Hyenas - The "Overwatch killer" by Creative Assembly

[Bixnood]

Dead ass part of me beleved this was an embezzlement scheme.
like it really jsu looks like a shitty game made to flop

 

[Smithfield Ham]

I've heard the $800 million number thrown around but idk if that's accurate or not. Gaming sites aren't exactly known for their reliable fact-checking. I've heard the term "set aside" thrown around, which... doesn't explain much. "Set aside" means it could have already been invested, or it's what they're "planning" to invest. Some reports are saying they lost $95 million on this project.

To put things into perspective: the average budget of a major release in the sixth gen was $10m, by the late 2010s, it was $50m. Today, it's can go as high as $200 million. So maybe that billion number was true, or maybe not. I know Sony had leaked emails where they expected their Spider-Man movies to make at least a billion, so you have an idea about how absurdly inflated their view on money is.

 

[malapropism]

All this for an extraction shooter - a game mode I don't know why devs and publishers go wild for. Tarkov basically has a monopoly, and the playercount for that isn't worth of the obsession. At least LOL/ASSFAGGOTS had insane revenue to warrant all the half assed MOBAS of a decade ago or PUBG/Fortnite's success to bring all the battle royale cashgrabs half a decade ago.

Hyena's character bio page is fucking insane, makes me feel positively about the Coldsteel OC in Rainbow six Siege or waifu/hasubando-bait in Valorant which is somehow even more insane.

 

[bile demon]

Why would a hormone addled sick-looking AGP want to play a video game where he's also a hormone addled sick-looking AGP?

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He can get that experience just by stepping out of the door in real life, no need to pay for the privilege.

Wrong in every detail as always, stalker. My second, better wife is not an autogynephile.

Those are just your clinical delusions.

 

[SiccDicc]

they must have seen what happened with Forespoken. I bet they got sold on all the faggy shit as the perfect way to break it big in the western market too.

Japanese companies keep getting scammed into trusting western devs and i can't wait to see what dumpster fire Konami has under its sleeve with the western developed upcoming silent hill games.

Nah, mate, when you got big names like Kadokawa talking about the importance of diversity and ESG it ain't just westerners anymore.

800 million?! That cannot be the real number. That's more than the GDP of some entire countries.

I've heard the $800 million number thrown around but idk if that's accurate or not. Gaming sites aren't exactly known for their reliable fact-checking. I've heard the term "set aside" thrown around, which... doesn't explain much. "Set aside" means it could have already been invested, or it's what they're "planning" to invest. Some reports are saying they lost $95 million on this project.

To put things into perspective: the average budget of a major release in the sixth gen was $10m, by the late 2010s, it was $50m. Today, it's can go as high as $200 million. So maybe that billion number was true, or maybe not. I know Sony had leaked emails where they expected their Spider-Man movies to make at least a billion, so you have an idea about how absurdly inflated their view on money is.

That was spanning multiple projects, which sounds like they're all canceled too. This was just the headliner, I think this one had $100m or something.

 

[Toolbox]

>Deep Rock Galactic has no women
>great game

You're going to just ignore /our girl/ like that? For shame.

 

[Kulee Baba]

I love this Gamescom hype video.

THE MOVEMENT AND SHOOTING FEELS VERY SMOOTH! wow

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Holy fuck this sounds worse and worse as i read about it. neogaf post sums up this article with some choice quotes:

>You and your team of pirates, the eponymous Hyenas, are on a looting mission: take as much shit as you can and land a blow on the uber-capitalist corpo-baddies in the process.

>Think of a battle royale shrunken down, injected with Borderlands’ DNA, and shoved into a spaceship prison that doubles as a mall. That’s the USP. You can play as Doc Hotfix, who thinks he’s in a video game (yes, really), a deadeye sniper with an attitude problem, a drag queen that can literally use sass as a shield to protect her from bullets


>It’s All A Bit Much. But hey, them’s the breaks – that’s what these sorts of games have got to do these days. At least Hyenas has an identity


>The most unpalettable thing about it all isn’t the drag queen clicking her fingers and sending bullets back to sender, a la Bioshock.


>going out of your way to loot VHS players, betamax tapes, Walkmans


>Certain elements of the game’s try-hard nature are palettable: even the drag queen’s ‘oh no she di’nt’ manner has its charm, you know?


>You’d be forgiven for thinking Hyenas was free-to-play; it’s got that Apex Legends feel to it, more than anything else. But Sega says that’s not the case.

 

[Seymour Duncan]

I've heard the $800 million number thrown around but idk if that's accurate or not. Gaming sites aren't exactly known for their reliable fact-checking. I've heard the term "set aside" thrown around, which... doesn't explain much. "Set aside" means it could have already been invested, or it's what they're "planning" to invest. Some reports are saying they lost $95 million on this project.

To put things into perspective: the average budget of a major release in the sixth gen was $10m, by the late 2010s, it was $50m. Today, it's can go as high as $200 million. So maybe that billion number was true, or maybe not. I know Sony had leaked emails where they expected their Spider-Man movies to make at least a billion, so you have an idea about how absurdly inflated their view on money is.

The ONE BILLION DOLLARS that often gets quoted (such as on the front page for some reason, which is fucking stupid) is Sega's budget for the Super Game initiative which is for a whole fleet of big budget games. 800 mil to 1 bil is several times more expensive than Halo Infinite which was a much more important title that took much longer to develop by a much larger conglomerate, even with Sega/CA incompetence it's physically impossible for a game of this small a scope to cost that much and if I had to place a 20 dollar bet, I'd say 50 million to 100 million dollars sounds much closer to reality.

