Hyenas - The "Overwatch killer" by Creative Assembly

[dollgurl]

Seems they tried to not just make porn bait characters, but ended up creating the most boring, unappealing, unfuckable characters ever. I probably would have played it once ironically if it was free to just play as the drag queen lmao

 

[Sister Miriam Godwinson]

A drag queen escaping "The Crack" to "The Taint" to steal funko pops from billionaires sounds like the premise of a John Waters film.

Holy shit, I just realized you are not kidding. Those are actual in-game terms for plot entities. No wonder it burned.

 

[Slamerella]

Between this, the Epic Games shuffling about after losing hard against Apple and Google, and all the other shit going on, who's ready to see the game industry crash again?

 

[Breadbassket]

Some posts from the Total War Reddit related to the shutdown of Hyenas. Apparently warning signs were there and brought up but the Creative Assembly executives went ahead with the project.

Found an interesting comment shedding some light on the Hyena desaster:


Ex CA Community Manager Simone retweeting fellow ex CA dev on Hyena news:


Some memes:

 

[Homoshrexual2]

>TF2 has no women

You're really gonna ignore Miss Pauling and the Administrator like that?

 

[Ghostse]

I was hanging out with some friends and they were watching some guys on twitch play this in the closed Beta. It needed some polish but actually looked ok - the retarded characters aside that is. All of the models looked like grungy dollar store toys from an abandoned day care, and it was very clear there were only three characters worth a damn and everyone else was garbage.
The setting, the earth is destroyed and you're trying to rob Elon Musk's martian ships, could have been a lot fun if they'd have just run it to its natural conclusion instead of trying to inject cope, seethe, dialate and Billionaire = Bad.

It was sort of heist-shooter Overwatch hybrid, sort of like Overwatch/Valorant/etc characters doing multi-team Payday but the heist goes immediately to assault - and if they'd have leaned into that it all the way it would have had promise.

Granted I'm not big into any of their other properties so I can get people raging that resources were redirected to a game that was stuck in development hell for most of a decade and would have struggled to penetrate the market on a good day.

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

Why did SEGA agree to this crap?

I have a feeling SEGA didn’t agree, more like demand it.

If we assume the game was in pre-production for a year and production for another 2~3, it’s very likely SEGA had a corporate mandate to try to get an overwatch competitor and grabbed up the furthest developed game they could find.
Not taking into account that the developers had a bizarre agenda and the games whole look and feel just alienated a lot of people.

Also I think the vomit inducing neon pride
SJW look and feel was considered a winner with what Twitter and Reddit analytics were telling them back in 2019~2020.

A victim of trend chasing with 0 incite into their core demographic .

 

[AfroMegan]

I am SOOOOOO fucking sick of ugly fiction. Fiction is about idealism for fuck sake.. This kind of ugly character design is even worse than the demand for "gritty realism" in fiction and fantasy.

This is because very insecure AWFL's don't like seeing beautiful women in their entertainment

Yo racyss ass can't stand an empowered snarky black woman of colo.

 

[Kela de Thaym]

On the one hand, part of me feels bad because it's still time, effort, and energy put into something that's canned at the very last minute.

On the other hand, the game -from a visual and aesthetic standpoint- looks absolutely cringe and godawful for so many reasons. When even the audience you're trying to appeal to turns it down, that says a lot. Visually, it feels unfocused and unhinged, like it was a "design by committee" approach. Even the personalities of these characters come off as incredibly unlikable. Team Fortress 2's cast are all a bunch of zany assholes rooted in stereotypes, but they lean into the absurdity of it and subvert them in ways you wouldn't expect (Demoman being a good example) and that's what makes them funny. Even OW and Apex's characters have some elements of their personalities that balance the bad with the good, albeit in a subjective way.

Hyenas' characters are deadass, straight up stereotypes and make their incredibly awful personalities seem like good things. When to an outsider, it ended up looking like an unintentional satire of how terrible these types of people are with zero self-awareness.

