Hitting early access this year
Open world sci-fi RPGBeta Decayis being delightfully greedy.
The game’s retro PS1-inspired art style hides some furious ambitions.
The game’sprevious trailershowed some swish (if somewhat prototypey) cover shooter combat.
But the game now plans to launch into early access this year, developers Rotoscope Studios have announced.
And this time they’ve brought the big guns, literally.
Mech some time for the trailer below.
That is some primo PlayStation 1 polygoning.
There’s no tight release date for this early access shooter, just a loose “2025”.
What this looks like in practice is a lot of diving and ducking and blasting off limbs.
Miniguns, sniper rifles, thermal goggles, VTOL aircrafts, weird dudes commanding legions of insectoid horrors.
What’s not to like?
Just look at that dithering.
I could run my finger across the screen and it would feel like a tea strainer.
The game also plans to include a lot of other features, going beyond the firefights we see here.
There are promises of survival mechanics that require you to eat, drink, and sleep.
Not to mention the spaceship tinkering.
“Trade products through physical shops on the streets to digital securities on the Centauri Exchange.
Even one of these many features would constitute an entire game’s worth of work.
But never mind that.
I am the mech appreciator.
I live in a rusty state of eternal hope.
I’ll keep you informed of Beta Decay’s progress.
