The features that were meant to lean on Amazon's ownership of the streaming platform Twitch are also no more. If your teammate dies, you can temporarily fight with another player, but you'll be forced to fight against each other if you both make it to the final three. The eight teams of two fight to be the last team - or solo player - standing. It feels like the battle royale focus Crucible had back in 2016 has been relegated to one of the three modes: Alpha Hunters.

There's an emphasis on gathering resources, levelling up your character and working closely as a team to defeat AI-controlled aliens as well as enemy players. There is a 4v4 mode, an eight teams of two mode, and an 8v8 mode. I got the chance to play it for a few hours, and it's more MOBA than battle royale. Now, Crucible is a free-to-download, team-based third-person shooter. Three-and-a-half years later, as Crucible nears its launch as Amazon's first ever internally-developed PC game, it's clear things have changed - dramatically.

And, it was said, viewers on Twitch would be able to interact with the 'gamemaster' as well. Not only that, it was said that because the world is dangerous, players would have to work together, and make or break alliances on the fly.Ĭrucible was also supposed to have a 13th player - 'a new type of player' - who can broadcast and directly impact the game by creating events. When Crucible was announced in September 2016, it was billed as a 'last one standing third-person shooter' in which 12 hunters enter an alien hostile world, but only one emerges victorious.

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