GFA Games has released a brand new gameplay trailer for its upcoming STALKER-inspired first-person action MMORPG, PIONER. Moreover, the team launched the game’s Steam store page, revealing that it now targets a 2025 release date. So, let’s take a look at it, shall we?
In PIONER, your main goal is to survive and explore a dangerous world filled with both PVE and PVP challenges. The devs say they will focus on creating exciting events, interesting factions, and engaging quests for players to enjoy.
As an MMO, PIONER will focus on player-driven stories and social interaction. The game will offer both PvE and PvP gameplay. Players can take part in story quests or faction missions. By earning loyalty with different groups, they can unlock rewards and discover more of the story.
The game is designed to pull players into its world, encouraging them to explore, plan, and survive while making meaningful choices. The world will keep changing and growing, with more information coming as its 2025 release gets closer. So, expect to hear more of it soon.
The devs also stated that the game will have an extraction mode, called Shadowlands. This will be a high-stakes survival and treasure hunting mode, accessible within PIONER. This will be an additional mode, and not the main one.
GFA Games has also shared some generic/preliminary PC requirements. According to them, PC gamers will at least need an Intel Core i3-6100 with 16GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GTX 1060. The devs recommend an Intel Core i5-8600 with 16GB of RAM and an NVIDIA RTX 2060.
As said, these are early PC specs and they do not represent the final ones. My guess is that GFA Games will share more details next year. PIONER uses Unreal Engine 4. And, from what I know, there are no plans to upgrade it to UE5.
Overall, PIONER attempts to appeal to a lot of PC gamers. Since we won’t get an official MMO STALKER game anytime soon, this may be the next closest thing to it. So, I’m curious to see whether it will be a success or not.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
Contact: Email
Mushrooms from morrowind, artifacts from stalker, 50 shades of gray from the movie and a title nostalgic for the imperial past.
it reminds me of rage graphics wise, thank god its not another unreal engine game and also it has more interesting world than stalker.
a strong statement, time will tell
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/622fc80011c5726d1d39050cd5c8d89e0039fefc1b50973de4f303fecb074247.gif
stfu this is actually something original for once
boring trash
Unreal Engine 3 color pallet. Haven´t seen this since the Xbox 360 days
Ugh… Don't remind me of that dreadful period…
I love many 2000s games, but the late 2000s had some of the ugliest games ever made in the history of gaming.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/73e61dff084970b2aa4ad2f93121b4accfae33dce60e6df49a0e9d449d9b20e2.png
Feels like a chinese knockoff mish mash…
https://media3.giphy.com/media/iBEYU5pAss67m/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
99% of games from Eastern Europe are generic distopian FPS slop. Almost always using Unreal.
Try to make a game that isn't a generic FPS for a change.
Yeah !!! we need more true FPS games !!!
No more f*gs games !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://media2.giphy.com/media/ONowH2woMqZe8z5pqG/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
Looks like a revival of the 2010s brown and grey era of gaming. It's also a Russian game, so hard avoid.
"GFA Games has released a brand new gameplay trailer for its upcoming STALKER-inspired first-person action MMORPG…"
Aaaaand I'm done reading.
Thanks for the info, gotta put another one on the ignoring list.
Reminds of what I wrote earlier about the fact that more and more games tend to look like fever nightmares in hell recently. A sign of the end of times, maybe?
Meanwhile, in Asia, games look like Disneyland for pedos. lol
Where is the middle ground?
After all, the recent Indiana Jones isn't that bad, because at least it looks "normal". lol
I think this game looks dope, and will play with my bro, for sure. just hope the MMO aspects are turned down. CO-OP story games are rare these days, redfall and……