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and steel series hey guys we're here at the Indie Mega Booth checking out load
out and as far as I can tell this game is about insane amounts of customization
and just mad amounts of insanity is there anything else you can add about
this game well I mean that's that's the basic thing yeah it's completely mad so
uh the big thing about it other than that is that um a lot of player
empowerment in terms of like being able to invent your own weapons so we've got
a modular weapon crafting system there's billions of combinations you put pieces
together and you invent whatever weapon you can invent with the pieces you got and there's some crazy combinations out
there really up to the player play Style and what you want to do with your weapon
and when he says billions of combinations he isn't exaggerating there
are actually billions of combinations so if you're the type of person that wants
to Tinker with things and make your own thing that's unique to you you can
actually do that with this game exactly you were describing something to me yesterday which was a sniper rifle that
shot rockets that blew up and healed people that's right yeah that's exct
when when they keep thing there is you also put the proximity Detonator on it
so that you can fire sniper grenades across the level they stick and then
when people need healing they can run by them and the proximity timer goes off
and it heals them in a in like a cluster of flak now all of those pieces there
that's a like I just described like eight different modules that make one gun you could change any of those like
you could change it to Fire and now instead of being healing it's an unfriendly surprise to the enemy uh yeah
it's that sort of thing there's no classes in load out so you really Define
your class by the weapons and your play style which is very cool because a lot
of people like I just said earlier a lot of people that like the customization part being able to make something that's
unique to them you can that that can be brought to the most ridiculous degree in
this game everything about this game like I said earlier Insanity the amount of everything in this game is insanity
um what's your favorite part about this game is it the customization okay so the
favorite my favorite part of the game is the fact that because of the customization you can play any role you
want so I am not good at the enclos fighting like I die a lot of the time so
I play more of a support role and I do two things with that one is I got a
healing gun that lets me stay at medium range and heal people so I can stay out
of the battle but still heal and the second thing I do is I like being a
sneaky jerk and so I've got a remote control rocket that I can fire all the
way across the level and blow people up so between those two I'm like this
interesting long range medium- range support guy and I don't ever have to get
into Close Quarters battles where I know I'm going to lose that's interesting
because a lot of people will complain in games and like similar to this style
that say someone will go sniper and they find they're not very helpful to the team even though they might be whatever
it goes back and forth but that sniper could shoot healing
bullets at that point in time he's Now helpful to the team exactly yeah you in
fact you could even have two weapons one's your sniper headshot killing and
the other is your sniper healing and now you're this weird sort of like combo
sniper if that's the role you want to play that's your class that you've made
do it you know that could be very effective something that you described
to me yesterday again was the guy that made the he he would shoot out grenade
mines things that would follow him around and then automatically go on a
laser target yeah and that's and that's part of the of balancing this game we've
had a great Community we can gather a lot of data on what they're doing what's effective so we can balance basically
with their help one guy made um he made a a laser guided missile bouncing
missiles he put bouncy on the missiles and then he would shoot out a whole
bunch of them all at once and then he had like all these bouncing Minions that
would follow him around the level and then because it was on laser guided whenever he wanted somebody to die he
would just point a laser at them and all the missiles would suddenly leave him
and jump on that guy and blow him up um which is pretty awesome strategy we had
to Nerf it a little bit but it's still a viable thing to do so that's very cool
and it's nice to see that you guys are actively responding to different things that people are going to create because
you think balancing more simple games is hard imagine having billions of
combinations and trying to balance that so I definitely understand it's still in
beta correct we are currently in uh Early Access so it's a closed beta early
access on Steam we're going to be going open Beta pretty soon here and of course
at Pax we've been signing up a bunch of people bring him right into the closed
beta so we can grow the community awesome that sounds good so if you guys
want to pick up load out check it out on Steam try and get your Early Access if
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