 

[Bowiotronic]

"Create a heavily trooned child, then strike it down, the quotas die with it" is what I think it's happening here + huge wrongstimation about the troonplayer base, corpo fuckers think that all the neuros and trans are le based e-sports player when that happens in a very few sample of cases, mostly with nintendo shit, bet they thought there'd be millions of chris chans waiting to pay for zero gravity overwatch with the worst character design in ages.

With that said, now the product is off the table, and transgender and other berwicks have been portrayed, only probably to never be brought back á-la-poochie from the Simpsons or, even worse, be brought back as MvC assisted characters in whatever fightan IPs they have left.

P.D I don't discard a fucking One Must Fall 2097 remaster that you can upload your ugly trooned body to.

 

[Slap47]

Holy fucking hell! Who was this for?! Even diversity cucked morons (believer normies) weren't going to go for this hideous tryhard trash! Tryhard in multiple ways i might add.
Their attempt to dethrone a nearly dead game ends fittingly i would say.

I am SOOOOOO fucking sick of ugly fiction. Fiction is about idealism for fuck sake.. This kind of ugly character design is even worse than the demand for "gritty realism" in fiction and fantasy.

Also -1 GaaS... Hopefully that number soon hits -∞

Nah, there are plenty of games and pieces of fiction with ugly characters that do fine and are even masterpieces.

The problem is these people are ugly on the inside as well. Not evil, but just utterly uninteresting and unsympathetic. This type of ugly is also just especially bad because actually terrible people or at the least dispassionate people made them to look good.

 

[Smithfield Ham]

A drag queen escaping "The Crack" to "The Taint" to steal funko pops from billionaires sounds like the premise of a John Waters film.

See, but if it were a John Waters film, it would've been fucking awesome. Repulsive, stupid, and an affront to all things good taste, but fucking awesome. This is somehow both outrageously ridiculous and incredibly bland at the same time.

 

[Burt Ryan]

You're really gonna ignore Miss Pauling and the Administrator like that?

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And the Scout's mother.

I wasn't aware of this game (or most likely it was so un-memorable that I stopped caring after the reveal). The description of it on Steam is so fucking bad and unappealing.

HYENAS is a hero-based, multiplayer extraction shooter where you play as misfit anti-heroes competing against other squads and security forces to steal valuable merch with epic zero-G combat.

CliffyB called, he wants his Lawbreakers back.

 

[Smithfield Ham]

And the Scout's mother.

I wasn't aware of this game (or most likely it was so un-memorable that I stopped caring after the reveal). The description of it on Steam is so fucking bad and unappealing.

HYENAS is a hero-based, multiplayer extraction shooter where you play as misfit anti-heroes competing against other squads and security forces to steal valuable merch with epic zero-G combat.

CliffyB called, he wants his Lawbreakers back.

It kind of seems like Lawbreakers/Overwatch mixed with Payday.

The Multiplayer "live service" shooter genre is already highly competitive and over-saturated. There are several major failures and big-name successes like CoD, Fortnite and Overwatch. This is the last type of game I'd want to sink a massive amount of money into. I'm sure the general thinking was "if this is an Overwatch-level success, we can print money with this for a decade!" but the investment is so risky as to be nearly impossible to profit from.

Just bad ideas all around. I don't care if your cast is black, gay and crippled, if they all have good designs we'll let it slide. But if they all have shit designs, nobody will want any part in it. And the characters in this game are ugly and unappealing.

 

[Snekposter]

How much of this financial disaster will diversity investment companies (AKA Satan incarnate) like (((Blackrock))) cover for to reward Sega for pushing globohomo? I’ve seen rumors that they’re the ones who are keeping Disney afloat despite Disney losing millions upon millions on their new woke live action remakes.

