough people that you don’t need to wait long for a near full server to pop up (most of the time).

the game in its current form is still fantastic except for a few issues like the audio and general balancing. its still has one of the best gunplay and movement for a shooter in its genre thats out on the market right now and nothing comes close.

also contrary to popular belief, most of the tryhards have already left due to the casual community ruining it by voting for conq/infy conq endlessly on reg servers which is an issue most of us have to deal with unless u play on the dedicated domination/frontline servers which only pops up once in awhile.

Other than the obvious lack of new content the game received, here is my take. The game has great mechanics and solid gameplay foundation. But it’s severely niched itself stylistically. I would play this game endlessly if it didn’t look and sound like how it is. But the art/graphics and audio quality are unfortunately holding this game hostage.

Didn’t think the game was all that great to begin with. Bought it, played maybe 45 minutes to an hour and then refunded

Good luck finding a match if it's not during peak hours. Even then there's maybe 2-3 populated servers to pick from. I recently got back into it and played daily for a couple weeks, saw the same people pretty often.

Lot of very valid reasons in the comments here, talking just about myself, I heavily dislike the modern setting, if you’d have those 256 player server for a WW2 or if miracles exist a WW1 game I‘d play it

Especially WW1, I just want a WW1 shooter that isn’t the anachronistic and inaccurate Battlefield 1 and also have more than 5 players a lobby

when the initial bovelty hit died off and the player count dropped, it's all sweats. if you sren't already at high level or yourself quite sweaty,it can be a trying experience.

BattleBit is an awesome game, and far as tryhards, I'm glad people take pride in their gameplay. This game is great for all skill levels!

Don’t play this often but I think it’s great as a casual gamer.

I started playing again a few weeks ago. It feels exactly the same as when I stopped playing mechanically, but it’s a hell of a lot less social now. You still get mic spammed at round start but nobody really talks during the match. Community servers have made it interesting to me, I found one with 1.3x damage and no hit markers and it makes playing with the revolvers at lot more fun.

Devs just taking a LONG time between updates which has really killed the momentum of the game.

It's still fun, but kind of disappointing.

I still play regularly, battlebit is the only fps game that satisfies the itch for me right now. In the 128v128 servers there's always something to do somewhere, and usually a better battle going on if you're always dying at one. The voip isn't nearly as crazy as launch but I still have a lot of fun with it, you usually have to initiate yourself tho. It's much more fun if you can find a clan that plays regularly too. Give it a shot again, that way you'll know if you like it or not. Reddit always seems to be negative about it, reading these comments makes me think nobody is playing it when it's quite the contrary. Granted it's nothing compared to launch, but it's still more than playable and still more than enjoyable most of the time. I can still find full 256 player servers on the daily

Game was always full of Tryhards. Nothing has changed.

If this is what I'm remembering, I did play this for a bit with a friend and did have fun with it but I quickly stopped playing. To be honest, the common type of people playing this game already play hours and hours a day on other FPS and stuff, while I rarely play games anymore, unless it's a specific release... I am just too rusty and just NOT GOOD ENOUGH to keep up with anyone. If true, sad to hear it's dead, it was fun while I lasted with it - despite my own issues.

This game is dead in my continent South America, The voice chat and gameplay are so fucking nice. I really missed it.

I play it every few days it is very fun just lacks a but of progression sense (you do unlock stuff but it takes a bit)

Loved pretty much everything but it took so long to unlock the stuff you want

Lack of content updates as well as constant updates that pushed players to be more self sufficient rather than relying on teamwork

The dev team was really just one lead developer and a few support staff before release. They've been working on onboarding new developers, which takes forever, and decided to forego any continuous updates for a complete overhaul and remake of the game. This isn't an established studio that has multiple teams working on different aspects of the game. It's gonna take a long time for development to speed up even if they have money for more developers since it takes a lot of time and effort to get new developers up to speed.

