DubWars

Game quit running on me...

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I got this game about 2 years ago in 2022 and when I got it, it didn't work at the time. Thankfully someone found a fix around that problem and now I am able to play it. I've known about this game since the kickstarter and I only played the demo once a long time ago. Since then I've been wanting to play this game for the longest time but couldn't because I didn't own a computer or laptop at the time. So when I did finally get a computer, I got this game back in 2022, when I got it I was disappointed that it didn't work at that time. Now that it works and I've been able to finally play the game I can confidently say that this is one of my favorite games of all time. It's a shame that the game is no longer being developed because I see a lot of potential in it. I love the concept, it reminds me of a game called Asteroids but with Dubstep music and I love that the game goes with the music. The only thing that I wish was added to the game was to give the ability to players to mod/create their own levels and mod their own enemies and ships. I think allowing players to do this would've kept the game going. I hope that one day there will be a Dub Wars 2 or that this game continues to be worked on at some point. As an EDM/Dubstep Artist myself, I would've loved to be in a game like this and I think others would as well. As of writing this, I've only played the game for 2 days but I will continue to play it for a long time. For those of you who read this far, try the game for yourself and if you have, I hope you like it as much as I do.

The game wont even start up anymore. Sad i actually really enjoyed playing this game in the past. I wanted to show a friend it and it wont start. It honestly shouldnt even be able to be sold if this is how it is.

Game doesn't launch when i hit play. Is there any way to play this on new systems?

I have to give the creators credit for a really one-of-a-kind game concept. I saw the Penny Arcade review of this game years ago and couldn't quite get it out of my head. I finally picked it up last month and it's a great pick up and play game for when you want to unwind a little, but don't want to commit your whole evening -- just take a nice little break, enjoy some fun music, and feel like a boss when the beat drops.

Me: Oh look a stray game! What's the matter?
game: *wimmper*
Me: so you say that your owner made you a cool arena shooter where your weapons are powered by wubs?
game: *Bark*
Me: Wait, so they promised a extreme mode and some upcoming DLC only to dump you away for no reason?!?!
game: *wimper*
Me: Guys who made this game, you dun ****ed it up!!

I found this game a couple years back when it first entered early access. As a fan of both dual stick shooters and electronic music, I decided to purchase this for the small price of $4.99.

This game has been through several different iterations, almost every time i launched it it was different. Recently though, it seems to have been completely overhauled, save the music(which is a shame).

In its current form, the game feels too dependent on grinding for currency to use the upgrade system. The levels are significantly harder than any of the iterations i played previously, contributing to the overall grind-y feel.

I was dissapointed to see only a few songs added over the 2 years this game has been in development, however i understand why the developer chose not to add more. The whole mechanic of the game is based on each individual song, so you get a much more responsive feel to each level. This being the fact that different sounds correspond to different weapons firing (the mechanic that made me like the game in the first place).

However, this mechanic is also the games downfall. This makes it much more difficult to add music to the game, as each song has to be built independently from any others. As well as some songs have up to 10 seconds of nothing triggering weapons where you basically just run around the screen trying not to die.

overall, at $9, i dont recommend this game. If you can get it on sale though, id definitely say pick it up.

The game is so fun to play and it's really well made
It's a really good game if you like listening to music while playing a video game
In my opinion the game is 10/10

*Recommended requirements: XBOX/PS4 controller.*

Without the controller, this game is amusing. With it, you can swim through sound. You can glide and celebrate beat drops with lasar lightshows. Not only is the base design fun, but each level has its unique enemies and weapon visuals. After each song, win or lose, you can upgrade your weapons to even more dazzling levels. If you have a controller, you can compete for top scores in classic arcade style. Without one, you can muddle through the intro levels. If I'm not being clear: use a controller. You can research online how to find the right drivers.

i5, gtx770, 8gb ddr3, Windows 10.

Price When Purchased: $2.00 CAD

5/10 Star

Pro:

+Graphics (Simple yet effective)
+Music is fun
+Active Dev.

Con:
-Awkward Screen Motion
-Odd lulls in music can leave you frustrated, not challenged, just mad
-All levels are locked. Its not casual friendly anymore.

For $2.00 it /was/ a good buy. Now its a challenging game that I am not interested in, but you might be. Dont pass it up, for the price you cant lose.

