What if RTS however you ditched the omniscient perspective for the common-or-garden vantage of a single unit? That’s a part of the pitch for Earthbreakers, just lately introduced by Petroglyph. The Grey Goo studio are tossing a hefty serving to of first-person motion right into a pot of already simmering useful resource assortment and tactical constructing. They’re hoping the consequence “combines the most enjoyable elements of FPS and RTS”.
Two groups skirmish over each territory and a superb violet useful resource referred to as Vilothyte, which is used to construct fortifications, constructions, and most every part else. Your selection of sophistication determines your loadout, which is able to doubtless regulate your function inside the harried sprint to victory by means of destroying the enemy crew’s base.
In the above trailer, a number of gamers have been escorting an enormous excavator to a crop of these glowing crystals when a tank and a few troopers rolled onto the scene. The ensuing battle was one in all safety, permitting the crew that arrived first the time to scrape as a lot collectively as potential earlier than getting the hell out. Upgrades and unit manufacturing have been dealt with by way of consoles contained in the workshop, which birthed a tank that instantly trundled into movement.
RTS gamers aren’t strangers to the opportunity of violence cropping up wherever inside bases or alongside manufacturing routes. But taking part in because the zerglings streaming by way of the cracks in defenses sounds pretty intriguing. Depending on map dimension, on-line games will reportedly deal with as much as 32 gamers. I’m already questioning if this could possibly be a game that introduces my ways associates to my rooty tooty shooty boys. I can’t think about they’ll work nicely collectively, but it surely’s certain to be some scrumptious chaos.
The concept isn’t a brand new one, particularly for the Petroglyph workers who began the studio after EA closed Westwood Games in 2003. Westwood’s penultimate game was Command & Conquer: Renegade, which had class-based FPS-RTS multiplayer. Funnily sufficient, Petroglyph are presently remastering several older Command & Conquer games.
Earthbreakers is coming to Steam in 2020.
