Emptyvessel, a newly formed independent game studio, has announced DEFECT, a cyberpunk squad-based multiplayer FPS.
Despite being formed by ex-Call of Duty and Doom developers, the game is supposed to be a tactical shooter with objective-based gameplay. So, unfortunately, there’s no mindless running and gunning in this cyberpunk hellscape.
The game's announcement on X has garnered exclusively positive reception from fans of the devs' prior work.
According to the studio, DEFECT will have co-op and PVP modes where 4 player squads pick a faction and fight it out for control over the "last city of mankind, where THE SYSTEM, an authoritarian artificial intelligence, rules with inhuman logic."
Though the trailer, serenaded by Mick Gordon's tunes, showed little in the way of thorough planning and objectives, the full game will reportedly have "multiple objectives with different finales," reminiscent of Overwatch and Rainbow Six Siege.
Players will get to play as a corrupt police force or blood-lusted gangs as they smuggle guns, assassinate targets, and arrest suspects.
The game's being developed using Unreal Engine 5, so expect to fight through photo-realistic cyberpunk alleyways, hallways, buildings, and more; and since Emptyvessel's CEO is Emanuel Palalic, Doom and Quake...
