Blacklight: Retribution

Blacklight: Retribution
75
Metacritic
48
Steam
56.916
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Release date
2 July 2012
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48 (153 votes)

Take firefights to a futuristic new level in Blacklight: Retribution, a free-to-play FPS. See through walls with the HRV, deploy mechanized Hardsuits, and customize your weapons to dominate the opposition.

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Blacklight: Retribution system requirements

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  • OS:Windows® 8.1 / 10 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Processor:Dual-Core CPU
  • Memory:2 GB RAM
  • Graphics:256MB DX9 GPU (Geforce 8xxx or Radeon HD2xxx)
  • DirectX®:9.0c
  • Hard Drive:8 GB HD space
  • Sound:DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
  • Other Requirements:Broadband Internet connection
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imicca
imicca

Very fun free FPS with customization but

- bad movement

- unforgiving pricing model for free to players

- the radar scanning thing is not a good idea

- boring maps

Tofuto
Tofuto

It's an awesome game, there just havn't been enough people playing, you may earn money slow as crap, and everything may be overly expenive, just enjoy the game, and don't worry about your weapons, enjoy yourself ( before you get killed by one of the op pros, that is). Why not give it a try? Here's two words to convince you: ITS FREE!

Ralonik
Ralonik

Was once my favorite game of all time. I played back in 2012-2014, when the competitive scene was booming and the game itself was great.This game has fallen and is no longer a game worth playing anymore. The developers have completely abandoned this game, and the only reason I would ever return is if the game is finally given to a company more willing to devote some type into making this game what it should have been. The current and past developers show that they don't care what so ever for the players of their game, and if there is one thing that is important in making a product its ensuring that the consumer enjoys the content. This game may be free to play but there are many more great free to play games that are much more enjoyable than this game. It really did have potential and the only thing I am hoping for is that a company can dust this game off and make it what I always hoped to be. The game itself had great game mechanics in it that other first person shooters didn't have at the time, although some do now, the game itself still to me has some potential to return to glory, but not with its current developers. For now I wouldn't recommend this game for the time being.

we go jim
we go jim

I Was unable to play the game after a long download because of my internet connection.
Because the game is not supporting my region.
Actually that is not true at all.
They support all the african countries/states.
But not egypt, Why? Because egypt is considered a "Poor Country"
This proves that this game is 100% a money farm.
Oh and a note : i downloaded this game in 2013 because of its huge set of positive reviews.
Why am i typing this today? because people actually know now that this game is a money taker.
Do not download this if you are not willing to spend atleast 50$ on it.
And another note you will not experience 25% of the fun that i have seen people have in 2013 in this game.
From what i have seen and heard about this game... other players are not able to play because the increased items cost.
I Do not have the rights to rate this game because i never actually played it i have only seen gameplay of it [2013's gameplay] but from what i see now...
This is a dead game.

artCeptual
artCeptual

I really enjoy this game. While it does have a shadow of a pay-to-win ethos, the guns are all reliable enough to do sufficient damage that teamplay will overwhelm one Rambo with the best gun. That's what I enjoy about this: people are happy to work as a team!

The down side, I must say, is I cannot now find anyone else online :( it is as if the game has died. However, with 11,000+ positive reviews, I'm LFG for some great rounds!

Even if the devs have gone to Xbox support, this has plenty of replayability with the right teammates. Try it out. Get some friends in on it too as it's a proper LAN party game!

Z͇Σ̞̖
Z͇Σ̞̖

Let me give you a summary of this "game":

Infested with cheaters.
Unbalanced.
Unbelievable grind.
Same playerbase.
Empty servers.

Seriously let this "game" finaly die.

Sleepy Knight
Sleepy Knight

Ignore my hours on steam, this game is a such a meme that it's not even funny anymore. Thank you developers for letting cheaters run roam freely through your servers as well as not listening to the community.

Jesus Christ I thought WarZ/ Infestion was bad...

BleakInnocent
BleakInnocent

This game is loads of fun, and honestly just a super well crafted first person shooter, especially due to the fact that you get to play for free. Sure the unlocks can be somewhat of a grind, but the starting weapons are satisfying enough to keep you coming back (I personally loved the bolt action rifle). And if things are going too slow in game purchases really aren't that expensive for what you get. Would 100% recommend as I have play played a shooter this satisfying in a while.

chrome
chrome

the launcher is extremely buggy, i am not able to get in without reinstalling the game.. not to mention the slow response time of the support team. Other than that game is medoicre at most

Coming Soon...
Coming Soon...

Its another pay to win fps from what I can see. I have played this on and off and... its boring. You are set against other players that have a better advantage with one hit weapons and better gear. the currency system is meh. And the dreded "oh here is some gear that costs 100 in game currency or 250 currence that you can get with real money. SIKE! its actually 1608900 to keep, its only 100 for a day." its dumb. I know you are supposed to get money some how but even so...

