Hello champions!

Today we drop by with an overall update on one of the features we get asked about the most: co-op gameplay! On the last dev update, we touched upon it a little bit, but let's do a deeper dive and see how you and your friends can play together, and a lot more. Grab some coffee and let’s go.

Online co-op will feature up to 4 players banding together to bring down the forces of the Dominion. Four mythical champions against thousands of Dominion forces? I’ll take those odds. But within all the mayhem you and your friends will unleash, a key element remains: you must band together to complete the stage’s missions before moving on to the next stage. The difficulty of the missions will take into account the amount of players, so working together will be super important if you are to succeed. Since missions are scattered throughout the map, shifting into car form and heading out to them at top speed is the name of the game. But be aware of where your allies are in the map, or you might find yourself getting smacked by a bit-too-many Dominion soldiers. It gets crazy, but nothing you can’t handle with a little help from your friends.

As many of you have seen by now, our Demo features single player gameplay (Don’t have the demo yet? What are you doing, go grab it, go!). The co-op functionality will come with our next milestone, which will be our Champion Shift: Prologue, currently in development. It features some awesome technology from Photon’s Quantum engine, and together with them we are making sure the online play is smooth as it can be. We love multiplayer games, especially co-op, and we know that having that flawless online experience is everything. That’s what we are aiming for. And so far, the internal tests of co-op gameplay have been one of the most fun game sessions we’ve ever had (for a sneak peek at co-op play, check out our trailer, which features some of it!). Migrating the project to this new paradigm has been challenging, but one we have welcomed with open arms. And our developers have done an amazing job with it, and so far it's just chef kiss

In the next few weeks we will be unveiling a new character profile and more insights into the Celestial Gifts, and some more reveals as we continue to build the Champion Shift universe.

Oh, and one more thing… something mysterious happens as stages are completed, something hidden in-between… a quiet place, but someone is here. Could it be a guide?
Maybe a story for another day 😉!

See you soon!
-The SRG dev team