I’m one of those people who always wished C&C Renegade was a more popular game than it actually was, and so the idea of a squad FPS crossed with an RTS sounds real good.
Eximius is an indie game within the Square Enix collective that’s basically a tactical FPS mixed with some real-time strategy. Teams are split into five players each, with one player taking control as the commander (a bit like Natural Selection) and the other four on the ground, much like a traditional FPS.
Teams win by either holding territory for long enough or destroying the enemy base entirely. It’s pitched for an early access release mid-next year.
The developers also livestreamed a regular match a fortnight ago, which gives a better idea of the flow of the game.
This is the kind of game I would have loved playing at LANs. Whether there’s still enough support for it in 2017 is another matter, although given the success of stuff like ArmA, Squad and to a different extent, PUBG, you’d think Eximius should find an audience.
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