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Fractured Space is a MOBA where players command gigantic spaceships, capture resource points, destroy opposing vessels, and claim the enemy base.
Contents.Story Set in the year 2161, Fracture tells the tale of a which has been split into two sides, the and the, by rising water levels caused. The Atlantic is devoted to advancing the technological prowess of humanity, while the Pacific is devoted to enhancing the. When the xenophobia reaches an unfortunate peak, war erupts, and an army from the Atlantic is dispatched to deal with the Pacific force. Players control Sergeant Jet Brody as he leads his attack team against the Pacific force. His first target is Alcatraz Island, where Brody is able to test all the Pacific's found weapons. Both the Atlantic and the Pacificans have a trade monopoly in the area to promote the sciences.Jet Brody is ordered to capture Sheridan, the Pacifican commander, the player's team is ambushed and Sheridan escapes.
During the pursuit in a dropship, the ship is shot down, and Brody is the only survivor of the crash. After evading enemies, he meets up with a squad of Atlantic soldiers. The squad infiltrates a Pacifican bunker, but most of the members are killed shortly afterward.
After fighting through the bunker alone, the player discovers HYDRABALLS, a new, highly explosive Pacifican weapon. After destroying a large number of the weapons, the player breaks through and takes an elevator to a secret underground facility, where the player locates and destroys key manufacturing equipment. After destroying the equipment, the player aids an allied squad in capturing the from Pacifican forces and fixing another bridge using multiple spike grenades. The Golden Gate Bridge is captured, but a giant, 1,000-foot-tall (300 m) machine called Dreadnought awakes from the Bay and destroys most of the Atlantic forces, then marches towards the East Coast invincible to aerial attack.The player is taken out of San Francisco to a remote Pacifican base in the desert, where he is supposed to find information about destroying the Dreadnought.
Along the way to the communications center the player fights a new enemy, the ground-burrowing Creepers, and shuts down the base's defense systems by destroying power generators. Brody also destroys both the radar systems and their generators, therefore knocking out all Pacifican communications. At this point in the game the player is required to use the Lodestone, a vortex-creating weapon, to solve platform puzzles by creating magnetic vortices. Also introduced are the super-fast Cheetah soldiers, who can move from place to place in the blink of an eye. Next Brody encounters a creature called the Bolla, a large -like monster that throws boulders and charges the player.
After killing the Bolla Brody is given an Alliance vehicle, the TDV1, that has an automatic turret and terrain deformation powers. Using the TDV1, the player is supposed to jump large pits of toxic chemicals and destroy the base's supercomputer, while fighting Pacifican soldiers and another Bolla.At this point the base's supercomputer goes on meltdown and starts destroying the base, just as the player receives another TDV1 to escape to a landing pad. Sheridan escapes, this time with some of the toxin, and locks a traitorous biologist, named Marico, in a prison cell guarded by a Pacifican squad. The player must destroy the Pacifican forces and rescue Matsuharo before proceeding to to destroy the Dreadnought and take down Sheridan.
Another boss creature, the Spike Hydra that can create personal, is encountered as well as another Bolla as Brody brings the defense shields back online by connecting the generator beams together. Brody breaks the Dreadnought's shields and destroys it from the inside, then kills Sheridan in a final battle to destroy the Pacifican Army.Gameplay Fracture's unique selling point is its.
The player has futuristic weapons, both in the form of guns and grenades which can raise or lower the terrain. This ability allows the player to create cover, jump to areas not normally reachable, and launch enemies into the air and into ceilings. Examples are the entrencher, the tectonic grenade, and the subsonic grenade.The player can collect data cells to unlock a weapons testing facility and the weapons within it. Notably, the game requires puzzle solving using terrain deformation.Music Music for the game was co-composed by Chad Seiter. The score was produced by and conducted. It was recorded by Peter Fuchs, mixed by Steve Smith and performed by the.
