Destruction AllStars is a helluva lot better following its reboot earlier this week, and you can find out more about what’s improved in our hands on. The big battle for Lucid Games is now getting people to try it, and while many will have the title in their PlayStation 5 library following its PS Plus run last year, there’s a suggestion that it may go free-to-play.
Eagle-eyed Reddit users spotted during a period of server maintenance this week that the new-set of Welcome Challenges in the game – onboarding tasks which reward you with XP and in-game currency for completing some fairly simple starter tasks – were labelled in the source code as ‘F2P’, potentially signalling some kind of free-to-play re-release. It’d make sense, seeing as the title is clearly inspired by the likes of Fortnite and Apex Legends.
The game is due to get a new seasonal update at some point, and with the response being positive to its latest update, it’s now or never for the explosive combat racer. Titles like this live and die by their communities, and while the servers have been fairly populated this past week, we could see a free-to-play re-launch being quite successful at this point in the its lifecycle.
[source reddit.com]
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I had this when it first came to plus, but it could not hold my interest. Based on the improvements I read about here, and my recent love for Wreckfest, I may be willing to give this another go. It's a shame because I would have rather had a Twisted Metal than this. Car combat done right is a blast, and an unexplored space the last few years.
Played it last night, it's so much better.
I had a blast with this game at launch, although it got drowned out by other games.
Wish we had access to player count and revenue data for other games that went free to play after launch.
Okay time to jump back in and go for that plat. Last time I checked I couldn't get a game.
@AdamNovice Yesss! I'm so glad other people are enjoying the update as well!
@get2sammyb I tried to think of more to say on my impressions but your Hands On article summed it up perfectly.
It's just about a year old. It would be good to maybe do a yearly review, or maybe a year one review, for service games of this type. I see some around the web (for example several sites did "Apex Legends 2021 Review" last year). A lot of these games add so many tweaks and new content, and learn from their mistakes, it would be nice to see a proper review a year or two after launch of a game. Fallout 76 is a good example, over 2 years it turned into an amazing fun game with tons of content and improvements. But everyone still remembers the disastrous launch and even more disastrous reviews.
It should have been free from the start (and not just on PS+). You can't have such aggressive microtransactions on a game people pay for
Where were you yesterday Sammy when we broke the news to PS? 😆
I'd love to see it simultaneously go f2p and launch on PC. Get that player base slamming the servers!!!
I just haven't got time to play it(which is a good thing to have er erm I think) Just started playing my last big AAA PS4 game 'The Last of Us 2' So far it's AMAZING (apart from what happened before you get to Seattle :-/ WHY OH WHY do that ND :-/ I nearly threw the game in the bin) Oh well, will try this hopefully soon
Tried it when it first came out, didn't hold my interest, the wee man got a couple of weeks out if it before getting bored.
Will download it again over the weekend and see what it's like now
@get2sammyb I got the feeling that your recent items on this game shall bring more people into this game, because otherwise there were nobody playing with you.
@Max_the_German Haha, I wish I had that kind of influence, but alas...
@ThomasHL you literally have to pay for everything, insane that they released it at £20.
For all the good that there is on PlayStation, Sony really need to address the inconsistencies with pricing and upgrades and stuff like that. Its driving so many people away
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