Redfall is a new vampire shooter from Arkane Studios, published by Bethesda. Redfall is meant for fans of single-player and co-op experiences, releasing on May 2 for PC and Xbox Series X. Players of the PlayStation 5 will miss out after Microsoft acquired Bethesda. Now there has been gameplay from a boss fight and some negative comments.
This is what we know about Redfall:
- In Redfall, players must fend off a vampire plague. They fight alone or with up to 4 players in a co-op shooter against the gentlemen and ladies with the nice fangs.
- MeinMMO author Maik Schneider got the chance to play Redfall early and says: It is “looting and leveling with crazy weapons and characters”. It reminds him strongly of Borderlands.
- He judges that the world is exciting, but Redfall has its weaknesses in gameplay. The gunfights are not fun, and the controls are lacking. There is still a lot to improve.
This is the new gameplay now: The US site IGN released a 3-minute video on Good Friday, April 7, showing a boss fight. 3 players fight against “The Rook”, a vampire. The fight takes place on a farm, with many effects visible.
The player, from whose perspective we are watching, often runs away. Especially when his teammates go down, he takes on the thankless task of stalling, distracting the boss, and has his hands full.
In the end, he delivers the killing blow and gets to loot.
Players mercilessly dissect the new gameplay of Redfall
How is this commented on? The comments on YouTube are brutal and mainly focus on the playstyle of the poor soul recording the video:
- “One must say: IGN manages to make every game they play look painful.”
- “If you give the controller to your little brother …”
- “Honestly, if IGN decides to show the gameplay footage from that guy, I wonder what the others have been playing together.”
- “8 shots and 7 missed while the boss casually trots straight towards you.”
- “Why are you fighting a giant boss in a fully furnished house? Why are you running away from the boss and shooting at adds while your team is dying? Why are you opening a locked door in the middle of a fight instead of reviving your teammates? Why are you throwing a translocator and not using it? Why are you shooting a sniper at an enemy standing right in front of you? Why do you get to deliver the killing blow when you’ve hardly done anything?”
Memo to self: Never record video footage of me playing anything other than strategy games, and even then, someone will come along and explain that I married the wrong cousin in Crusader Kings 3! Damn backseat gamers!
Just shooting won’t help – New gameplay from Redfall shows interesting combat system
