
The Warhavens release timing is short, since the team is still making tweaks to the brawler, so meanwhile, fans are going to have to wait for future tests or perhaps check out our hands-on preview from last October. As described the game’s early access release timeline as short but sweet, confirmed that the game will have over five maps and potentially more than three modes at launch (the less seemed to be more approach in terms of content) and turned the door open for a possible console launch with cross-play as something always eyeing. Yi confirms the game won’t include a PvE mode. Since the source of the interview, you’ll be surprised that many of the questions relate to PC, particularly the integration of DLSS 3 and why the devs chose Unreal Engine 4, but many gameplay-focused answers, and also the content-rich answers. One with us and Nexon game director Eunseok Yi has again offered a few questions to various organizations. I hope to spend more time blowing up my foes with a giant cannon when it is launched free-to-play later this year.Warhaven is continuing to make its interview rounds.
Warhaven review simulator#
So far Warhaven seems to be shaping up into a bizarrely disheveled war simulator that manages to pack a whole lot of entertaining moments in each chaotic match. From what I can tell in the handful of hours I had with it though, not all are winners, like the spearman whose attacks feel like they’re way harder to land hits with than they should be and which left me almost immediately flattened by the enemy every time I played as him. Most of them feel good to play too, like the shield-bearer who can plow his way through an army of enemies like Frank West in Dead Rising, or the crazy dude with a warhammer who turns the enemy into mashed potatoes like the rabid monster that he is. The silly good times are definitely extended by Warhaven’s interesting roster of playable characters, which range from standard sword-wielding soldiers to lightning-fast assassins with a sneaky set of moves to healers with little in the way of attacks at all. It honestly felt like, in a lot of cases, the match’s outcome came down to a coin toss based on the random and messy flow of battle, even when that sloppy homicide fiesta was generally a lot of fun. But just like everything else in Warhaven, the battle over the cannon is in no way immune to the utter tumult of warfare, and it seemed like, even whilst communicating with my team as much as possible, we still regularly found ourselves steamrolled by overwhelming numbers leading to repeated turnovers. That race to control the all-powerful artillery was definitely a good time, especially when I was the one firing the cannon at the soon-to-be-dead sorry excuse for a soldier who opposed me. For example, a few maps feature a cannon that’s absolutely essential to victory, as whoever has control of it can rain down deadly hellfire over vast swathes of the map, leaving little hope for the enemy to control the objective without dealing with you first.

It’s not that Warhaven lacks strategy, though – in fact, there’s plenty of opportunities for teams to communicate with one another around objectives in order to win the game. It’s ridiculous, over-the-top, and at times feels completely unbalanced, but there’s a certain kind of joy in that utter anarchy that makes each match amusing in how it appeals to my inner agent of chaos. It’s especially funny to see players spontaneously transform into ultra-powerful heroes once they’ve accrued enough murder karma, then roll over an entire team as a horse-mounted character or a magical samurai with a cowboy hat. Even when the odds feel fair though, the haphazard swings from your characters weapons and decidedly floaty movement makes for an imprecise experience that sometimes doesn’t feel great, even though that untidiness usually leads to hilarity.

To Me it appear like winning revolve more around team play than individual skill, which is cool too if you have friends to play with or just have good coordination with your randoms.

Warhaven review full#
In the occasional instances where both teams show up at a single point in full force, the often one-sided push and pull is replaced by a disorderly slaughterfest that’s sure to be the highlight of any match. The game runs 60 FPS on steam deck, being able to unlock outfits through playing is cool.
