This month, multiplayer RTS ZeroSpace moved from alpha to beta testing, and to celebrate, developer Starlance Studios will throw open the gates for a public demo from November 22nd (today) through 24th.
Of greatest interest to our readership will likely be the first draft of ZeroSpace‘s MMO-inspired Galactic War mode, in which players participate in co-op missions to contribute to a realm vs. realm-style territory control conflict. This early version of Galactic war features three missions and two playable commanders, one for the human Protectorate faction and one for the insectoid Grell.
Also included in the ZeroSpace demo will be 1v1 and 2v2 PvP matches, a co-op survival horde mode, free for all PvP, and skirmishes versus AI.
It won’t be the only StarCraft-inspired RTS offering a demo this weekend, though. Hot off its announcement of NFT integration (oof), Immortal: Gates of Pyre will also be running a public test during the same time period as ZeroSpace‘s. New features in this test build include skill-based matchmaking, unit voices, and a revamped HUD.
We’ve been following these games in our Not So Massively column for some time now. Immortal: Gates of Pyre‘s last test left a strongly positive impression despite its thin content, leading to a Backseat Streaming feature, but we were disappointed by its decision to pivot to blockchain-based monetization, leaving us to shift our hopes toward ZeroSpace.
