Badlanders

by Mikhail Oct 29, 2020 | 1 Votes | 100 Played | 0 Reviews

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Third Person Shooter , Shooter , Action , MMO

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Shooting , Player vs Player (PvP) , Post Apocalyptic , Battle Royale

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NetEase Games Badlanders is a new battle royale with a new twist: instead of focusing on firefights, you’ll mostly focus on looting and trying to escape from other players. Scavenge weapons, materials, and other resources from the battlefield and use them to strengthen your character so you’ll be primed and ready the next time you return. Play Now Similar Games

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Summary Plotline Gameplay Community Graphics/Sound Conclusion

Summary

One of the best things about battle royale is uncertainty. However, there’s one thing that is certain when you go into every match: everyone is on equal footing and every player comes in with nothing but the clothes on their person.

Interestingly, Badlanders does away with the norms and instead, enables players to equip themselves before each match. It’s a unique new battle royale with greater emphasis on looting, though it has the usual BR staples like strategic movement, gunplay, and, of course, the tension associated with moving around the battlefield.

Thing is, fighting other players isn’t the main goal here: you need to loot the battlefield, fill your backpack up with as much loot as possible, and escape safely. With that said, does this new approach to battle royale work?

Plotline

Badlanders is set in a post-apocalyptic war-ravaged world where various groups of people compete for resources. The game focuses on an advanced weapons and tech facility known as the Red Beach Sanctuary. As a scavenger, your role is to constantly drop into the abandoned buildings and look for materials and gear. It’s not a story that would warrant a literary prize but hey, it holds up fairly well.

Gameplay

Badlanders is inherently different from traditional battle royales like PUBG and fellow NetEase made-game Rules of Survival. Sure, the main goal is to survive, but instead of being the last man standing, the goal is to loot and proceed safely to the extraction points that will gradually open up as the matches progress.

The catch is that you don’t automatically survive the moment you step into the escape point: you need to wait for at least 15 seconds. In turn, this adds layers of risk and strategy. If you die and your items get looted in the extraction point, they’re gone forever. Meanwhile, you don’t actually have to scavenge and instead, have other players do it for you. You can just wait at the escape points and pounce on your unwary victims.

Thing is, what’s the point of looting? You see, the items you carry if you safely escape can be sold, modified, or stored. Plus, you can carry them to the battlefield the next time you enter a match. See that cool machine gun you’ve picked up? You can equip it and use it in your next foray. Moreover, you can also upgrade them on the gun bench and fit in attachments like scopes, stocks, and magazines you’ve picked up.

Badlanders has a robust player-run economy where you can sell, trade, and auction (which opens at account level 6) off loot you’ve picked up in exchange for cash. This is how you advance and get rich in this game. If you die and end up losing your loot, the game employs an “insurance” system that gives you a certain amount of cash to ease the pain of losing the items you’ve lost.

Although the shop is well-implemented and you can buy and sell whatever you want, the inventory management is unintuitive. Moreover, backpack and warehouse (where you store your items post-match) space are extremely limited and certain materials, like ammo and similar items (ex. armor pieces of the same level) do not stack. Worse, there’s no option to deposit everything to the warehouse in one go which means you need to painstakingly swipe everything one by one.

Badlanders’ gunplay is similar to Rules of Survival. It’s fairly standard, and if you’ve played other battle royale titles and third-person shooters before, you’ll feel right at home. Thing is, thanks to its focus on looting, shooting and fighting takes the backseat.

Community

The game has a thriving community, although the first few matches are full of bots who can’t even hit you even if you’re five feet away. The experience improves as you level up, and you’ll end up fighting real players instead. That aside, you’ll mostly experience the community via the auction and the online shop. Be sure to check it from time to time to check out items and materials for sale.

Graphics/Sound

In terms of presentation, Bandlanders is fairly well-made for a mobile game. With a presentation and art style similar to Rules of Survival, it manages to impress. The voice acting is fairly decent, while the footsteps are fairly accurate and you can safely tell where your opponents are coming from even without earphones.

Conclusion

Overall, Badlanders is a fairly interesting battle royale. After all, it’s a game that encourages players to loot and evade instead of fighting although there are instances wherein you can play a predatory role and ambush. It deviates from the core purpose of BR games and is also undone by its limited inventory and warehouse space. However, it still manages to impress thanks to its thriving community and gunplay it deserves a spot on your backlog.

New Game Added: Badlanders

by Mikhail Oct 29, 2020

Badlanders is a new battle royale with a new twist: instead of focusing on firefights, you’ll mostly focus on looting and trying to escape from other players. Scavenge weapons, materials, and other resources from the battlefield and use them to strengthen your character so you’ll be primed and ready the next time you return.