FragPunk – the chaotic, neon-splurged hero shooter from NetEease – has sorted out the “surprising technical challenges” it bumped into earlier this 12 months whereas attempting to get the console model out the door. As such, it is lastly coming to Xbox Sequence X/S and PS5 on twenty ninth April.
FragPunk’s 5v5 (and free-to-play) taking pictures motion ticks loads of acquainted style containers as its 12 distinct Lancer “heroes” hit the battlefield, but it surely’s all made spicier because of its card-based modifier system – which sees groups pooling their earned chips initially of a match to determine which of three attainable choices they need to inflict on everybody this flip.
Selections are pulled kind a pool of over 150 Shard Playing cards, that means guidelines may be twisted in typically dramatic methods. You would possibly determine to offer everybody large heads, for example, or take away all weapons from play. Otherwise you would possibly select a card that lets allies lay eggs to revive well being or that teleports enemies again to their spawn level after taking harm.
It is bought its fair proportion of points, as Eurogamer’s Chris Tapsell recently opined after enjoying FragPunk for some time, however its match-weirdening gimmick is an efficient one. “For somebody who’s all the time discovered this style just a bit too self-serious,” Chris wrote, “these items is perfection… all of the much less fascinating stuff from this style, the toxicity and the virtually extreme ranges of rigidity, are fairly simply defused when the factor individuals are shrieking about is known as ‘Mass Crab Stroll’. In enjoying a extremely moreish few hours of it this week, I’ve had a blast.”
FragPunk was initially presupposed to launch for Xbox and PlayStation early final month, concurrently PC model. Nonetheless, NetEase opted for a last-minute console delay, blaming “surprising technical challenges”. Now, although, in a short message shared on social media, the corporate has confirmed a twenty ninth April launch for FragPunk on PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S, thanking gamers for his or her “persevering with endurance and unwavering help.”
It is also promising non-specific “items” to console gamers “as a token of our gratitude and to make up for the delay”. These will likely be despatched to all newly registered console sport accounts and embody time-limited occasion rewards from the beginning of Season 1 as much as twenty ninth April. “An in depth record of all above talked about rewards and their distribution strategies,” it provides, “will likely be shared in a separate announcement earlier than launch.”
