DEFECT GAMEPLAY REVEAL

Thank you to our wonderful community for your patience while we’ve worked towards our gameplay reveal at Galaxies Showcase

What you all see is a small slice of the immersive cyberpunk action that we hope to showcase more of as we move forward with development and towards launch.

So, what do you see in the trailer?

We begin as The System’s Police Forces during our load-in sequence aboard the police transport ship via your PDA. This is how every mission for the police begins and will be a key tool for you while you’re in the middle of matches by providing health, inventory and other key pieces of information during matches. Since we are a HUD-less game, information in your PDA, Scanner, Weapon Screen or game world become very important for you. While you’re mid-transport you’ll choose an objective and receive further intel from System Control.

You’ll be able to gear up for the match with choices found inside your police transport or gang hideout such as weapons, ammo, and gadgets. And some of those weapons have some pretty devastating impact…which you may have seen on our socials. There will also be a wealth of weapons and gear that can be found within the game world as well.

The sequence continues with system forces entering the territory of Nodrog - one of the leaders of a gang faction who speaks and taunts System Police throughout the mission. He also monitors them using surveillance systems that players will be able to hack into themselves during their runs.

Players can deploy scanners that see through walls to provide valuable recon information on enemy locations and objectives. You’ll also notice the stealth wall tool which can visually obscure you and your teams presence and a drone you can deploy to gain even more intel on enemy movement.

Our squad continues into a room with the data they must retrieve. There’s an orchestrator(more to come on this character at a later date) - highly illegal tools at the disposal of gang factions - in the room which gives a taste of the kind of advancements in bio-technology that have become commonplace in the world of DEFECT.

As our squad advances to another piece of data, they are ambushed by Nodrog’s forces and you get a sense of destruction and the chaotic action that emerges as a result of conflicting objectives for you and your opposition - in this case, the gang that attacked you. Those could include arresting or kidnapping players, assassinating players, or some more passive goals like robbing banks or dealing drugs etc.

We’re happy to dive into more of the destruction features in a later post. However, to name a few, we have multiple layers of destruction on each wall or item, and have features like dynamic dust that fills the room the more you destroy it. This can be used strategically to reduce visibility in a space if you have equipment like the tactical goggles, or as a way to quickly escape a dangerous situation. Everything you see will be destructible to some extent. You might have also noticed the player flipping a table which is an example of the layers of interaction we’ve built into certain items to create cover and block paths as well to create a more interactable world for players.

When one of the gang members makes a run for it, a System Officer is able to subdue him with a stun round and then replace the gang member’s mind with a previously