Starship Troopers: Extermination Announced, Features 12-Player FPS Co-op
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Offworld Industries have announced Starship Troopers: Extermination, a first-person shooter that features 12-player co-op gameplay. The game is inspired by the 1997 film and is expected to hit Steam’s Early Access sometime in 2023.
Here’s a quick description of the game according to the Starship Troopers: Extermination Steam page.
Starship Troopers: Extermination drops up to 12 players right into the fight against the Bug menace in this co-op first person shooter. Suit up and ship out to a far-off front as a Trooper in the Deep Space Vanguard, an elite Special Forces group within the Mobile Infantry. It’s up to squads like yours to battle against hundreds of bloodthirsty insectoid aliens and take back fallen colonies for the Federation. The only good Bug is a dead Bug!
No Trooper stands alone. As soon as the dropship hits dirt, your trusty Morita Assault Rifle and fellow Deep Space Vanguard Troopers are all that will keep you alive while exploring the hostile surface of the planet Valaka. Work together to complete objectives, acquire resources, build and defend a base, and then escape to the extraction point together.
The shooter will feature gameplay for up to 12-players with a squad of 4-players each. Each mission will have various objectives while fending off waves of Arachnid bugs, in which during Steam Early Access will have five types: Drone, Warrior, Gunner, Plasma, Grenadier, and Tiger Elite.
Each mission seems to be large in scale as there will be a map with five unique zones to navigate through, likely to emulate the sense of being overwhelmed by waves of enemies coming at you, like in the movies.
What’s interesting is the ability to build defenses such as walls, towers, or even ammo stations to fortify a position.
There’s currently no official footage of the game in action but the concept got me interested and I would like to know more about this co-op shooter, but you can take a look at how the game looks by the screenshots shown below.
In the Early Access FAQ, Offworld Industries mentions that they expect Starship Troopers: Extermination to be in Early Access for at least a year and that price for the game will likely rise when it leaves Steam’s Early Access.
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