After months of silence, Steam FPS Battlebit is suddenly mounting a big comeback
Rewind to June 2023, and it looked like Battlebit was going to transform multiplayer FPS games. It had huge maps, destruction physics, and 254-player lobbies. It was also cheap, quick to download, and easy to run on even middling machines - if Call of Duty, Battlefield, EFT, and the other shooter titans were bloated and prohibitively pricey, Battlebit was proof that action and accessibility mattered more than gauche production value. At its peak, it achieved a concurrent player record of over 87,000. But then Battlebit tailed off. And then it went quiet. Then silent. Two years after it was released, Battlebit's player count was way down, its recent Steam reviews were mostly negative, and developer SgtOkiDoki was AWOL. But now everything has changed. A big new Battlebit update is happening.
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