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Red Solstice 2: Survivors

Platform(s): PC
Genre: RPG/Strategy
Publisher: 505 Games
Developer: Ironward
Release Date: June 17, 2021

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'Red Solstice 2: Survivors' Joins Steam Game Festival With Multiplayer Demo - Trailer

by Rainier on Oct. 7, 2020 @ 3:17 p.m. PDT

Red Solstice 2: Survivors is built on the themes of the original action strategy game and upping the mood, gameplay, and strategy elements to new levels.

Red Solstice 2: Survivors blends real-time tactical action with in-depth strategy and planning in a world where humanity’s last survivors are beset on every front. Join up to 7 friends in online co-op mode and struggle to survive as part of squad-based battles that mix the fast-paced action of Helldivers with the thoughtful strategy of games like X-COM.

Earth is destroyed but life still lingers and the player’s goal is simple... Make it out alive and help humanity survive.

It’s the year 117 After Earth, and corporations rush to secure dominance over the last remnants of humanity. It’s up to you to take command of your squad, fight the powers that be, and find a cure to the virus that threatens to end mankind.

Across both a deep strategy layer and engaging real-time combat missions, players need to think on their feet to survive in this hostile world and determine the fate of the planet. Choose your mission, design your load-out, then take to the battlefield and lead your squad to victory. Red Solstice 2: Survivors is playable in single-player or with up to seven friends where you plan your strategy to infiltrate a real-time tactical battlefield. 

Can you show cunning in combat to stay alive, and fight for the future of humankind?

The Red Solstice is coming to Autumn Steam Festival with an update multiplayer demo from Oct. 7 until Oct. 13, 2020.

For those who played it during the summer you will be pleased to find the game has gone through vigorous testing, updates and improvements as well as a BUNCH of new stuff for you to check out!

New Map Terrain   
We have mixed up the way maps look! New sections for you and your team to explore as you purge the surface of mars from the mutated horrors that hunt you down. See if you can spot them all on your journeys!

New Class & Skills
This one we are very excited about; the Demolition Class is now playable! Do you like explosions? Do you like to evaporate your foes? Then the Demolition Class is for you! Specializing in ordnance deployment, the Demolition Mark VI usually engages targets of exceptional size or extreme armour configurations. They also devastate environments with ease, destroying cover, walls, doors… and just about everything else! Also we have added some new skills to the other existing classes in the game so make sure to try them all!

New Monsters
New Monsters? OH YES! Variety is the spice of life and we decided that Mars could be a little bit more horrifying! Moths, Drillers, Holers and also the Etaphreven. Also watch out for other Marines! These dude serve a different master and do not align with the same interests as you.

New Maps
Finally you can try out our two new maps Swamp & Mining Colony! Those who followed us during the PAX/EGX Online festival will already know how unforgiving these can be. Be sure to stay together as you roam the battlefield and defend against waves of enemies!

New Weapon
The Handcannon. A trusty side arm to aid you with blasting holes through mutated scum. This pistol holds up to 12 rounds and has a small range. It has devastating kinetic damage.

New Missions
Exciting new missions have been added to keep you and your team occupied as you try to survive. Monster Samples, Landing, Meltdown, Guardian Angel, Artillery, Ambush, Emergence Holes, Raining Metal and Gas Pressure. That should keep you busy, right?

Bestiary
Want to know how to bring down the biggest and baddest monsters? Head over to the Bestiary and brush up on your knowledge! Find out the weaknesses of each beast, it will aid you well and help you survive on this unforgiving mission.

Ironward’s focus with The Red Solstice 2: Survivors is iterating on the tight corridor combat of the original further to create what they truly believe is a great leap in claustrophobic isometric gameplay. Coupled with a focus on improved combat is the deep mood set by the sci-fi alien homage prevalent in design and a completely new layer of the strategy tools players will use in-game; adding technology development, resource collection, and world map combat mission choices.

Key Features:

  • Capture & Research: Capture mutants, add them to your bestiary and research powerful new technologies to become even stronger.
  • Survival strategy: Tactical combat missions are underpinned by a strong strategic layer that spans over time with a single goal: the survival of the human race. 
  • 8 player coop: Play solo or join up to seven friends; join existing campaigns or invite others to sign up to your own. Share research and resources, play together, and ensure the survival of the planet. 
  • Strategic base: Customize and evolve your character; research and upgrade new technologies and combat suits; prepare assets for deployment on the battlefield - artillery, tactical nukes, reinforcements, dropships and much more.
  • Tactical real-time combat: Deploy alone or with other players into tense real-time tactical battles. Manage your resources, explore an open map, and secure areas of safety. 
  • Fight the biomass infestation: Fight a spreading biomass that changes the environment and has a mind of its own.
  • Unique classes: Choose between 8 classes, each with a specific gameplay style and skills.
  • Hot Join: Call for mid-game reinforcements from your friends list, and have them drop down right into the midst of the chaos.
  • Dynamic single-player: Seamless transition between singleplayer and multiplayer, friends can join you with their own technologies or you can join and help them in theirs. Play campaign alone, get stuck, invite your friend and then defeat the enemy, or join your friend campaign anytime.
  • Strategy Layer: This is where you plan your next mission, establish communications, equip and manage your squad, and research new technologies.
  • Consequential Decisions: Faced with difficult decisions, saving innocents or rushing to capture that new technology. your decisions will influence how the world sees you. Choose carefully, Executor.

Red Solstice 2: Survivors is in development and set to release “when it’s ready” on PC (Steam)!


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