Wolfenstein Youngblood (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch)

EoinMcLovin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNpgKytPcc4

Releasing July 26th

BJ Blazkowicz has gone missing in Paris, and it’s up to his twin daughters, Jess and Soph, to track him down. Wolfenstein: Youngblood drops you into 80s Nazi-occupied Paris, and for the first time in the series, you’ll be able to explore the world of Wolfenstein and wreck Nazis with a partner.

Jess and Soph Blazkowicz will stop at nothing to find their father, and that includes taking on the Nazi forces in Paris, France. Establish your home base deep in the Parisian Catacombs and tackle missions in any order you want. Team up with a friend or play with an AI companion and obliterate the Nazi regime.
Along with the newly added co-op system, Youngblood features some newly added RPG elements. Explore Paris and take on the Nazis to level up and unlock new abilities, weapon attachments, gadgets, cosmetics and more. You’ll have access to updated and improved New Colossus weapons like the Dieselkraftwerk, Shockhammer (now called the Kugelgewehr), Laserkraftwerk and more, and you’ll also be able to tear through the fascist hordes with a number of new weapons like the iconic Maschinepistole and the devastatingly powerful Elektrokraftwerk.

BUDDY PASS
When you pick up the Wolfenstein: Youngblood Deluxe Edition, you’ll get the Buddy Pass, meaning you can partner up with a friend, even if that friend doesn’t own the game. As long as that friend is playing with you, they’ll be able to download and play Youngblood for free, all thanks to the Buddy Pass. The Buddy Pass can only be provided to one friend at a time, but it can be reused as many times as you want. Those playing using a friend’s Buddy Pass can choose to upgrade to the full game and play on their own or with other players at any time.
In addition to the Buddy Pass, the Deluxe Edition also gets you the Cyborg Skin Pack, a cosmetic pack designed to give you that titanium Terminator look. The Cyborg Skin Pack includes a shiny new skin for the twins’ Power Suits, guns, combat knives and hatchets.

BeerWolf

CO-OP? Cool.

Stone Deaf 4evr

Is this an actual sequel to the other 2 games? loved both of them, the buddy pass idea is great.

bada_bing

Looking forward to the latest installment of this series. Played the last 2 releases of this series on PS4 and it's a great fun action shooter with interesting characters.

EoinMcLovin

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

Is this an actual sequel to the other 2 games? loved both of them, the buddy pass idea is great.

Yep it’s a sequel

Doodah7

Sincerely hope this is better than The New Colossus. Absolutely hated it which was particularly disappointing as I loved the previous games.

kunst nugget

Doodah7 wrote: »

Sincerely hope this is better than The New Colossus. Absolutely hated it which was particularly disappointing as I loved the previous games.

While I didn't hate it, I didn't muster much in the way of excitement for me which was very disappointing. I've no interest in Co-Op games so it all depends on what it would be like to play on your own.

ERG89

Doodah7 wrote: »

Sincerely hope this is better than The New Colossus. Absolutely hated it which was particularly disappointing as I loved the previous games.

Don't like the co-op at all but assume with that taken into consideration there will be less of a focus on stealth which dragged down the New Colossus from what I remember.
Unlike The New Order I have never been tempted to replay it.

GottaGetGatt

80’s synth Music in a Wolfenstein while gunning down Nazis?Yes please $$

Doodah7

My main problems with the New Colossus game were you being hobbled with ‘injuries’ at the start of the game, the ridiculously complicated layout of the submarine and that the enemy soldiers were bullet sponges. Add in the constant respawn of enemies as the commander was hidden away in some obscure corner of the level and it was all just too tedious.

In the end I put it on the easiest level and flew through it just to see the story.

TerrorFirmer

Yeah New Colossus was OK, but nowhere near as good as New Order/Old Blood. I was disappointed, wouldn't say it's a bad game but a weak sequel.

Azza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh9BcbJ2FvM

Nvidia have announced Ray Tracing and Adaptive Shading support for Wolfenstein YoungBlood. Seems like the developers have shifted camps from AMD to Nvidia. The New Colossus ran very well on AMD's Vega cards thanks to its use of Rapid Path Math. The Vega 56 beat the GTX 1080 at 1080p and matched it at 1440p.

I played it on a GTX 970 and while the performance was decent there was quite bad graphically bugs on one level. Apparently it did not play well with Nvidia Pascal generation of GPU's.

Anyway I see this game well have open ended missions in the style of Dishonored which isn't a surprise as Arkane are co-developing it. Fan of the Dishonored games so I'm liking the looks of this. Suspect it might be quite short.

