Badlands Crew will let you build and operate your own adorable Mad Max war rig for tactical post-apocalyptic shenanigans
Runner Duck, developer of Space Crew and Bomber Crew, has revealed the next entry in its series of simmy roguelites: Badlands Crew. Badlands Crew will see you building and operating Mad Max: Fury Road-style war rigs as you ride out and pacify a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and it's set to launch some time in 2024.
The Crew series offers challenging tactical battles where you wrangle an entire, well, crew full of chibi little guys operating grand war machines—WWII-style planes in Bomber Crew, and fully classic starships in Space Crew—with chaos and disaster being the order of the day. In addition to the change in setting and bringing the series to solid ground for the first time, Badlands Crew will also introduce extensive vehicle customization.
Jon Wingrove, technical director and co-founder at Runner Duck, told me that the focus in Badlands Crew's vehicle building will be less on Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts-style physics interactions, but rather the stats and interdependent systems of your rig in a way that reminds me of FromSoftware's Armored Core series.
«The player will have to think about the weight of the vehicle, but also about the usage of space on the trailers and how their crew will get around,» Wingrove told me. «Some more advanced weaponry will require support systems such as air compressors, which take up space and can become damaged and need repair.» In addition to the mechanical tinkering, Wingrove also said that players can «paint almost the entire vehicle» however they want.
This customization will also extend to your team on the vehicle, and unlike other crew games, there are no set roles for these characters. Wingrove said that characters will level up as they participate in successful missions, with
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