Meet Your Maker: First-Look Preview
Dead by Daylight developers Behaviour Interactive gave us an extended look at what they’re cooking up next, and it couldn’t be anymore different. Meet Your Maker is set in a sort-of rustpunk post-apocalypse where the last survivors of the human race shoot and slice each other to get their hands on the most precious resource imaginable: pure genetic material. The setting is maybe the most mundane thing about this game though. Design-wise, it hopes to blend two seemingly incongruent genres to make a truly unique online experience.
Meet Your Maker is really two sub-games in one: a base-builder and speedy dungeon shooter. In the first bit, you build your outpost full of winding paths and traps like bomb ejectors and spiked walls to keep the genetic material prize safe from incoming player-raiders. From the footage it’s tough to see just how big these things can get, but they appear to be massive. There are also several different materials you can build with, but we can’t say for sure what the benefit of one would be over another. When you’re done creating your death fortress, you can populate it with AI guards that can handle various forms of gunslinging and bladeswinging to stop oncoming raiders in their tracks. You can even set the paths they patrol on. All very cool and creative stuff.
This seems like A LOT to learn, though. It feels like so much trial and error is involved in getting something like this right that without a great tutorialization at the beginning, I can see lots of people skipping this feature completely to just shoot up the more diligent and determined players who didn’t, similar to how Dreams has more people playing Dreams creations than doing the creating themselves. That said, there are a lot of
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