HighGuard honest review after ~12h of play ⬇️
🟢 After understanding the game flow, maps, and buildings, the game is… incredibly fun.
🟢 Gunplay was meh at the start, but becomes excellent once mastered. Not Apex, but same feeling.
🟢 If matched against a team that knows how to play, it’s almost constant action.
🟢 Innovative, super fresh, and super competitive.
🟢 3v3 felt like a mistake at first, but once real matches start, it’s the right number.
🟡 Not a fan of bases taking damage when you fail an attack, but I get why: avoiding 1h+ games (balanced match ~45 min atm).
🟡 Some guns are meh and not enjoyable, others are super cool.
🟡 Shotguns are overpowered (one-shot in elite quality).
🔴 Performance is meh, with some questionable technical choices (Nanite tessellation?).
🔴 DLSS without DLAA is a mistake. DLSS is good tech, but without DLAA-quality it hurts sharpness.
🔴 Gun crosshairs are blurry (DLSS/TSR)
🔴 Mining mini-game isn’t very enjoyable, would be better without the QTE imo.
🟢 The comeback potential of the game mode is excellent.
🔴 Visibility is bad with heavy VFX, sometimes it’s hard to understand what’s going on.
🟡 Sound is weird: you hear far away very well (cool), but your own character making almost no sound in FPP makes it hard to judge your footprint.
🟡 More guns, loot variety, and tools would be awesome.
🟡 Character abilities can be cool but lack depth imo.
🔴 Character design is atrocious.
🟢 Level art is excellent.
🟢 Each map having a unique fortress design is a huge win.
🟢 Level design is well handled.
🔴 Massive lack of QoL features and customization options.
🔴 Performance is still meh for a competitive shooter.
Note :
The game clearly suffers from hate because some people decided *before release* that it would be bad.
Without that bias, I’m convinced the Steam score would be much higher.
I’m honestly angry at influencers who start the game, play one match, and put zero effort into giving it a fair chance.
Your job is not to surf trends, but to actually test the game so people can trust your judgment.
Objectively, and yes I’m targeting content creators:
you’ve done an insanely bad job reviewing this game.
Yes, it’s not perfect (like most releases).
But it’s VERY far from the disaster some reviews describe.
You have the right to not like a game.
You do NOT have the right to publish a “full review” without actually reviewing it.
That’s unfair.
That’s sad.
And that’s concerning for the future of gaming.
Shame.
I'm super happy for being responsible for a 0.001% part of the art direction of this wonderful game!
Of course not directly, but this is still most probably the biggest project showcasing my "Screen Space Fog Scattering" plugin 🥹
Once you see it, you cannot unsee it...
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Did you know that Upin Ipin Universe is made by Streamline Studios (Malaysia)?
That's right, this is a reference to a fact that the studio has not been paid their staffs for almost a year and layoff their staffs
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Thinking about my 4 years of career sometimes makes me sad. I just have one game with my name on it, and i was a Junior. The best work ive done so far for a game/s will never probably see the light because of _reasons_ and it just sucks.
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People be complaining about glitch this, unplayable bug that, my brother in Christ my biggest worry was that they would "Tarkov" the game; And I can confirm that my fears were unfounded, it is in fact a stalker game, and I've had nothing but fun the past few hours playing it.
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