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 Alliance of Valiant Arms: Global is a free-to-play Korean FPS game originally released by Red Duck Inc. in 2009 for PC worldwide and earlier if you lived in South Korea. The game changed hands several times, bouncing between various publishers until finally being shutdown in 2018. But now the game rises from the ashes to join the renaissance of the F2P shooter era alongside games like CS:GO, Valorant, Black Squad, Rogue Company, Crossfire and its new sequel CrossfireX, Combat Arms, and.....jesus, there's a ton of these loving things. AVA is a Counter-Strike style game with a little bit of Call of Duty mixed in and actually has some decent gunplay imo. It's a little less floaty and arcadey than Combat Arms, and it benefits from a newer engine that plays nicer on modern machines than the OG titan of F2P shooter games, Crossfire. It's a quick and easy lightweight FPS that will run on pretty much any computer hardware you can fit the 19GB install on, and is actually a pretty great way to jump into a quick match when you only have a few minutes to spare. Currently AVA has 15 maps spread across the following gamemodes: Demolition - this is your bomb defusal mode, basically identical to Counter-Strike/Crossfire's default mode Annihilation - regular old team deathmatch, no friendly fire Breach - sort of like TF2's Payload maps, one team must escort a tank across the map to a target location The content offering at re-launch is.....kinda dire to be honest. It's missing a large portion of the maps and a handful of popular gamemodes from the original, and only supports matchmaking whereas in the olden times there was a full server browser with custom lobby support. They say it's all coming in future patches, so flip a coin as to whether or not most of it actually makes it back into the game. Who cares. Isn't AVA one of those insanely pay-2-win games? The original AVA was horrifically P2W, with the best guns and attachments locked behind paid bundles and premium currency. Sure, you could rent those guns with standard currency by playing the games, but only for 1 or 3 days at a time, and the price of rental was unbelievably steep. The good news is that P2W elements have been almost completely removed from the re-release - every single base gun, pistol, and grenade is available from the standard currency shop, with new weapons and skins being unlockable from the battle pass system. Because of course it has a battle pass, they didn't get rid of the P2W elements for nothing! At least all of the new weapons are unlockable in the free tier at the same levels as in the premium tier, so you've got to grind them out whether you cough up some cash or not. Let's see some gameplay footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glPzOPytgPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ZDBnTT_1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ijT_rYmB8U The current iteration of AVA is being developed and run by NEOWIZ, a South Korean company who most recently worked on the latest DJMAX game and are known for such legendary titles such as "Dizzel" and "London 2012: The Official Mobile Game". I have cautious faith in their leadership not to run this game straight into the ground like the last one. You can download the game from Steam right now. It supports solo matchmaking and squad matchmaking up to a party of 5. I don't actually expect anybody to be playing this but if you decide to give it a shot, there is a goon clan under the name "SA Goons" available to join. Let's play this kinda bad FPS and own some noobs
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