Scavengers begins open early access period for all players on PC

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Midwinters announced on its official Twitter that the free-to-play 3rd-person battle royale-like title Scavengers has begun its early on access menstruum on PC, making it available for all players on both Steam and the Ballsy Games Shop.

Scavengers showtime striking early on access final week, but it was just available through keys distributed from Twitch Drops. The drop result ran into several issues, however. Viewers could only obtain a Steam primal past watching a thirty-minute gameplay segment on Twitch, only some who did tune in didn't receive one. Midwinters somewhen ran out of Steam keys and had to start distributing Ballsy Games Shop keys instead. On top of that, at that place were some server issues that caused crashes. In response to these issues, the studio made the game'due south early admission freely available.

Midwinters released a deep-dive gameplay trailer for Scavengers to celebrate, which serves as a handy springboard for new players needing an introduction to the game's story and player-versus-player-versus-environment game mechanics. The championship is prepare in a postal service-apocalyptic world infested with an conflicting virus, afterward an asteroid's standoff with the moon results in constant and devastating wintertime storms.

According to Midwinter, 100,000 people are playing Scavengers as of now — quite the achievement considering the technical hiccups along the way. And the official site states that hereafter updates for the game volition introduce new seasonal objectives, modes, characters, enemies, map locations, and more.