![]() When Spacelords goes live tonight, it will continue the story with "Council Apocalypse" in which the Raiders seek out Valeria Robespierre, "a smart, spunky and cruel-ass bitch with no humanity in her cold, bionic heart" and convert her to their cause. Each episode of Spacelords is an intense adventure made up of four challenging missions that can be played cooperatively or as an Antagonist attempting to thwart the Raiders. Álvarez said, "The removal of any payment barriers will build our devoted community further," and that re-branding is "the best way to communicate to players." That means making all content free-to-play. In effect, MercurySteam wants to reformat the game into an experience players are more accustomed to. Our vision is to see our game enjoyed by millions of users for years to come and putting all of the game’s rich content into their hands for free is the way to realize it." Game director Enric Álvarez said, “When we launched Raiders September last year, we hoped its low price point would open it up to a large number of users, but it didn’t work as we planned. Unfortunately, the limitations of taxonomy on Steam, the PlayStation Store and Xbox Games Store meant it was categorized as a "free-to-play" title, leading to many players expressing ire and confusion about this business model. Prologue missions were made available for everyone but chunks of levels and story-based missions are sold as campaign episodes. Launched in late 2017, Raiders of the Broken Planet was presented as a free-to-try experience. Similarly, the Gold price necessary for renting individual missions has been reduced significantly.īe witness to how a game is reborn on August 23rd, when Raiders of the Broken Planet becomes Spacelords, a new and exciting Free to Play gaming experience.Developer MercurySteam is relaunching its 4v1 shooter-adventure game Raiders of the Broken Planet as Spacelords today. From today, the free Mission of the Week becomes the Mission of the Day, accessible to all players. The studio will announce the exact nature of these rewards in the coming days.Īnd for those players who cannot wait until Spacelords become a Free to Play Game, two of Raiders of the Broken Planet’s most popular game features, designed with players who haven’t purchased a campaign in mind will dramatically change. MercurySteam is committed to reward those players who have previously purchased one or more campaigns with exclusive, top-quality game content that won’t be available to anyone else. Spacelords comes to embrace all of them -Raiders and Antagonists- under one umbrella. So, the new brand is not going to change the game lore at all, quite the contrary. “But this is about the Aleph, a mythical substance from the Broken Planet, a substance everybody wants -the Raiders, the Antagonists, each of the invading human factions…- All of them know that whoever controls the Aleph, will dominate the universe as the ultimate Spacelord. On the Spacelords brand, “we felt that ‘Raiders’ only focused on one specific side of the battle for the Broken Planet: The Raiders,” adds Álvarez. Newcomers will find a huge, new Sci-Fi universe to get immersed into, while Raiders’ veterans will see their calls answered. The differences in all aspects go so deep, that the best way to communicate them to players is by re-branding and inviting everyone to experience the new Spacelords by themselves this 23rd of August. Spacelords is not just an update to Raiders of the Broken Planet it is a new game built on the back of Raiders. We’ve answered our community and hope this removal of any payment barriers will build our devoted community further” “Our vision is to see our game enjoyed by millions of users for years to come and putting all of the game's rich content into their hands for free is the way to realize it. “When we launched Raiders September last year, we hoped its low price point of 9.99 per campaign- would open it up to a large number of users, but it didn’t work as we planned” commented Enric Álvarez, Spacelords Director. Council Apocalypse includes four new unique missions and a new recruitable character, the cold and calculating Valeria, all of which will now be completely free. These changes coincide with the launch of the much awaited fourth campaign, Council Apocalypse, completing the first arc of Spacelords’ epic storyline. From August 23rd, Raiders of the Broken Planet is reborn as Spacelords, and becomes a totally Free to Play gaming experience. Independent development studio MercurySteam today revealed ground-breaking changes to their self-published shooter-brawler game.
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