LawBreakers is a competitive FPS featuring team-based action from any angle. Its characters and spaces manipulate gravity to create a dynamic style of gameplay that rewards skill – not streaks.Set in a futuristic rebuilt America, players will choose whether to kill for the nobility of the “Law,” or go out for blood as a “Breaker,” as they take part in the conflict raging across iconic locations including the boiling oceans off the Santa Monica coastline, to a gravity ravaged Grand Canyon and nearly unrecognizable Mount Rushmore.
After a huge cataclysmic event known as ‘The Shattering’ changed gravity forever. Society has recovered in a manner of speaking
Afterward, the world recovered and ushered in a new age technological advancements providing gravity manipulation and supplement use that grants near-superhuman abilities. Now, the new technology rages and two forces fight for control; a peacekeeping organization charged with upholding the law, and a highly-organized crime syndicate bent on breaking it. Players will be asked to choose a side – it’s LAW versus BREAKERS.
LawBreakers' All-Star Update is the largest content drop the game has seen to date, and is expected to be available for download beginning Thursday, Oct. 19 at 10 a.m. PT.
The major feature is the long-awaited competitive ranked mode, Boss Leagues. This ladder mode inspired the sports theme for the rest of the content. Boss Leagues will kick off with Beta Season 0, which allows the team at Boss Key Productions time to collect feedback from participants to help improve the mode and for future seasons. Players who participate in Beta Season 0, which requires level 5 for the entry, will receive exclusive profile icons and silver weapon skins. All are encouraged to share their feedback with the development team.
The All-Star update includes:
Boss Leagues
New Map: Gateway
- Solo and duo queuing available
- Six total tiers - Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, and the top tier, Boss
- Tier upgrade - Based on accumulated league scores earned at the end of each match
- Ten placement matches are required to receive a ranking in Boss League.
New Map: Redfalls Blood Moon
- A Blitzball arena map
- The world’s first “mobile stadium,” which floats effortlessly in the sky thanks to Hadronium’s anti-gravitational properties.
Quality of Life Updates & New Customizations
- Variation of Redfalls map
- Redesigned with a new, atmospheric time of day featuring the ominous Shattered Blood Moon overhead
- Balance adjustments
- Multi-region queuing
- Improved tutorials
- New Blitzball Sports themed character and weapon skins
- Profile icons and kick decals
- More than 120 new items including All-Star themed item in the special, time-limited All-Star Stash-drops
Key Features:
- A Cast Of Killers: Revel in unparalleled vertical violence by mastering the skills of an array of diverse anti-heroes, ranging from Cronos, a murderer who survived electrocution on death row to Axel, a federal agent with a tattered past fighting for justice. Whether you kill for the nobility of the “Law,” or are out for blood as a “Breaker,” these symmetrical roles satisfy any appetite in an arena where the most skilled player and team will rise.
- Threats From Every Angle: Experience visceral gameplay that is a cut above the competitive FPS genre; with variable gravity effects, unique role based movement systems and gravity manipulating abilities, making combat truly three dimensional. Become a gravity surfing killer and annihilate your enemies with grappling blades, reverse blind firing, time dilation, jetpacks and much more.
- Modes that Matter: Fight to the death in intense game modes that elevate the Arena Shooter genre to all new levels. LawBreakers’ signature brand of gravity induced chaos combined with innovative takes on multiplayer game modes offers a truly unique and highly competitive experience.
- A World Reimagined: Experience a futuristic America, years after a global seismic event known as “The Shattering” forever changed the landscape and even gravity itself. Become immersed into a raging conflict between Law and Breakers across iconic locations including the boiling oceans of Santa Monica, a gravity ravaged Grand Canyon and nearly unrecognizable Mount Rushmore.
LawBreakers, rated M for Mature, can be purchased for PS4 or PC on Steam for just $29.99, and all future, non-cosmetic DLC (Maps, Classes, Modes) are included free to owners of the game
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