![]() ![]() ![]() More frequent were the times that my teammates would glide through the map and teleport to different objectives.įor the record, we were all playing with high-speed wired ethernet connections, and yet Redfall was running like we were trying to get internet access from the spotty Wi-Fi connection of a late night McDonald’s. It wasn’t uncommon to see the human cultist characters dropping through the terrain or disappearing during firefights. For transparency, three of us on the TRG team played on PC, with machines all far exceeding the minimum system requirements, and all of us had a number of glaring technical issues that spoiled the fun. If you play on Xbox Series X, you’ll notice the game is stuck at an unsteady 30fps and lacks a performance mode which at this point should be an industry standard. If you can somehow look past the bland and boring gameplay loop then the performance really is the final nail in Redfall’s coffin. This isn’t the Far Cry series, nor Left 4 Dead, and lags behind almost every contemporary game in its class for over 15 years. The modern, generic vampire-killing arms (which incorporate shotguns, rifles, snipers, and pistols) feel sluggish and lack the weight that the setting demands. ![]() While Arkane doesn’t have the same pedigree for making some of the best FPS games as the likes of Bungie’s Destiny 2, the French developer has included gunplay in its titles for over a decade now. It unearths one of Redfall’s biggest problems for a co-op shooter the shooting is spongy, loose and unsatisfying. ![]() The former are your standard bullet-sponge goons who typically go down after emptying a fair amount of buckshot or 9mm into their heads and chests, and the latter needs to be staked after being beaten down. There’s nothing exciting or innovative here as you plan a route through the rural town of Redfall ready to take on cultists and vampires alike. It’s nothing new, and you’ve seen this core gameplay loop before in a dozen co-op shooters from Borderlands to the aforementioned Left 4 Dead titles. ![]()
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