BATTALION: Legacy
Skip · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 1.1h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 60% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
BATTALION: Legacy recaptures the core of classic shooters in the final iteration of Battalion 1944. Return to the simple days of playing first person shooters with your friends. Grab your bolt action rifle in 'rifles only' mode or compete in 5v5 Search and Destroy.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It is less well reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Splitgate (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Battle Teams 2 (free, scores 1).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 2,791 reviews written there were positive, against 60 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
It is still busy. 4 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Why nobody is playing this? Like literally why This game has good gunplay and gun audio better, and more accurate than call of duty has. Maps have great look, a few are in Normandy, one is in Poland!, two in Netherland/Holland! from Market Garden operation, two more in Italy, and just more. So what happened? Gameplay is like Counter-Strike + Cod combo, set on engine similar to Hell Let Loose. Yes. But older version...
Very fun! Especially when some players are online!! Sometimes a few people hop on and it can be fun!!! Also the bots are fairly good. Please bulkhead revive this game, please!!!
Battalion 1944 had everything it needed to become the next competitive shooter. Tight gunplay, rewarding movement, classic World War II combat, and enough old-school charm to make veterans feel right at home. The problem? You can't play against ghosts. When the servers were alive, every round rewarded skill over gimmicks. Winning came down to aim, positioning and teamwork instead of whoever had unlocked this week's...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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BATTALION: Legacy scores 7/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/489940/battalion-legacyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1.
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