“Outpost: Infinity Siege” Merges Tower Defense, FPS Gaming Genres; Offers Attractive Customization, Despite Challenges

Lightning Games is a strategy action game created by Team Ranger.Outpost: Infinity Siege” on your PC (Steam) will be released on March 27, 2024.

This game is a combination of tower defense, real-time strategy, and FPS elements. Players must command and modify their own customizable mobile outpost, the Outpost, as they battle through battles against a terrifying group of invading machines.

It is equipped with game modes such as Survival, where you explore various maps in a roguelike style and collect resources to strengthen your outpost and more powerful equipment for your character, and Endless, where you continue to fight against surging enemies. You can also collaborate with other players online to complete various missions.

In this article, we will deliver a preliminary play report of “Outpost: Infinity Siege”. Please note that the screenshots in this article are from the pre-build version and may differ from the product version. For playing and taking screenshots, we are using the Steam version provided by Lightning Games.

Overwhelming despair comes from the sky

The story is set in the near future, where humanity is carrying out an operation called the Starfall Project to confront the threat of invasion by a force called Mechanos. The story begins with a tutorial where players learn basic operations through missions in which they participate in operations.

The game is divided into an FPS mode where you move and fight alone, and a command mode where you construct and give instructions on weapons and facilities at the facility. The player and his friends bravely fight against a large number of enemies falling from the sky, but the mission fails due to the overwhelming amount of material and the base is destroyed.

Several years later, humanity, which has suffered great damage, builds a new base in the wilderness called “Phoenix.” From then on, the player will control the new commander Fei as the main character and take on missions to collect supplies from this base. In the first mission, you will learn how to play strategies using the outpost, such as exploring the map, collecting collected supplies, and fighting an endurance battle to escape.

However, during the mission, a problem occurred and the outpost's system went down. As the Mechanos army approaches, they manage to complete their mission with the help of a mysterious support AI and successfully protect the outpost and supplies. In this way, the story of this work begins from a new base for humanity's counterattack.

Outposts can be used for defense and recovering supplies!

The most important element in this game, the Outpost, is a mobile base that serves as the player's base during missions. The main objective of the mission is to move through each area with the outpost in a rogue-like manner, fulfilling the objectives there, and finally returning to the starting point and successfully recovering supplies to the base while outrunning the enemy waves that await you. It is located in

In the exploration area, which makes up most of the game, the main objective is to find quest items in a target map with multiple locations and bring them back to the outpost. Outposts can be equipped with equipment such as “turrets'' to intercept enemies and “ammunition manufacturing machines'' to manufacture ammunition for players/attack facilities at the preliminary design stage, but then additional equipment can be added as temporary equipment. You can build turrets and barricades that stop and damage invading enemies.

Two resources are important for construction: the outpost's “resources” and “electricity.” Resources can be obtained by defeating enemies and acquiring some objects.

Electricity is an important resource that is used to activate machines and doors discovered during exploration, disassemble objects that can be used as resources, and to move around mission areas. If you run out of power, no matter how bad the situation is, you have no choice but to shift to the supplies recovery part and fight your way back to your base.

So, during the mission, we have to think about how to save power. Surplus resources can be converted into electricity, but be careful as you may be unable to build facilities or manufacture ammunition.

Items such as materials, weapons, and craft parts that you discover during your exploration can be stored in a temporary warehouse or in your inventory, and you can take them back to your base after completing the material recovery part. However, except right before the material collection part, you can only send a certain amount of items to the temporary warehouse for each area, and your inventory is never large enough. It's not always the right thing to try to take every item home, so it's important to be selective.

Additionally, the player's main firearm has a modular structure, consisting of a core and each attachment. What kind of attacks can be performed with the firearm and the characteristics of those attacks are determined by reinforcement parts called “XEN”. Additionally, you can switch between multiple attacks with a single weapon, so you can use one weapon for example to use rapid fire bullets like an SMG, powerful bullets like a sniper, or range attack bullets. In addition, various ways of fighting are possible, such as character skills.

After successfully obtaining the targets in all areas or running out of power, you will return to the starting point and the final part of collecting supplies awaits you. As a result of calling in a recovery team, the outpost must be defended for a certain period of time from the Mechanos who rush in to stop them. This is the main element of the “tower defense” part of this game. Once the collection is complete, head to the escape point to complete the mission.

During the material recovery part, support robots found in the exploration area or obtained as rewards for clearing the area will also come in handy. There are even mechs that players can pilot!

Renovate your outpost to survive!

There are many NPCs in the base “Phoenix”, and you can strengthen and remodel the player and the outpost with the supplies collected in missions. Of particular importance is research for outposts. By unlocking and creating new buildings and incorporating them into your outpost, you can be a great addition to your next sortie.

You can customize your outpost in a variety of ways, including incorporating parts you've created such as turrets, building a strong fortress using armor plates and stairs, and changing the color to make it your own stylish base. A photo mode is also available for the outpost.

This work basically consists of missions and battles centered around outposts, so you have to think about how to strengthen them. Not only materials but also blueprints are hidden in various locations where you can sortie. You can also respawn in areas you have cleared, so use this to collect necessary items.

As the story progresses, more research, facilities, and game elements will appear, and operators other than Fei and a variety of equipment will become available.On the other hand, it is a work that has very large penalties for mission failure and character death, including the loss of all equipment.Announcement from developmentIt has been.

When taking on tough missions, you must survive by making careful preparations, such as strengthening your outpost and equipment, and playing multiplayer with friends. It's also important to explore thoroughly during missions. It is possible to sell the quest items and cash exchange items you brought back from the warehouse even at the beginning, but we recommend that you save them as much as possible.

Also, while there is no problem when playing with friends, please note that public multiplayer searches for this work will only be available after the game has progressed to a certain level.

“Outpost: Infinity Siege” is not only an FPS, but also a router shooter that strengthens the character's equipment, a tower defense that allows you to research and expand outposts, and set up temporary camps during the material recovery part, as well as modern roguelike games and escape shooters. It combines various game elements such as exploring areas and collecting items.

The great thrill of this game is the exhilarating feeling of tower defense, where you have to fight off an overwhelming amount of enemies. Many items are unlocked as you play, allowing you to enjoy a variety of customizations that suit each player's style.

However, even though it's a tower defense game, it's hard to tell which direction the enemy is heading, and there are some items that I don't know how to use, so I can't help but feel that some elements are a bit lacking in explanation (this may be due to the advance build…). Due to the nature of the game, it can't be helped that it becomes complicated, but since it is a work with a large penalty for failure, I hope that some kind of measures and follow-up that can be used from the beginning of the game will be added in the final version.