Oops, they did it once more. Fall Guys, Mediatonic’s bubbly platformer royale, launched on Xbox and Change yesterday as a part of a giant free-to-play overhaul. The sport’s servers instantly combusted, with experiences of connectivity woes persevering with greater than 24 hours later.
First launched for PlayStation and PC in August 2020, Fall Guys was one of many breakout video games of the lockdown-era pandemic. You need to bear in mind, life actually sucked again then (okay, in covid phrases, it nonetheless sucks). For a second, Fall Guys brightened up some darkish instances, its chaotic vibes and bite-sized 60-player minigames—to not point out a flip as the month-to-month “free” recreation from PS Plus, and a Twitch-based advertising and marketing marketing campaign—serving to propel it to large recognition.
In March 2021, Epic Video games acquired Mediatonic outright. A part of that deal meant shifting Fall Guys off the Steam storefront and onto Epic’s proprietary recreation launcher. (Fall Guys is now not on the market on Steam.) However one other half meant pivoting the sport to a free-to-play mannequin, adopting an strategy much like Rocket League, whose developer, Psyonix, was scooped up by Epic in 2019.
That free-to-play rollout occurred yesterday, as a part of Fall Guys’s sixth season, aptly titled “Free For All.” Gamers instantly reported bother truly enjoying. Just like the social media feeds of the sport they tried (and failed) to play, a lot of these experiences took the form of memes.
At 10:02 a.m. ET, the official Fall Guys Twitter account acknowledged the woes, adopted by a second acknowledgement 50 minutes later. It then switched again to enterprise as traditional, firing off tweets about cake, in-game cosmetics, and the unsettling proven fact that Fall Guys’ titular fall guys are six toes tall. The sport’s official feed has not mentioned whether or not or not Mediatonic considers the problem resolved.
Gamers positive don’t. On social media, some say they’ve to sit down by way of lengthy waits to get right into a match, or should constantly reset to play. Others say they will’t get into video games in any respect. Mediatonic has not offered a timeline for a repair. It’s, as with many on-line recreation launches, a large number. The one distinction between this and, say, Outriders is that Fall Guys has already been out for nearly two years.
When reached for remark, representatives for Mediatonic forwarded Kotaku to Epic. Representatives for Epic didn’t reply in time for publication.
This isn’t the one time Fall Guys has been hobbled by severe server failures. In 2020, Mediatonic constructed up a ton of pre-release buzz by granting early entry to Twitch streamers and their huge fan bases. When the sport launched, a reported 120,000 players tried to play directly. The servers sputtered. What’s that saying about time and flat circles?
