Hello, Mercenaries!
Kept You Waiting, Huh? And the early access release is just around the corner!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2059170/Quasimorph/
For the past six months, we've been showing you our core combat system: first in End of Dream, and then in the demo. In early access, we've expanded it: added a bunch of new weapons, new classes, and new operatives with unique modifiers. But we'll talk about that some other time!
Because today, we'll tell you about the most important innovations and systems that you'll try for the first time very soon: October 2nd!
Corporate Warfare
So, welcome to the anarchocapitalist Solar System. States are a thing of the past: media, factories, cities, and even entire planets are owned by private corporations. There's a constant struggle among these corporations for assets: people, labs, industrial complexes, and information.
Each corporation has its own interests, goals, tasks, and development strategy. Not surprisingly, their interests often clash with each other, leading to corporate conflicts that need resolution.
Where Does PMC Fit into This Corporate Meat Grinder?
You are the tool for solving any problem. A direct conflict between corporations can lead to unforeseen consequences, so corporations are happy to outsource violent operations to people like you and your team.
Our main task before entering early access was to integrate a large system that would generate new contracts from corporations and allow you to participate in corporate warfare. Your reward will be reputation, information, and access to powerful tools, technologies, and equipment.
Your Opportunities
Let's take a look at the first screen you'll encounter after launching the game. What will you see there?
1. Stations
Each planet has a unique set of stations and special modifiers. For example, on Mars, for some mysterious reason, the Quasimorphosis processes have stopped, and demons cannot get involved in the conflict between corporations and interfere with you completing your contracts.
Access to stations depends on the planet's situation, your reputation, and the available contracts from corporations. There are three types of access statuses:
- Peaceful - stations you can visit to exchange goods or information. During early access, you'll want to visit them to exchange your items for those offered by the owning corporation.
- Closed for Visit - stations you can't visit due to low reputation with the owning corporation.
- Stations with Open Contracts - stations currently involved in corporate conflict, and one of the corporations issues a contract for its completion. Fulfilling the contract may lead to a change in ownership and a decrease in reputation for the former owner.
2. Stock Market
Corporations and their rivalries drive events in the Solar System. Corporations are also your clients, and it's essential to monitor their relationships and development to know whose side to take during conflicts.
In this section, you can find information about corporations and the progress of corporate wars: your reputation, technological level, and the power of corporations. You can also see potential rewards for completing tasks and bartering. Here are the key characteristics of corporations:
- Power - the cumulative rating from stations belonging to the faction. Influences the number of enemies on missions against this faction and the loot volumes that can be found on these missions.
- Technology - determines the equipment of enemies on missions against this faction and the number of simultaneously existing missions from this faction. It also expands the range of rewards for completing tasks and for barter. Over time, your clients' assortment will include more items.
- Status - market strategy.
- You can also check the list of active missions here.
3. Map
Here, you can view available contracts across the entire solar system, travel times to other planets, and embark on your journey.
Time is a valuable resource. While you travel, complete tasks, or produce new items, corporations are engaged in a series of ongoing conflicts that affect their position and strategy, and most importantly for you, the list of available contracts. Contracts open and close automatically, so if you see an available contract on a neighboring planet, it's worth comparing travel time to the contract's availability. You might not make it in time!
4. Barter
No one will officially trade with PMCs, and political realities also affect trade. Items aren't highly valued in the world of Quasimorph; your reputation is more critical. So, it's considered normal to exchange a pack of cigarettes for a laser machine gun, a rare chip with the consciousness of a legendary hero, or a new character class. All you need for this is a bit of perseverance and luck!
So, you want to engage in trading. Let's say you want a large backpack. On the Stock Exchange screen, you can see that the Realware company trades items and has a 25% chance of providing a backpack.
To complete the exchange, you need to find a station where you can exchange items that may remain in your possession after missions, such as batteries.
At the station, you'll find a terminal for the exchange process, next to it is a trader who can provide you with exchange rates. Here's how it works: place the batteries from your inventory into the Station Cargo, click "Exchange," and the exchange is complete. If you return to your ship, you can access your Cargo to transfer items from the exchange to your inventory. If your Cargo is full, you can depart and retrieve the items later.
What Else Awaits You at Release?
So, let's summarize what's waiting for you at the release!
It seems like this picture is part of something more significant! But we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. Consider it a small teaser, and we'll share more details closer to the release.
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There's less than a week left until your journey begins! Stay tuned!