Dr Disrespect game gets paid-for demo and it’s just a firing range
Gameplay footage of Dr Disrespect’s multiplayer game is making the rounds and it’s underwhelming for a supposed Call Of Duty rival.
Although he remains a popular Internet personality, Dr Disrespect (real name: Herschel Beahm IV) announced he would be entering the world of game development last year with his own studio, Midnight Society.
His first game, a vertical extraction shooter called Deadrop, is now playable via a private demo. Although maybe demo isn’t the right word since it doesn’t seem to demonstrate how the game actually works.
Footage of the first gameplay ‘snapshot’, as it’s called, is being shared online and it consists entirely of a simple firing range, plus a small outside area that shows off what the city setting looks like.
There doesn’t even appear to be any multiplayer functions, despite Deadrop being a multiplayer-centric game. All you do is shoot guns at stationary targets.
It’s worth noting that this is an early build of the game and it’s obviously nowhere near finished. However, it’s a surprisingly lacklustre first showing for a game Dr Disrespect has hyped up as being better than the next Call Of Duty even at such an early stage of development.
‘I could take a screenshot of our game right now, in-engine, and I don’t think anything from there could match that screenshot,’ he claimed only last month. A bold statement and one this snapshot doesn’t exactly back up.
Not to mention this is a paid demo. Midnight Society has provided access only to those who paid for a Founders Pass, one that’s priced at $50 (about £41).
The pass does include other benefits, such as early access to future builds, and its purpose is to routinely receive feedback from players. It’s no different to what EA is doing with the new
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