![]() Or, you can throw a point in Rapid, increasing movement speed by 1 percent for each level. Skills provide bonuses like Quick Response, rewarding a 2 percent increase to aiming speed. Both take innumerable playthroughs to level up, and provide nugatory incentives to keep playing. You have two levels, one for your character that unlocks skills in a skill tree and one for your faction that unlocks new weapons and equipment. And Survarium is a serious grind to reap worthy rewards. It’s an artificial barrier that devolves the game to a grind. I’m always a bit disappointed when FPS games introduce levels and skill progression. As of now, watching a team of clones cheer for victory is laughable. ![]() Survarium is in Early Access, the categorical free-pass on any lacking content, but my hope is that some model variation is introduced in the future. In contrast, every character models looks like a stoic Jack Bauer. Varied environments provide enough novelty to keep the experience from becoming repetitive. The engine is well harnessed to create solid maps. It rings out and echos with impressive force. Hearing a gunshot for the first time is terrifying. However, the best aesthetic feature is the sound effects. Even on Ultra settings some scattered vehicles had details carved in MS Paint. But smaller, or seemingly irrelevant objects, have a soupy blur that even the imagination can’t detail. Larger objects such as buildings, tanks, and barrels are finely detailed and look excellent at a distance. ![]() Sunbeams are blinding and can obscure distant snipers locking on to your position. Vegetation throughout the levels is abundantly thick and unnatural looking the flowing coral-look of shrubbery gives it the appearance of an ill mutation. Survarium runs on Vostok Games’ own engine, aptly named Vostok Engine, and it gives the game a pleasant appearance. Equipping a Mosin Carbine, for some sweet DayZ nostalgia, I set out to pop some heads. Your character is customizable through the available gear-sadly there is no physical character creation (yet). An equipment menu shows off some starter weapons and ammo to choose from. But no matter how brave you may be, wandering the world without equipment is ill-advised. A tutorial guides you through the game’s basics, with shiny rewards doled out for those brave enough to endure the training. Donning a new identity as Horsefat Lover I would carve out a new life in the bleak landscape. You’ve survived the end of the world and now that DMV’s and the Social Contract have been incinerated you’re free to choose a new name (Hobbes be damned). Judging it for what it is, and not what it purports to be, it’s a fairly solid arena shooter. Every match is a team deathmatch even though there are three game modes. But for now Survarium is solely an arena shooter, with fast-paced combat, skill trees, and customizable loadouts. The former features are promised to a future update, and as the game is in Early Access it can’t be fully judged until complete. It is not the product as advertised on the website. Large Arsenal - choose from a huge catalog of weapons and equipment to dominate the battlefield.īeyond being a combination of the words “Aquarium” and “Survival,” Survarium is a fast-paced first-person shooter that sits next to Call of Duty rather than survival games such as Rust or 7 Days to Die.Factions - four unique factions offer the opportunity to specialize in a battlefield role.No Classes - customize your loadout however you please, with no class restrictions or right or wrong way to play.Skills - complete matches and earn experience to level up, unlocking new skills to turn you into an apocalyptic warrior.Apocalyptic Atmosphere - fight in maps inspired by a vision of nuclear apocalypse, complete with irradiated artifacts and buildings overrun by vegetation. ![]() Enter the apocalyptic arenas of Survarium and find out how long you can survive. Anomalies are scattered across the map, providing irradiated hazards that will kill careless players. Choose from one of four factions and specialize in a battlefield role, whether it be sniping enemies from afar or taking them down up close with a shotgun. After each match players earns experience, translating into new skills such as faster aiming time and more health. Only a few hits are needed to render a player lifeless, so the environment must be used to your advantage to survive. Play in one of three game modes: Team Deathmatch, Battery Retrieval, and Research, where two teams fight for supremacy. Survarium is an arena apocalypse FPS that pits players in intense, fast-paced matches.
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