How can you make a shooter more strategic? The folks at Ratloop Games Canada answers that question with the use of timeloops.
Lemnis Gate was revealed at Opening Night Live 2020. Published by Frontier Foundry, Lemnis Gate is a PvP FPS for 2-4 players where you get to play a character for 25 seconds. It’s turn-based, so one players goes first, and the next player goes after- but each turn starts at the beginning of the same 25-second timeloop.
So what you are doing is essentially setting up plays for one character, see what the opponent responds with, then when it’s your turn you can counter that and make a bigger move, and then see how your opponent responds that. Ratloop Games is calling this feature “auto-co-op”.
This can be seen in the reveal trailer here. You can see three turns being played.
It’s part shooter, part strategy game, all within the confines of a 25-second timeloop. A full match will see all ten operatives on each side fight on, but only controlled by either two players (1v1) or four (2v2).
Frontier Foundry is the new moniker for Frontier Publishing, the publishing arm for Frontier (previously Frontier Developments). Frontier Foundry is publishing Lemnis Gate, the recently released co-op game Struggling, and the upcoming new game from Surviving Mars developer Haemimont Games.
Lemnis Gate will release in early 2021 for the PS4, PC and Xbox One.