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The game is a slower paced, co-operative roguelite top down shooter. There are a lot of mechanics in the game that are based around coordinated team play, such as slower, more deliberate movement, friendly fire and other mechanics such as swarming enemies that require your teammates to move together covering angles to literally light up sections of the map. You need to watch your fire to ensure you don’t mow down your teammates, and plan your movement into the next section so that your flanks are covered. Careful planning of where you engage, where you fall back, when you use equipment and use of light stealth type mechanics are your way to victory.
The main game mode is a 3 player co-op mode, where you progress through stages performing side objectives until you reach a safe room, similar to a game like Left 4 Dead. During all this, you’ll be acquiring power ups that stay with you for the run, as well as meta currency and blueprints which unlock permanent upgrades and starting weapons respectively. Because of these mechanics, solo play on this mode is ALMOST impossible, and lone wolfing is a sure fire way to fail a mission. There are a lot of people who want to treat this game mode like Sythetik, and seem to get upset that they can’t be the hero.
There is a secondary, relatively simple “horde mode” that’s currently experimental in the game which scales for 1-3 players. This mode I’ve found does scale quite well, but there are definitely a few moments as you progress where some enemies can cause you great difficulties as a solo player. This mode allows you to unlock the meta currency to help you progress, albeit at a slower rate than the main mode.
The game has a simple match finder system, where you can mark your lobby as private or public and people can join if its public. The game also has in in-game ping system that works well so even players with out microphones can perform decently well in a team.
This game is very promising and i’m really looking forward to the future of it. All in all, this is a really solid game at a great price, and if you have 2 friends that also want to play it’s a no-brainer. There’s some polish that needs to be done but it’s definitely in a much better state than a lot of early access games out there.
Blackout protocol is a great coop top down shooter with roguelite elements, that should be tried out.
It is a fun and engaging game with constant feedback and updates from the devs, and it is definitely worth the price.
Despite still been in the Early Access, Blackout Protocol is a solid Rogue-like Twin-stick shooter. You can play this game either solo or with up to three friends. For my over 15 hours in the game, I didn’t run into any bugs; gameplay and overall performance felt really smooth, which nowadays is not something that even full release games can boast of about. There was one thing, however, that I disliked about Blackout Protocol and that would be how tiresome it was to use consumable items (grenades etc). On another hand, developers are really caring about the game and the community, so there was a promise from them to improve on it.
I played the game solo and then duo with a friend. It felt to me as solo was an easier mode, since when you’re playing duo, monsters’ health scales up and, for example, you can’t one-shot an enemy with sniper rifle anymore. (There is also a friendly fire, but that’s another story). Don’t get me wrong, the game itself doesn’t look that hard, however, you shouldn’t expect to beat the boss on your first try. Similar to Hades game, every time you finish the run (doesn’t matter if you were victorious or died after the first safe room), you’ll bring back in-game currency for which you can purchase global upgrades to your character.
As for now, Blackout Protocol has only one “big boss” and you’ll need to spend around one hour in order to reach him (devs planning to add more content in the future, though). Also, current “final boss” has a time limit within which you need to defeat him or run will be counted as a failure. This quickly brought me to the conclusion of what the most important thing in the game is. Yep, you’re right – it’s DPS. Looking even deeper, there is a character class that excels in doing DPS if to compare to other classes, which, in my opinion, makes other characters kinda unnecessary. There are also weapons that are much better for reaching desirable DPS on the final boss. Hopefully, devs also will solve this balance problem in the future.
Overall, playing Blackout Protocol was quite fun and I’m awaiting a future update to jump into the game again.
The game needs more beta testing.
– Joining games seemed bugged out – I only managed to join one party (numerous join attempts did nothing – as if the game ate my input, and the game just sat in the lobby, unresponsive. I did make a lobby – that nobody ever joined. ). I just watched one video review where the person’s entire lobby screen was blank (see the Steam link below).
– Base movement seems too low (some zombies move too fast). You have to dodge-roll backwards, till you end up in the previous section of the map (which seems to allow enemies to respawn?). Having to walk backwards in a map, to pick up ammo or health kits gets old really fast (one step forward, two steps back).
– Keyboard gets a targeting circle, with an ammo indicator, but when you switch to controller, that targeting circle disappears, making the game way harder on a controller, because you are blind-firing? (Elite XBOX). Probably a bug, rather than a design feature.
– The game features a laser pointer (that no one ever uses, because it turns your character’s movement into a snail).
– The number of enemies don’t scale with the size of the team, so I ran out of ammo in solo player, because the game is designed around a party of three.
You need to memorize which sections of the map have low frequency spawns (versus high frequency spawns), and switch between your primary and secondary weapon correspondingly (for maximum ammo conservation). This means learning by dying a lot. You also need to get lucky with random weapon drops (the rogue like aspect of the game). You need to dump out the weaker primary and secondary guns for better guns, the earlier the better. The following Steam review has 30 minutes of gameplay – I never made it past the power station, either solo or in a duo, but this person got further. He forgot to switch to mini-gun at the end though (I’m not sure if there is a spin-up time on the mini-gun, since I only got janky weapons like the crossbow, which is better than the pistol… I guess ):
– Low visibility: virtually pitch black.
– There’s supposedly a difficulty setting on the main menu, but I can’t find it. The game had a difficulty setting, but the developers removed it (I have no idea why).
– Progress is saved if you make it to the safe room, otherwise you are S.O.L.
– The game needs quick-release tactical (grenades, decoys, claymores etc.), similar to the spell casting options in MOBAS like SMITE. It takes way too long to select tactical, aim + fire, select primary / secondary, dodge roll, aim + fire. Especially since some weapons have a spin-up time (flamer etc.).
– I was expecting something like Helldivers, but it seems like you have to memorize each stage of the map, after dying numerous times.