Two years in the past, BattleBit Remastered caught on after its early-access launch and it was briefly probably the most in style shooters on-line. BattleBit’s participant depend had dramatically dropped since 2023 and the sport was seemingly deserted. Now, nonetheless, it seems the sport might discover a new lease on life with a forthcoming replace.
A very quick teaser for BattleBit Remastered’s Operation Overhaul has been shared by the sport’s writer and co-developer, SgtOkiDoki. There’s not a lot to go within the clips, but it surely’s the primary signal of life that BattleBit has had in 18 months.
SgtOkiDoki and fellow indie builders Vilaskis and TheLiquidHorse launched BattleBit Remastered in June 2023, and gamers embraced its easy-to-play mechanics. What the sport lacked in visible splendor, it made up for with destructible environments, comparatively life like depictions of weapons, 254-player lobbies, and huge maps to discover. At its peak, BattleBit Remastered had 87,323 concurrent gamers.
BattleBit’s Steam page hasn’t been up to date with any particulars concerning the replace but and it nonetheless has the discover from Valve that the sport hasn’t had any developer exercise for a very long time. The latest peak for BattleBit’s concurrent gamers was simply over 1,000, which suggests a lot of the sport’s viewers has moved on. It stays to be seen if the brand new replace can revive curiosity within the title.
In 2023, GameSpot’s Firearms Professional Reacts featured an prolonged have a look at BattleBit’s depiction of weapons and decided that they have been largely true-to-life and life like, regardless of the sport’s low-poly aesthetic.