A Competition Starts
Since Rogue Company’s open beta is now free to play, it’s time to ask if Valorant now has real competition in their specific subgenre of hero shooter games. Valorant has been around longer and is more stable and fun for its users. How can Rogue Company hope to get into this niche market and make a big impact?
Until now, there hasn’t been much opposition to Valorant’s rise to fame in the hero shooter genre. Their game isn’t like many other popular hero shooters on the market right now.
CSGO is the game that comes closest to being a competitor, but its players are different. After Rogue Company removed the paywall from the early beta, I believe it is fair to state that competition between games has finally started and is likely to continue for some time. This competition is expected to remain for some time.
People will always compare Rogue Company and Valorant, especially when a new character or game update comes out for either one. Their fans will probably also defend each game on Twitter because what else can you do on Twitter? Now that both teams know who they’re playing, it will be interesting to see how each game goes in the future.
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Availability
Free play is a big step in the right direction for the future success of games like these. In the last few years, they seem to have done it. It also lets the game have more microtransactions where you can buy new playable characters without having to grind for their cosmetics.
At least, that’s how I convince myself that spending $30 is fine. I don’t need to do anything to make my body look better. “Since it’s free, I should have already paid twice as much to play it. Still, it’s fine. It only cost $30.”
In any case, the plan is that if the game is offered at no cost, it will immediately attract a greater number of players, and if it is as enjoyable as we claim it to be, they will continue playing it. I don’t think it’s a bad way to run a business, especially now when new games can cost up to $70. I’m always happy to see a game I can pick up and play for free.
I think Rogue Company is the best of these games, and there’s a big reason for that: you can play it on every platform, including the Switch, and you can play with other players on all of them. Console gamers have never been able to play a game like this before, so this is a big deal.
Since the console was released, Rogue Company may be the first major competitive game that Nintendo Switch owners have seen other than Smash Bros. It is their first big, competitive shooter for their platform. Nintendo has been talking about how important this is.
Just look at some recent Nintendo Directs to see how hard they push Rogue Company. They want to show other game makers that the Switch is a hungry market for games like this. Rogue Company could easily take the lead, at least in name recognition, if they made this kind of game available on consoles.
Even if your game isn’t as good as the others, you usually win if more people know about it and can play it. When putting out new titles, the most important things are that they are easy to find and that people know the name.
Gameplay
Rogue Company battles begin with just a pistol and the special ability that corresponds to your character, much like those in Valorant and CSGO. You may access the store, like in the past games, to purchase bonuses, upgrades, and more weapons.
There are game modes in Rogue Company that are like those in Valorant and CS: GO. It also has a way where the team can only come back to life several times. This makes it feel more casual. The characters you can control in Valorant are called “agents.” The people you can play in Rogue Company are called “rogues.”
Even though Rogue Company is still in its early stages, you can choose from many rogues. Some are more interesting than others, but I think they did a great job making sure that the available ones can be played in many different ways.
Getting More Potential
At this point, it’s clear that Valorant knows their game much better than they did before. But I think Rogue Company might be the best, even in the eyes of PC gamers. In Rogue Company, the guns are back in the spotlight. In Valorant, gunplay does matter and makes a difference, but sometimes the agents’ abilities can make even the best gunplay seem less important.
This can make it easy for less skilled players to take advantage of the situation. Many individuals believe that the strong talents that Valorant has provided the game with an added layer of strategic complexity that it wouldn’t have otherwise. In games like these, gunplay should be the first and last thing people look at to see how good the player is.
Even though shooting is the main focus of these games, that doesn’t mean there’s no strategy involved. It doesn’t turn them into a Call of Duty team deathmatch, which would be boring. When rogues use their skills, they still have to use some strategy.
What makes Rogue Company work, and what I think will make people stop playing Valorant, is that it is clear that gunplay is more important than the rogues’ skills, except for Scorch. Her knowledge is too strong to keep in mind how important balance is, so it should be weakened. And rightly so, gunplay is the most important thing.
