I’m starting to develop involved for Straftat creators the Lemaitre brothers. The fee at which they put out new ranges for his or her good small-scale FPS is just not human. Have they been locked away in opposition to their will, pressured to design ranges by some crazed kidnapper with an unhealthy attachment to late nineties deathmatch? Or are they secretly some bizarre new sort of recreation creating shark that dies if it stops mapping for quite a lot of seconds?
Whatever the explanation, Straftat simply obtained an entire lot larger for the Nth time, with its 1.4.0 update including over 50 new maps to the shooter. Titled the Bazaar replace, the patch provides 24 maps appropriately themed round lined marketplaces, in addition to 18 ‘basket’ maps, 10 Hushardzan maps (I do not know what a hushardzan is, but it surely’s enjoyable to say), and 4 further maps with no shared theme. Overall, there’s 56 maps so that you can blast as much as three of your buddies on. Double that quantity (minus the 4 random maps) in the event you personal Straftat’s DLC, which provides all of the alternate variations of those maps.
If you are unfamiliar with Straftat, it was named the best FPS of 2024 by PC Gamer thanks to its fast-paced, wilfully silly gunfights that hark back to the days of LAN parties. “There’s an inherent ridiculousness because of the collection of random levels that lays things out like Mario Party for murderers,” Jake Tucker explained. “In one you’ll fight in a maze of corridors with assault rifles, in another you’re sliding down an icy slope hurling landmines at each other.”
Indeed, Straftat was created because the Lemaitre brothers simply couldn’t find a shooter that provided gratifying 1v1 action. Since remedying that with the initial launch, the brothers have added support for 2v2 tdm and four-way deathmatch, just in case your friends group stretches beyond one person. And as the pair mention in the update’s Steam post, they’re far from finished yet. “We definitely want STRAFTAT to live as long as possible.”