| Scavengers | Midwinter Entertainment / Improbable Worlds Limited | 2021 | |
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Early Access Release Scavengers is your strategic survival battleground. Enter a free-to-play action shooter where squads of three compete to survive and dominate in a hybrid of sandbox-style PVE and class-based PVP. Choose from a roster of adaptive Explorers, arm yourself with a combination of unique abilities and weapons, and conquer the challenges of a hostile wasteland. Outthink and outfight enemy players and the dwellers of the frozen Earth. Those who managed to survive fight for their lives in the new, inhospitable world, where three feuding factions constantly fight one another – these factions include Scourge, mutated animals, Outlanders, remaining humans, and Salient, mysterious beings controlled by advanced AI. From the third-person perspective, the game gives at players’ disposal a vast open world designed to seem like a living ecosystem. Each one of the hundreds of enemies roaming around the map was given a unique set of features and behaviors – thus on their adventures, players are bound to encounter grand battles between the members of particular factions. Gameplay has been divided into three stages. Upon starting the game (during which one can join a 4-player squad or join an already existing one), players are sent on reconnaissance missions, plan their next moves, and acquire necessary pieces of gear. The latter becomes useful during the next stage, when the player begins hunting down enemies (including both other players and AI-controlled opponents), completing missions, and acquiring resources. The last stage involves locating and defending designated areas that can be evacuated. The entire experience is enriched with the elaborate survival elements – players have to protect their characters from cold, hunger, and thirst. The developers implemented into their game a complex crafting system that allows players to create pieces of equipment, most prominent ones being weapons and tools. Thanks to the cooperation launched between the creators of Scavengers and the company called Improbable (that helped with financing the game), the game is based on SpatialOS technology that takes all the algorithms and calculations related to the functioning of the in-game world into the code. This is why the "sandbox" is much greater in comparison to other games, and the AI responsible for NPC's behavior is much more complex. Game sessions can hold up to 9,000 players at once. The game was shut down on Dec 16/2022. | ||
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