Ascendant FPS Features 3M Mod Combos
FPS game Ascendant offers 3 million mod combinations including grenade snipers and poison SMGs, plus 4-team capture the flag with rotations and hacks. The demo is currently available, emphasizing weapon customization and tactical variety.
- The game is developed by PlayFusion, a studio whose founders have ties to the development of the long-running MMORPG *RuneScape*. In late 2024, PlayFusion was acquired by Build A Rocket Boy, a company founded by a former president of Rockstar North. - Each match is influenced by a "virtual Game Director" that triggers dynamic events, ensuring no two games are the same. These events can include sudden airstrikes, the appearance of a massive, rideable, poison-gas-breathing creature called a "Burrower," or the deployment of a heavily armed vehicle known as the "Deathbringer". - The core game mode, "Battle for the Biocore," is a four-team, 3v3v3v3 twist on Capture the Flag that incorporates both player-versus-player and player-versus-environment elements. The first team to successfully secure two "biocores" wins the match. - Players have limited lives in each match, and if an entire team runs out of lives, they are eliminated from the game. This adds a layer of strategy to the otherwise chaotic gameplay. - In-game currency called "power" is earned by defeating NPC creatures and can be used mid-match at shops to purchase new weapons and gear for the entire team. - The game features a social hub where players can interact between matches. This hub includes a 1v1 duel mode called the "Thunderdome" where players can challenge each other. - The "3 million mod combinations" are part of a modular weapon crafting system that allows players to create unique firearms, referred to as "Franken-guns". To unlock new weapon attachments, players must spend captured biocores in the game's tech trees. - The game's narrative premise is that players awaken from a 1,000-year cryo-sleep into a post-apocalyptic "BioPunk" world. The main setting for the battles is a deserted settlement called Harmony, located under the shade of massive "earth trees".