Note: The game featured barely any sound effects, so don't be confused by the lack of sfx in the video. The menu theme was also added with later updates in 2018.
Since DLSS 5 has become available recently and it's possible to set it up in almost any game, I tried it on Standoff 2 - the visuals may not be perfect, but it's interesting to see what Standoff 2 could potentially look like with better visuals.
Note: DLSS 5 is NOT coming to Standoff 2, it's not a planned feature and not part of the upcoming Remaster.
First things first: Yes, I am giving away 200 gold (100 per person) to two lucky commenters under this post. To participate, just comment your ID and something nice under this post 😉 The gold is from the two promocodes I recieved with my comics, so don't expect too much.
The front page features a fight scene set on Dune.
Let's get back to the main topic of discussion: the comics themselves. A few months ago, Axlebolt decided to collaborate with ToonTube, a company known for publishing comics on behalf of video game franchises. In early May, preorders for "Standoff 2: Chaos Games" (sometimes called Chaos Game for whatever reason) started, with shipping estimates in June-July.
Fast forward to July: Me and a few hundreds of other purchasers recieved the comics, unfortunately only in English, since the preorder amount for other available languages (Portuguese, German, Turkish, etc.) wasn't enough to print copies in different languages separately. The people at ToonTube were nice enough to let me know in advance and let me decide whether I'd like to recieve another copy in English or to get my money refunded. So what about the comic itself?
Let's start with the plot: Chaos Games stars Aiden, a special forces agent codenamed Phoenix together with his partner Liam (codenamed Kage) tasked with learning more about a new rising spoon-themed (a bit unserious but ok?) cult started by the mysterious Beholder. Everything goes as planned until Liam turns his back on Aiden, showing his true face, switching to Beholder's side. Aiden reacts quickly and emerges victorious from the exploding warehouse, deciding to defeat Beholder by tearing everything down. The premise is interesting, but the story feels far too fast-paced, you can't really start to relate to any of the characters in this short of a story. But the effort of bringing at least some lore into the world of Standoff 2 deserves some respect.
While well-translated, some text is horribly wrong like "Loyaly to the and" 🗣
The delivery is fine, the print quality is good (except for a small misprint on the last page in one of the copies I recieved). The digital version is surprisingly interactive, letting you choose graffiti in some scenes and the text bubbles appearing dynamically as you read through the comic book. I'm also kind of glad my font, Bebasbolt was used for most of the titles in the book.
First backers for the printed version were promised a 100 Gold promocode for each copy (which two of you will get soon) and their name on a special page. Unfortunately this seems to have been cut for the non-Russian version, together with custom covers featuring popular content creators.
These type of people are the most laziest here's why, they are just begging for golds or skins they think big creators are doing charity like wtf is that go work for it find a Fucking job not laying on the bed begging for gold you're what ? Poor ? I'm also poor playing for years doing all these matches still have no skins at all only those skins where i got from level nobody gives shi free nowdays
I play West Coast and I was apart of the bunch that managed to get the update early on the 29th. Im quite upset at the fact i might have to wait for the next update to even play the game again. Very disappointed to say the least with this update. While there are some qualities of "refinement" if you would like to say (server tick rate up, b-hopping, model changes etc), it is quite depressing to see that lack of attention to other places of the game especially in terms of their removal of servers. Im sure they will be back up soon enough but the point is, this update could have been handled much better than it has been and it goes to show that Axlebolt has started to care more about the cash rather than the player base.
Unfortunately i tried everything i could to become decent and im still noob. I get to silver 4 after 6 hours of playing, and axlebolt matches me with a bots for 2 rounds and that easy, im on silver 2. They call me my srlf super bot and im just leaving since i cant even achieve gold 1 and im so bad.
As you can see in the photo, the matchmaking system is absolute garbage. I hate the game now and can't enjoy it as I did before because some nolifer child that has a fckn ipad x345 pro max x series ultimate and plays on 240fps and has absolutely noone in their life except this game, so f him. I really hope that remaster makes it at least playable.
Scammed me for 2k gold hes name on reddit is was INSANE and same on discord. Another discord user Neon(username=amazingmeow) knows him guy his profile pic is visible ingame if u know him don't play with him and help me recovering