“There’s nothing like harvesting the deoxyribonucleic acid from the corpses of your enemies and using it to modify your own genome to become an all-crushing gunwarrior capable of defeating entire planets” my grandmother used to say. She would have preferred the look of Beacon, a top-down shooter with shapes and hues organized in such a approach as to speak a hostile world filled with offended wildlife and shooty locals. It rolled across the RPS firing range a few years in the past, however now the builders are ending it up, and it’s because of hit early entry on Itch.io next week.
Your hope, because the cloned survivor of a crash touchdown, is to discover a beacon wanted to sign for a rescue. Kill some aliens alongside the way in which and acquire their DNA. When you die, you should utilize that DNA within the cloning bay to spice up stats and purchase mutations, making your subsequent clone extra helpful. There are totally different enemy factions, every with their very own DNA, “allowing you to become a battle-hardened mass of metal, a luminous abomination of insect flesh, or anything in-between.”
Along with these skills you’ll be killing unhealthy dudes with weapons, grenades, tools, passive expertise, and single-use pick-ups. Aforementioned unhealthy dudes embody the robo-gunners of the Prism faction and their “sonic and tesla technology”, or the insect-like Solus, who gunk you with acid and shine harmful lights at you.
“Over our First Access we plan to release major content updates every 4-6 weeks,” say builders Monothetic, “with minor updates and quality of life fixes in-between.”
It’s nice-looking, for positive. My solely concern with toppo-downos similar to that is that the attitude and background artwork generally work towards one another, making the battleground a complicated place to be as soon as the lasers begin fizzing and the bullets begin whizzing. There’s additionally set to be a little bit of leaping from one place to a different, which will be odd whenever you view the airplane of battle from a specific angle. Anyway, there’s the pores and skin from round my fingernails picked off.
You can purchase it by means of Itch.io for $19.99 from April 30, say the builders (they’re the parents who made Half-Life 2 mod Black Snow, by the way in which).