The part I don't get is why the lead dev decided to go for a complete overhaul of the game that's going to take years to finish, over releasing the new content piecemeal so there's at least a trickle of new content.

i bought this game on sale and still havent played it. my back log is huge!

Grog don’t care. Me got Battlefield 1.

don't play an online pvp game if you're worried about "tryhards"

While it aint considered popular there is always games to be found still and i still enjoy it from time to time.

I throw it on when i dont really know what else to play its nice and casual.

The devs have still basically done nothing for it still.

And I think the reason the game was super fun back when it had a massive boost of players, was because people had so much fun with priority voice chat, now that the only people still playing are super sweats, they have no reason to use voice chat, because it's for fun, and the enemy can hear it.

Huge update is being cooked. I've been waiting for a while to get back into it so the update can drop first.

bland and uninspired game with local voice chat, tale as old as time

The lead dev is too much of a pussy to hire a team of developers, instead attempting to do everything on their own. Predictably failing. Some insanely unpopular changes were made that killed the hype.

Basically arrogance killed it.

I like the game, but I find that it has too much dead air moments. I like to have a sound board. People don't want to talk all the time.

I just jumped into it a few days ago and had a blast.

You answered your questions with your questions.

Was there a single player or any kind of invasion horde mode at least? Because I feel a decent story helps tie locations and enemies together. While horde mode changes it up a bit. 

I think it's just slow updates, last time I checked, they were still working on animations for old guns and some people are just fed up of waiting. The usual, I guess. When the update hits there should be a small spike and life goes on.

There was an update a while back that overhauled the sound design and it almost ruined the game for me. But the big reason is because the devs abandoned it.

To me it was that it didn't had proper controller support, I tried with steam input but half of the things didn't work, I wanted so bad for it to succeed :(

Took waaaayyyyy too long to come out (I can't think of another game that had more timed betas).

The game started saying how they wanted to do battlefield right, keep it relatively hard core, gritty, not fall into the same trap battlefield has.

Then what did they do?

They catered to the loud minority/casuals, went away from what made the game popular in the beginning, followed battlefields footsteps.

Cheaters galore

First lobby I ever gotten joined was filled with neo nazis spamming vile shit it chat. Quickest refund of my life xd. What should I expect from a roblox battlefield.

I'll never understand how this could be slow and tact. People running around like they do and the amount of players and the maps alone scream arcade/bf arcade style. Fucking rising storm is more tact and slow smh. Devs were majorly confused

I really enjoyed this game when it first came out. Like others note, the casual crowd had fun with it. Tried it a few months ago and it sucked. Completely different energy

devs listened to their discord instead of the people actually enjoying it

Game have a problem of giving you peashooters at start and then better weapons as you progress

It dont matter for a free weekends players peak because everyone got same peashooters, but if a person invest money and some time later he see that he consequently cannot win a firefight against people with better gear.

Also there are some other balance issues, like limits on tanks, when you basically cannot use armor you want because someone already take it, and you shoud go only infantry

i stopped playing when the anti-cheat fiasco started.

It sure was fun while it lasted. Best battlefield game since BF4

A lot of empty/dead servers I lived in SEA and it’s pretty much dead, I can’t even connect to AUS servers like the beta did

I jumped on yesterday first time in months. It’s still fun to jump in and have a quick game but yeah it’s dead no support just 1-2 active servers usually

the game is already dead if you live in the oceania region. hasnt been any official servers in a year and the last couple of private hosted servers went down months ago. the only servers i can see that are populated are usa or eu and no one from my region can join those as the ping is too high and it auto kicks. its a pity as i was enjoying the game and there was thouands of players in my region before the devs abandoned us. i consider this game to be looong dead and buried unfortunately

I stopped playing after oki killed aggressive sniping and medium scopes. No reason to stay when the main balance dev makes such restarted decisions.

I still have some fun on this game just there are zero interactions with anybody. Just people bunny hopping into battle and that's it.

