Ever discovered your self enjoying Cities Skylines and considering: ‘what would this be like if it was after an enormous, planet-ruining apocalypse?’ It occurs on a regular basis, proper? Proper? Effectively, Endzone 2 solutions that query completely, and because it seems to develop out its characteristic set throughout its Steam Early Entry interval, it’s simply dropped its first main replace that brings electrical energy and upcycling to its Fallout-esque wastelands.
The primary Endzone sport did a superb job at making a compelling metropolis constructing sport inside an irradiated, post-nuclear catastrophe world, however Endzone 2 needs to push issues even additional. Moderately than providing only one large map that your single settlement can develop throughout, Endzone 2 encourages you to enterprise out and uncover varied ‘liveable zones’ scattered across the wasteland. This implies now you can have a number of settlements to handle and commerce sources between. The addition of automobiles additionally make such commerce routes doable, and your trusty bus is used to seek out the preliminary plot of land you begin your journey with.
Developer Gentlymad Studios isn’t executed there although, as in its new replace two important options have been added to the sport.
The primary is electrical energy – little question a significant and uncommon useful resource in a post-apocalyptic world. Now you can assemble wind generators, photo voltaic panels, or biogas crops to generate your electrical energy, relay stations to distribute it, energy traces to move it, and even large batteries to retailer up your valuable volts. With this energy at your fingertips, not solely are you able to now gentle up your settlement however you can even create extra helpful facilities, resembling a water pumping station or a steelworks. There are a few new electricity-themed missions too.
The second – and for me, the good – is upcycling. No, we’re not speaking about turning an previous purchasing trolley right into a mattress body or one thing like that. That is extra about dwelling out the post-apocalyptic fantasy by discovering rundown ruins of essential buildings, taking them over, and restoring them in a makeshift method with no matter you’ve bought handy. Constructing shacks from scraps of wooden and steel that you just discover is nice, however I at all times adore it when apocalypse video games do one thing artistic with current, pre-disaster structure or offer you these relics of the previous to stumble throughout.
When discovering new liveable zones, chances are you’ll now come throughout rundown homes and warehouses that may be commandeered. You may as well discover previous wind generators which might be restored to offer electrical energy or mines that may offer you sources.
The brand new replace for Endzone 2 is out proper now. The sport is at the moment in early entry, however you’ll be able to decide it up with 20% off and browse extra about it over on its Steam web page right here.
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