Grave/digger

Game overview

During an alternate timeline of WW1, a major conflict resulted in 2 sides forming. The Royal nation, and The Golden Empire. Eventually the conflict escalated until the first bombs were dropped. The war raged on until the entirety of the surface was deemed completely inhospitable. Thus humanity went underground, but the war did not rest.

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Grave/digger is a Roblox, PvP, Team based, Battlefield style shooter with a hard emphasis on teamwork and a focus on slower, more deliberate and considerate gunplay, it takes place underground, and has a mining system similar to Deeprock Galactic

The goal is to capture and hold the objectives for as long as your team can, and then force the enemy team back into their base to wipe them out, by making them run out of reinforcements and then killing the survivors

Choose between 7 classes and a wide variety of old-timey weapons and perks to make your own playstyle, whether it be an old fashioned sniper playstyle, or stimulant-fueled trench charging.

There are currently 2 game modes that being Capture and Assault. Capture is the default game mode, both teams spawn in their respective bases and after a short grace period, are free to go out to the battlefield and dig to the objectives, whichever team is better at holding the points longer will drain the enemy team of their reinforcements. Once one of the teams run out of reinforcements, they will be forced to retreat and hold their positions in their base, and attempt to hold off the winning team from wiping out the survivors.

Assault puts a twist on this concept and selects one of the teams to already have the objectives and then tasks the attacking team to take the objectives from the enemy before they run out of reinforcements 

My first impressions

When I first saw this game blind for the first time, my thoughts were: "hmm Grave/digger? I haven't heard of that one, judging by the title maybe it's another zombie shooter like guts and blackpowder" and oh boy was I dead wrong, I was expecting a zombie shooter but there I was, completely immersed in the tunnels, fighting for a flag I didn't know yet still I was stalwart while doing it. When I say that this game is immersive I mean it, everything from the realistic death screams to the music (well except the default roblox r6 models) I loved every second of it. I was larping and giving commands and saying in chat things like "SHOW THEM WE ARE GODS CHOSEN FIGHTERS!" And other people were doing it too! 

Critiques

The guns felt kind of underpowered at first but you get used to it. The "hellion" automatic shotgun is also extremely annoying to go against, the fact that it works at mid range is super annoying, and having teammates that just *walk* into enemy fire with no backup or plan can also be annoying but that's kinda expected in teambased shooters. Other than that I don't have that many thing I don't like about the game, it's hard to make critiques on a game that's still In its beta phase.

Summary

Overall it's a pretty good game that's still in its early stages that has great potential but held back by roblox's horrible catalogue and algorithm that only shows games that make tons of money on the front page and the developers insistence on making their game have zero monetization (and also the automatic shotgun).

I highly recommend this game if your a fan of shooters and immersive gameplay.

And that marks the end of this review! Thank you for reading (whoever does end up somehow finding this) and I will see you later.