Spacelords, the reimagined free-to-play model of MercurySteam’s on-line shooter Raiders of the Broken Planet, is now out there on Steam in its new incarnation.
The game, from the builders of the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow collection, launched as Raiders of the Broken Planet in September 2017 however failed to seek out a lot of an viewers. Most gamers had been confused by the enterprise mannequin, which had the primary episode, only a small a part of the game, free – however the remainder of the episodes needed to both be paid for or ‘rented’ with in-game gold.
Spacelords, which makes use of the identical Steam web page as Raiders of the Broken Planet, has subsequently sadly picked up the current ‘Mixed’ player rating. Game director Enric Álvarez instructed us that most of the criticism is down to the business model, “not because of the gameplay, the aesthetics, or the proposal in itself.” Most of the participant confusion appears to stem from Steam labelling the game as free-to-play, though beforehand the game didn’t actually match into that class.
Now the game has been rebranded as Spacelords, it’s correctly free-to-play. The relaunch additionally marks the discharge of the game’s fourth episode, Council Apocalypse, which is able to shut the game’s first story arc. All episodes, together with the brand new one, are free – with none of that foolish renting nonsense.
The game has additionally undergone an entire redesign of their character development system, permitting gamers to entry all characters with out restrictions. MercurySteam say they may “steadily” add new content material reminiscent of characters, weapons and skins over the next months, though there’s no phrase but on Episode 5 and the primary newstory arc beneath the Spacelords identify.
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