Reception ReceptionReview scoresPublicationScoreN/A4/10N/A4/1028/4028/407.5/107.5/10N/AB−B−6/106/10N/A7.2/10GameZone7.5/10N/A5.9/105.9/10N/A7/10N/AC−C−N/A(mixed)Aggregate score62/10063/100Fracture received 'mixed' reviews on both platforms according to the website. In Japan, where the game was ported and published by on 30 October 2008, gave it a score of one seven, one eight, one seven, and one six for a total of 28 out of 40.criticized Fracture for taking multiple features from other shooters such as,. The site described character Jet Brody as 'perhaps the single most derivative character in the modern age of gaming, a direct combination of the heroes from Resistance/Mass Effect/Gears of War/Too Human. If the narrative weren't so staunchly heavy-handed, I'd put my money on Brody being a literal parody of shooter-genre character.'
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. Removed Infection from Coop. Removed Bots from PvP games. PvP now matches all players in one band and MMR will be adjusted to match.
Added in Point Defence active widget to HUD. Increased size of text across game, and added drop shadow to increase readability. Fixed Chat so hitting Ctrl + Enter immediately opens All Chat. Fixing Gamma variants so that Gamma 3 correctly unlocks home base jump points.
Fixing issues with Dynamic bundles so they can be correctly purchased (affected Awakening legacy pack and emote bundles). Correctly localised the sunsetting message. Infection Episode packThe episode pack returns for Infection, this time the pack will only be sold for 1 Credit however – ensuring everyone can enjoy it at virtually no cost. That’s close to 9000 platinum’s worth of content for just 1 Credit.The pack contains all of the following, instantly unlocked upon purchase:. Two Hazmat Ship Skins (Ghost & Equalizer). Two Vorax Ship Skins (Gladiator & Disruptor).
The Infection Hangar. Limited edition Deal With It and Popcorn emotes. A limited-edition Badge and Nameplate.
3 x Dark Crew Pods. Coherent to UMGConversion of UI from Coherent to UMG, removal of Coherent from in game (Coherent is still used as our front end).After investigation into performance improvements for the game, we found that Coherent was taking up a lot of rendering time, especially in large fights when a lot was happening on screen. We also found there were frequent minor lag spikes that we couldn’t pin down or remove.So we made the decision to switch to UMG, which has involved an entire rewrite of the HUD. We have done our best to keep the HUD design unchanged.A redesign was in the works, but phase 1 was to get the HUD working and looking as close to the Coherent version as possible, to reduce disruption to players.Ultimately, we switched to UMG to make the HUD faster and gameplay smoother. General ChangesJump system re-workThe jump system has been reworked, replacing jump home with a 2-charge mag system instead. You'll still be able to use 6 to jump home, but you'll also be able to use normal jump to access these home points as well.
In addition, you'll also be able to jump immediately after already using a normal jump.Tooltip reviewAll loadout tooltips have been reviewed and updated to match the current values that exist in-game.Added Legacy Episodes to drafting vote and custom gamesWe've added in the option to vote for any of the past 5 episodes (Plus default conquest) to the drafting Gamemode vote in PvP games. You can also select any of these for custom games too.Ability IconsAbility Icons will now display a warning when disabled by Ability Disable or Disarm.Daily RewardsDaily rewards have been removed entirely from the game. Known Issues. Rarely at the end of a game the Options menu will be open behind the Results screen. This can be resolved by pressing Escape until the Options menu appears and closes. Sometimes the map will appear to display you or allied players as an enemy (red instead of yellow). Player pings on the map will not appear at the correct location in the sector.
The 'Ultimate Leaf on the Wind Ben Edition' logo doesn't exist in the Hangar or Drafting.For the full announcement on the sun setting of Fractured Space, please see here:https://steamcommunity.com/games/310380/announcements/detail/955193937. October continues to be a rubbish month for free-to-play games, especially niche ones. The latest to take a hit to the warp core is Fractured Space, Edge Case’s free-to-play MOBA-like take on capital-class space combat. Announced on Steam today, the studio are officially ending development on the game and moving on to other projects. As of the next and final episodic update to the game – Infection – premium currency is being removed from the game, and all items will be made purchasable using the in-game currency.