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It was so hard to get a good score because I was so focused on all the dubstep and the AMAZING Chroma lighting effects on my keyboard. 10/10

Keep calm and drop that bass! This game is so much fun to play! The graphics are stunning and super vivid, the music is incredible, the controls are super easy, and the concept of the game is one of a kind! I sit down to play a level or two for a couple minutes and end up playing for 2-3 hours.

The graphics for this game are very satisfying to say the least. The weapons are so well done, each beat shoots a different type of laser or missile. I learned pretty quick to use my 2 or 3 major beat drop weapons wisely!

The songs that make up the 10 levels are so enjoyable. I've heard each one at least a dozen times already and still love playing every song. Some are loud and crazy others are a little calmer and require some serious skills to survive with no guns firing but are all very well balanced.

I love the upgrade system, my weapons get better after every attempt at a song. The different difficulty settings make each play through even more challenging than the last! My favorite level so far I would have to say is Synergy, I can listen to that song and blow up enemies all day.

Overall a fantastic game! I recommend this to anyone who wants to play a really fun and challenging game especially if you love top down shooters or dub-step.

I started to play DubWars about a year before it was releaced on Steam. You could download a demo and the game would give you 10 plays (until you downloaded again). Anyways, this game has had many ups and downs but the devs are just trying to figure out what they want to do with the game honestly. They seem to have found a great balacne point between absolute chaos and a modern day arcarde game. I would deffinitly reccomend this game for a long trip or even waiting in queue/loading for Dota or League.

Pros:
The game is starting to really come together and look beautiful.
Great song Choices
Razer Chroma Support
Offline Play
Soon to have leaderboards
Soon to have achievments
Soon to have customizablity
Overall best game to have a great time.

Cons:
No storyline-Maybe a recomendation for the feature???
Can't make own song maps... yet. (Any osu! players out there?)
More song choices would be nice but you have to understand the amount of work put into each and every song.
There isn't a software that takes the music and assigns each beat a weapon and an enemy spawning... yet... In other words, can't use your own music... yet.

Overall one of the most creative games I have ever played and can get lost in a single song for hours. Deffinitly reccomended to anyone. No matter how old or where you live. You will love this game.

One of the most creative/unique indie games I've found on steam. The way your weapons synchronize with the music adds a huge immersion factor, and the fact that they used real EDM producers instead of some corny 8 bit track adds a huge bonus to gameplay. If you love electronic music, this game has dubstep, bigroom, electro house, a couple other genres. Was pleasantly surprised when I tried it out if you're lookin for something fresh I'd recommend giving it a go!

i love this game but one thing can you please bring back eclipse i love that song why did you take it out on the lastist update? i hope you guys keep updating and that you dont let this game down its amazing and it has alot of potential
(p.s. could you fix the menu please?)

I love the idea of this game! There is a problem though. Please change it back to the way the kickstarter demo was. I felt it was better. Also I have no clue how to get the secret songs like Eclipse and Synergy because there is no code bar anymore. I feel like it has SO much potential but you do need to fix these things. Great idea and keep putting more songs on the game. PS. The price is too high right now. Make it $10 at the least until you include more songs into the game.

Dubwars is a game that is okay. Let's start with some pros:

Weapons: WOW, the weapons are extremely powerful and are different every level! They are in sync with the music, which is next.

Music: Well, it's Dubstep, but it's good. Even if you hate dubstep, you will like at least one. Mine is Eclipse, but the others are pretty good as well.

The Loading Screen: While loading, you get to hear another piece of music, which I have listened to fully, and it's not half bad.

Now with neutrals:

Enemies: They are pretty cool, but are easy to kill. For some of them, they have ranged, others charge. They're pretty generic.

The Radical Change: About a few months ago, DubWars changed drastically. Everything was different but the music. I like the new and fresh look, but hate that they took out features like a leaderboard, gems to continue, and a difficulty.
If you're new to this game, however, it won't really change anything.

Now the cons:

Enemies: There are some complaints I have, like when you press play again, the enemies still on the board from last game are not gone.

Locked Playing: If you decide to play a game, don't press cancel, cause you'll be stuck in limbo. :(

Varied difficulty: As I said, there is one difficulty now. On some levels, it's incredibly easy, but on others impossibly hard. Not good.

All in all, the pros weigh out the cons for this review. It's not complete, but it's worth a try.

