Does this game have true competitive (pro) potential?

(wolvie) #1

Please add a extension to why you voted what you did in description

(FireWorks) #2

What would Leagues or Overwatch have to do with the potential of this game? It is potential after all.

(wolvie) #3

@FireWorks many people say Overwatch is going to kill this game. So of overwatch is good then the game would die and a competitive scene would go to Overwatch. The leagues could be run terribly and not work

(messiah) #4

I mean overwatch will snatch a lot of players but I certainly feel like that game will drop in terms of it being fun… I mean c’mon guys, it literally has aimbots and insta-gib mechanics as the ultimates and the snipers have a passive as wallhacks. Those wallhacks give more info than the heart beat sensor in this game.

I don’t find games being fun when they do the killing for you, what is there to learn? Everyone is being shocked to play overwatch but in reality it has the same issues as this game, overwatch won’t have dedicated servers or self-owned servers. It’ll have private servers like this game and there won’t be an LAN support lol.

The names there and it’ll steal everyone from people who are playing other games that have small communities but in reality I have a theory people will be disappointed and won’t find any fun at all. :expressionless:

(Black) #5

I feel Dirty Bomb isn’t a game to be played or taken seriously.
Just a game to have fun, chill, and talk trash to each other.

(crooKk) #6

Its a fun game but It’s highly unlikely people will making a living from competing in this game (salaried players).

(immenseWalnut) #7

I don’t think Overwatch will kill this game, I think Star Wars Battlefront will.

And my vote was dependent on what the OP classes as potential. Yes, it is possible to get a few tournaments out of the game, once all the mercs are released, Execution is added etc, but I don’t see it being a trend. I honestly don’t think this game has a future into 2016. The playerbase is still shrinking, there isn’t enough content, and we have Overwatch and Star Wars Battlefront coming up which will pull away many more players.

And even if that wasn’t the case, DB isn’t that great, and it is pretty boring to watch, even when you have top end players involved. There just isn’t enough depth to keep it interesting, every match between pros will look similar to the last one played on the same map.

(watsyurdeal) #8

It really depends on the devs, if Splash really wants this game to be competitive then they need to listen to those players with a well educated opinion. Not the new players who come in thinking they know what’s best for the game.

(loftyTower) #9

cheater will spoil it, like they always do. its not competitive if u lose to cheater. of course they can do infinite accounts or spend infinite 20usd on certain games cause they never get banned with real name/email. i hope their death will be horrible.

(loftyTower) #10

and theres still that headshot and/or amazing accuracy thingy. NO ONE is that good.

(messiah) #11

They’re slow to it but there defiantly respect the competitive players in this game, most of the changes have been caused by them. (They can just be a little slow to react to the complaints…)

(_retired_) #12

[quote=“immenseWalnut;94745”]And even if that wasn’t the case, DB isn’t that great, and it is pretty boring to watch, even when you have top end players involved. There just isn’t enough depth to keep it interesting, every match between pros will look similar to the last one played on the same map.[/quote]Compared to what?
Csgo?
Lol?
Overwatch?!
Star wars Battlefront?!!

Those games might steal players but it’s their loss and comparing DB competitive is to Overwatch or saying DB has “lack of depth” you just need to watch couple of CSgo promatches and think again.

(loftyTower) #13

if you transform a “no brainer” from the past to the present it means “beeing able to play games like an idiot” i think your plans for competitive gameplay are probaly not gonna work out. most “gamers” are pure idiots.

(SereneFlight) #14

Needs “depends on SC2” option.
:stuck_out_tongue:

Anyway… for realzies… no… I don’t really think DB will ever have a big pro scene so what about we talk about politics in the Philippines instead?

(Dawnlazy) #15

“Depends on Overwatch”? Because true pros play games with autoaim.

(wolvie) #16

@Dawnrazor I only said that because many people believe Overwatch is gonna kill Dirty Bomb.

(Dawnlazy) #17

Not likely by any stretch of imagination. Games like Dirty Bomb are a rare thing nowadays, you won’t find this frantic-paced high skill ceiling gameplay with complex movement outside of classic titles like Unreal Tournament. Overwatch gameplay videos show something that plays in a completely different manner from this game, the only common ground is that both are first-person shooters where you pick one character to play as, a concept that is much older than even TF2. My point here is that DB covers a certain niche that no one is really trying to “take away”.

And what I meant in my previous post was that I can’t see how Overwatch is specifically a threat to the competitive scene, why someone who competes in a game with a skill ceiling as high as DB’s would want to go play a “competitive” shooter with autoaim is beyond me.

(wolvie) #18

@Dawnrazor Well I’m glad to hear that. I personally haven’t looked into Overwatch very much. Again, I only said that because that’s what I’ve heard from many people. And, if Overwatch were to be the limit to Dirty Bomb’s competitive scene, it wouldn’t limit it because it was better suited for competitive, it would beat it because it would take the player base. Dirty Bomb wouldn’t have any players to back the scene.

(fubar) #19

No, but pros play where the money’s at. There’s no money in SD/Nexon, yet we have blizzard that’s known to back hearthstone, hots and sc2 tournaments with massive prizepools, not to mention the hype around the game. Do you genuinely think DB can live up to that with it’s avg 2-3k players/day when a mere stream of overwatch wrecks in 45k+ viewers?

Quit being delusional. I don’t like Overwatch, I think it looks awful, the gamedesign is way too simplistic and ability focused, and I will likely not play it - but, in terms of a pro scene? And teams/players picking it up for that very reason, as opposed to DB is a given.

(Dawnlazy) #20

No, but pros play where the money’s at. There’s no money in SD/Nexon, yet we have blizzard that’s known to back hearthstone, hots and sc2 tournaments with massive prizepools, not to mention the hype around the game. Do you genuinely think DB can live up to that with it’s avg 2-3k players/day when a mere stream of overwatch wrecks in 45k+ viewers?

Quit being delusional. I don’t like Overwatch, I think it looks awful, the gamedesign is way too simplistic and ability focused, and I will likely not play it - but, in terms of a pro scene? And teams/players picking it up for that very reason, as opposed to DB is a given. [/quote]

But my point in the post after that is that Overwatch is simply not in the same niche as DB. It’s like saying people will ditch DB to play poker because it has more money.

And the money itself doesn’t kill a pro scene either. For comparison, there are still some very skilled people playing Age of Empires 2 competitively to this day. When Rise of Legends had a big money tournament in 2007, names like Daut and Grunt picked it up and played the game competitively for that event, but they still played AoE, and as far as I know they are still there to this day.

So to sum it up, if any game wants to “kill” DB, it has to offer the same type of fast-paced old-school FPS gameplay. And even then it probably wouldn’t kill it, people simply played both Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament back in the day without either game “killing” the other one. The only thing that can kill this game is terrible decision-making by the developers, and for all their faults I don’t think they’ve done anything particularly crazy so far, at least nowhere near as bad.