Paladins

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7.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 495 Ratings

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  1. EmilCioran
    Jul 23, 2020
    0
    I've been playing this game since early Closed Beta.
    Nothing has changed since the, it's still filled with bugs, bad balancing.

    This used to be an exciting game, now it just feels like a major cash grab. Skins everywhere.

    I can't recommend this in 2020
  2. PlushyKitten
    Aug 14, 2018
    0
    Here's my personal experience with "Hi-Rez Studios" and "Easy Anti-Cheat" and "Paladins" as a whole. I first joined the game a few days ago after getting a little bored of Overwatch and as I progressively played and unlocked some content with my decent aim from all my experience in games like this one... I proceeded to buy around $82.00 worth of extra content however from this moment onHere's my personal experience with "Hi-Rez Studios" and "Easy Anti-Cheat" and "Paladins" as a whole. I first joined the game a few days ago after getting a little bored of Overwatch and as I progressively played and unlocked some content with my decent aim from all my experience in games like this one... I proceeded to buy around $82.00 worth of extra content however from this moment on was down hill. After spending a lot of hard earned money on this game I wanted to show off my new content in training mode with fellow players in which we all face AI bots. I had a really good round I was having a blast but my Bluetooth Xbox One remote (The one I use for most the games I play on PC) started to die and usually when that happens while playing any game on my system it causes a memory leak or some kind of heavy glitch that takes down my FPS and crashes the game till my batteries are replaced. Long story short the game crashed after my controller died well I thought no biggie I'll just re-log like I do every time my controller crashes a game... well I re-log and come back to a big fat banned screen their anti-cheat had detected the glitch as a cheat and banned me right as it happened! I was not upset right off the bat however I was instantly concerned about my account and sent in a support ticket explaining what happened, after a few days they hit me back with some generic message almost auto like response explaining how I cheated and I was banned for breaking the rules. I was very frustrated at this point because they not only sent me a generic response but they also flat out ignored my concerns with what was going on. I thought okay I will try to find another way to contact them so I headed to the Paladins Reddit Discord server and contacted a few employees only to be told to send in another support ticket... I went ahead and filed another support ticket with Hi-Rez and got the same automated message saying I was banned for cheating. I continued to search for one last bit of hope so I had a private discussion with a Hi-Rez Steam Discussions admin, who had validated mine and others concerns with this games anti-cheat and told me to send in a support ticket. I sent in this final ticket explaining yet again what happened and got the same exact generic automated response. I never cheated. This is a honest review of my experience with Paladins and this company, This is also not a public ban appeal discussion I'm not trying to get un-banned anymore however I would suggest you switch to Steams anti-cheat system because others all over the web are expressing the same issues with "Easy Anti-Cheat".… Expand
  3. MuffinChicks
    Jul 7, 2019
    0
    Worse game ever created, developers don't listen to their customers (players). They are destroying the game with their own hands. I don't recommend this game to anyone. I have spent 2.5 years in this game, with the hope it will be changed somehow, but it is dying and developers don't care at all.
  4. fasackonia7
    Jun 7, 2019
    0
    this game is **** up and should be stilll be a beta it has alot of bugs not getting fixed no with every update even more bugs come
  5. Outcasts
    Aug 11, 2018
    1
    THX Hirez you killed game for CIS. Realy nice X2 price. When your`s servers unstable, useless and garbage MM you doubled gems price.
    F6 Hirez!!!
  6. 2K13Reviwer
    Jul 7, 2018
    0
    There are people in here telling you that the game is not pay to win. That is extremely misleading. You have to pay for individual "champions". You can use in-game currency but like other games with a similar formula, the currency is slow in coming. Don't fall for it. Just buy Overwatch. It's cheaper and you get 100% of the game.
  7. Antidote4
    Jul 22, 2018
    2
    The newest knock-off game by Hirez. Now hero shooters are the new big thing and here's Hirez to capitalize on the hype by making another copy of a game already from the genre.

