The Twitch streamer Rex “Rexzilla” Lisle is currently making his own playground out of the space online game Star Citizen and hosting action-packed ground battles. After the streamer got bored with Battle Royale games like PUBG, he looked for something different and came up with an interesting idea.
Who is Rex “Rexzilla” Lisle? “Rexzilla” is actually a YouTuber and streamer who has earned a living so far by playing and streaming titles like PUBG and the blackout mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 .
How did “Rexzilla” come up with the idea? As “Rexzilla” explains, he was simply fatigued by the battle royale genre: “All that stuff just bored me,” Lisle told the US site Polygon.
“Battle Royale is what got me attention on Twitch and allowed my community to grow. Eventually, PUBG started to die. Then we jumped on the Call of Duty train. Blackout just came out and then it started to die too. To me, it just seems like this stuff is always the same. It just keeps getting a new skin.”
Massive Ground Battles in Star Citizen
What exactly does he do? Rex Lisle organizes large battles in Star Citizen.
- For this, he invites 50 players from his Twitch stream into the game and thus gets a private server just for these players.
- He then directs these players to a specific planet.
- There, the players need to find each other in the vast landscapes. It helps that certain locations can always be found in the same place.
- Now everyone discusses which scenario they want to play.
- Lisle then uses the ships as objects on the battlefield, for cover and as boundaries, as well as targets that players need to capture.
- A group of players, meanwhile, protects the battlefield from “stream snipers” who log in to ruin the fun for everyone.
- Then the battle begins.
Do the “Warlords of Star Citizen” have a future?
What’s special? The fact that it takes about an hour for destroyed spaceships to respawn creates a small in-game economy on the server. Players either wait for the respawn or pay in-game money to get the ship back faster. Therefore, many participants in the battles grind beforehand to gather enough money.
Additionally, there are arm dealers. If a player is defeated, they lose their weapon. So there must be players who supply the others with new weapons, which of course cost money.
Furthermore, Rex Lisle has spent around $2,500 on spaceships. However, he doesn’t want to collect or fly them, but rather uses them to build and make the battlefield interesting.
He has invested $725 for the Hammerhead ship. He says: “When I look at a ship, I think something like: Hey, should I buy the $400 Reclaimer? It’s the size of two Call of Duty maps in one!”
What is the danger? Star Citizen is still in alpha status. Besides the bugs and connection issues that may occur right now, it’s possible that the game will change significantly by the time it’s released. It might be conceivable that such actions will no longer be possible in the future.
Therefore, Rexzilla hopes that Cloud Imperium Games takes notice of the “Warlords of Star Citizen,” as the group is called, and that this type of gameplay can continue in the future.
