Midwinter Entertainment‘s free-to-play survival shooter is no longer exclusive to PC.

The developers’ website is where you can register for a technical playtest weekend, which is set to happen between September 18 and 20. You can get a first look at new character designs, newly revealed gameplay features including large-scale player-versus-enemy-versus-player battles featuring „hundreds of advanced AI enemies and creatures across an expanded 9km2 map.”

„The team at Midwinter is committed to an open, community-driven development environment. For more than a year we’ve been quietly testing with thousands of players from our community, whose invaluable contributions have refined, expanded, and validated our vision for Scavengers. As we prepare for closed alpha and beta later this year, we’re looking to expand our community and use this pre-alpha playtest window to provide us with critical learnings leading into our launch,” said Midwinter Entertainment CEO and creative director Josh Holmes in a press release. The PC version is joined by the PlayStation 4/Xbox One ports.

Let’s see what the game’s website says – we’ll quote only the relevant parts: „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 player-versus-enemy and class-based player-versus-player. Choose from a roster of adaptive Explorers, arm yourself with a combination of unique abilities and weapons. […]

We left when the asteroid shattered the Moon and froze the Earth, bringing with it a virus that birthed unspeakable horrors. We left with our lives and little more, seeking refuge off-planet—a refuge from the crazed mutants we call the Scourge; a refuge from the marauders who stayed to pillage and seize control of what remains on the surface. There are far fewer of us today. Mother—our Sanctuary’s AI protector—watches over those of us who remain. We want a cure for the virus. She wants something more. So we must do as Mother says: return to the surface to fight—for one another, against each other, and for the future of our species.

[…] Your objectives: capture more data points than rival squads, and stay alive—the rest is up to you. […] Blistering ice storms. Gnawing hunger. […] Only by navigating the terrain, scavenging resources, and proving your skills in combat will you have a chance of successfully extracting from the planet. […] Adaptability is your greatest weapon in Scavengers. […] Between matches, you’ll unlock and upgrade blueprints, allowing you to craft an even deadlier arsenal in the field. If all else fails, run players down with a salvaged vehicle or force them into a withering storm. Your opportunities for carnage are endless.

Over the long term Scavengers will introduce new seasonal objectives, modes, characters, enemies, map locations, and more. Far from being frozen in time, this post-apocalyptic proving ground will continuously shift and evolve – revealing new challenges and demanding new strategies to overcome them,” the website says.

Scavengers, which was announced at The Game Awards 2018, will launch next year on PC. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions’ release date are yet to be determined. We suspect that it will become a PlayStation 5 and an Xbox Series X port…

Source: Gematsu

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