We’ve got one more announcement coming at you on this here Friday night: NCsoft and Mistil Games have officially begin the closed beta for Time Takers as of this evening. In fact, it’s more like a series of playtests from now through March 21st, with the servers going up at 7 p.m. EDT and shutting down at 3 p.m. EDT. (This cadence makes slightly more sense for the Mistil Games devs, who are located in Korea and are 13 hours ahead of us here on the East Coast, but the servers are in the Americas.)
Access to testing is through the join button on Steam; I got my own entry on Steam a few days ago, so it seems to be a rolling invite and you can still get in. This round is technically aimed at PC players in North and South America, but stay tuned because a proper global test is coming later this year along with console access.
“This test marks the first public hands-on for the highly anticipated survival shooter, where every second can make the difference between life and death,” the team writes.
“Time Takers is a fast-paced, team-based survival shooter where time is the ultimate resource. Unlike traditional shooters, your Time Energy acts as your lifespan. Players must make high-risk, high-reward decisions in critical situations: spend time to upgrade abilities and builds mid-match, or share your remaining moments with a teammate in need to keep the squad in the fight until the last second. In Time Takers, there are no fixed roles. Every match is shaped by player choice, team coordination, and moment-to-moment judgment rather than pre-defined classes. Whether you play as an aggressor or support depends on how you spend your time.”
This specific test will include 12 playable characters “ranging from a spacesuited monkey to a samurai from feudal Japan,” three maps, and the trio mode.