They won't. Larry Fink has already "stepped back to spend time with his family". Vanguard, the other ESG investment firm, has done a 180 and started asking people for actual profitability. The whole ESG scheme was dependent on 0% interest loans from the Federal Reserve, and with the rate hikes causing the money to dry up, ESG is on its way out.

You'd think Kiwis of all people would be more up-to-date on these things...

TF2's Demoman shits mountains on these niggers despite having a backstory more vague that these turds of the last 10 years.

"How can yae tell I'm a good demo man? If I was a bad demo man I wouldnae be here talkin' to yae, now would I?"

Nah, there are plenty of games and pieces of fiction with ugly characters that do fine and are even masterpieces.

Looks at Planescape where the protagonist is a giant mess of scars and tattoos and his sidekick is a lecherous floating skull.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

Holy shit, this reads like some fat chick's fanfiction.

A nonbinary black female astronaut with butch hair and Important Glasses.

A faggot drag queen.

A fashion-obsessed Muslim metrosexual.

A BPD "Lol So Random" cunt who thinks it's cool to wear a tutu in public.

A weeb cosplayer.

A spic fed.

An eSports nerd.

A Canuck whose first priority in the post-apocalypse was to build a night club.

Of course the biggest losers write losers as protagonists. Anyone have a photo of the dev team? I'm guessing 50% troons, 50% obese women.

All of the characters feel like caricatures of tropes, none of the men look appealing and I can't tell which model is a woman. Luckily, it isn't third person over the shoulder, imagine playing the game while staring a tutu covered creature's backside the entire game. Anyway, this game fails at every level and serves as just another pew pew game with shallow lore, philosophy, and greed.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Found an interesting comment shedding some light on the Hyena desaster:

>Engine switches
No surprise there... that's the usual M.O. with devs working under Sega. Big Red Button had to do that with Sonic Boom when Sega told them last minute it would be a WiiU exclusive.

And then there's the whole Sonic Xtreme fiasco

 

[WelperHelper99]

On the one hand, part of me feels bad because it's still time, effort, and energy put into something that's canned at the very last minute.

On the other hand, the game -from a visual and aesthetic standpoint- looks absolutely cringe and godawful for so many reasons. When even the audience you're trying to appeal to turns it down, that says a lot. Visually, it feels unfocused and unhinged, like it was a "design by committee" approach. Even the personalities of these characters come off as incredibly unlikable. Team Fortress 2's cast are all a bunch of zany assholes rooted in stereotypes, but they lean into the absurdity of it and subvert them in ways you wouldn't expect (Demoman being a good example) and that's what makes them funny. Even OW and Apex's characters have some elements of their personalities that balance the bad with the good, albeit in a subjective way.

Hyenas' characters are deadass, straight up stereotypes and make their incredibly awful personalities seem like good things. When to an outsider, it ended up looking like an unintentional satire of how terrible these types of people are with zero self-awareness.

The characters not only are the definition of diversity hires, but actually looking at it is actually painful. The shaders are way too dark mixed with all the queer retrowave shit. In trying to stand out, it does the opposite. I can't barely tell one from the next. They are so fucking overdesigned and tripping on acid that it's just a blur of barf.

 

[Coinnor McCunt]

The fucking narccisism of the writers really seeps deep into the writing.
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"Her greatest strength is her sense of responsibility and idealism."

Meanwhile a second earlier:

"She hates all those gross homeless people that were forced to abandon their destroyed homes and go live in space, fucking idiots are ruining her joyride."

How self absorbed do you have to write somethig like this? How could anyone who isn't a piece of shit find this character likable?

The writing is so self unaware its pissing me off more than anything.

 

[Meat Target]

I'm not even a TF2 trader, but I've played long enough that my account has like $2k worth of items.... and no, I haven't spent even close to $2k on it.

Shit is wild.

And you rarely have to wait long to find a game. Compared to the ghost towns that are other online games, it's still thriving at nearly 2 decades young. It's no wonder Lord Gaben has a higher net worth than Trump.