Sharkmob have punched the inexperienced gentle, cracked open the hangar doorways and launched a public playtest for his or her windblown open world extraction shooter Exoborne, which I’d gingerly summarise as Anthem meets Just Cause with a contact of PUBG. From right this moment until seventeenth February at 1pm GMT, 2pm CET, or 5am PST, you can get your fill of mech-o-looting through Steam. Here is a trailer’s value of wiggly whooshes, huge bangs and exowotsits to have a good time. Mmm, exowotsits. They was 25p a bag within the Nineteen Nineties.
If references to vintage British crisp manufacturers solely depart you confused about what Exoborne really is, may I reading my first article about the game from 2023. The narrative premise is {that a} notional “save the setting” undertaking known as Undertaking Rebirth has fucked the world as an alternative, producing a panorama of renegade whirlwinds, damaged cities, huge sci-fi towers and lashings of loot.
You’re a “Reborn” adventurer in an exosuit with high-jumping and grappling capabilities, plus a parachute. Your job is to get in, end quests and extract with some rad valuables earlier than the match timer runs out, whereas preventing different gamers and NPCs. The sport is constructed for teams of three, with a alternative of exo-rigs akin to RPG lessons, and there is a dwelling hub space the place you’ll be able to shoot the breeze with numerous story characters. Hah, “shoot the breeze”! I suppose that additionally applies to tangling with inclement climate phenomena as effectively: among the sport’s higher objects are to be discovered inside them.
I am undecided about Exoborne to this point. The concept of hook-chuting via hurricanes whereas gunning down robot-shouldered hooligans definitely has its charms. Alternatively, this all feels very “we smooshed a bunch of genres collectively within the hope of alchemising one thing new”, and the artwork course is a bit dreary. There isn’t any launch date but – tell us you probably have ideas in regards to the beta.