From the small time i have been playing it would appear that the playerbase is dead. literaly only 3 servers with people playing on with a combined player count of 34 people on. I was hopping from one server to the next with myself being the only one on it. it was only when i filtered the servers i actuallt found people.
the tutorial is ok I guess, it tells you what you need to know.

Testing yourself against bots it pointles as they are about as dificult as taking a shit. The controlls seem a bit sluggish for me. I dont know what is it, the movement seems great but when ever I click to aim or use me detective vision (its not called that but still, you can probably see where i'm coming from) it takes a moment for my character to actually register what is going on.

Overall.... do what you want, you might like this game, you might not, if you are looking for an online fps where you have to pay to get good stuff with a wider range of movement and 'character customisation' just get the new call of duty game, they are about that same and youd probably spend the same amount on them. (Cause everything requires access to your bank inorder for you to actually have fun thesedays.)

2/10 would be on welfare to get good gear again.

Warnub
Warnub

Decent game if your into free to play FPS. The lag prediction in the game blows though. Some players you will see your knife or axe sticking into them and they are still running around and take no damage.

Brownninja97
Brownninja97

One of the most painful downvotes for me, some of my best gaming memories were with blacklight in 2013-2015 i was honestly addicted and managed to even pull my friends into playing it, blacklight was seriously one of the best balanced and well playing f2p fps games out there and it was a game that people kept coming to, that is not an easy feat in the f2p fps market sadly the devs just randomly left it to die, they also released patches which activatly made just about everything worse and they never did fix that, there is so much money left that could have been made, this was a great game in its haydays, it still looks fantastic as well which is such a shame. This was one of the games that made me move to pc gaming exclusively and now its dead all because the developers randomly abandoned it when it was going strong when there was an active scene surrounding it, it is a shame because it could have been so much more however good things must come to an end and this has met its end just slowly being starved of servers and players until it is no more.

I met a lot of friends because of this, found a new platform and so many options, it will be sad when the servers ultimately shut down but this is an example of how you can screw up even when you were doing everything correctly, this is what happens when you forget who your true audience is.

hardsuit labs made a fantastic game and perfect world destroyed it.

DanielSig™
DanielSig™

This game is pay2win, i can only buy weapon for a period of time. I don't want weapons for 2 or 7 days! I want them forever. Make it paid if almost everything costs money!

Vy King
Vy King

It was fine, until some of the free player get an Anti-M Rifle which is the most powerful weapon FOR FREE AND PERMANENT, plus that Heat Scan is what makes me become a paranoid player.

Tommie
Tommie

this game is good visually and the gameplay is actually good for a free fps game. it's very fast pace and required skill and tactics to actually play well. it's a free to win game, but if you are very patience you can earn in game currency to buy new weapon permanently.

the problem with the game is the servers is always empty and every quickplay search always redirect you to an empty server, very rare to find full servers. you'll feel boring after few games playing against bot offline. if you playing in SE asia region as me you would notice how high the pings is while playing against other player and at some point make the game almost unplayable. (i wished i got better internet)

i wouldn't recommend you to play the game alone, so bring friends along. i would rate the game 6/10.

bigswingingwood
bigswingingwood

This game is only good if you like mediocrity + taunting bunny ear douche bags running around who put the neccescary time in the game to level up enough to where they one shot you after sponging half a clip of your bullets. I couldn't see myself putting a whole lot of time into this game, good thing it's free to play and now I know why. Also the word "Jew" is bleeped out as a bad word on this game. If all of that isn't enough for you to avoid this game completely then just imagine a gaming community on par with League of Legends or Dark Souls.

めっちゃかゆい
めっちゃかゆい

Best F2P game i ever played. even the server coding is good so that even if i have 200 ping i feel significantly less lag then i would be in other games. sadly their servers are mostly based in eu / usa so asia people will have to play with a slight delay. not really noticeable tho.

Fawkes
Fawkes

I repeat, stay away from this game!

- When I first saw this, it looked good. The graphics in the pictures looked nice, and I thought I finally found a futuristic tactital shooter. Turns out I was wrong.

- The gameplay is COD: IW, basiclly, running around with no coordination, and no cool double-jumps and wall-runs and sliding. (The parkour was the only thing I liked about COD: AW) Remember the system in most FPS nowadays where you opened up chest and got rare and cool loot? Sometimes? Well, this game has something else: Real money. This game is the definition of a Pay 2 Play. You won't last out there without at least 1.00$ spent on this game. If you manage to stay with this game for a day, you'd play all day, rack up what it looks like to be enough cash to buy a gun or something, and then it's like x10 the amount, just to rent it for 1 FREAKING day.

