Quietly launched on Friday, NMC Studios vehicular free-to-play battle royale shooter Notmycar launched into early entry. It’s instantly acquainted stuff to anybody who has performed another battle royale, solely there’s simply forty rivals, and it’s considerably more durable for them to cover as they’re all driving round in loud, closely armed automobiles. After taking it for a spin for a pair rounds, I reckon that as long as this one retains sufficient gamers round, it may develop into one thing particular, but it surely’s a bit tough across the edges now. Below, a trailer and a few ideas.
My speedy impression is that the game is – a minimum of for the second – nicely populated sufficient after the weekend to not make discovering forty gamers a difficulty, a minimum of within the solo queue. Damning with faint reward, maybe, however after seeing so many different battle royale shooters crash and burn with barely sufficient gamers to fill a single match, it feels noteworthy. The automobile dealing with is sweet, too, if made just a little stuttery by occasional lag. There’s a weighty, slippery really feel to the automobiles, and whereas crashes into obstacles don’t do injury, they will simply scupper you in a combat.
My largest gripe with the game is only a level of private choice, admittedly. You can equip two weapons and swap between them at will, however every thing within the game is a mouse-aimed roof-turret, virtually as should you glued a generic FPS protagonist to your automobile. I’d have beloved one thing just a little extra technical within the vein of Interstate ’76, with a mix of mounted and monitoring weapons encouraging totally different kinds of play. Still, there’s some ability concerned in lining up a shot in a single path whereas making an attempt to not crash and make your self a simple goal, particularly if you’re being chased.
It’s an entertaining sufficient little bit of free auto-shooting, and free to leap into, and is estimated to want one other six months in early entry. If all goes to plan, NMC intend so as to add extra modes (together with non-battle-royale ones), new automobiles, a bigger map and help for extra gamers, taking pictures for 75-100. The game will stay free-to-play. As a sucker for vehicular shooters and somebody nonetheless mourning the Robocraft Battle Royale spinoff that by no means bought off the bottom, I’ve bought my fingers crossed that this one will get to cross the end line with all 4 wheels nonetheless hooked up.
Notmycar is free-to-play, in early entry and out now on Steam. It’s revealed by Skybound Games, and you’ll see extra on its official page here.
