Gears of Warhammer sequel Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 will feature some kind of PvP multiplayer mode, similar to the first Warhammer 40k game, going by an early look at an art book for the upcoming third-person shooter.
23.04.2024 - 17:05 / polygon.com
While knee-deep in a challenging Frostpunk 2 campaign, I found myself distracted by a pop-up notification.
“Steward, some wish for changes to our quarantine policy,” one of my faceless advisors explained. “Forced separation from loved ones is difficult for all when they have to go into quarantine. It’s especially hard for parents whose children are taken from them and put into quarantine. One such mother comes to the quarantine camp every day, asking to be allowed in to take care of her daughter. ‘She’s deathly afraid of being alone — she can’t cope without me!’ she pleads. Should we allow healthy parents into the camp with their sick children?”
I’d enacted the quarantine several in-game weeks earlier as a desperate attempt to eliminate a cold- and hunger-induced sickness that was, for all intents and purposes, a direct result of my poor leadership. The mountains of citizens succumbing to illness had put a strain on my reputation and, perhaps more importantly, deprived me of one of the city-building game’s greatest resources: people who can work. And so into quarantine the infirm went to prevent the dire situation from turning into a full-blown crisis.
Frostpunk 2 recently enjoyed a weeklong early access period, during which Polish developer 11 bit studios invited everyone who pre-ordered the deluxe edition to try out a beta build ahead of the game’s full launch on July 25. Much like its predecessor, the sequel tasks players with managing a community in a world ravaged by the snow-white totality of endless winter, though it’s apparently much less focused on the nitty-gritty than the original.
You and your fellow survivors can withstand these harsh conditions thanks to the city’s generator, a massive, heat-belching feat of engineering treated with a reverence typically reserved for gods. The severity of the situation is not only reflected in the constant pressure of the glacial ice surrounding your city (and, amid particularly brutal blizzards, the edges of your computer screen) but also the main menu itself. Where one might expect to click a simple “start” or “begin” button in other releases, Frostpunk 2 requires you to proclaim “the city must not fall” before embarking on your mission.
The preview was limited to free play in a single region and capped at 300 in-game weeks (about one to two hours of game time), but the content on display proved to be a perfect appetizer to make even me, a relative newcomer to the city-building and survival genre, hungry for more. Although initially overwhelmed by the game’s interwoven mechanics — there’s a whole city council system in which you can secure votes by making promises to the city’s various cliques that reverberate elsewhere, for example — I soon learned
Gears of Warhammer sequel Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 will feature some kind of PvP multiplayer mode, similar to the first Warhammer 40k game, going by an early look at an art book for the upcoming third-person shooter.
was released into Early Access as the most wishlisted game on Steam. Although it pulled in over 100,000 concurrent players, it definitely doesn't have the feeling of a fully finished game just yet. However, there are plenty of city builders available that can help fill in the time between updates for as it continues to be developed during Early Access.
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