Outlier Games has today announced the release of its first early access update for multiplayer spaceship management roguelike: This Means Warp. The update will introduce new game modes, and an advanced difficulty setting, along with new enemies and missions for players to encounter as they race across the galaxy.
Combining the best parts of multiplayer action with tactical roguelike gameplay, This Means Warp sees players (and up to three friends) make a perilous journey across the galaxy, engaging in hectic, real-time space battles, and more strategic non-combat encounters to better survive in an unforgiving universe.
The first update focuses on bringing greater replayability to This Means Warp with new game mode scenarios to unlock – curated experiences that change up the gameplay with different rules for each new run. Each scenario completed unlocks the next, all the way up to “Custom Mode” where players can edit the variables themselves and create their own challenges.
Players that have beaten the game once on “hard” difficulty will be able to unlock “Nightmare” difficulty, the first of an escalating scale of Nightmare modes designed to be played until they are no longer beatable, all featuring progressively more powerful enemies and harder all-around gameplay. The update will also introduce minor tweaks like crew experience, allowing crew members to increase their stats throughout a run – and a clutch of new enemies and mission types to add variety to any run.
This Means Warp is currently available on Steam Early Access for £12.39/$15.99 from May 2nd.
