PIONER Developer GFA Is the Latest Studio Getting a Tencent Investment

Russian developer GFA Games, currently working on the MMOFPS PIONER, announced today that Tencent invested in the visitor and acquired a minority pale in the process.

GFA Games Co-Founder Aleksandr Nikitin said in a statement:

With Tencent's resources and industry experience, we expect to exist able to ability ahead and complete PIONER faster and attract even more talent. We're glad and grateful that our vision of the gaming world and development vector of PIONER aligned so closely with Tencent's.

GFA Games, founded by developers who previously worked on titles like STALKER 2, Atomic Heart, Kings Bounty, Metro Exodus and Orange Cast, at present seeks to increase its headcount with network engineers, animation specialists, and artists. The studio aims to release PIONER adjacent year.

Here's an overview of the game from its makers:

In PIONER y'all act every bit a former operative who survives in a globe afterwards a technological disaster. A Soviet isle isolated from the mainland by a large-scale technogenic anomaly. Then now you have 2 principal objectives: Find (and rescue) your comrades and investigate the mystical MOGILNIK station.

PIONER is an Activity MMORPG game where your main goal is survival and exploration. Underground Soviet underground factories, machines and labs; abandoned settlements that were inhabited by vermin and mutants. Island collapsing before your eyes, can you survive and salve the population?

Central features of the game:

– SATISFYING Combat Organization, DEEP Grapheme AND WEAPON CUSTOMISATION

Suitable for different playstyles, our weapon customisation organization allows you to drastically change weapon operation, providing incredible flexibility.

Yous can create or loot attachments for weapons and arts and crafts weapons themselves in handicraft conditions (using workbench) and even utilise artifacts or energy anomalies as a source or details.

– CHARACTER PROGRESSION.

Influence Level (IL) are presented in PIONER every bit a reflection of role player progression. Influence Level does non touch on the grapheme stats and does non improve graphic symbol combat abilities. Instead ,ILprovides access to new weapon suppliers, quest givers and more valuable items. Players can proceeds Influence Levels by a very variety of methods such as quest or quest lines accomplishment and trading / smuggling.

– UNIQUE SETTING

Closed Soviet Island isolated by a technogenic catastrophe involving a mysterious anomalous free energy source not and so long ago used past the Soviet Marriage to maintain a giant network of design bureaus, bunkers, and labs.

– PvE-FOCUS

Most important parts of the game are the open world exploration, story, faction missions and RAIDS. You can either explore vast open areas with strangers; fight deadly enemies in RAIDS (which resembled by more linear locations) with your friends; or uncover the story of this secret Soviet island.

– PvP.

In the special areas chosen Empty Lands which are scattered effectually the island there are uncovered amounts of valuable resources and dangerous secrets of Soviet military. Fight confronting deadliest creatures with other survivors (or against them). Explore most dangerous areas of the isle to find unique and valuable gear.

– FACTION SYSTEM

In Pioner you tin can bring together the various factions (4 in full) to consummate their faction quest lines. You lot are immune to brand decisions that tin alter the ending of the game or the state of affairs in a particular faction or area.

– LIFE SIMULATION

The fourth dimension of day affects the behavior of the virtually ingame not-playable characters. For instance, wild animals and mutants are very agile during the day, and the most dangerous creature in the game, the LESHIY who goes out to hunt exclusively at night.

As for Tencent, information technology's simply the latest in an exceedingly long list of investments and acquisitions made past the Chinese giant. This month lonely, they caused a minority stake in Playtonic and a bulk stake in Wake Up Interactive. Still, Tencent has besides been facing major problems in its ain homeland as China's Ministry building of Industry and Information Technology recently suspended the company's ability to update existing apps or launch new ones.