Servers will remain online for “the foreseeable future”.(more). Infection will be our last update.After long deliberation, the very hard decision has been made for us as a studio to move on from further development of Fractured Space; this will enable us to look towards new projects. Whilst no additional content, updates or patches will be released for Fractured Space, we do plan to keep the servers online for the foreseeable future, so everyone can continue to play the game in its current state, with all its current modes.As a part of this update, all Platinum will be stripped from the game - any Platinum you currently have stored in your account will be converted into Credits at a rate of 550 Credits per 1 Platinum. All items that were previously sold for Platinum will now be available to purchase with Credits (such as Ship Skins, Bundles, and Credit Boosters).
With this release, the Infection Episode Pack will be available to purchase for just 1 Credit. Steam DLC will no longer be purchasable from within the game, from the Steam Store, or from authorised third-party vendors. However, existing unredeemed keys will still be redeemable in Steam for the content advertised when the key was purchased.It's been an amazing and emotional journey, we wouldn't be anywhere without our incredible players - you've been awesome to us. We thank you for all the support over the years, and for the fantastic memories we'll hold dear to us for the rest of our lives. And remember, we always had Gamma.GGWP, CaptainsEveryone at Edge Case Games. Conquest: AwakeningFollowing the destruction of the artefact shard at Sigyn’s Breath, shockwaves from the explosion reached as far as the site of the original artefact discovery; Sudenica DA-9C.The resulting blast had awoken something beneath the surface of the site; an ancient artefact, something alive.This ancient relic became known as the “The Eye”.Corporations have now set up nearby bases of operations in an attempt to contain this power for their own research.Newton Siddis has tasked us in ensuring the corporations don’t get their hands on this tech.
Legacy EpisodesIntroducing Legacy Episodes – previously released Fractured Space episode packs available again for purchase with all their exclusive content and that episode’s game mode unlocked to play in Solo.Legacy Episodes can be browsed and purchased under the new Legacy Episodes page on the store. There, you will be able to explore each episode, browse its content, watch trailers, and catch up on the lore across the current storyline of Newton Siddis and the power of the Ark’ain.Once a Legacy Episode is owned, that episode’s mode will then be playable as a solo game mode. Select ‘Solo’ then ‘Legacy Episodes’ in the game mode selection screen to access these.Players who had bought the Episode Pack when that episode was originally available will instantly have access to the solo mode when it becomes a Legacy Episode.The first Legacy Episodes available as part of The Awakening update will be Last Stand, Episode 1: Discovery, Episode 2: The Rift, and Episode 3: Catalyst.Legacy Episodes are available at 2000 platinum each.As part of this feature’s release, the Last Stand Campaign and the Last Stand Campaign Pack will no longer be active. If you had previously bought the Last Stand Campaign Pack, any unearned rewards in the campaign will be automatically gifted to you. If you had not bought the Last Stand Campaign Pack, fear not – all the exclusive rewards from the Last Stand Campaign are now in the Last Stand Legacy Episode Pack and are unlocked instantly upon purchase.Also - Please note that playing a Legacy Episode in Solo does not track progress towards Medals or their attached unlocks, such as the Last Stand Badges and Swarm skins. This will currently be the case for all released and subsequent Legacy Episode Packs. Custom EmotesNow available - Custom Emotes grant you the ability to emote outside of the chat command wheel.
12 new emotes have been added to the game, including “Fist Bump”, “This is Fine!”, “Go Team!”, and “Salt”.8 of these emotes are available in the store. They can be purchased separately for 200 platinum each, or bundled up in the Emotes Bundle Vol. 1 at a 40% saving for 960 platinum.2 separate custom emotes are included as limited-edition items in The Awakening Episode Pack, and the last custom emote can be earned as part of The Awakening Episode Rewards.Chat wheel functionality has been expanded to accommodate the new wave of emotes. A second wheel, accessible via the Campaigns menu, can be customised with any of the emotes that you have unlocked; these emotes can also be bound to a key of your choice. The new emotes wheel can be accessed during a match by opening the chat wheel and selecting RMB.