 

[Neil]

someone send me an email about this game and now i'm looknig into it. the trailer they released was genuinely bad. like it was completely soulless.

is Creative Assembly woke or is that just SEGA? If they made a new Alien game, would the Alien be a tranny?

Creative Assembly is more "woke" than SEGA. CA is a British game studio that got bought out by Sega of Japan in 2005 to expand their reach in Europe and other western markets.
In case you're planning on covering this game on MATI, here's the story of the drag queen troon CA put at the forefront of the marketing:

Note the gross bulge.

And a possible Chris Chan tribute.

What's worse is that Creative Assembly hiked up the prices of Total War 3's DLC by 150% to push out this pile of crap.

Total War is Creative Assembly's most famous franchise and the direct reason Sega bought them out. They sacrificed their core audience to try to cash in on the zoomer looter shooter craze. It's no surprise that after a disaster like this that Sega of Japan would start cleaning out Sega Europe's ranks.

 

[Bowiotronic]

I got to play the prealpha @ 27 FPS on a fucking 4090OC + 13900 KS, clear case of whoever the fuck trying to carbon copy the success Apex had like 5 years ago, but now, with neurodivergent types, still not that different from Payday 3 or Exoprimal, which are the two only things I play right now.

 

[Ed Special]

I get that this was an attempt to pump Soyga's ESG score to get more BlackCock shekels, but did they really need to depict that gross looking cosplayer molesting a severely vandalized Model 1 Genesis in the "Gameplay" Trailer? For that matter, given how incredibly protective of Sonic and autistically strict about he's portrayed in the comics Sega is, why were CA allowed to drag him into this cluster in the first place? Didn't that franchise suffer enough from 2005-2011?

 

[Croaking Spider]

>Deep Rock Galactic has no women
>great game

The secret is that the game appeals to the primitive urge to dig a hole, drink brew and hunt megafauna with the lads.

These companies keep blowing stacks trying to make the next globohomo movement shooter while I'm patiently waiting for a new Tribes game that will never come. Using terrain to "ski" off hills into massive jumps on large maps will always be one of the coolest feeling movement systems and is absolutely an untapped market.

 

[Kharash]

CA got way too greedy. They have(had) nearly 900 employees somehow. Compare that to AAA studios like Bethesda or Naughty dog who are around 400. I wouldn't exactly call Total War AAA productions even if you're making like 3 or more of them at the same time. Just keep hiring, what could go wrong? Total Warhammer wasn't just a fluke, right?
Also it's kind of funny to see a Japanese company throw their western developers under the bus as soon as shit goes wrong. Some real Square Enix vibes here. I mean they were absolutely in the right in this case but still, it's exactly that. Sega greenlit Hyenas in the first place, it's not like CA just get to do whatever they want.
Anyway let's hope this knocks some sense into the people remaining.

 

[The Grimace]

Creative Assembly is more "woke" than SEGA. CA is a British game studio that got bought out by Sega of Japan in 2005 to expand their reach in Europe and other western markets.
In case you're planning on covering this game on MATI, here's the story of the drag queen troon CA put at the forefront of the marketing:
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Note the gross bulge.

And a possible Chris Chan tribute.
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What's worse is that Creative Assembly hiked up the prices of Total War 3's DLC by 150% to push out this pile of crap.
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Total War is Creative Assembly's most famous franchise and the direct reason Sega bought them out. They sacrificed their core audience to try to cash in on the zoomer looter shooter craze. It's no surprise that after a disaster like this that Sega of Japan would start cleaning out Sega Europe's ranks.

>now hero-ki lives on The Taint
holy shit lol

 

[Ed Special]

Using terrain to "ski" off hills into massive jumps on large maps will always be one of the coolest feeling movement systems and is absolutely an untapped market.

I'd say "So you just want another Sonic Mania" but like... yeah, given your profile pic, that's probably not even a joke

 

[Troonos]

a list of the playable characters

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.

 

[PaladinBoo]

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.

It really does seem like the devs had a "How do you do fellow kids" mindset when making these characters. The devs really thought that younger zoomers and Gen Alphas would eat this up and like these characters. Really speaks of the delusions and hubris of the dev team.

 

[Kulee Baba]

a new Tribes game that will never come.

I don't even want to tell you this. But some dumbshit developer took the Starsiege IP and made ANOTHER Extraction shooter.

And apparently they're teasing that they will do a Tribes game in 2024 but considering that they kicked it off with this derivative turkey no one is playing I have my doubts. So tired of extraction shooters. Why do game studios think we want this shit?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

CA got way too greedy. They have(had) nearly 900 employees somehow. Compare that to AAA studios like Bethesda or Naughty dog who are around 400. I wouldn't exactly call Total War AAA productions even if you're making like 3 or more of them at the same time. Just keep hiring, what could go wrong? Total Warhammer wasn't just a fluke, right?
Also it's kind of funny to see a Japanese company throw their western developers under the bus as soon as shit goes wrong. Some real Square Enix vibes here. I mean they were absolutely in the right in this case but still, it's exactly that. Sega greenlit Hyenas in the first place, it's not like CA just get to do whatever they want.
Anyway let's hope this knocks some sense into the people remaining.

I remember seeing on TWH3 thread someone saying that out of all the employees, only one person knows how the legacy system works. Would make sense if CA is aping 40K mechanicus and literally cannot know how its own shit works and just builds upon the old legacy code, explaining why features keep disappearing.