Greetings, Privateers!
The dust is settling after the big launch trailer announcement, and things are moving right along here at the studio. This week, we’re gonna take a look at the choices you have available to you for classes. The combination you choose can make quite a difference in the way your squad takes on different situations. The classes in Pixel Privateers are as follows:
- Vanguard: Your vanguard is your tank class. His muscle will get in between the squad and danger, and help keep other squad members alive. Vanguard tools include the kinetic shield, microwave shield, and assault frame.
- Scout: The scout is designed to throw a wrench in the enemy’s works with long range and stealth combat. He sports tools such as biocide sprayers, target markers, and holoprojectors
- Engineer: Your engineer is a critical member of your team, sporting the ability to hack locked doors and gain access to areas that would be off limits. In combat, he’s your crowd control, with his bots, turrets, and smoke bombs helping keep your team from getting overwhelmed. His tools include several varieties of bots and turrets, and weapon jammers.
- Marine: Marines are there to pack a punch with raw damage, and help the rest of your team do likewise. Tools for the marine include haste fields, auto-reloaders, and nerve-gas aerosols.
- Medic: Medics are there to save the day. Tools for the medic include nanobot injectors, bioscanners, m-phase boosters, and defibrillators.
By mixing your squad with a variety of classes and tools, you can fine tune your squad to a play style that suits you. Whether it’s steamrolling the enemy with heavy vanguards and marines, sniping from afar with scouts and engineers, or attempting to save the universe with nothing but medics, you have plenty of options at your disposal.
Not only are you free to customize your crew as you clone or hire them, you can also swap out the class at any time, by simply equipping a new tool. It’s important to note, however, that the crew member’s stats remain the same. That former medic with low strength might not be an optimal vanguard in the future. This is also a factor to consider when cloning, in order to ensure that the character you get fills the role you’re looking to fill.
As you can see, Pixel Privateers offers plenty of freedom to find the right crew, and make the experience truly your own. Thanks for reading, everyone, and we’ll see you next time for more QD News!