Watch On
We bought some hands-on time with Exoborne, the brand new extraction shooter from Sharkmob, in August 2024, and it regarded doubtlessly very promising, significantly for extra informal gamers interested by an expertise that is not constructed to punish them at each alternative. In February, curious shooter followers may have a possibility to strive it for themselves in Exoborne’s first-ever public playtest.
“We’ve been conducting closed checks each on-line and in our studio for fairly a while,” government producer Brynley Gibson wrote. “But this marks our first large-scale check, and it’s an extremely thrilling milestone for us. By getting into this stage of open collaboration with the group, we’re keen to assemble invaluable insights and suggestions that may drive us to raise the sport to new heights.”
That reference to “new heights” is, I count on, a play on phrases: As we stated in our preview, Exborne is huge on verticality, and “you will be zipping round with a grappling hook or chargeable power-jump each few seconds, then gliding again down with a re-deployable parachute.”
I stay disenchanted that Sharkmob’s earlier sport, Vampire: The Masquerade–Bloodhunt, failed to seek out an viewers and ended improvement in 2023. I actually loved its steadiness of weapons, particular skills, excessive mobility, and (comparatively) very long time to kill, which suited me fairly properly as a not-at-all-hardcore battle royale participant. But with its destiny sealed, I’m pleased to see that Sharkmob seems to be bringing an analogous method to Exoborne: I do not discover the setting as attention-grabbing (Bloodhunt was additionally a much better Vampire sport than I anticipated) however, if the gameplay matches up, I would recover from that pretty shortly.
The Exoborne playtest is scheduled to start on February 12 and runs till February 17. To get in, pop round to Steam and hit the “request entry” button. You may also sustain with what’s taking place on the Exoborne Discord server.
