Destruction AllStars gets ‘substantial changes’, may be going free-to-play

videogameschronicle.com:

PlayStation 5 exclusive Destruction AllStars has received a new update that makes “substantial changes” to the game, almost a year after its release.

However, the update process appears to have also revealed potential upcoming plans to make the game free to play at some point.

The version 3.0.1 update was released on Wednesday with Lucid Games telling players it features “quite a substantial amount of changes”, including balancing tweaks which “will be changing the way everyone plays” the game.

During a maintenance period when this update was implemented, however, the game may have revealed some clues that a free-to-play version is coming.

Reddit user Mr_WeeWoo noticed that during the maintenance period, the names of the in-game challenges were replaced with their internal code references.

Many of these challenges included an ‘F2P’ prefix, such as “BS_F2P_CHALLENGE_SLAM_FWD” and “BS_F2P_CHALLENGE_PERFORM_A_GOLD_SKILL”.

Destruction AllStars was originally planned to be a $70 PS5 launch title, but its release was delayed and publisher Sony chose instead to make it available through PlayStation Plus at launch at no additional cost to subscribers for two months.

Following this period, the game’s price was set at $19.99 / £17.99, which it remains to this day.

A continued struggle to secure a sizeable player base, however, may have encouraged Sony and Lucid Games to adopt a free-to-play model to bring more new players in.

PlayStation’s recently acquired Firesprite studio has taken over Lucid Games’ unannounced Twisted Metal reboot and poached its game director, VGC reported earlier this month.

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