It looks like a new game from Valve is on the horizon. Thousands of players have received invites for a game called impassea team-based shooter that includes multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) elements. While Valve has yet to officially announce it, screenshots, gameplay, and even playtimes have already started appearing online.
As of this writing, Valve has not announced in any way whether or not the game is theirs. It also appears that no effort has been made to remove impasse From Steam, where over 15,000 people were playing it on Tuesday, According to SteamDBThe all-time high, reached on Monday, was 18,254 players.
It is unclear for how long. impasse It is now available to play, though. One user on the game’s subreddit claims: They’ve been playing for months. Screenshots and gameplay clips on platforms like X and YouTube It’s been floating around for days.
Despite Valve’s silence (the company did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment), the mystery could be a boon for the game. The developer is behind critically acclaimed hits like Half life, outletand Citadel Team 2Valve is notoriously secretive, often in ways that only serve to fuel hype around its titles. Players have been waiting for the next installment of the game. Half Life 2 For nearly two decades, with little or no information from the company.
according to The Edgewhich published a hands-on preview of impasseIt’s a 6v6 shooter reminiscent of Blizzard’s Overwatch“Your team of heroes tries to control the map by slowly draining the opposing team and pushing them back,” wrote Sean Hollister in his preview. “But you also lead an army of NPCs on four different paths to destroy the opposing team’s static defenses, which is kind of like Dota 2 “Or other MOBA games.”
Holster has since been banned from the game, possibly because of his article. In one of the pop-up messages he posted at the game’s launch, he warned that the game was still in “early development” and asked players to “not share anything about the game with anyone.” (Holster says he was able to circumvent this approval by pressing the Escape key.)
Online, some gamers were upset with The Verge for its reporting on the game, which currently requires an invite to play, but it only seems to have increased interest in it — whatever that may be. He – She It ends up happening.
When, and will, impasse Will it be available in a wider release? That’s still a mystery.
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