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Posted - 2016.12.08 04:49:00 -
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Closed beta signup: https://www.greybox.com/dreadnought/en/ps4/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aNxv15050Y
Okay yeah it isn't a first person shooter, but hear me out
-Starting with a closed beta
-Free to Play
-5 classes of ships, from heavy dreadnoughts to light "corvettes", even a tactical cruiser with repair beam capabilities
-Higher tier ships to unlock with varying stats (similar to how the old advanced/prototype type-A/B suit progression worked)
-Tech trees and weapons/abilities you can equip to create your own custom loadouts/playstyles, or to counter other teams
-Team battles that are focused on using each class to their full extent, where each ship type plays an important role
-Module/cooldowns similar to Dust vehicles, and deployable floating pods similar to dropped equipment
What else does it bring to the table?
-An energy system that can direct power to weapons, shields, or movement speed for brief periods at a time
-Space combat, where the enemy can shoot at you from directly above or below you
-Warping abilities, either back to your allies, or for rushing at the lone tac cruiser with a barrage of missiles
-Defensive energy drain traps and anti-missile/nuke lasers to negate even the biggest threats
-Siege mode, where you lose movement speed, but drastically increase damage
Alright but what is it missing?
-No chat channels
-Ship visual customization is limited
-No objective game modes (not yet at least, they said they want to add them)
-No risk to dying in a powerful ship (one time purchase/unlocks for each ship)
-No corporation functions, faction battles, or high level/end game pvp atm
-Space/low altitude battle arenas are not very complex or interesting
An example of how a battle encounter might play out:
Playing as a Triage Tac Cruiser
-healing a few different ships in a small group
-friendly dreadnought heads to the outside to flank
-enemy corvette decloaks on dreadnought,
-uses an EMP to temporaily put all dreadnought abilities on cooldown, and is chewing through the armor
-I drop an AoE heal at current position, then warp out to the dreadnought
-set power to weapons (increases healing), activate autoheal beams on top of main beams
-am now healing faster than the corvette can deal damage.
-corvette runs out of energy and starts to flee
-I set energy to thrusters to catch up and drop a tractor beam which pulls him back toward the dreadnought
-As one final attempt the corvette uses a energy recharge to direct power to weapons and fire on me with an explosive blast
-I quickly use my remaining energy to shield a portion of the blast, barely surviving
-dreadnought closes in and shreds the corvette to pieces
Here's another:
Playing as a Battle Ram Destroyer
-spot lonely artillery cruiser (sniper)
-sneak below him
-set energy to thrusters
-activate battle ram
-artillery cruiser spots me but is still in siege mode and can't get out of the way
-fires off a barrage of damage enhanced missiles
-I activate anti-missile lasers
-free kill
If this sounds interesting or fun to you, add me on PSN so I can have some people to squad up with once they start inviting people for the closed beta
PSN: Shayz-
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