Destruction AllStars might not have set the world on fire when it arrived earlier in the year, but developer Lucid Games is still working hard to keep the motor running. A recent update from the studio on the game's subreddit indicates that pretty major changes are coming in the new year, refreshing the experience in some fundamental ways.
One area that's being given a makeover is the game's general presentation. With this update, the main menu will be completely different, making it clearer who you're partied up with, emphasising your challenges, and making navigation that much easier overall. When you're in a match, you might notice some subtle visual changes too. Examples given in the post include effects that make certain actions clearer, like double-jumping, and more pronounced effects that tell the player how hard they've struck another car.
The post-match flow has been streamlined as well, breaking down the XP you've earned and getting you to the next screen faster, so you can begin queueing again. If you quit to the main menu, any XP you've accumulated will be rewarded in bulk.
Perhaps the most interesting change, though, is how the hero and vehicle special abilities are earned. Currently, these powers charge up passively before you can use them, and you can charge them faster by collecting crystals on-foot. After this update launches, the abilities won't automatically charge. Instead, you'll need to perform certain actions. So, things like evades, car takeovers, wrecking other vehicles, and other actions will charge up those abilities, which puts more of an emphasis on people playing skilfully.
Apparently there's more to the patch than just the above, and Lucid will be telling fans about all the notes nearer the time. The update is pencilled in for January, so there's not long to wait to try out the improved Destruction AllStars. Will you hop back in to see how the game changes? Drift into the comments section below.
[source reddit.com]
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I rarely play it these days but I still have it installed and I still think it's not bad. Will check it out after the update for sure.
It's a shame the games dead, can never find a full match, developers should just move on
Played it a few times, but not into it really. Will check the update out though.
This should've been Christmas's PlayStation Plus game.
@Anke It already was a PS Plus game for 2 months so it's unlikely to end up there again (would be a bad precedent)
I was still playing this a few times a week up until about the middle of the year and then just ended up getting into other games. I've actually found Wreckfest to be a more compelling game, especially the multiplayer where there's a good number of different events and it's much more fun.
I know that they've already made the arenas smaller which will go someway to making this better but it would also be good if there were some standard races in here as well, just something to mix it up a little.
Might have stood a chance if they'd made it cross-gen. Releasing at a time of so few PS5s in the wild was just stupid...
I liked this at launch, had my fun for a couple of months, but it's just not a game I ever saw myself playing for longer than that.
This game should be made free to play with a plus sub a la Tetris 99 on Switch, especially now that there is an actual player base.
I’m relieved to see I’m not the only one who was completely underwhelmed by this game at launch. It may be better now with the updates, but it’s really hard to overcome a poor first impression.
The game wasn’t horrible at launch, but it wasn’t fun at all for me. Maybe the Fortnite style art direction was a turn-off, I don’t know. But I’ve never felt compelled to play it again and these patch notes don’t have me convinced either.
@UltimateOtaku91 They probably have a support contract to fulfill. Only thing that would make sense in keeping this game on life support. Multiplayer only games need to hit within their first year or just let the devs move on. It is very hard to get a player base if you fumble at the launch window.
The art style is horrendous, the characters themselves obnoxious and the gameplay, meh. Which is a shame because it was one of my most anticipated games before the ps5 launched. The bare bones of a good game are there but the balance is way off.
Very cool for the 10 people who play it
@Voltan wow, I'd actually forgotten that
@Voltan @Anke
It should go F2P.
I never got around to playing this due to the bad reviews. Hopefully it's a much better game now!
I hope they can turn it around. The concept had potential. Maybe add PS IP characters, bigger arenas ala Twisted Metal Black
Making it more like a classic car combat game is not a bad idea. Maybe as a game mode?
I downloaded this when I got my PS5 and haven't given it a second thought since... I may give it a go once I get through the pile of other games I have acquired though. Trouble is I keep finding games heavily discounted so that pile is only getting bigger... 🙄
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