AVA RE:BIRTH Closed Beta Draws a Lukewarm Play Report
A successor positioned on returning to the original FPS experience is drawing the harshest notes on the parts a 2026 audience reads first, the launcher flow and the feel of a bullet landing.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
A closed beta play report for AVA RE:BIRTH, the successor to Alliance of Valiant Arms, describes a launch flow that runs through a website before the Pmang launcher, a lobby built around a character screen with battle pass and shop panels, and a mode select handled by a pull-down menu. Shooting feedback is thin: enemies show little reaction to hits, and damage taken is often noticed only after HP is gone.
The closed beta requires installing the Pmang launcher, but pressing PLAY there does not start the game. In the tester's environment the path runs through a website to a launch page, then the launcher, then the game. The report notes that this flow was common in online PC games in the past and reads as a game from about 15 years ago rather than a 2026 release.
Inside, a large character sits beside panels for the battle pass, shop, and lobby, with mode selection handled by a pull-down menu. The tester also reports that fullscreen breaks the aspect ratio, and that dash is bound to a double tap of the W key, with no way to remap actions to mouse side buttons.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.