The Awakening Episode PackThe episode pack returns for The Awakening with a phenomenal offer – The Awakening Episode Pack contains the TDS Vengeance Aegis ultimate skin but will still be sold for 2000 platinum. That’s 1600 platinum cheaper than an ultimate skin is regularly sold at on its own.The pack contains all of the following, instantly unlocked upon purchase:. TDS Vengeance Aegis ultimate skin.
The Awakening hangar environment. Limited edition Captain Jonesy and Skull & Crossbones emotes. A limited-edition Badge and Nameplate. 3 x Crew Implant PodsThe Awakening Episode Pack will only be available for purchase until 18th October.
The Awakening Episode RewardsEarn free rewards for playing The Awakening game mode in COOP or PvP. Play enough before the expiry date and earn yourself a FREE ultimate skin – the new TDS Aegis Vengeance.Here are the current reward tiers – only completable by playing The Awakening game mode:. Play 6 Matches – “The Eye” Emote.
Play 25 Matches – ‘Ark’ain Eye’ Badge and ‘Conservators Charge’ Nameplate. Play 60 Matches – The TDS Aegis Vengeance Ultimate SkinThe Awakening Episode Rewards will expire on 18th October 2018 and will need to be completed before then. General ChangesChat Command Emotes – Now in Drop PodsThe first batch of Starter Emotes released as part of the Catalyst update are now available to be earned in Drop Pods. All seven emotes, including ‘Good Luck, Have Fun’ and ‘Gamma Time’ will be Uncommon rewards and be earned at a rate equating to roughly 1 in 13 Drop Pods.Any emotes earned in Drop Pods that you already own will burn for 80 platinum.Profile Page Re-DesignThe profile page has had a re-design, with many of the options now being collapse-able to keep everything neat and tidy.Cloud savesLocal data (crew setups, ship loadouts, emotes etc.) is now saved in the cloud. This means you will not lose any of this data if you move PC’s, or reinstall the game.
Please note however, that hardware and keybinding settings are not saved in the cloud this way.Voting auto ready upIf 60 percent of players vote for the same gamemode in drafting, it skips the vote and goes for the majority vote to save time.Removed the Last Stand game mode from Co-opYou’ll still be able to play the mode via the Legacy pack once purchased.Status Effects/HUD ChangesStatus effects are now visible above the hud tags of turret platforms (e.g. Home base turrets, Endeavor turrets) and base cores (e.g. Discovery base core).Also, the Ally status widgets (on the left side of the screen) and the status effect text above your current target are now both enabled by default. BalanceWatchmanRailgunRemoved 120ppd x 4 charge multiplier and replaced with 480ppd flat damage with no charge system.Damage falloff improved to gradually reduce to 50% from 7,000m to 5,000m.Projectile speed increased from 19,000m/s x 1.185s to 20,000m/s x 1.125sVoid CannonRange increased from 7,500m to 8,000mProjectile Speed increased from 15,000 to 20,000mDevelopers note: This Watchman change has received honest feedback, some positives can be taken but a fair amount of negatives. Whilst these balance changes are intended to improve its current position we will continue to look at how its kit performs and how to improve it going forward. Keep the feedback rolling in. CatalystAs it turned out, the distress call located in The Rift was nothing but a well-devised recruitment ploy, organized by Newton Siddis himself.
He was never in any real danger, but was in fact, sat in a nearby cargo ship containing the very reason he came to The Rift - a shard of an Ark’ain Artefact.All that’s required now is to escort Siddis and his Payload to his Research Facility, located in Sigyn’s Breath; trouble is, a few factions have caught wind of his findings, some of which will do anything to stop his experiments on such a volatile substanceFocus the Payload and secure the victory in Catalyst. Work as a team to escort the rigged Artefact to the enemy base in this new single sector mode.
Kaboom!Be sure to keep control of the two Mining Facilities located in Sigyn’s Breath to ensure that you and your Team have the upper hand over your opponents in levels while also trying to push the Payload as far away from your base as possible.You only have fifteen minutes to escort the Artefact as far as possible, if at the end of the time no one has successfully delivered the package, the team who has pushed the Artefact further will be declared the winners. EmotesChat wheel commands in Fractured Space now have the ability to beam a holographic emote above your ship in-game.All players will have access to the ‘Affirmative’ emote for free.
