Imagine that everything on the planet has been completely obliterated. When nature ultimately collapsed, all of its inhabitants, including the plant and animal life perished. The levels of pollution reached such extreme proportions that they were eventually responsible for the destruction of human civilization. The remaining population is scrambling to find refuge in the harsh environments. Cops are the only ones who can disperse technology, resources, and digital money in these situations. Decimated lets you become one of these cyborg cops. Are you ready to decide how civilization will survive in this chaotic world?

• Blockchain Platform: Solana Blockchain
• Developers: Fracture Labs
• Genre: Shooter
• Available In: PC
• Status: In Development

DEVELOPMENT

Decimated is an upcoming Unreal Engine 5–powered multiplayer shooting role-playing game (RPG) that can be played on the Solana Blockchain. It took a team with more than 14 years of experience over 4 years to produce this game. A strong team of seasoned programmers and developers makes up Fracture Labs, an indie studio that is responsible for this project. Members of the team have been involved in some massively popular games, including DOOM, Halo Wars, The Division, and Evolve. The team is in partnership with the team that created the Halo platform and 5518 studios who just recently was involved with the release of apex legends. Anyhow, you can add Decimated to your Steam Wishlist right now, and when the playable alpha is released in 2023, you'll be among the first to know.

GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW

The game will feature third-person Player versus Environment (PvE) and Player versus Player (PvP) combat on a 64-square-kilometer (km2) terrain that may be traversed by land, sea, and air vehicles. You may also salvage technology, repair vehicles, find cryptocurrency, build bases, fortify shelters, and trade in this hostile post-apocalyptic environment. Enemies include other players trying to survive, plus NPC’s such as malfunctioning robots, bio-monsters and mutated creatures. Moreover, you may choose in all kinds of roles such as the following:

• Hacker: This character can decrypt information stored in encrypted systems.
• Medic: Complex surgical procedures are no problem for cyborg doctors to perform in the heat of combat.
• Mercenary: This character has a 25x zoom helmet that has an AI assistant. Mercenaries manage all kinds of weapons.
• Marauder: Marauders can get into any fighting battlefield and get anything out of it securely like a ghost.

TOKENOMICS

There will only be one type of token in the game, which will be called DIO represented by the symbol Ð, and based on the Solana blockchain which will be integrated into Unreal Engine to enable digital currency and digitally scarce virtual items that you can buy, sell and trade with other players. The currency is to act as the main means of exchange inside the Decimated game, and what will give value to all other items in the game. So the price of a vehicle, a weapon or a consumable will be reflected in DIO.

OVERALL IMPRESSION

Based on the videos and screenshots I found online, I can confidently state that the map in Decimate is really gorgeous. It appears that a lot of effort has been put into the development of the world, which is always a very big plus in my book. I just really hope that it doesn't make too many sacrifices to the gameplay, as there needs to be some sort of balance in everything. Nevertheless, I do hope that they will be able to still expand their map size through an update in the future since I think that to actually build a game with this much potential and detail, you need a map that will keep players active for months at a time.

Moreover, based on the videos I've viewed, it appears that the project team has established realistic physics rules that permit devastating melee, firearm, and explosive battles amongst players. This will add immersion to their game. As a result, many individuals who don't care about crypto may adopt and play this game.

Overall, Decimate’s images and teaser videos online look very sharp and refreshing for a blockchain game. However, everything that has been presented so far is only provisional and will be improved or worsen as the game launches. But I believe that if the team will continue to get the design right and if the trading and economy works out how they planned it to be, then this game may get a good size user base in the future.