    What you expect to find is what you get. A mediocre copy from a mediocre studio. Hopefully they don't give up on smite, the only thing they have really going for them.
  8. dkah7777
    Oct 11, 2018
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great movie!!! I saw the movie yesterday and for me it's a 10/10, good story, entertaining and with good fighting moments. I do not understand the critics. I look forward to a second part!!(no)… Expand
  9. starvid1
    Aug 16, 2018
    0
    There are people in here telling you that the game is not pay to win. That is extremely misleading. You have to pay for individual "champions". You can use in-game currency but like other games with a similar formula, the currency is slow in coming. Don't fall for it. Just buy Overwatch. It's cheaper and you get 100% of the game.
  10. mgundas
    Dec 18, 2018
    0
    Worst, most imbalanced game ever. There's no quality content. They are adding new skins in every patch instead of fixing bugs. There's something called burst meta which makes the game worse then it supposed to be.
  11. Alex0001
    Jun 1, 2018
    0
    жалкая породия на овервотч сама не знает что хочет одинаковые персонажи неитереснеый гимплей карты размером с 1 в питере
  12. CAount
    Jun 2, 2018
    0
    One of the worse multiplayer game for pc.
    Copy paste from overwatch and nothing more.
  13. LuckySanta
    Nov 26, 2018
    0
    one of the worse multiplayer game for pc.
    just clone of overwatch and nothing more
  14. Veerfarkas
    Dec 14, 2019
    0
    Worst matchmaking ever made. No bugfixes, only new skins. Population never growing this way. In one year the game dies. Hi-rez CEO shold sell his company as soon as possible.
  15. Siggy88
    Mar 7, 2019
    3
    +0- A F2P hero shooter in dev since ~2013 and went into openBeta ~2016. It was inspired by Valve's TeamFortress and in turn inspired Blizzard's Overwatch. -0+

    Important to note that for the last 2 years the quality of content, community management and service over all have been steadily getting worse. The devs keep changing their mind and seem to have no long term plan. What was until    +0- A F2P hero shooter in dev since ~2013 and went into openBeta ~2016. It was inspired by Valve's TeamFortress and in turn inspired Blizzard's Overwatch. -0+

    Important to note that for the last 2 years the quality of content, community management and service over all have been steadily getting worse. The devs keep changing their mind and seem to have no long term plan.
    What was until recently a promising product is now little more than a sinking ship. My personal hypothesis is that the game is now a side project only kept alive to finance another yet unannounced project. No surprise the number of active players, which never was really large, keeps getting lower.

    ++ Good ++
    + You start a game by selecting a legendary card (out of 3 for each hero) and a hand of cards (out of 20 cards for each champ). They change stats, behavior of your weapon or the functionality of some moves. They allow for varied playstyles and flexibility.
    + Good hero roster with many original concepts (and a few less original...) for a total of 40 heroes, most of which having 2 to 4 alts
    + Alts have all of their voice lines rewritten and voiced by a new voice actor!

    00 Meh... 00
    0 ok BGM, nothing too fancy and the handful of tracks running in repeat will get old quickly
    0 Too few game modes. One payload mode and two variations of death match.
    0 Seems they have run out of ideas for heroes, sadly. The last 3 released have been:
    1/ an angel with a gunsword (she cannot fly and the gunsword can't be used as a sword, go figure)
    2/ a Kakashi Hatake clone with an attitude, unbalanced
    3/ a pirate with a grenade launcher, braindead gameplay

    -- Bad --
    - Broken to the point of making the likes of FallOut 76 look like marvels of engineering. The reason why so few people make fun of Paladins compared to FO76 is probably its low visibility.
    - Every single sub-system of this game has MANY BUGS, many of which are game breaking and a lot of them having been present for several months
    - Too little content after so many years. Worse, they took the decision to remove one of the modes last year (payload) for no reason, reducing the amount of content even further.
    - Catastrophic hit detection. Absolutely unacceptable for a shooter.
    - The last map, added several weeks ago, still has multiple collision issues, broken textures, poor lighting in places...
    - Relatively frequent crashes on all platforms, they also reset your keybindings every time if you manage to restart in time to join your game
    - After so many years, you would expect the bots (which replace players AFK or dropped) to at least be able to leave spawn and shoot in the direction of the enemy. Sadly it is not the case, 90% of the time, bots will just get stuck in door frames or run in circle... Wish this was a joke...
    - The economics of the game have changed at least 3 times over the last few years and are still broken. All players have ridiculous amounts of gold and there are no gold sinks. To "fix" this, devs have added the possibility to PURCHASE LEVELS with gold. Now levels mean nothing, great idea, guys!
    - Matchmaking has been catastrophic for most of the game's existence and players have been complaining about it. What did the devs do? They removed the colored frame that indicates your team mates rank, so you can't tell any more if the MM is bad or not. Classy.
    - No more bans for bad behavior? If a user is punished after you reported him, you get a notification. But for the last few months, it seems not even death threats can get you ban...

