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Via VGC​

The build, which is named FWChaos, was uploaded over the weekend and claims to be a build dated November 14, 2023.

If this date is accurate, it means the build was compiled nine months before the game's launch in August 2024.

VGC has downloaded the build and can confirm it appears to be authentic.​

Loading the game displays a login screen that can't be bypassed. However, the build's uploader has also included an .ini file, which enables a developer menu. When this is applied, the game loads directly to a Select Freegunner screen.

From here, it appears the player can go no further, because no Freegunners appear on the screen, meaning nobody can be selected. It is at least possible, however, to enter a pause screen and from there access the Main Menu, where numerous menus can be viewed.

This includes a partially completed Galactic Guide, which provides information on the galaxy's various planets, and a Crew section, where information on the game's 16 playable characters and their variant outfits can be found.​

It also includes a Job Board (which just has placeholder text) and a Store option, which doesn't do anything, as well as a Settings menu containing developer options such as Developer Matchmaking and a style guide for the game's various fonts.

Given the game's online requirement, however, it doesn't currently seem that it's possible to get beyond these screens or choose a Freegunner to play the game, meaning that unless enthusiasts find a way to get the build running a proper game, these unfinished menus are all the build provides.​

 

[Guilty_AI]

This somehow looks less bad than the release version. Still bad tho.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

It still has pronouns in the character select; guess that decision was made early on in development

 

[Mattyp]

Let them cook, they'll get it working in some way for us again.

 

[Dazraell]

Men_in_Boxes is so back

 

[SJRB]

Still can't believe those character designs.

I'm just in awe how they all thought they struck gold with this dogshit.

 

[Moses85]

Maybe better than the released game

 

[Fake]

Still trash.

 

[diffusionx]

 

[MrRibeye]

The black girl on the first image looks cool. The clothes, the rifle, the 2006-2008 brown X360 shooter vibe. A gritty space shooter.

Then you scroll down and it's a gay clown show. What happened bro.

 

[MiguelItUp]

It's still so weird to see excellently detailed character/player models, but their designs all look like they were AI generated, lol.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

It's still so weird to see excellently detailed character/player models, but their designs all look like they were AI generated, lol.

They probably were.

 

[Reaseru]

It still has pronouns in the character select; guess that decision was made early on in development

Of course it was. The entire game was build behind that ideology...

 

[MiguelItUp]

They probably were.

Honestly, it's why I always said/thought that. They always looked AI generated to me as something about them all just looked off.

 

[Paasei]

 

[RCX]

It still has pronouns in the character select; guess that decision was made early on in development

Well, duh! They had to do the "important" stuff first.

 

[Saber]

And people still think those pile of garbage were salvable.
The problems were deep in the root, hence why the initial concept arts were dramatically changed and thats why it still has pronoums. Lack of maturity and getting priorities straight. This project was doomed from the start.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

And people still think those pile of garbage were salvable.
The problems were deep in the root, hence why the initial concept arts were dramatically changed and thats why it still has pronoums. Lack of maturity and getting priorities straight. This project was doomed from the start.

Might not be dead just yet

 

[Fake]

Might not be dead just yet

Will be back just like Morbius.

 

[LordCBH]

Still can't believe those character designs.

I'm just in awe how they all thought they struck gold with this dogshit.

It's what happens when you only hire and listen to the 5% of people who are completely and totally mentally insane.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

The black girl on the first image looks cool. The clothes, the rifle, the 2006-2008 brown X360 shooter vibe. A gritty space shooter.

Then you scroll down and it's a gay clown show. What happened bro.

Ironically her (the black girl, forgot their name) and Haymar were two of the stronger designs in the final game.

Might not be dead just yet

How is that even possible?

 

[Chuck Berry]

Ironically her (the black girl, forgot their name) and Haymar were two of the stronger designs in the final game.



How is that even possible?

It's The Professor!

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Ironically her (the black girl, forgot their name) and Haymar were two of the stronger designs in the final game.



How is that even possible?

It's The Professor!

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Might not be dead just yet

It's back and it has a single player mode? Megaton.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

It's back and it has a single player mode? Megaton.

Single player mode

 

[Shadowstar39]

Still can't believe those character designs.

I'm just in awe how they all thought they struck gold with this dogshit.

It's reset era the game. Well its what happens when that is the site they go to look for what the public likes. You get this turd.

 

[Xyphie]

How is that even possible?

You just need to have the game installed. If you launch it and it sits on some "Server down" message it still counts as playing the game.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Oh my God, like who cares? "High profile first-party Playstation game that was so bad when it came out it was turned off and delisted two weeks after going on sale, was also really bad when in development prior to release"

Like, what are we even doing here?

Put the game out again completely free and just with ads. Let it live or die based on no expectations of needing to make any money, and just be there purely for those that want it/ a title to fill the catalog. Only cost involved is maintaining a small amount of servers.