When comparing Ratz Instagib vs Diabotical, the Slant community recommends Diabotical for most people. In the question“What are the best PC arena shooters?” Diabotical is ranked 13th while Ratz Instagib is ranked 30th. The most important reason people chose Diabotical is:
James Harding, aka '2GD' is the main man behind The GD Studio and Diabotical. Jonas Gustafson, aka 'OoZe' is also an animator for the game. Both are former e-sports players and the team gets direct input from other people from the e-sports scene in developing this game.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Very chill and a good game to just vibe in with friends
Way less competitive and more simple than other arena shooters and a great game to just turn your brain off and shoot some rats.
Pro Low system requirements
A machine with a 2GHz i3 CPU and 2GB of RAM can run the game.
Pro Fun, very unrestricted movement
The movement is very fast, kind of floaty, and very fun. it's way more free/ less tied to standard bunny hopping and more ground-based movement.
Pro Made by people from the e-sports scene
James Harding, aka '2GD' is the main man behind The GD Studio and Diabotical. Jonas Gustafson, aka 'OoZe' is also an animator for the game. Both are former e-sports players and the team gets direct input from other people from the e-sports scene in developing this game.
Pro Great modding support
The GD Studio is developing a map editor for Diabotical, but the game will have a very high degree of modability. According to the developers, who created a new engine from scratch for this game, players will even be able to create an entire stand alone game if they wanted to. They plan to make use of the Steam Workshop to support modding.
Pro Great movement mechanics
This is all subject to change as Diabotical is still in development, but as it stands the game will feature strafe jumping and double jumps. A quick double tapping of the jump button will also make you go higher than a normal double jump. Weapons can also be used for movement, such as jumping up walls with rocket launchers (rocket-jumps) and there's a certain degree of air control.
Pro Built-in community building features
Diabotical will feature community hubs for anyone, but everyone can make their own community hubs for their clan or build one with the map editor. The admin can decorate the hub with decals, there will be Twitch integration, so you can play entire streams on a screen inside the hub and there is a separate screen for Twitch chat. Also, there will be a wall where there will be a model for each member of the clan. It would take the default uniform of the clan and when offline, the model of the member's character will be on display there. When hovering over a model, the player's name and possibly statistics will be displayed.
Pro Good marketing
The studio shows right off the bat their skills in marketing, they somehow managed to pull in an audience without even showing anything inherently new and innovative weapons/movement wise as far as arena shooters go. Even if it turns out to be bad/unoriginal game, chances are it will still be popular. The studio (2GD especially) is not afraid to put their reputation in use.
Cons
Con Doesn't represent the arena shooter genre properly
It's as much arena shooter as "catch-ball" is baseball. In catch ball your only focus is to throw and catch the ball, similarly in RatZ instagib your only focus is in one weapon, aim and dodging. That is to summarize the complexity of the game excluding additional gameplay elements included in game modes like capture the flag and freeze tag.
Con Doesn't deliver anything new
It's like a poor clone of Xonotic's Instagib. Instagib in any shape and form exists in almost every arena shooter already, it's also done better in most of them. Some of them (Xonotic) are free and has 100x times the content.
Con It's a ghost town
According to SteamDB data the game since Feb 2016 hasn't once reached a 100 concurrent player threshold.
Con Epic exclusive
Most gamers are fine with devs publishing their games off of Steam but it tends to become a problem whenever the developer gets bribed by Epic.