Pioner (video game)
Pioner is an upcoming open world first-person shooter video game developed by GFAGames for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X. The game is set on a post-apocalyptic Soviet-era island. The game's release is scheduled for 2023. Development The game is developed by the Russian studio GFAGames since its founding in 2021. As of 2021, 25 people were involved in the creation of Pioner. The game is developed on the Unreal Engine. Beta testing is planned before the game's release. In November 2021, Tencent acquired a minority stake in GFAGames, and a month later the co-owner of GFAGames announced that the game would be released in 2022. The release was eventually pushed back to 2023. Pioner will be distributed on a buy-to-play model. Gameplay Pioner is a first-person shooter with elements of role-playing and online multiplayer. The game will be implemented in PvE and PvP modes. In order to make the game realistic, developers abandoned the player character's health bar and levels of enemies. In addition, the events taking place in the game world will be synchronized with real time, meaning patrols and bandits will be less frequent in the nighttime, and during the daytime, one can hunt animals or mutants.