One a part of the newly launched free-to-play shooter Highguard that units it other than different shooters is how the sport provides gamers a wide range of mounts to trip to get throughout the maps quicker. One of many major mounts is a horse, and developer Wildlight is contemplating increasing the sport’s components to incorporate horse racing.
Proper now, it is simply an thought and never in improvement. However recreation director Chad Grenier advised Polygon the concept so as to add horse-racing has been “floating round on the studio.”
“I imply, the probabilities are countless,” he mentioned of how Wildlight may broaden the gameplay for mounts.
Mounts in Highguard not solely enable gamers to get locations quicker, however in addition they soak up fall harm, thereby permitting gamers to leap from excessive factors and survive. Gamers can even hearth their weapons whereas driving a mount. The recreation’s maps have “pace gates” as properly, and these grant gamers additional pace when passing via them on a mount. Mounts take harm, too, and might be worn out fully, forcing gamers to remain on foot till they unlock sufficient energy to get one other one.
Past horses, Highguard gives bears and panthers as mounts. Take a look at the video above to get a better take a look at how mounts work in Highguard.
The recreation launched on January 26 and reached practically 100,000 peak concurrent gamers on Steam that day. The builders have mentioned they do not want the sport to attain “tremendous enormous” numbers to be a hit, and the staff already has a yr’s value of latest content material mapped out.