Onward (2020), the tactical mil-sim shooter from Meta-owned Downpour Interactive, is getting an enormous 2.0 replace quickly. It’s been a very long time coming too, as the sport’s final main replace was almost one yr in the past.
Onward hasn’t been deserted, though it has seen pretty gentle updates within the yr for the reason that studio launched its massive ‘Mercenary’ replace, which dropped at the sport in February 2024 a PVE mode and varied graphic tweeks.
Now, Downpour Interactive is ready to launch its 2.0 replace for Onward, which Meta says in a latest blogpost that someday this yr, Onward will obtain “its largest replace ever,” noting it’s going to embody a bunch of content material.
This contains what Meta calls “a large graphical overhaul throughout weapons and utilities,” along with a brand new Operator system with 20 new characters, and new map content material. Extra info on the two.0 replace is alleged to reach “very quickly.”
This follows turmoil within the wider gaming business, which included wide-ranging layoffs at Downpour Inteactive in 2023; founder and CEO Dante Buckley, who began the studio in 2015, departed the corporate a month previous to layoffs.
Initially launched on Steam in Early Entry in 2016, and later launched in early entry on the unique Oculus Quest in 2020, Onward focuses on real looking squad-based gameplay and unrelentingly trustworthy copy of real-world weaponry.
You’ll be able to be taught extra about Onward the Horizon Retailer web page on for Quest 2 and above, and on Steam for PC VR headsets, the place it’s recurrently priced at $25.
