Big Fat Battle

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Big Fat Battle is a flopped Third-Person Shooter, which released in November 2023, already transitioned to a F2P model one month later and has now shutdown in March 2024. This feels like the speedrun of any unsuccessful Live-Service Game. Big Fat Battle had an interesting premise. There was only one game mode, which is a round based team mode. There were 5 rounds and each round the least successful players got eliminated and the teams reshuffled. This brought a bit of variation and also kept teams somewhat balanced. Unfortunately a single game mode and less than a handful of maps made the game desperately lacking in content. Cosmetic "content" however the game had much (like a Kim Jong-Un skin). The only other aspect I liked about the game were the visuals. Certainly not stunning or anything of the sort, but it did reminded me of the Wrestling Battle Royale game 'Rumbleverse', which I liked. The biggest problem of the game had to be the utterly terrible performance. As soon as anything was going on, the framerate would not only dip, but the gameplay would often become nearly unplayable. This didn't seem to be affected by hardware or visual settings. It's unclear, whether the game was just horribly optimized or the servers were terrible, but it might have been a mix of both. The game never had a playerbase big enough to even fully fill up the 32 player lobbies. After trying out the game, I can't blame anybody for not sticking around. Thankfully there were Bots. They were however not affected by the terrible performance and could easily take you out while you were watching the slideshow of this game. Result: "Big Fat Battle is a big fat mess" is what I would be saying, if I was a mean person. The idea, of removing players in rounds and reshuffling teams, is interesting. The gameplay itself would be okay, even though not terribly exciting, but the abysmal performance unfortunately ruins the entire experience. 3.5/10