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271 2K Games wades into risky waters and announces a free-to-play hero shooter

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Lawrence Bonk @ Engadget · 10/17/2024 12:00 EDT

2K Games wades into risky waters and announces a free-to-play hero shooter

2K and developer 31st Union just unveiled Project: Ethos, a free-to-play 3rd-person hero shooter. It’s entering a crowded and fraught marketplace, but the publisher says this is an “exciting evolution” of the genre.
That evolution seems to take the form of some light roguelike mechanics. The playable characters evolve throughout each match, via semi-randomized upgrades unique to each hero. The publisher gives an example of evolving a sniper into a “close-range skirmisher” or a “support role into a powerful.

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