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GTA-inspired battle royale Gene Shift Auto is going free-to-play next weekAfter years in early access
After years in early access
Gene Shift Auto began life as aGeneshift, a topdown,Grand Theft Auto-inspired multiplayer gamewhich dropped into Steam Early Access in 2017. It added abattle royale mode the year after, when we were all drunk on Plunkbat. Now it’s changed name and it’s going free-to-play on November 28th.
Gene Shift Auto Trailer | Free to Play Battle RoyaleWatch on YouTube
Gene Shift Auto Trailer | Free to Play Battle Royale
The latestpost on Steamgoes into detail on recent changes made in the run up to going free-to-play. Those include making police swarm you in larger numbers, making skill upgrade choices more interesting as you level up, changing how you earn XP and money via killing other players, and tweaking the art style to add a “cartoony toon-shader effect”.
Switching to free-to-play also means that there will be two tiers of players in future. Those who bought the game prior to the free-to-play switch being flipped will own the ‘Deluxe Edition’ of the game, and will be granted an exclusive cosmetic and a bonus 2000 coins of in-game currency. Free players will effectively be starting from scratch.
Oddly, to make sure the divide between experienced and new players doesn’t make the game too hard for the latter, a “hardcore mode” has been added to PvP. Instead of letting new players opt-out of harder challenges, it allows experienced players to opt-in so that they do less damage to new account holders in return for a 50% XP bonus at the end of matches.
You’ll find the full changelogover on Steam, where Gene Shift Auto will go free-to-play on November 28th.