- Now to customization, or the HORRID customization! Want to look cool?! Spend 10.00$ on this game to look like a person with only two skins. It makes you look cool, but when you start out, you want to customize your character and feel different. The first time you join a game, you realize everyone else is wearing the excact same thing.

Stay away from this game. Looks cool, but it's a waste of Disk space. Just my opinion (and Facts)

Pay 20.00$ To get this new cool DLC! Jeez, at least COD: IW gave you something cool you'll actually play with.

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Download 5+GB then you must download on patcher 9GB,dont download this if you have slow speed internet

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Arc killed it completely. it was almost complete. they were so damn close to creating the best online free to play first person shooter in existence. I would have given so much money to the game if it would have fixed all the bugs, crashes and glitches.

Roggerz
Roggerz

I started playing this gaem on my ps4 but when i got my new rig this was the first game i went paly. btw i have a 950m v2 4gb ddr5 GPU and a core i5 3.4ghx cpu so might not perform as well for you but if u meet the recomended requirments yoru will love this. This game is like a fps mmo its online and has many modes to pick. the way you get iterms is sick and you get moeny to buy guns and other stuff through killing other people in game. overall the graphhics are insane and i did not belive you only need a 1gb GPU so i was mo0re than up to the job it looks like the latest COD but not quite battlefield one. over all this should be a AAA title avlibel over all systems and you can this on allmost any laptop and pc with a 512mb GPU so yes AMD Radeon R5 users there is a game you can play!!!

CallMeMissy
CallMeMissy

This game was good, played the sh** out of it! it was amazing. Then came this crappy update, game always crashing and glitching took away amazing maps and put in low quality crappy maps in! ask me 3 years ago if i would recomend this and i would say with my life now i would say id rather die then have to see someone else go through the same amount of disappiontment as i had too! spent so many days and hours slave to it and now.... it breaks my heart

Mossb3rg
Mossb3rg

Use to be the best F2P FPS game on steam. As far as gameplay goes its par to none but the recent changes have made it unenjoyable to new players who iether do not want to or cannot afford to pay into it. starting off with a fresh account you will find that each half-hour match, even a good one, you only make about 150 GP. well, any gun costs about 25k GP to perm it and add it to a loadout. For players who have the cash to buy "zen" (the ingame pay for currency) they can buy a "GP duplicator" and have half the grind you will have. It use to be that zen was used for purely cosmetic changes but now the gameplay is dependant on it if u dont want too loose ur mind playing the default weapon loadouts for days on end.

Xurona Virus
Xurona Virus

I'm writing this review the same day that I'm uninstalling the game. Obviously I've sunk way too many hours of my life into this game and unfortunately I'm done with it.

I enjoyed the game far more before the parity patch when the second company bought it and took over.

My biggest gripe with the game is that most of the weapons feel way too samey. While I understand there are inherant differences between an Sub Machine Gun, a Heavy Assault Rifle, and a Full Auto Bullpup, they are so miniscule today versus what they used to be that it may as well not matter.

I build for accuracy and low recoil on my weapons, and I don't tend to play at the breakneck speeds that some folks like to. When a Heavy Assault Rifle, on full auto, can kill me across a map in one or two shots, it pisses me off based on the fact that my Burst Rifle (3 round burst marksman style rifle) or even a Bolt Action Rifle loses, when at those ranges I shouldn't even be hit on a regular basis.

I used to like the game, I've put money into it, but I'm done with it. It is free, so I'd recommend giving it a shot, but I can't recommend it as any sort of a fun game anymore.

DexyIV
DexyIV

This game was absolutely incredible when I first started playing it in July of 2013. At first it seemed like just another Call of Duty ripoff that decided to take the free-to-play route, but as I invested more time into the game, I began realizing how distinct this game is from others. Just pressing the V key is enough to see that.
In all honesty I don't know where to begin. The weapon balancing was pretty good, but that kinda changed later. The customization options were, and still are, broad and lets you really personalize your character. The community was fantastic for the most part, and as time went on, the playerbase decreased, which led to each lobby being like those old towns you hear about where everyone knows each other.
There was a time for about a year and a half where the developers did not update the game due to internal problems, and the game's functionality certainly reflected that. The servers didn't work too well, constantly crashed, were rather laggy, ect. A lot of the playerbase died out at this point since the game was having these problems, but it just made the loyal parts of the community closer.
Then they updated it after all that time with the Parity patch. They took all of the new content from the PS4 version and brought it to PC, which everyone was excited for at first. What ended up happening was we got a game that felt really strange and unlike what we were used to. Recoil was reduced greatly, which limited the viable builds to be damage-focused builds for the weapons. The question for moving further into the game changed from "how can I build this gun to fit my playstyle and comfort?" to "how can I build this gun to do more damage?". To me, this lack of diversity ruins the fun for me, especially considering the amount of diversity before the Parity patch.
If I were to have written this three years ago, I would have said that this was the best multiplayer FPS game available and that if you are willing to grind a bit to find equipment that matches your playstyle, you will enjoy this game greatly. But sadly I can't say that anymore. I would not recommend this game to anyone looking for a fresh FPS experience.

