{"id":209051,"date":"2026-02-06T07:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209051"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:22:28","slug":"as-player-numbers-fall-highguard-makes-the-actually-quite-good-5v5-mode-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209051","title":{"rendered":"As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barely over a month in, 2026 has been busy, but Highguard is easily the strangest game release we&#8217;ve had so far. Following a baffling, nearly marketing-free rollout following its reveal at The Game Awards 2025, it crashed into a wall of negative reviews, but developer Wildlight Entertainment was quick to react&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/highguard-gets-permanent-5v5-mode\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely over a month in, 2026 has been busy, but Highguard is easily the strangest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209051-as-player-numbers-fall-highguard-makes-the-actually-quite-good-5v5-mode-permanent.jpg",690,388,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209051-as-player-numbers-fall-highguard-makes-the-actually-quite-good-5v5-mode-permanent-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209051-as-player-numbers-fall-highguard-makes-the-actually-quite-good-5v5-mode-permanent-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209051-as-player-numbers-fall-highguard-makes-the-actually-quite-good-5v5-mode-permanent.jpg",640,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209051-as-player-numbers-fall-highguard-makes-the-actually-quite-good-5v5-mode-permanent.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209051-as-player-numbers-fall-highguard-makes-the-actually-quite-good-5v5-mode-permanent.jpg",690,388,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209051-as-player-numbers-fall-highguard-makes-the-actually-quite-good-5v5-mode-permanent.jpg",690,388,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209051-as-player-numbers-fall-highguard-makes-the-actually-quite-good-5v5-mode-permanent.jpg",690,388,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209051-as-player-numbers-fall-highguard-makes-the-actually-quite-good-5v5-mode-permanent.jpg",690,388,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209051-as-player-numbers-fall-highguard-makes-the-actually-quite-good-5v5-mode-permanent-590x388.jpg",590,388,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=42\" rel=\"category\">Entertainment<\/a>","tag_info":"Entertainment","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}