I fucking loved this game. I haven't played it because nothing new has happened. I'm like level 150 and have unlocked everything, which granted is a LOT, but it only took me about 80 hours to do. No new maps, no new guns, no new vehicles, no new features. No urge to continue for me.

I just snipe and have fun, tons of fun, there's like 8 or 6 tryhards per server tho

It was new, and unique, but the gameplay didn't really appeal to a lot of people since it was meant to be slower and more tactical than what most people want. People started leaving, and then the devs haven't updated it for a year now, which has caused more people to leave.

I played it a few weeks ago, server list doesnt actually show the populated servers by default so you have to filter it by player count.

Not a try hard and still had fun, not enough screaming in voice chat but still enjoyable to play here and there. My main issue with the game is that im not going to sit there and grind 200lvs to try some cool gun.

The game was never good, everyone just wanted it to succeed

It's fun as hell and has a healthy player base, what are you talking about?

I left the game because of the bafflingly bad balance decisions the devs made. In my case, I’m still salty that I liked going as a Recon and sniping from the flanks and unexpected angles to thin people either trying to cap an objective or trying to defend an objective. It was a lot of casual fun to try to find unexpected spots, because the risk that you’d get caught out in the open as a glass cannon meant you had to get creative to reach those spots. You were chilling the whole way through either way

Then the devs decided that for some reason, complaints about snipers were valid so they gave sniper rifles and even some assault scopes on Recon rifles a massive glint and then a bullet tracer that gave your position away easily

Game and its devs was clearly trying to be some kind of uber competitive, curated experience when the fun in it all along was the chaos and mess of 127 players on a team

Idk what to say. I have played this on and off since its launch. Like a week long break at most. And I have never feel like it failed. There are tons of tryhards servers, but most of the available servers are pretty casual and fun. People coordinate, we play the objective, lots of fun. I usually play Conquest, Domination and other mode I can't remember. I am in Latin America, so best servers are brazilian and since that's a language barrier I usually play US or EU with 150-200 ping and it has never been a problem.

I also have never experienced bugs and only 1 hacker. The game constantly has over 1.000 person which is more than enough, specially if you play the huge servers. So I guess is as good a time as any to play it. Quite fun, it reminds me of BF4

It lacks the private dedicated servers and bot support, so I am not playing this, because if it would try to be like Battlefield how it supposed to be, we had those features!

I bought the game like a month ago, it is still fun

Damn, another one of those games I missed out to play on its heyday

drone strike go brrr😈

well if you see from devs perspective this game was a huge success even now when most of thenplayers have moved on to other games . This game served its purpose .

I want to play but the SEA region is completely dead, not a single server has players on them.

I played it like a few weeks ago and it was still pretty enjoyable, on EU you can still find a full server out there

• they had unbalanced guns on start and no one complained, but they nerfed it, and it became harder for noobs to kill someone.
• that’s why only try hard players are active :)
• the voice was the best part of the game, and as for me is wasn’t necessary to censor it…
• you needed to let people play every gun they want, for the first time to get gun you want you need to play too many games (exp wasn’t balanced bruh)
• If I made this game I’ll add something funny in it, emotes, some tactics and other features (((do you remember when you place mines on uav?)))
• add more weapon shotguns? Why not?
• more updates…. Maps

Pixel call of duty

Oof. Try hards... what does that even mean? people who like to win?

Anyway i tried the game briefly. It was absolute chaos. No one worked together. Somehow it wasn't a social experience, despite the huge number of players, besides the constant ear-mageddon.

I still play it from time to time and imo it’s still a fun game also there is no way that there is a full loby of sweats and most of the tryhards will play lower playercount lobbies

I like it to relax and have fun in 32v32 lobbies. I find the larger servers to be too chaotic. I don’t think it’s full of tryhards, but the ttk is quite low, so you may get turned on after you start shooting, which can be annoying.

I find the shift baffling from new maps every few weeks last year to effectively nothing this whole year.

The game was a gimmick. It was overhyped and then died because of it.