    /
    A quick selection of bugs, just to give you an idea how broken this game is. At this point, this is shameful. Evil Mojo do NOT give a duck about their game and this needs to be remember. To be fair, I'm only listing bugs that happen frequently and have been present for SEVERAL MONTHS at this point:
    - broken BGM, SFX (including footsteps and some attacks), voiceFX (triggering for no reason, randomly quieter or louder, etc...)
    - broken "grab" moves either don't grab the opponent or on rare occasions send them flying indefinitely
    - broken GUI (score not updating...) and menus
    - broken ragdoll and random flying corpses
    - broken death cam, team cam, "play of the game" cam, snipers' scope cam
    - random MM glitches, disconnects and crashes that will give you a 30 min ban
    - IG lag indicator always gives a ping of 15, no matter what.
    - keybindings reset after every crash
    - some moves have out of sync SFX, VFX and actual effect. Making it unfairly hard to fight, as some moves lack any feedback audio or visual.
    - 2 heroes keep shouting the same line for no reason
    - a visual "link" appearing between two players of opposing team, making it possible to see where the other player is anywhere on the map
    - 2 of the tanks currently plagued by multiple bugs making them basically unplayable (picking them is not far from losing on purpose). It was confirmed they will not be fixed in next update    … Expand
  16. sraudbagg
    Mar 24, 2019
    1
    слушайте вы блять я сука настока заебался лять я нахуй через вашу игру не могу сменить аккаунт а каком балансе абновах идёт речь блять если я не могу даже акк сменить и не тока я мой кент тоже так что 1 балл
  17. BullseyeUS
    Mar 19, 2020
    0
    I've had enough of this game. The servers are laggy and inconsistent, as well as a buggy-ass game.
    And as a company, I recently discovered they are thieves that snoop and steal files from your computer, which is another story. [They replicated a couple of my music instrumental productions for their content]
    I was banned for lagging one time, I carry as 1st place 90% of my matches at    I've had enough of this game. The servers are laggy and inconsistent, as well as a buggy-ass game.
    And as a company, I recently discovered they are thieves that snoop and steal files from your computer, which is another story. [They replicated a couple of my music instrumental productions for their content]
    I was banned for lagging one time, I carry as 1st place 90% of my matches at minimum compared to my team and even others, yet I still get the most garbage players that cause me to lose.
    On top of that people always got some crap to talk no matter what and they dont get banned because I still see them around.
    Low-Rez as I should refer to them, don't place good players in ranks they deserve and it clearly shows that it don't heckin matter how good of a player you are. This game is a lousy piece of **** that will make you pull the hairs out your head. Lastly, I just got banned for 3 days and I literally have no understanding as to why. I try to be kind to players and I play very well and then this happens. IM SO DONE!
    [+1,200 hrs played!]    … Expand
  18. Mazma
    Dec 25, 2020
    2
    Hey guarda Overwatch ha avuto successo! Copiamolo, cambiamo qualche meccanica e rendiamolo gratuito infestato da skin e stronzate. Ottimo per spendere soldi, pessimo per giocare.
  19. Mockinleafs
    Jul 10, 2022
    4
    The game looks good , at first glance. It looks like it has variety through the heroes with the card(spec trees) etc and you can actually get all the heroes or almost just by farming the game, you do not actually have to pay to win.
    On the good side, the game has some nice ideas, the mount system is fun, the rounds are not long nor short(sometimes). The graphics are Ok-ish at best.(well,    The game looks good , at first glance. It looks like it has variety through the heroes with the card(spec trees) etc and you can actually get all the heroes or almost just by farming the game, you do not actually have to pay to win.
    On the good side, the game has some nice ideas, the mount system is fun, the rounds are not long nor short(sometimes). The graphics are Ok-ish at best.(well, it is a free game).

