Annapurna Interactive and DINOGOD’s upcoming action-adventure Bounty Star is properly on its method to launch, with an October 23 launch date proper across the nook. We had an opportunity to play a fast demo, introducing us to a world of 3D motion, mech fight, customization, farming, and base constructing.
Instantly, the demo slot us into the function of a damaged, however highly effective ex-soldier named Clem. She’s a battle veteran who simply occurs to be a gifted fighter and an skilled mech pilot. As she makes an attempt to shed the guilt of her previous, she works to turn into a power for good in an space often known as the Purple Expanse – a post-post-apocalyptic model of the American Southwest.
That backdrop opens from the soar, and we’re handled to a quiet opening in a spot Clem calls dwelling. It’s framed as a “day within the life,” and it’s straightforward to see why. Following a fast name, Clem can discover and verify off duties from a listing situated on the prime of the display.
These duties vary from easy, day by day life actions equivalent to consuming a meal, grabbing mail, and gathering water, to accepting bounties, which make up the core of the combat-based missions away from dwelling.
Inside these duties, Clem can do issues like particular person cooking, the place she’ll want particular elements to make dishes listed in a recipe ebook. There are different books she will be able to discover and browse as properly, which broaden her information of the sport.
At her dwelling, Clem also can put together gasoline, equip and paint her mech, and craft melee weapons and ammunition. There’s actually loads to do, simply having fun with the life simulation side of Bounty Star. You may most likely spend hours tinkering round and even working in your abilities by participating in some goal follow.
Additional customization comes into play with Clem’s mech, or the Desert Raptor MKII. That is vital as a result of it allows you to fiddle with totally different weapons like a knife or hammer, or totally different weapons, and you’ll check them out for your self out on the precise missions.
These missions, or bounties, are initiated by accepting them from the map in Clem’s dwelling. There are two accessible for this demo, “The Full Moon Gang”, and “Dangerous Enterprise”.
The primary bounty takes place up north in a spot known as Coyote Wash, the place a big gang has taken up residence. The aim? Take them out, as a result of they’re all too harmful.
The second bounty is situated within the south of the map and requires Clem to knock out a bunch of heavy gear. So it’s not all simply sweeping up enemies – it appears there are various kinds of missions, all of which have hefty pay-outs.
Participating with every bounty is comparatively easy, and Clem is just about dropped into the fray straight away. The Desert Raptor takes a bit to get used to, but it surely’s a robust device in opposition to the various kinds of opponents. Ranged weaponry is helpful in opposition to flying enemies, whereas melee strikes can take out these on the bottom. Clem can interact a goal lock-on, too, simply to be secure.
It may really feel overwhelming at first, and if Clem fails (that’s, the Raptor is just too broken), she’ll be requested to restart or you’ll be able to simply head again to base. A variety of it appears to come back right down to utilizing the Desert Raptor’s instruments and recognizing the best method to dispatch totally different enemy sorts. There’s additionally some follow dummies round for weapons testing, which was a pleasant little element.
Whereas the Bounty Star demo doesn’t go on too lengthy exterior of the life sim and bounty actions, it’s fairly clear there’s going to be loads to do right here. There’s a complete map we haven’t explored, or can discover at this level, however that’s what the complete sport is hopefully for.
To this point, Bounty Star looks as if a singular twist on the day by day life style, so we’ll simply need to see how Clem’s full story matches into all of that when it releases subsequent month.
TechRaptor obtained a preview code for Bounty Star from the developer, all screenshots have been taken throughout the preview.
