BitCake Studio and Mad Mushroom introduced that the cooperative roguelike shooter Atomic Picnic will launch on Steam Early Entry on November 7.
Within the $20 title, gamers will dive into the chaos and thrill of a co-op bullet-heaven roguelike shooter and an anime-inspired visible model for an unforgettable picnic within the wasteland. BitCake Studio is a uncommon sport studio primarily based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (I visited the town as a part of our temporary Brazil world gaming tour not too long ago).
Gamers group up with as much as three fellow “Loners” and embark on scavenger hunts generally known as “Picnics.” Every journey pits you in opposition to relentless waves of monsters, aims, and hulking bosses to make sure that no two Picnics are ever alike.
Run, gun, discover, accumulate, improve, and decimate – each Picnic provides a novel expertise, stuffed with numerous improve paths and particular occasions that problem each solo adventurers and teams.
A last public playtest for Atomic Picnic is now accessible on Steam and can run till October 17. Hop in, run some Picnics with associates, and provides suggestions within the Atomic Picnic Discord because the devs at BitCake fine-tune, stability, and polish the sport in time for Early Entry.
In early entry, the builders at BitCake Studio are introducing a wave of options for Loners to chop their Picnic tooth on. There are 4 hungry Loners: Ash, Hani, Bonnie, and JD. Every Loner boasts distinctive stats and talents, permitting for various playstyles. Attempt every out and discover which fits you. You possibly can completely improve character stats through Mementos, that are acquired by Discoveries as Loners full Picnics.
Loners will scour maps for worthwhile assets that unlock 18 completely different Mementos: character and kit upgrades for future runs. Finishing particular challenges inside Picnics will reveal Discoveries, which in flip grant new Mementos, characters, and weapons.
The sport has three maps. In Practice Plateau, you arrange your Picnic in an deserted trainyard, ripe for useful resource scavenging. In the event you’re fortunate, you would possibly discover one thing value chilly money! You may as well come again to the Plateau in night time mode, going through off in opposition to a distinct set of even more durable enemies.
In Twilight Dam, you determine what cataclysmic occasion ravaged this dam. Picnic right here to discover this mysteriously wrecked rift, in day or night time mode. And in Metropolis of Sand, there are two dimensions, one metropolis. Discover and Picnic in a wonderful metropolis caught throughout the sands of time…or what’s left of it.
In-run upgrades generally known as Curios characterize the dramatic modifications a Loner’s construct will undergo as they progress a Picnic. Commonplace Curios unleash your Loner’s full potential as its stats and talents dynamically adapt to each acquired Curios.
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BitCake Studios is a sport improvement studio from Brazil, creating video games that carry folks collectively since 2013. Hailing from Rio de Janeiro, BitCake is a very distant studio with coworkers from completely different cities across the nation and the world.