Creativity and innovation to spare.
For a genre built entirely on the appeal of its characters, recent hero shooters have woefully lacked spice and creativity. Poor, forgettable designs have made recent failures and underwhelming hero shooters on the horizon look like trend chasers showing up years late to the party. However, there is one upcoming hero shooter that's doing everything right: Fragpunk. It's giving the genre a shot of adrenaline it desperately needs right now.
Shard cards are that gameplay twist: These are power-ups activated at the start of each round by acquiring points upon kills, deaths, round completions, etc. They are effectively cheat codes designed to break the strict ruleset you often find in competitive shooters. Lifesteal, when activated, heals you as you deal damage. Big Head gives all enemies big head mode for the round. Weapon Morph turns a dropped weapon into a mini turret that fires autonomously.
The heroes, known as Lancers, have unique abilities without exception. They don’t fall into the pitfall Valorant is in where all walls function in a similar way or every smoke looks and plays similarly. Fragpunk doesn’t want to create a balanced experience—at least not at that level of minutia, and that’s what makes it exciting.
Fragpunk feels alive in a way few other shooters in the modern era do, and in a way that feels strikingly out of lockstep with the sensibilities of AAA publishers who have been playing it safe for years. There’s a reason games like Fortnite and Apex Legends have had seasons that return to the gameplay and guns available at launch. It’s because they know it worked once, so surely it has to work again.
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