    The bad things : Server HUGE lags, game stuck at loading screens, people stuck in spawn not being able to move.
    Too many afkers and bots (?)
    Even worse things for a shooter : the hitboxes are ridiculous ,huge and misleading on many heroes.
    Whole movement seems clunky and not solid at all, there is some slight input lag , it feels like its in the game.
    It could be very good , but it needs money.
    OW 2 is copying a lot of things from this, but better, because of the obvious budget differences.    … Expand
  20. Garybaldo
    Mar 23, 2021
    0
    Not only is this game bland, unbalanced, pay-to-win and boring, it also ensemblifies everything that the average ""gamer"" does not want in the video-game industry, including (but not limited to):
    *Blatant rip-off, garbage gameplay which shamelessly copies and pastes something that had its own success (not only a blatant Overwatch rip-off but it also announced its brand new Battle Royale    Not only is this game bland, unbalanced, pay-to-win and boring, it also ensemblifies everything that the average ""gamer"" does not want in the video-game industry, including (but not limited to):
    *Blatant rip-off, garbage gameplay which shamelessly copies and pastes something that had its own success (not only a blatant Overwatch rip-off but it also announced its brand new Battle Royale gameplay when Forntnite and Pubg were having their boom)
    *Treating video-games as if they were a banal product, look, I get some kind of capitalistic business practices if you're producing regular goods, but by riding into trends and trying to get money out of every single aspect of anything, at the point of making the game p2w, are practices that should be frowned upon and bashed within the video-game community, yet we accept pieces of **** like this game
    *Mind-blowingly sexualized female characters without any purpose, lore-justification, or objective whatsoever

    I think what annoys me the most about this game is the community approval it recieved, "games" like this should not exist, if we don't make this clear as a community **** like this will keep on being released and the market will overflow with nefarious products of this kind, the true decadence of the gaming industry.    … Expand
  21. wdotcom
    May 24, 2020
    0
    This is honestly legitimately an overwatch rip-off. People who may try do defend this game, but in the end it is just a ripoff. Taking a few concepts from another game is fine but not to the extent of paladins. If u want to play paladins, play overwatch. Legit just paladins but better. "but paladins has a card system which makes ur characters different!" cards make the game unbalanced,This is honestly legitimately an overwatch rip-off. People who may try do defend this game, but in the end it is just a ripoff. Taking a few concepts from another game is fine but not to the extent of paladins. If u want to play paladins, play overwatch. Legit just paladins but better. "but paladins has a card system which makes ur characters different!" cards make the game unbalanced, ever heard of battlefront 2? "you either have the... cards that make you win, or you have nothing and you suck dick. The upgrades very literally make you better at the game" -videogamedunkey 2017 when referring to battlefront 2's star card system.… Expand
  22. unknownfandomz
    Sep 27, 2019
    4
    The new patch is amazing and it's really fun, you can get free chests, icons, and sprays on a first win. That's just awesome!! Keep up the amazing work!!!
  23. Xaninuax
    Mar 4, 2020
    1
    One day ago this game was a perfect rating for me. This newest update ruined the entire game and I do not recommend getting the game right now if you haven't yet. Wait for them to fix it or just don't get it at all.
  24. toshibg
    Jun 9, 2020
    1
    Said from a person with 1000+ hours on this game, Paladins is a good concept executed badly.
  25. TopTenGames
    Jun 13, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Paladins in Depth Review
    Paladins review

    Gameplay section

    Paladins is a competitive team-based shooter game. It is nothing like Halo, Fortnite or Valorant because it's a game that works in many ways. There is a selection of game modes to play in. One is a team deathmatch mode and there's also an onslaught mode and a Seige mode team. Deathmatch is focused on eliminating other players and the first team to 40 eliminations wins.
    in the onslaught mode,
    There is a zone that your team has to stand in. The longer you stand in the zone, the more points you get. The first team to 400 wins. Finally, the way siege mode works is this -at first there is a zone, the same as onslaught, but once you capture the zone with 50 points then it spawns a cart with fireworks in it and a zone around it you have to push the payload to the oppositions' frontline base area.
    The first team to get 4 points wins the match. You can choose a champion and there are different heroes to choose from. Each hero has a class, either support frontline, flank or damage.
    Support are pretty much medics that can deal damage and heal. Your team frontline is a champion with a load of armour and health, so will take a lot of damage, but can do a fair bit of damage too. The flank class is kind of a stealthy assassin so you will have to learn teamwork skills to win.
    A champion that is in damage class is quite vulnerable, but packs a punch on foot can eliminate a frontline fast. To succeed in this great game you will have to have teamwork skills, otherwise your team is useless. The controls are easy to pick up and play straight away!
    Ranked Seige mode is competitive, fast and frantic you get placed in a league - first Qualifying, then Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond and finally Grandmaster.
    It automatically grades you in a league and the ratio of how many matches you win and how many you lose.

