 What's up everybody I'm the Mangus, you were awesome and grab your bug out bags and load up on MREs because I've been enjoying a Battle Royale and that my friends is as sure a sign of the end times as you can get. The ancient christian question is Vampire the Masquerade Blood Hunt. Free to play Battle Royale available in Steam that's produced and developed by Sharkmob. The game is based on a popular tabletop role playing game about vampires. As such you were playing a shelf and game buffs by feeding on humans around the city. You can find your unique vampiric powers to leap along the rooftops of blaster enemies of the face with machine guns. While I have been enjoying this game there are of course some pretty glaring issues throughout so today we'll discuss what the game is, who's making it and my opinions of the overall experience. In Blood Hunt you choose from one of two arc types from three different vampiric clans. Each clan has its own ability and each arc type has its own as well. For example the Nosferatu clan my personal favorite can gain invisibility and a speed buff. Both the saboteur and prowler members of the aforementioned clan can execute this ability. However the saboteur has a unique ability that allows it to throw a sewer bomb while the prowler can scout areas with a sphere of bats. The members of the Bruja clan can both perform huge leaps with the brute being able to create a wall that blocks bullets and the vandal being able to leap towards a location with a powerful earth shaking punch that knocks enemies up. The toreadore clan can send out an image of themselves and then blink to it. The muses can blind targets while the siren can heal themselves and allies in an AOE. For the most part Blood Hunt is just like any other BR game. You pick a spawn point, load in, and run around trying to find weapons and items true and about the map. However in Blood Hunt you can use your vampire sense to indicate where these weapon dumps are as well as any humans in your area. Feeding on humans is how you get your buffs. Regular humans show up white and are really only useful as a med pack when you're low health. The humans that glow however will give you buffs depending on their color and whatever disease they have. The buffs can be improved melee damage, health regen, or lowered cooldowns or effectiveness of your abilities. You can only have three of these buffs at any one time so choose wisely. If you don't plan to engage in any melee combat then stay away from the orange humans. You can increase the number of buffs you're able to get if you down an enemy you can then deoblerize them I guess that's how you pronounce it which it's basically an execute. This will heal you back to full and give you an extra buff slot. It's a bit of a gamble to do so of course you leave yourself completely exposed to anyone who is rushing into third party or duel. You also need to be careful about when you choose to feed on a human. Using your powers or eating somebody in full view of other humans will mark you on the map and other players will be able to easily locate you. Aside from the plain old humans there are also entity checkpoints throughout the map. Supposedly these checkpoints have high tier loot however they're guarded by soldiers that will fuck you up. They don't miss their shots and they will track you for a pretty good distance. You can kill them but the entire time you'll be exposing yourself on the map with gunfire while taking damage making you an easy target for other players. I found that it's usually not worth it it's not worth the loot and I just avoid these fuckers. I did manage however to down one of the smaller groups and get the chain gun which was pretty damned fun. Blood Hunt is being developed and produced by Shark Mob, a Swedish AAA studio started by former developers of the division and Hitman. Blood Hunt is the first of three titles the company plans to work on. While the team members do have a proven track record of creating successful games I personally have a hard time placing any faith in AAA studios anymore. To make matters worse Shark Mob was recently acquired by Chinese media giant Tencent. I squarely blame the failing of my personal favorite game ever, Paragon, on the shoulders of Tencent and their greedy business practices. I have been enjoying this game so far but my general lack of trust in AAA studios combined with my deep abiding hatred of Tencent gives me quite an uneasy feeling going forward. There are some issues with the game, first and foremost in my mind is that melee weapons are advertised as a viable option as a main weapon type. Some of the abilities even seem to cater to it and there's a variety of melee weapons to choose from. However you would be a crazy person to try running around the map with melee weapons equipped. You seem to function just like any other VR, great when you're out of ammo of close but don't try bringing a sword to a gunfight. I have been clubbed to death with a spike bat but again I'm not very good so I imagine a more skillful player would have been able to gun that guy down. The big complaint many users have about this game is that the anti-cheat software you have to download with the game contains spyware. Shark Mob refutes this and says that the anti-cheat running when the game is off was a bug that they have since corrected. The original poster that sparked the entire spyware debate has also edited their original post to note that the anti-cheat doesn't include spyware. I don't mind running the anti-cheat but I 100% understand if others don't want to play the game for that reason. I mean we are dealing with Tencent here. This is probably a small thing overall but falling into water is instant death. I don't mind that as much as the Wilhelm scream that accompanies your death. Like why the Wilhelm scream did they think that was funny? It just strikes me as a cheap way to not hire a voice actor to do a proper death scream. The game also comes with all the standard battle royale problems. You wait five minutes to get into a match and then get gunned down by someone who happened to find a good weapon before you within 30 seconds. It feels bad. Even with the anti-cheat you do run into some hackers too. I'm not very good at the game so I often get wasted by people far more accurate than I but getting one shot three rooftops away by someone with a submachine gun is a bit recoculus. I also had an incident where someone was shooting at the rooftop I was about to climb over before I got to it which was pretty sus. Even with all the aforementioned problems I just can't stop queuing up for another go of Blood Hunt. I really don't understand why I'm not into vampires and shit. I've never played the tabletop game and I usually hate battle royales. Maybe it's the ease at which you could find loot. Maybe it's the joy of just straight eating people to gain buffs. If I had to come up with one reason though that I've been enjoying this game above other battle royales I would say it's the verticality in the mobility. I guess that's two reasons but anyway it's the verticality in the mobility. You can leap from rooftop to rooftop, run straight up walls, drop down, run through a tunnel and surprise your opponent by climbing up behind them. I said recently that I think the main factor that goes into making a game fun is the ability to do cool shit. Blood Hunt offers the opportunity to leap through the air, go invisible, locate your opponent with bats, gun them down with an SMG, and then execute them. That shit is cool. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did please hit that like button for me. But for now this is the Mangoo signing off. You guys have a good one. Mangooos!