EDIT (June 14, 2018): I was hoping by now I'd be able to say that I recommend the game, but I sadly cannot. The new devs released three patches after their first comeback update that served as balance changes, but that's about it. The last patch was in February, and I'm beginning to think that we've entered into another drought, as they called it.
They nerfed pretty much everything and then buffed the Assault Rifle, making it once again the most dominant and overpowered receiver. Want to do well with minimal effort? Use the AR or any of its other overtuned and power creeped variants.
The game is just a mess really. It still feels crappy and more awkward since the Parity patch, and updates don't seem to be happening anymore. I've given up hope that this game can come back and be as prominent as it once was.

Asuno
Asuno

Sad to say that I have to uninstall. Truly a great game but like many, I have to agree that the game is dead. Grinding on money is quite hard but thats not the main point here. The servers are dead, not many players online. To be honest I have waited for this game since it was released. I only got on it at the end of 2016 as my internet before was horrible. But after a few weeks of playing i realise that the servers are getting really empty. For some reason also my ping is very high even though my internet is working just fine. Basically in summary, The servers are not well maintained. If that is fix i do not mind jumping back into the game.

Woof S>RMB
Woof S>RMB

If you got to play back in 2014, you would have had a lotta fun. PWE and Arc turned the game into a cash grab and then left it to die.

Sorisaki
Sorisaki

This gamee is about as good as a shit on a tuesday. What atree you doing to this shit of a gonald and you know what I mean I want you to see everything whatnt you to see all the klgihts get it right baby I want you to sae this all niggas baby xddd. What does it mean to be himan. NO t much in this eeconmy !!!

So per see this game, what is it you ask? Wewll it is a mmofpsrpgactionadventure if that makes sense. I am AANOTT JOKING DUDE IT IS A LEEEGIT GAM EM!>

Blitzkriegster
Blitzkriegster

I love blacklight but i find that if you want anything good you need to pay up. Its going to take you awhile to get a gun other than the starter as they cost thousands. And i hope you didnt want to level up and get kills when you first start cause there is absolutely no matchmaking unless you wait 60 minutes.

gugl
gugl

Used to be awesome in 2014. Now servers are all empty, its p2p/p2w. Believe me it isnt what it used to be back in the old days. Sadly, dev's gave up on this game.

Lindemann02
Lindemann02

Well after 2 hours in the game i think i can safely say....the game is dead.theres never more than 6 players playing any gamemode and even thats rare. So, what may have been a good game at one time, is no longer. I can't recommend the game. i just can't i mean,its free so you can give it a shot. but don't expect much.

Lizzy Wylde
Lizzy Wylde

Terrible balance, there are about 3 viable weapons, the community is super toxic, and the entire game is pay to win unless you want to spend 800 hours grinding for gun parts.

P00fhasz
P00fhasz

The best "has been" fps game, if only there was a time machine to go back to the good days of full servers and accessable gun attachments. Don't waste your time.

skaratzzzzz
skaratzzzzz

Great mechanics and idea. One of the best fps games I have ever played. Could give CSGO a run for it's money. Though the match joining mechanics could be improved. Otherwise it is awesome!

Zaney
Zaney

This game really went down hill.

from the last time i played compared to now it's gained

    • ability to crash your graphics card, even give it a BSOD (which has never happened to me b4
    • 90% of servers are empty now, an averaged of 50 players spread across all servers (used to be 100's of people playing on weekdays)
    • Lose all of your items if you played a long time ago due to a patch that came out.
    • more people hacking
    • more negitive reviews
    • holy f*ck this game really went in the sh*tter..

Haruka-
Haruka-

I used to rekt people and this game is fucking awesome.The weapon system is amazing.You can put any attachments to it.I played this game from 2012. Now this game is not fun anymore. This game is dying. I never forget memories i put into it. RIP

SASHA_URBANSKI_2010@mail.ru
SASHA_URBANSKI…

Its Called Blacklight Cause Theres No Brightness For This Game

Monke Business
Monke Business

This game just sucks now. Period. Pay2Win and it crashes after 1 match every time. Not to mention the fact that the servers are always empty. RIP yet another good game ruined by its greedy publisher.

Chuggie Smalls
Chuggie Smalls

TAKES WAY TOO LONG TO LOAD AND THEN FAILS TO LOAD

no?
no?

Amazing FPS, has been my favorite first person shooter for 5 years in a row.

Dimitri
Dimitri

Graphics 9/10
Gameplay 9/10
Zombie mode 7/10
Free game LOL
Just Download 🖐

Imagine Wagons
Imagine Wagons

The beta was so much better why did you guys F it up... disapointed!