Starship Troopers: Extermination
Starship Troopers: Extermination Receives Update 0.4.0 - Relentless Hordes
Posted August 02, 2023New Westminster, BC, Canada - Aug 2nd, 2023 — Listen up, Vanguard! Today, Offworld Industries, in collaboration with Sony Pictures Consumer Products, have announced the second update to the Early Access release of Starship Troopers: Extermination (ST:E), bringing new features and substantial additions to the core gameplay experience. Update 0.4.0 is the most comprehensive to date, adding Horde Mode: a brand new survival-based combat mode that pits players against swarms of enemies that gradually increase in difficulty, creating the ultimate test of your skills and wits. Fortify your base and mow down legions of invading Bugs, then take a step back to manage your customizable player profile, racking up stats to earn bragging rights as the number-one exterminator in the galaxy.
Update 0.4 introduces player stat tracking and player profiles, allowing Vanguards everywhere to better tabulate their personal extermination metrics. This first version brings in core stats—such as total kills, revives, deaths, wins, losses, and extractions—while more stats will be added in further updates. Think there’s a specific enemy type you’ve destroyed more than others? These player stats will tell you what you’ve exterminated with extreme prejudice, along with other designations like kills per weapon type, and can be filtered by both Game Mode and Class.
By working closely with the community players through Early Access, the Offworld Industries team has enlisted all ST:E fans to help determine what features and mechanics to build upon and evolve before the game’s eventual transition into 1.0. Player feedback continues to be integral to the ongoing creative process, as Offworld Industries works to iterate upon prevalent requests and continues adding more and more content in the weeks and months ahead.
The Early Access edition of Starship Troopers: Extermination, as of the Relentless Hordes update, is currently available for $29.99 USD—a special price that will increase as more content is introduced ahead of the 1.0 launch—reflecting the game’s stage of development, and puts players on the far-off front lines in an all-out war with the Arachnid menace. Squad up as a Trooper in the Deep Space Vanguard, an elite Special Forces group within the Mobile Infantry, and get ready to stomp some Bug! No Trooper will ever stand alone as they line up shoulder-to-shoulder with their fellow Vanguards—trusty Morita Assault Rifles in hand—to battle against hordes of bloodthirsty insectoid aliens on the hostile surface of the planet Valaka.
Work together to complete objectives, acquire resources, build and defend your base of operations, and then escape to the extraction point together. The battle will be intense but, as hardened warriors standing for all of humanity and the United Citizen Federation, leave no inch of ground safe for the Arachnids!
Other Key Features:
- Cooperative Gameplay - 16 players can team up in squads of four to defend their base, complete objectives, gather resources, and try to kill every Bug in sight.
- Three Playable Classes - Choose from Hunter (Assault), Operator (Support), and Bastion (Defense) classes to best suit your playstyle and support the rest of your squad.
- Build Defenses - Construct walls, towers, ammo stations, and more using resources acquired from planetside refineries.
- Class Progression System - Unlock new weapons, equipment, and perks for each class to become an elite warfighter among the Deep Space Vanguard.
- 5 Unique Bug Types - Encounter Drone, Warrior, Gunner, Plasma Grenadier, and Tiger enemy Bugs during missions.
- Escalating Infestation Levels - Increasing Bug threat levels during missions bring bigger and more dangerous enemies to the fight.
- Large-scale Battles - A massive map with five unique zones, and swarm-based combat with hundreds of enemy Bugs on screen delivers the sense of an overwhelming planetary war.
- Ground War - Retake bases and refineries, deliver resources, and complete a variety of side objectives to wrest control of the map away from the Bug menace.
- Ping system - Communication is key! The ‘Ping’ system gives players a quick and easy way to call out points of interest, objectives, incoming enemies, and more to teammates.
