The U15 trailer. Have stayed considered in criticism until now, but OHHHH FUCKING DEAR :D

For anyone who saw the U15 trailer. Good lord it's bad. Most of it doesn't appear to be shot in game, the animation is horrific janky and rushed. The audio quality is genuinely appalling. Most people in the stream didn't seem to even know what game it was.

It showed no gameplay at all. It explained nothing about the update at all.

When you look at the 4 / 5 existing HLL trailers and compare for quality. Holy fucking shit!

If there needs to a be a warning sign of T17 either rushing things severely, or being incompetent.... well look no further.

Also if all you have seen is this trailer, it makes the game look like utter trash. Not a great marketing strategy.

If the quality of updates, testing, bug fixing etc has any relation at all to the quality of this trailer, and hopefully it doesn't, then we actually are fucked XD.

Previous fear was maybe T17 would be a bit to money grabbing. New fear is far more "do they have any fucking clue at all what they are doing!"

Not getting at game Devs themselves here. No idea of their pay, conditions, work hours, what they are ordered to put out, and don't know who did the trailer anyway. But this feels less like fear of a change in direction that involves making the game have a broader appeal with the risk of going to casual, and instead creates fears of "OH SHIT, we bought this thing and we are not really geared up to have a clue how to manage it".

They could have quite literally got some gameplay footage, added a few filters, taken a few aspects of what's new in U15, and made a VASTLY better trailer than this. A lot, most, of the fan made in game online trailers are better than this by a WIDE WIDE margin.

It seems to me whoever decided what the trailer should be and decided this was good enough quality to release, has a severely poor idea of what the appeal of this game is and who the player base is.

If I had a friend asking about a game that would be good to pickup, I would show them literally any of the other HLL trailers, including the Burning snow teasers etc, and ensure they never ever found this thing.

Also, as far as I can tell, this is the first trailer for an update where the main features of the trailer have no relation, almost at all, to what's in the update. Okay it shows Brecourt, and that's literally it! The main feature, the planes, the paratroopers etc as far as I can tell anyway, are just "hey let's put this in a trailer!"

Absolutely fucked it.