About this time last year I was getting my hands on Dreadnought for the first time. The free to play game was YAGER's attempt to allow players to feel what it was like to go into combat with a giant space ship like the Enterprise or Battlestar Galactica. The game was still very early in development but I could tell it was going to be a lot of fun as the game had some great strategy elements, awesome weapons, and good looking graphics.
Fast forward a year and the team at YAGER has had the chance to polish the game significantly and add thing like the new Team Elimination mode. In this mode two teams of five battle it out with no respawns. However if your ship is destroyed you get to jump back into the game as a fighter to help try and win the match which is a nice change and allows players to stay engaged in the game after they've been taken out.
Here's a twelve minute video that shows off this mode in action as well as showing off the massive firepower of the ships (check out the missile salvos at the 5:35 mark of the video below). We still don't have a firm release date for the game but it is scheduled to come out by the end of 2015.
Today we’re very proud to share an all-new gameplay video from Grey Box and YAGER’s Dreadnought, the aerial armada action game scheduled for release on PC later this year. This video gives the first detailed look at the second multiplayer mode in the game, Team Elimination. It features commentary from Peter Holzapfel, Game Director, and Timm Boukoura, Game Designer, playing on the same team as they discuss the many varied tactics players will be able to deploy over the course of a battle, and play two of the three rounds.
The twelve-minute 5v5 Team Elimination match showcases what differentiates this mode from Team Deathmatch: players get one ‘life’ and once their capital ship is destroyed, it’s gone from the round. Matches are a best-of-three set, last-ship-standing style, but with a twist; when a player’s capital ship is eliminated, he or she will endlessly respawn back into battle as a smaller fighter jet, so no one will have to sit out and wait for a round to end. And these jets are much smaller than their dreadnought-sized brethren, and individually deal much less damage. But, as you’ll see in the video, when players team up and work together, a number of fighter jets can actually prove to be quite a problem for the other ships in the battle.
Dreadnought is set in a futuristic era of war and hardship, where players take on the role of a mercenary spaceship captain who owes allegiance to no nation, fighting for glory amidst a galaxy of chaos. Battleships in the game are massive spacecraft that come in varied shapes and classes. Commanders will assume complete control, dedicating power to specific subsystems, customizing weapons, engines, armor, abilities, crew and their ships’ aesthetics. The game will feature 5v5 multiplayer as well as a single-player campaign.
