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Loadout: Literally rock out with your cock out.
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Out now on Steam!
Loadout is a multiplayer third-person shooter from Edge of Reality, a developer full of industry veterans that have come together for EoR's first solo gig. The game is a very arcadey type of shooter with 4v4 matches that features fast respawns and modest lethality (you're about as durable as in TF2) centered around objective-based play. What sets Loadout apart from the other shooter out there is the bright cartoony art, bevy of character customization options, weaponcrafting, and free-to-play model.
It's that kind of game.
The basic gist is that you take one of the four main gun types (Rifle, Launcher, Plasma, or Beam), and makes adjustments from there. This trailer explains it well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASJPZ1voLU4Besides guns, you also have an equipment slot for things like grenades, turrets, shields, and so on. These aren't customizable, and you can only have one at a time.
I'll showcase some of the finer weapons from the community here. For now, here's my newbie healy gun as a placeholder.
In Blitz, you race to grab control points before the enemy team does. Taunt for faster capture times!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xnagjMiQskThe goal of Death Snatch is to not only kill dudes, but grab the blutonium they leave behind. It's Kill Confirmed, basically, and the closest thing to straight Deathmatch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw6buqNwPgwExtraction randomly assigns a player the role of collector, and you have to go around grabbing chunks of blutonium and dropping them off at collectors scattered around the map. A dead collector means you team has to wait for the next player to be assigned the role. Oh, and blutonium is...unstable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-9nRQ88CKsJackhammer is capture-the-flag with a slightly more violent twist. You have to steal the enemy jackhammer while protecting your own, and the hammer holder can one-shot enemies with the hammer. Each hammer kill increases the hammer's value when you deliver it to your base.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn8NOTzz1fcAnnihilation is intended to be the game's main competitive mode, and basically combines everything you just read into one mode. It's...easier to let the trailer explain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03WMLJ2GS8w
Perhaps...too covered.
yes, those chaps are assless
And yes, you technically can go commando. It's blurred out, but let's just say Loadout features the next generation in jiggle physics. You can turn this off in the options if you suffer from some kind of wiener phobia.
Like weapons, I'll post the community's best outfits here.
The primary currency are blutes, which you accumulate through gameplay. Blutes allow you to unlock weapon parts on the tree and get those wonderful new toys. You get bonus blutes from leveling up and daily prizes.
The paid-for currency are literally spacebux. They cost real-world currency, and purchase the various character customization options and XP/Blute boosts. I've heard the daily prizes sometimes award spacebux and even cosmetic items, but I personally have yet to see it happen. Also, all three characters models are free from the start, and have their own clothing options (although some are shared). All taunts are shared, so buy one for a character and all three have it.
If you're enjoying the game and would like to jump-start your spending, EoR offers a few starter packs for those interested in dishing out some dollars.
It's all done through Steam, so you can load up the Steam Wallet or buy it through their website. I also have one of them referral codes as part of their poorly named "Bro Program" (seriously, why not Brogram?) that will give +10% XP when in a match with one of these so-called "bros." If YOU have a referral thingie then I can slap it up here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVFxHWjiEwBeta Launch Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox3CNcdE-EcUncensored Trailer by Rooster Teeth (slightly NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry3VCIfPKHs
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Edge of Reality sounds like a familiar studio, though. They ported... something to... somewhere I think. Mass Effect maybe?
Looks like Game Grumps played it and liked it!
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Nevermind it releases tomorrow. I'm not the kind that spends money in in game currencies, but I'm curious how far those spacebux stretch.
Yeah, it releases F2P tomorrow. If you buy one of those packs, you get early access to it.
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Their website background has Loadout on one side and Mass Effect Trilogy on the other, and it looks like they ported DA:O as well.
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Good to hear. I'm very tired of F2P games that make the mistake of gameplay-altering unlocks..
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You are killing me.
Did you know Loadout was out now on steam?
EDIT: Yep. Its out F2P. Downloading now.
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4v4 matches doesn't sound so great to me, though. With bigger teams, the impact of one exceptionally good or exceptionally bad player is mitigated. (This can be taken too far, of course - in the 16v16 TF2 servers, it was sometimes nearly impossible for anybody to really have an impact and move a team towards achieving an objective amidst the chaos). But with 4v4 it seems like if you have one really amazing player on one team he could dominate the whole match, or one newbie player could completely drag his team under.
But I've definitely had games where a bunch of new people left me feeling like I was alone. This is quite evident on maps like Fractured.
How does one fire grenades using KBAM? The keybind controls don't actually tell you how...
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Had to carry my team on the bluetonium one and the hammer one.
I am such a sucker for customization.
I..I don't want to see things anymore.
1) Invest in a healing gun. Helps a buttload when you're playing Jackhammer or Collector to keep the important people alive.
2) Don't discount the melee attack. Hits harder than you think, and probably will attract less attention from your target than bullets to the back will if you sneak up on them.
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Nintendo ID: digitalsyn
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Hmmm... Today was payday...
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Pretty sure Axl is the only one that go full nudist.