Landfall’s found footage co-op horror game has had massive success in its first few weeks, and has now reached yet another milestone.
03.04.2024 - 12:43 / rockpapershotgun.com
It's a fond hope, a fool's hope, but perhaps 2024 will be remembered not as the year of Yet More Layoffs, but the year of Unexpected Hits. Surprise record-setters like Palworld, which I don't especially like, Helldivers 2, which I rather enjoy, and now Content Warning, which I'm still figuring out. If you missed it, the co-op horror game released on Monday with a temporary free promotion, and racked up a 200,000-player Steam concurrency last night. Published by Totally Accurate Battle Simulator outfit Landfall, it's sort of like Lethal Company in being about venturing into horrible places as a wibbly-wobbly defenceless explorer, but rather than gathering scrap for resale, you're filming yourself and the monsters in a bid to publish a viral "SpookTube" video, with tuber celebrity translating into cash for new equipment.
Each video is edited together automatically from your footage and accompanying voicechat, when you return from each trip to the monster-filled Old World, and you can watch it all on an in-game monitor with a mocked-up comments feed and viewcount. It's a pungent, potted commentary on the machinations of Youtube celebrity and of viral videomaking, with heady notes of "cautionary tale about algorithmic video production" and "cautionary tale about people endangering or hurting themselves being a dependable source of views". Urgh, I can feel an op-ed coming on. In the meantime, here's how the developers - a team of only five - are updating Content Warning following its launch success.
"The last 24h have been a wild ride to say the least, never did we imagine that we would get over 200K concurrent and over 6.2 MILLION owners of the game in 24h - THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!" reads a Steam post. The post also covers the main problems with the game at the time of writing. Take it away Mr Blockquote:
- Issues with voices
- Connection and hosting issues
- Issues with camera footage not extracting
- Issues with camera footage not being visible
The developers plan to roll out some fixes for the above beginning today. They've also been talking a bit about longer-term plans for the game on the Steam forums - it's unconfirmed, but Content Warning might one day get community servers to ensure that it carries on if the developers stop supporting it.
"We don't plan on shutting this game any time soon - don't worry," observed developer Botten Hanna in a Steam thread. "We have contingencies in place for this - for example our other server based game [Totally Accurate Battlegrounds] is still running 6 years on but has community servers available in case we ever need to stop paying for servers (which we do not intend to)."
Don't expect a full-blooded update roadmap, or anything to that effect. This is a small
Landfall’s found footage co-op horror game has had massive success in its first few weeks, and has now reached yet another milestone.
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