#SPACE PIONEER UPGRADE#
#SPACE PIONEER FREE#

When your character levels up you are granted a loot box with a random selection of cards and/or coins, but your character’s attributes don’t increase as this is only done through enhanced gear/weapons.

#SPACE PIONEER UPGRADE#

These cards are used to upgrade your weapons and gear and you need a specific number of cards for the weapon/gear you want to upgrade as well as a specific number of coins. Your character earns experience points at the end of each level and through upgrading your weapons and gear using weapon/gear collectible cards. Not only that, you have rewards and trophies you can earn through completing the tasks for each. Stars earnt from completed challenges are required to progress so you can open up new chapters with new levels. In each level you also have 3 challenges to complete, with a star earnt for each completed challenge such as defeat enemies with a specific weapon or keep your HP above a certain percentage. In a homage to Metroid each level is on a separate planet, and a number of planets make up each chapter with a couple of boss levels in each chapter. It is an isometric run and gun shooter where you play a bounty hunter who must travel through space from planet to planet to fight arenas of enemies and complete objectives to complete each mission.Įach level requires you to complete objectives to complete the level mission, such as find and power up a battery, protect a power station or defeat a mini boss.

#SPACE PIONEER FREE#

Polish mobile developer Vivid Games is the developer, and originally released this as a free to play mobile game in 2017. Space Pioneer is the latest game from Polish publisher QubicGames. So what happens when you have a game with loot boxes it doesn’t charge you for? Let’s find out. It is a hot debate in governments too with Belgium one of the countries to outright ban loot boxes, and many other countries investigating and debating whether they should follow suit. Opinion is quite divided on the matter, with some gamers embracing it, and some decrying the potential competitive disadvantage of those with deeper pockets. Only really in the mobile space has Nintendo experimented themselves with such mechanics in Fire Emblem Heroes, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp and Mario Kart Tour to name a few. Nintendo however has for now stood on the sidelines and watched how other publishers have implemented such mechanics in their AAA titles. As many gamers have come to expect from publishers such as EA (who lobbied loot boxes were ‘surprise mechanics’ at a hearing in 2019), when they see financial opportunity they go all in.

Where once you would own all the content of COD and FIFA outright when you bought those games, this is now no longer the case.

Gaming has been at a crossroads for a while now ever since loot box mechanics became embedded in more and more games. One of the biggest talking points of the last decade has been loot boxes in gaming.

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