Mecha Break, the mecha-driven battler from Wonderful Seasun Video games, had a historic weekend. Its latest spherical of open beta play went dwell on February 23, and noticed participant counts attain excessive sufficient that it even momentarily overcame the likes of Marvel Rivals.
As noticed by PCGamesN, the participant depend on Steam for the brand new Mecha Break Demo launched up and over NetEase’s Marvel hero shooter, reaching over 317,000 concurrent gamers on Steam. As of this writing, the demo has reached an all-time peak of 317,522 on Valve’s platform (per SteamDB), with a 24-hour peak of 303,991.
Concurrents are fickle although, as Marvel Rivals shortly took again its spot, hitting a 344,535 player-count peak within the final 24 hours (through SteamDB). Nonetheless, making Marvel Rivals sweat is a reasonably large achievement for an open beta.
It wasn’t all sunshine, although. The large inflow of pilots into Mecha Break’s hangars apparently triggered misery on the servers, leading to some disconnects and different points.
Amazing Seasun has already responded to Mecha Break players annoyed with the server points, promising three batches of “Final Upkeep Field” presents delivered via in-game mail. These server points look like they might be a contributing issue to the demo’s current ‘Mostly Negative’ rating on Steam, the place customers additionally cite the anti-cheat measures and monetization considerations.
Both approach, it appears to be like like Mecha Break is one to observe transferring ahead. Our personal hands-on with Mecha Break again in August had related takeaways, contrasting compelling mecha fight with considerations over out-of-game buildings. We’ll see if Mecha Break can sustain momentum, and appease naysayers within the course of, on its approach in the direction of a launch someday this yr.
Eric is a contract author for IGN.