Game is also annoying alot of the right wing types, which means it must be doing something right. They are Moaning about "women characters, ugly women characters, black women and woke agenda running game and killing Nazi's is now no longer fashionable, I dunno its an attack on white people or something....they do seem to be much happier if the game had us killing communists I guess because they keep pointing out communist killed more than the Nazi's :pac:. They also say down with Swedistan!

Mr Crispy

Yeah, looking forward to it. Nice to have some "fun" co-op shooting as well.

Grumpypants

Doodah7 wrote: »

My main problems with the New Colossus game were you being hobbled with ‘injuries’ at the start of the game, the ridiculously complicated layout of the submarine and that the enemy soldiers were bullet sponges. Add in the constant respawn of enemies as the commander was hidden away in some obscure corner of the level and it was all just too tedious.

In the end I put it on the easiest level and flew through it just to see the story.

I spent 70% of my time trying to navigate that submarine. Ridiculously badly laid out.

Retr0gamer

New Colossus plays much better as a stealth game. You're at a severe disadvantage if you go in all guns blazing.

dreamers75

Retr0gamer wrote: »

New Colossus plays much better as a stealth game. You're at a severe disadvantage if you go in all guns blazing.

Yeah but this is a game where you can dual wield assault rifles, I think stealth goes out the window when that becomes an option.

Azza

Your suppose to play stealth until you inevitably f**k it up....that's when you start duel wielding assault rifles.

By biggest gripe with Wolf 2 was that it's level layout was very limited compared to the first one.

I hope they improve on this.

gimli2112

I loved the first one but could never get into the sequels to the same extent for some reason. The story on the 2nd was so far out there it was bizarre.

dreamers75

gimli2112 wrote: »

I loved the first one but could never get into the sequels to the same extent for some reason. The story on the 2nd was so far out there it was bizarre.

uhh which 1st one? Theres 7 or 8 of them nowadays

RTCW is my favourite.

ERG89

dreamers75 wrote:

uhh which 1st one? Theres 7 or 8 of them nowadays

Wolfenstein: The New Order
Significantly better than The New Colossus was.

Azza

dreamers75 wrote: »

uhh which 1st one? Theres 7 or 8 of them nowadays

RTCW is my favourite.

Bit of an exaggeration. There is 3.

Castle Wolfenstein was the first game.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein was a reboot of the series and also a remake of Wolfenstein 3D.
Wolfenstein the New Order was also a reboot.

Sad I never got to play Wolfenstein: ET I hear that was a sick multiplayer FPS.

pixelburp

There was also a fourth reboot, in 2009, just called 'Wolfenstein', wasn't there? Or am I just imagining that

pixelburp

pixelburp wrote: »

There was also a fourth reboot, in 2009, just called 'Wolfenstein', wasn't there? Or am I just imagining that

Correct. Raven software

Fun game too tbf

EoinMcLovin

Timeline of release years
1981 Castle Wolfenstein
1984 Beyond Castle Wolfenstein
1992 Wolfenstein 3D
1993 Wolfenstein 3D: The Spear of Destiny
2001 Return to Castle Wolfenstein
2003 Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
2008 Wolfenstein RPG
2009 Wolfenstein
2014 Wolfenstein: The New Order
2015 Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
2017 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
2019 Wolfenstein: Youngblood

pixelburp

I remember we played that 'overlord' demo of Return to Castle Wolfenstein to death at LANs (showing my age there!). The flame-thrower, at the time one of the first convincing portrayals in games, was pure chaos.

Azza

pixelburp wrote: »

There was also a fourth reboot, in 2009, just called 'Wolfenstein', wasn't there? Or am I just imagining that

Wasn't a reboot it was a direct sequel to Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Retr0gamer

And New Order is a loose sequel to that game as well with returning characters.

Azza

1981 Castle Wolfenstein (2D Stealth game)
1984 Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (sequel to Castle Wolfenstein)
1992 Wolfenstein 3D (FPS inspired by Castle Wolfenstein)
1993 Wolfenstein 3D: The Spear of Destiny (prequel to Wolfenstein 3D, the lost missions expansion also link the game to the Doom universe)
2001 Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Reboot and Remake of Wolfenstein 3D)
2003 Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (Free to play multiplayer standalone expansion to RTCW)
2008 Wolfenstein RPG (RPG Spin off incorporating plot elements from RTCW and Spear of Destiny, also links the series to Doom 1-3)
2009 Wolfenstein (Sequel to Return to Castle Wolfenstein)
2014 Wolfenstein: The New Order (Reboot and partial sequel to Wolfenstein)
2015 Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (Prequel to the New Order, and partial remake of RTCW)
2017 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Sequel to the New Order)
2019 Wolfenstein: Youngblood (Spin off sequel to the New Colossus)

Simples really! :pac:

EoinMcLovin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6K_ZzMWTTo

DeadlyByDesign

I hope they fix the feeling of aiming. Aiming system as a whole always felt "off" to me, hard to explain. I binged The New Order and The New Collossus over 2 weekends. Absolutely loved them.