I recommend this game. :)

Man, I've never seen a more riveting game that DubWars. This was so fun to play, and the music and art style were perfect. It never felt too easy, and it never got to a point where it was so hard you wanted to quit. This game was the bomb!

Notice those key words; Was. Were. Past-Tense Verbs. For those of you that don't know, they had an update, and it SUCKS. The game is way too easy now, the difficulty/endless modes are gone, the game is incredibly buggy, and the art style is totaly different. And, most important, the lasers and weapons are different. That was the main reason I got this game; because it looked so cool. Now, I regret buying it. It isn't worth the price (which was a problem from the begining. $20 for a game in BETA? Really?). If they could do one thing to make this game better, it's this: CHANGE IT BACK. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

well first things first what i dont like, i dont like moening i like to look at the ups of the game so things i dont like.
somebody did mention about the curser and yes sometimes you cant see it it. also what is sometimes annoying is that you do get bombarded with eniemes even in easy but you have a lot of health so i do see reasons.

now on to the good things. the timeing and the music is brillient love it so much. the lights and all of the textures are good. also the moving around is smooth you dont jag around its a nice smooth movement.

things i would like them to add
i do see that they are going to add 4 or 5 more songs but i think for a £14 it should be a bit more than just 9 songs.
i did get it today though 22/06/2014 and it was on half price £7 so i got a good deal.
also if they could add custom spirets so instead of being that head phone thing maybe other types of headphones or diamond shape or something.
so all in all as it is still in developmant probably about a 7/10 great game just needs a bit more work

I love the game BUT i was disappointed to find that after about 6 months all they i added was 1 new level and a difficulty setting and the price was a bit high $20? is a lot for the game but i got it because it was on sale for $5 i do have high hopes the game will be updated and will in time be worth the $20 tag


So in total would recommend but not at full price
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Update #1 : So with this new update I'm going to say everything I saw and I will do this for every update.

Menus: The menu load time has (at least for me) Increased by a lot , I'm not a fan of the new song selection and the way it looks I perfered it the way it used to be, I wish there was a way for people to toggle the way the levels look in case people liked the way it used to be better, theres also a glitch where if you click on a song then press back the arrow keys to select a song are gone

Urban metaphor: I'm a fan of the new look, this level was alway very easy but now it's borderline laughable, your main threat is these new turret like thing that set up shoot you with these purple lasers that are very hard to spot, besides this the song is a cake walk.


Synergy: I love this new look for the song I like how that light becomes a laser at points I like how the area at the bottom slows you down a bit because theres stuff down there, but this does lead to the bottom left/ center becoming no man's land because thats mainly where they spawn at but besides that like level has improved.

Break it up: This level I have a lot to say about it but first I will start with the good. This level has a amazing feature where theres 2 ships at the start and whichever ship you shoot at first your ship turns the color of the ship you didn't attack and the ship you did attack starts to aim after only you. But this system is broken because whenever you die your stuck on which ever side you choose your glitched on that side and you have to restart in order to be able to choose the other side, theres also another broken feature which would have allowed you to destory parts of the ships (doesn't matter which side your on you can destory both ships whenever you please), but this feature is broken because whenever you "destory" a part of a ship you see a little sqiggly line over the that part you "destoryed" the line looks like it was drawn in MS paint, there's also a glitch where your weapons remain firing for 8 seconds after you restart from dying.

Eclipse: So I didn't find any bugs with this level but there things I want to comment on.The creepers are finally killable. The new spawning system for this level is floating dungon at spawn in creepers and spiders, but I do wish there was a way to destory these dungon because they do tend to spam my screen. There also these astroids at are floating that can be broken into smaller pieces and smaller pieces and then destory cool system but theres no effect when breaking apart/destorying these astroids and I do hope that gets added in soon.

Tough Guy: This level should be re-named "Non stop lasers" because this level is full of the same laser spam before at least it was a lighting like effect but now it's just lasers. Also the laser in the center on the level just pops into view the first time it appear and doesn't fade it like it does all the other times

OVERALL: This update had lots of content but it seems rushed, unpolished, and untested and it seems as if they tried to do too much in such little time. But this does show this game has a lot of potential in the furture lets just hope the devs don't add in too much with out first making sure everything works first

Right now it has one new one and the ones from the demo but is a very fun game.Right now i cant find the shop but i geuss it will be there in the future.If you like challenging games this game is for you