    Language section

    One of the champions Evie says in a voice pack "Give them hell" and Ash, a frontline champion, says "I'm leading this vanguard. So if any of you F***ers have anything to say, now is the time." fortunately Ashes swear is bleeped you can just hear the letter f come out of her mouth so you can tell it's explicit and there is a voice chat that doesn't
    work if your account is set under 15 years of age ,so it's locked.

    In conclusion, I think this game shows great teamwork, medium violence and great fast gameplay, so I would recommend an age of something around 8 or lower. Therefore, I reckon that it shows great teamwork and positive messages. The language is easy to handle because if you don't play the game with volume when you are playing as the hero Ash -then it is fine!!

    The End

    Rating of 86%
    ages 8+
    Top ten Games!!    … Expand
  26. LoikMyName
    Apr 19, 2021
    0
    The matchmaking is terrible
    just **** **** it couldn't be worse, **** stupid ****
  27. RichardTonders
    Sep 23, 2020
    0
    This should be a pay to play game and by that I mean they should pay people to play it. It is that bad. I played it for free and I still want my money back. Do not waste your time on this.
  28. kaczan3
    Oct 23, 2022
    0
    This game used to be good and it was made with FUN in mind. But then company had to make bad hires and slowly they sturted pumping out predictable politics. Not as bas as another game by this publisher (already dead) Rogue Squadron, but still.
  29. DanaBoss
    Nov 21, 2020
    1
    The community in the LATAN server is very toxic, it's impossible to play this game.
  30. KyFour
    Dec 17, 2020
    3
    the game used to be good but since 2018 with the game breaking bugs, chaos of a matchmaking in ranked (example: i was in Gold II but my opponents are always Diamonds and Plats while my teammates are Bronze and Silvers like wtf?), unbalanced roster, and most of all the uncaring developers. why bother spend money for every battlepass? the amount of money the players spent for the battle passthe game used to be good but since 2018 with the game breaking bugs, chaos of a matchmaking in ranked (example: i was in Gold II but my opponents are always Diamonds and Plats while my teammates are Bronze and Silvers like wtf?), unbalanced roster, and most of all the uncaring developers. why bother spend money for every battlepass? the amount of money the players spent for the battle pass is literally more than enough to buy Overwatch. Overwatch right now is in it's best shape since 2017, the roster is balanced, little bugs, matchmaking in Comp is nice and the best one is that Blizzard cares for it very much, they listen to the player's feedback, they always try their best with balancing now and try to not make power creeps like before, although the anti cheat system is a bit crap. Meanwhile Hi-Rez is using Paladins as a cash grab game. They never cared for the game, they never fix any game breaking bugs, their balancing is absolute garbage, they only focuses on making cosmetics and female champions for looks, and worst of all is that the players still sucks the Devs's dicks and won't stop! I mean being loyal is fine, but the Developers are literally sucking the money out of the players like mosquitos sucks blood from humans. i- i- i just can't. I quit back in 2018 but came back and nothing changed. the way Hi-Rez fixes the game is the same as putting a band-aid on a broken arm and they still get money from the players. just buy Overwatch, like seriously just do it.… Expand
  31. gamersfan
    Nov 12, 2021
    0
    I've been playing this game since early Closed Beta.
    Nothing has changed since the, it's still filled with bugs, bad balancing.

    This used to be an exciting game, now it just feels like a major cash grab. Skins everywhere.

    I can't recommend this in 2021
  32. RubyYuWen
    May 24, 2021
    0
    get banned with no reason, what I experienced just like the most helpful review, the game shut down and I get banned, to be honestly, EAC is so terrible( I mean F you know)
  33. MortySmith
    Jul 13, 2021
    0
    I love it! The gunfights are fast, every champion feels unique and awesome and this for free? OMG!

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. CD-Action
    Sep 27, 2018
    80
    A solid, enjoyable hero shooter, varied and polished. Yes, it does have a lot of Overwatch DNA, but in some areas it’s more advanced than Blizzard’s game (e.g. wide range of adjustments you can make to adapt your character to your playing style) and it’s free. [08/2018, p.62]
  2. Vandal
    Jun 1, 2018
    81
    Paladins is a very solid hero shooter, with a great core gameplay and very good ideas. You can try it for free and its business model is not abusive at all, so we recommend you give it a try.
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  3. Areajugones
    May 31, 2018
    88
    Paladins shouldn’t be seen just as the free alternative to Overwatch but, instead, should be praised as one of the best multiplayers nowadays. A great and addictive game that will surely entertain every kind of player thanks to its accessibility and well-developed mechanics.
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