Oh and can we all just remember this emotional gut punch of an ending and song from the New Order?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLk32iSnV7g

EoinMcLovin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFCDxlLxVzc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsvkW30VKyQ

Azza

Microtransactions confirmed but for cosmetics only.

https://www.pcgamer.com/wolfenstein-youngblood-has-microtransactions-but-only-for-cosmetics/

martingriff

Just went in to preorder my copy (Yes I know I should never preorder but will be gone when it come out and my friend will collect it. €40 for the Deluxe edition. I thought this was a full game or am I missing something.

Azza

From what I've read of this game at is sounded more like an expansion pack sized add on than a full game hence the lower price €29.99 for the standard edition of the game.

But the developers have come out and said its the largest Wolfenstein they have ever made. Might be something to do with the fact that the gameplay is now open ended.

What format did you pre-order it on, the deluxe edition can be got on PC for €34 over on Green man gaming.

martingriff

Azza wrote: »

From what I've read of this game at is sounded more like an expansion pack sized add on than a full game hence the lower price €29.99 for the standard edition of the game.

But the developers have come out and said its the largest Wolfenstein they have ever made. Might be something to do with the fact that the gameplay is now open ended.

What format did you pre-order it on, the deluxe edition can be got on PC for €34 over on Green man gaming.

The Ps4 edition

EoinMcLovin

Out this Friday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjwo5EJxn9E

Reviews are out, 7/10 seems to be the average. I'd say this will be €10 by Christmas

Doodah7

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Reviews are out, 7/10 seems to be the average. I'd say this will be €10 by Christmas

Wolfenstein games are always, ALWAYS discounted within a couple of months of release.

kunst nugget

Doodah7 wrote: »

Wolfenstein games are always, ALWAYS discounted within a couple of months of release.

The New Colossus took a long time to go down in price iircn - don't think it's ever gone below €25 on the PS Store.

dreamers75

SP only games are always going to plummet in price.

On the fence with this now

Mr Crispy

Admittedly I've only skim-read a few reviews, but the impression I'm getting is that the 7/10 scores are for SP, but it is a much better game played co-op with a buddy (not that 7/10 is a bad score, but yeah, that's already been done to death)?

Robert ninja

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

(not that 7/10 is a bad score, but yeah, that's already been done to death)?

Well by their own standards it actually is a bad rating because the rating system is retarded: https://youtu.be/r1humObzdVA

It's clearly marketed as a coop experience primary. Not sure why folks were expecting it to be stellar as SP only.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

It's clearly marketed as a coop experience primary. Not sure why folks were expecting it to be stellar as SP only.

Tbf it's been marketed as fúck all which seems to be coming back to bite them now.

pixelburp

The marketing seemed too keen to jam its trailers with neon glitches and synth dance tracks, what with the 80s being very in n all; would have helped including some actual sense of the game.

johnny_ultimate

I’m always super cautious when a game is “best in co-op”, because many games, even bad ones, are better in co-op. Having the craic with a friend will naturally elevate otherwise underwhelming experiences. Now obviously games designed around co-op play are often great! But especially in shooters it can be used to plaster over what’s otherwise a ho-hum experience.

Not too keen on this game anyway, really thought the last one was a pretty weak effort that didn’t maintain or build on what worked in its predecessor (which was only solid in the first place). Felt like the developers felt the need to ‘iterate’ without having a clear idea how to do it. Never did get to the end so maybe it improved (and definitely didn’t get as far as the levels flagged as highlights), but there were a lot of annoyances to push through in the stages I played through.

Again two lead characters both fighting together in every trailer and the screens clearly indicate this.

It was built around coop. It's not an afterthought.

OptimusTractor

Do not, I repeat, do not buy this game to play single player. The AI controlled ally is awful. Hold on to your money lads.

gimli2112

saw a video that eviscerated this on youtube, the kind of review that makes you think twice even if it pops up for free
co-op AI was probably the biggest gripe but there were many

ERG89

gimli2112 wrote: »

saw a video that eviscerated this on youtube, the kind of review that makes you think twice even if it pops up for free
co-op AI was probably the biggest gripe but there were many

It looks like everything you shouldn't do they done. Enemies with levels, an open world so you can recycle the same areas, no fuel wielding, bulletsponge enemies with 2 separate shield types & microtransactions for weapon skins only for now but they'll eventually introduce more.