Meet Your Maker is Behaviour Interactive’s newest title; they’re recognized for Useless By Daylight, which popularized the style of asymmetrical horror and managed to garner an enormous, passionate fanbase.
Meet Your Maker is a gameplay-first form of title and it explains the story very briefly. The gist of issues is {that a} plague worn out nearly the complete planet, and also you now work for a chimera which may be the salvation of the human race.
The chimera, nevertheless, nonetheless must evolve by being pumped with genetic materials, which you will have to steal from different gamers. In order that’s principally it; you wish to defend in opposition to different gamers, and different gamers wish to defend in opposition to you.
Meet Your Maker
Developer: Behaviour Interactive
Writer: Behaviour Interactive
Platforms: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, and Microsoft Home windows (Reviewed)
Launch Date: April 4th, 2023
Gamers: 1-2
Worth: $29.99
The way in which to defend your self is by constructing your individual base, which serves as an impediment course that results in your genetic materials. The purpose is to maintain gamers from reaching the tip of your degree and escaping efficiently.
Each degree in Meet Your Maker is one other participant’s base, making the sport’s levels solely user-generated. This might usually spell catastrophe, however Behaviour has gone to nice lengths to make it unattainable to create an unbeatable degree; extra on that later.
Gamers can design buildings in no matter method they need, including traps and guards in no matter format they see match. One peculiar factor is that gamers don’t really need to finish their very own ranges to submit them, which implies that something you create could be revealed so long as there may be an out there path to your genetic materials.
Meet Your Maker performs not like another FPS as a result of method that the majority ranges are designed. Traps will probably be cleverly hidden above or behind you, more often than not in a blind spot, and this forces the participant to maneuver by way of ranges in essentially the most paranoid method potential.
I by no means checked out partitions, ceilings, and textures in another recreation as a lot as I did in Meet Your Maker, as a result of paying consideration would be the distinction between life and demise, particularly for the reason that participant dies in a single hit.
Because of the nature of user-created content material, Meet Your Maker doesn’t precisely have an issue curve; it’s extra of an issue curler coaster. Some ranges may have you caught for an hour, whereas others you’ll full in lower than two makes an attempt.
Gamers will normally construct their base in one in all two methods: the primary is thru a linear degree that can twist and switch to catch you unexpectedly; the second is what’s known as a “Killbox”. The Killbox is a degree normally comprised of 1 or two rooms with an insane quantity of traps inside, meant to overwhelm the participant.
The target of your base is to rack up as many kills as potential, which makes it so gamers can’t construct ranges which are really enjoyable to play, as an alternative turning creativity into murderous intent. This does find yourself hurting the enjoyment of the degrees, although.
Traps and enemies may also have modifiers connected to them, which can be utilized to alter how they work. The most typical one you’ll discover on enemies is plating, which defends them from melee assaults and requires a headshot to truly kill them. Plated enemies are very well-known within the Killbox designs as a result of the beginning weapon shoots with an arch, which makes sniping them from a distance excessively tough.
That mentioned, the sport does have a visible indication for when a lure has activated or an enemy is firing at you, in addition to an explosion radius for bombs. These small quality-of-life additions give the participant some combating change in opposition to an onslaught of weaponry and enemies.
Nearly all traps are capable of be destroyed, so this results in some ranges the place you simply spend some time breaking traps and slowly progressing by way of an insanely tough room. This glacial pacing that some ranges impose on the participant makes for some actually uncompelling gameplay.
Technically, you may beat each degree, however that technicality lots of the time comes on the expense of enjoyable. Gamers have requested Behaviour to make beating your individual degree a requirement for publishing it, they usually mentioned the next:
That is related, if in a roundabout way linked to the killbox debate. Our purpose has all the time been to present gamers the utmost quantity of freedom potential to create their Outposts. The larger the liberty the larger the opportunity of the creations. Clearly, this will include some danger.
We had reached some extent the place ‘unattainable’ outposts had been extraordinarily tough to create and so we felt assured with permitting gamers to construct what they need with out having to play them.
I consider that Behaviour’s hubris on the topic will finally catch as much as them. Meet Your Maker is a number of months previous, and gamers will finally be capable to prepare dinner up some unattainable designs. As of proper now, nevertheless, what they mentioned is true: I didn’t run right into a single degree that was unbeatable; so much felt like they had been, however simply required some tedious techniques to get by way of.
The participant is given two weapon slots, which could be full of both a ranged weapon, a melee weapon, or a brief protect. There are unlockable weapons, they usually can all be advanced to squeeze a bit of extra out of them.
Meet Your Maker performs rather well; it feels quick and responsive, and it additionally has a grappling hook, which immediately makes the sport an 11/10. Transferring by way of ranges with the grappling hook is a blast, and it’ll normally be the instrument that stands between your life and demise; mastering it’s mainly a requirement.
There are additionally devices that may be constructed to make progressing by way of ranges simpler, like grenades and a pod that permits the participant to resurrect as soon as, which helps in these killbox ranges. Constructing these devices takes supplies, nevertheless, so strive to not spend all the pieces trying the identical base time and again.
After clearing out a number of ranges, which the participant can type between classes, champion outposts are unlocked. These champion outposts are among the more durable bases, and finishing three of them evolves your chimera.
The sport does have some slight points with framerate and persons are affected in a different way by it; some expertise crashes, whereas others play by way of the sport principally high-quality. I undoubtedly observed some ranges had been extra inclined to border drops, most definitely as a result of variety of objects some makers add.
Meet Your Maker has a reasonably enjoyable gameplay loop and hasn’t been damaged by gamers up to now. At first, I struggled with it, however began having lots of enjoyable as soon as the sport really clicked and I turned much less terrible at it.
It’s a recreation that I pop into nearly day by day to do a number of runs and construct up my base little by little. It mainly has an infinite quantity of content material, and it’s all the time fascinating to see the kinds of ranges you’ll discover, whether or not they’re meant to impress you or break your spirits.
Meet Your Maker is a reasonably distinctive tackle user-generated content material; you’ll have to stoop right down to its degree to get pleasure from it, however it presents a delightfully masochistic expertise for these prepared to bash their head in opposition to an impediment till it breaks.
Meet Your Maker was reviewed on Microsoft Home windows utilizing a recreation code offered by Behaviour Interactive. Yow will discover further details about Area of interest Gamer’s evaluation/ethics coverage right here. Meet Your Maker is on the market for the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, and Microsoft Home windows (by way of Steam).
