Evidently sport studios scent Overwatch 2’s blood within the water as a result of we’ve acquired one more addition to the staff vs. staff hero shooter sub-genre. Say hiya to Harmony, a 5v5 FPS from developer Firewalk Studios and writer Sony, which acquired a full preview throughout the latest PlayStation State of Play showcase.
“In Harmony, you play because the crew of the Northstar — a gaggle of guns-for-hire identified in our galaxy as Freegunners. The Freegunners roam the celebrities taking high-stakes jobs on worlds throughout Wild house, the place they face different fiercely aggressive Freegunner crews. From match-to-match, you’ll kind your staff of Freegunners with different gamers and battle it out with rival crews to take residence the reward throughout a wide range of maps and modes.”
Harmony is promising a sport that’s each acquainted and deep sufficient for shooter followers however nonetheless approachable for brand spanking new gamers, with a spotlight much less on intention and thumb stick management and extra about talents.
Harmony will provide 16 completely different characters at launch, with archetypes like snipers, large bots, mystics, and gunslingers, whereas talents can vary from in-the-moment assaults like fireplace partitions or thrown daggers to longer-term issues like deployable partitions, protect domes, and traps that persist by rounds and respawns. The sport additionally guarantees an “evolving universe” that expands on character tales and provides new maps, modes, and Freegunners. Or to place it one other approach, it’s a reside service title.
Launch of Harmony is ready for Friday, August twenty third, on PlayStation 5 and PC, although plans for a beta take a look at someday earlier than then are within the playing cards. Till then, a gameplay trailer awaits beneath.
