Get ready to test your survival skills in Active Matter's PvPvE extraction-style raids, with a beta that dropped moments after it revealed a new gameplay trailer at the Future Games Show. This beta will let you take on other players and strange, transformed creatures, as you fight to harvest reality-warping active matter across maps that laugh in the face of normal space time. Get out alive and you'll be able to access better loot to fight next time.
Active Matter sees you as an operative trapped in a time loop, always being brought back from death to the same point. Each time you return all you can do is choose a loadout and jump back in to fight again. These battles take place in quantum unstable zones spanning multiverses and full of active matter, a valuable and dangerous resource.
As well as fighting against other players these unstable zones are full of physics defying anomalies, like ceiling walking gravity flips, and strange, SCP-inspired creatures transformed by extended contact with active matter. The mission is simple - get in, grab as much active matter and loot as you can, and then extract. The zone is an unstable reality and when time's up it will collapse, ceasing to exist and taking everything left within it to Oblivion.
As you fight and (hopefully) survive you'll be able to use your winnings to build out both your base and armory. Active matter is key to it all, and can be harvested raw, gathered from transformed creatures, found in loot and, of course, stolen from other players. Despite the reality warping effects of this active matter, the arsenal you'll expand to help you gather it is rooted in real world tech and tactics. Although you will be able to access unique and interesting weapons from different timelines clashing together in the quantum unstable zones. Expect lost prototypes and forgotten guns from history that survived in other multiverses.
Active Matter is targeting a 2025 release date across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X. Play the beta now and get the latest updates on Twitter/X
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