US sport dev startup Distinct Risk Studios has decloaked, revealing its PC-based persistent open-world loot shooter Reaper Precise.
The studio is headed by John Smedley, who was one of many unique staff on MMOG EverQuest, later operating Sony On-line Leisure, which launched video games corresponding to PlanetSide, Star Conflict Galaxies and H1Z1. He later headed up Amazon Video games’ San Diego studio.
It’s raised $30.5 million in funding from VCs corresponding to Bitkraft and Brevan Howard Digital.
As for Reaper Precise, it’ll see gamers shopping for bases, which they use to craft in-game gear and weapons, and retailer their loot. Over time, these bases may be expanded to unlock extra talents.
By way of metagame, the motion takes place on the island of Marova, wherein 5 AI-driven factions are preventing for management. Gamers choose the missions they wish to full, with every mission fulfilling the goals of one of many factions. Conversely, making an attempt a mission will put gamers in battle with the opposite factions and different human gamers.
Certainly, as a persistent world, the sport is all the time PVPVE. It additionally appears to have a repute system, which signifies that (at occasions) opposing factions (and different gamers) will try to raid your base to steal a few of your loot. Therefore one component of the sport is guaranteeing your base is well-defended when it comes to autonomous programs and AI-controlled brokers.
By way of how in-game property work, in addition to bases, gamers will personal completely different reaper characters, which offer entry to particular gear and attributes. Examples embrace a sniper, an engineer, a recon class and so on.
Developed utilizing Unreal Engine 5, Reaper Precise will likely be launched as a pure F2P web2 sport on Steam and Epic Video games Retailer, monetized by battle passes and asset gross sales.
The web3 model of the sport will solely be accessible immediately from Distinct Risk Studios and can use Etherlink, which is Tezos’ EVM L2, as its blockchain to safe merchandise possession and buying and selling. These will embrace bases, reapers and in-game crafted objects. Nevertheless, these NFTs won’t be transferable to the Steam and EGS variations of the sport. There may even be a sport token launched at launch, however few particulars of its utility have been offered.
Extra typically, not one of the monetized objects in both model of the sport will present any in-game talent benefit.
You’ll find out extra on the Reaper Precise web site or wishlist the sport on Steam right here.