Select Affirmative on the chat wheel, and the emote hologram will appear in-game for your team to see.Each command on the chat wheel has a corresponding emote – emotes can be unlocked via purchasing them individually in the store for 200 platinum, or as part of an emote bundle. The Starter Emote Bundle available in the store nets you all seven emotes at a 40% saving against buying them individually.An exclusive Catalyst ‘Push Payload’ emote is also available to earn for free in the Catalyst Episode Rewards.Coming in a future update, you will have the ability to add and unlock custom emotes not tied to commands on the chat wheel.Owned Emotes can be viewed in the Profile page, under the Emote heading. Store AdditionsGalactic Express Ship SkinsDesperate haulage company ‘Galactic Express’ have entered the fold to help push the payload for any paying clients. Join the company now and fly the Galactic Express livery in-game.Galactic Express Heavy Skin Pack – 2079 platinum.
Gladiator. Leviathan. ColossusGalactic Express Attack Skin Pack – 2079 platinum. Furion.
Hunter. EnforcerAlso, four other Galactic Express skins available in-game via the Catalyst Episode Pack and Episode Rewards.Only available until the 28th August 2018Listen out for any upcoming events in August for your chance to earn some not-yet-released Galactic Express skins.
General Changes. Subtitles are automatically enabled when changing the game language from English. Subtitles now exist for the majority of in-game videos, and for game mode narrators.
There are also subtitles in-game for Flynn’s VO Lines if the user has Flynn enabled as their main crew member. Cap sphere’s around mines and home bases have now been updated to have less of an impact on performance. This has changed their visual appearance in-game. Re-worked the pools of AI captains for co-op players. There should now be fewer matches at the highest level of difficulty.
Adding a plethora of new ship nameplates. These are obtainable from drop pods. Nameplates are now sorted by categories for easier navigation. Balance ChangesWatchman - ReworkedPrimary Weapon(LMB)Replaced the volley fire Watchman Cannon with a single shot Railgun.RailgunMax Range: 22,515m (1.185s x 19,000m/s)Optimum Range: 7000m to 22,500mReverse Damage Falloff: 35% damage dealt from 0m to 7,000mBase Damage: 120ppdCharge Damage Multiplier: 4xThe Railgun auto-charges and fires a single shot projectile at long range. It deals less damage at close range.Secondary weapon(RMB)Replaced Charge Cannon with Short-Range Void Cannon.Short-Range Void CannonRange: 7,500m (0.5s x 15,000m/s)Base Damage: 10 ppdVolley: 4Base Cooldown: 0.33sThe Short-Range Void Cannon is an active short-range weapon. Fractured Space official site finally warped out of the safety of the early access nebulae this month, making it a ripe target for the RPS fleet. We sent Brendan to do battle with the interstellar MOBA and tell us wot he thinks.A few years ago there was a game called Stellar Impact.
It was a MOBA set in space and it was pretty good. But, for whatever reason, it couldn t compete with the Dotas and LoLs.
The playerbase dissolved into nothing. It got to the point where, if you bought the game, you would find only a sorry derelict the servers abandoned, the chat boxes silent. Fast-forward to the present day and you ll see Fractured Space rumbling into sight, louder, bulkier and bristling with firepower.
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Each Monday, Rob Zacny picks through the detritus of early access to separate the games might one day be assembled into something worthwhile from those which should remain on the scrapheap.Capital ship warfare is my favorite kind of pornography. I’ve watched Master and Commander a dozen times or so, but sometimes I put the disc in the drive just to watch the part where Aubrey gives the order to run out the guns and let fly on the French raider. I’ve watched the episode where Battlestar Galactica assaults New Caprica more often than I’ve watched any other part of the third season.
When The Expanse came out this year, I wasn’t sold on the show until the episode where a Martian flagship perished in a pitched naval battle.Fractured Space official site and developer Edge Case Games get where I’m coming from. visit site to read more.
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