Kompete
All-in-one multiplayer game: Blitz Royale, Kart Race, Social Deduction, and more to come! Currently in Early Access. Play now on PC & Android.
Game Loop
The game has 3 modes, blitz royale, karting, and deduction, in this review, I only consider blitz royale.
Before a battle, you can customize your character in the locker room.
As with other games, you can change the appearance of your character, however, in Kompete this changes your player's stats.
For example the shorter they are the quicker they are but their damage recoil is reduced.
Next, you get trait points to spend
These unlock different traits, such as higher jumps and less recoil
Finally, you get to select what additional equipment to take with you, I took a trampoline, a set of stairs, a barrier, and a Bush.
You can also select the skins for the different weapons.
Now that you are all set up you can enter the Blitz Royale.
It is a trios game.
Starting the same as most games in the genre you are in a helicopter that flies you onto the map.
Dropping on your selected point you have a small jet robot to slow your fall
Alternatively, you can just plummet to the ground as there is no fall damage
Landing with only an axe you need to find your gear
This is either just lying on the ground or in loot safes
You get 2 primary weapons, an Axe, dynamite, grenades, and capsules
These capsules are used with your radio to call in your special equipment, like the barrier
As you move around you have a normal jump, which can be boosted with your exo suit to increase your height or change direction in the air
All the guns share the same ammo pool
Some parts of the environment are destructible, so you can smash windows and climb through
Over time the area of the map decreases forcing all players into a smaller area of the map
Taking damage you start with a shield and then into your health.
If you avoid taking damage long enough your health regens.
If your health goes to 0 you are knocked
From this position, you slowly bleed out unless your teammate revives you
If you die and a teammate is still alive, after a redemption period of 30 seconds you land back in on top of them
The victor is the last team standing
The game does have a leveling system and battle pass - both of which give rewards as your progress
Additionally, you can spend dollars to buy the in-game currency which can be used on skins
Game feel
In matchmaking it took 2 minutes to find a game, which isn't too bad, however, it showed a countdown from 8 minutes which made me assume that was the average wait, so maybe that should change as it made the 2 minutes feel longer
Even though it was a trios game I was often matched as a solo or duo, which made the game harder
You can climb walls like Spiderman, while this looked a little weird, it did add a lot more dimensions to the fights
Some of the movement felt a little wonky, but this might have been a skill issue as I did some players moving around very skillfully
The overall player base seemed pretty bad at the game as I got a lot of kills, Which doesn't usually happen.
I encountered some bugs such as people getting stuck under the map or in window frames.
The snipe rifle was also a little underwhelming but most guns felt okay and intuitive for anyone who plays the genre
Spawning in equipment did add some extra depth to the gunplay
As it is only early access there was only 1 relatively small map, which could get a lot of repetitive
For the most part gun fights felt very chaotic rather than strategic
Especially as the map got small, with everyone just spraying everywhere
Rating
Chaotic fun
Okay graphics and animations
Decent gunplay
Additional movement styles
I enjoyed Streaming it and I can see people having fun with the game, however, I'm not sure if it has enough yet to replace your normal battle royale
Recommend worth a try