Finndustries announced on April 8th that they will be releasing the ““Tank Team” has been announced for a fee upon its official release. The official release is scheduled for April 10th local time, and is expected to cost between 3 and 4 pounds. Based on Steam standards, the sales price will be around 400 to 500 yen. A site that provides information on free distribution of PC games.Japanese pine aviaryis telling.
“Tank Team” is a PvP tank battle game played by teams. Team up with up to 8 people and share control of the tank while battling against other teams’ tanks. Inside the tank, there are various devices that rotate the gun barrel, load and fire shells, refuel, etc. Also, you can only see what’s going on outside by looking through the periscope. It will be important for each person in charge to operate the tank while communicating with each other.
Game modes include Free For All, where all players other than your own team are enemies, and Group mode. There are multiple maps included, such as the desert, the rooftop of a skyscraper, and the inside of a huge tank, as well as maps with gimmicks. In-game text and voice chat features are also available. The game is lobby-based, and you can join a public lobby, or set up a lobby and invite other players with an invitation code.
This work will begin early access distribution as a free work on February 22, 2024. At the time of this writing, it has collected approximately 40 Steam user reviews, of which 100% have achieved a “very positive” status. Although the number of customers is small, it is steadily gaining popularity. In addition to its cute art style, the game has been praised for its hectic and important role sharing and communication, and for the fact that it’s fun to play with friends.
On the other hand, as a multiplayer work, the player base is not very encouraging, which is also pointed out as an issue in user reviews. Most recently, on April 6th, we had 67 simultaneous Steam users, but the rest have ranged from a few to 20 people (SteamDB）。
It has now been decided that this work will be officially released on April 10th local time. As previously announced at the time of the official release, the game will be paid for in order to provide continued support. It appears that there are plans to proceed with development over a long period of time (the vast amount of time) using the proceeds from the fee-based system as funding.
By the way, in the past there have been various works on Steam that have been distributed for free or have become paid. For example, one of the reasons for charging for the open world RTS “Fragment’s Moonrise” was that “Although there are many additions to the Steam library, there are not many users who download and play it” (related article). Tank Team, a game that has received high praise but suffers from the problem of a small player base as mentioned above, also has the aim of selecting “actual players” and attracting more users. Maybe. It will be interesting to see whether or not the game will be able to attract more players in response to this paid announcement and future developments.
“Tank Team” is available on PC (Steam) is currently being distributed free of charge. It will be officially released on April 10th local time, and is expected to retail for 3 to 4 pounds. Based on Steam standards, the sales price will be around 400 to 500 yen.
