Wargaming, the developer behind World of Tanks, confirmed that its new mech shooter Metal Hunters will enter early entry on April 2.
Metal Hunters was revealed at The Game Awards 2024. It is fairly completely different from the military-focused multiplayer video games Wargaming is greatest identified for, resembling World of Tanks, World of Warships, and World of Warplanes. Metal Hunters absolutely embraces sci-fi as a mecha recreation that blends components from hero shooters, battle royales, and extraction shooters. 5 groups of two gamers combat one another to gather a useful resource known as Starfall on Earth, and gamers can win by killing all of their opponents or efficiently extracting.
When Metal Hunters enters early entry, it’s going to embrace seven completely different “Hunters” for gamers to select from: Razerside, Heartbreaker, Fenris, Ursus, Trenchwalker, Prophet, and Weaver. Three maps scattered round Earth–Crimson Ridge, Maryland Heights, and Stonecutter Keeper–will even be a part of Metal Hunters from the beginning of Early Access.
Wargaming explained in a Steam post that it selected to place Metal Hunters by early entry as a result of it permits the builders and gamers to “we will refine and develop the sport collectively, guaranteeing each shot fired and each Hunter unleashed is finely tuned.” Whereas Wargaming has not outlined a selected early entry timeline, it additionally defined that the studio’s aim “is to maneuver rapidly to a full launch as soon as your suggestions has helped us polish the core expertise.”
Metal Hunters’ early-access interval will start on April 2, solely on PC. It is going to be obtainable on each Steam and the Wargaming Game Heart storefronts.