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PvPvE shooter Scavengers launches in early access via Twitch DropsStay and watch a while to get access
Stay and watch a while to get access
Freezy survival-ish battle royalerScavengerslaunches today in early access. Although we’ve got more than enough squad-based royale ‘em ups in every flavor right now, Scavengers seems to lean into the “environment” bit of PvPvE enough to have caught my attention. It’s caught plenty of other folks’ attention too, it seems. Scavengers is entertaining over100,000 viewers on Twitchat the moment, though it surely owes a good chunk of that to the fact that it’s currently handing out early access keys exclusively through Twitch Drops. It will be openly available free to play in early access “in the near future”.
If you’d not been following Scavengers, as I hadn’t beenuntil earlier this week, the gist is that it’s a class-based and squad-based battle royaler. It’s got shades of survival in there too and apparently quite a lot of AI enemies and bosses thrown in.
“Explorers are equipped with a combination of powerful abilities and futuristic weaponry to survive in a strategic battleground that blends sandbox-style PvE and class-based PvP,” Midwinter Entertainment say.
Scavengers enters Early Access for PC on April 28, 2021Watch on YouTube
Scavengers enters Early Access for PC on April 28, 2021
From what I’ve seen so far, and Scavengers' own descriptions, it seems like you’ll spend a decent amount of time dealing with the PvE enemies and threats, not just fighting off other players. That’s my personal preference for online shooters, so its one I’m keen to keep an eye on. For me, and maybe for other folks who only dabble in shooters, actually playing will come down to whether I can lure my favorite squadmates away fromCall Of Duty: Warzone.
Midwinter say that giving access via Twitch Drops is only temporary to help kick off their Twitch presence. They’re not super clear on when access will be totally open, though. Their press release says that they have “plans to open up to all players thereafter” and “in the near future”, so your guess is as good as mine. Couple days? A week tops, maybe?
Scavengers is now in early accesson Steamand theEpic Games Store. It will be free-to-play during and after early access, which it plans to remain in for “a few months at least”.
