Without a doubt, the best new additions with Season 1 are the new weapon and Hack. Yes, Hyper Scape is a battle royale game about playing as someone who is jumping into a Ready-Player-One-meets-Sword-Art-Online virtual world to play a battle royale game. So far, there’s nothing further fleshing out the characters or revealing what threat they’re coming together to stop–it’s just a bunch of boring backstory about how VR became popular in Hyper Scape’s version of Earth, leading to the creation of the battle royale called Crown Rush. For how difficult these Shards are to find, the Memories they unlock have a poor pay-off: just a wall of text that isn’t all that interesting. At season start there are two Shards to find for the two Memories to unlock, with a new Memory and additional Shards scheduled to be added to the game every week. Season 1 fleshes out the game’s world with lore by noting the relationships between certain characters and adding Memories, which you unlock by discovering Memory Shards that are hidden in specific places in-game. It wouldn’t be too much of an issue if it wasn’t for the fact that Hyper Scape has a story now which provides context for just how bland and stereotypically written each of the characters are. I think, “containing dark depths” is the deepest character development I’ve found in Hyper Scape so far. These characters feel like someone trying to check off a diversity list, not create well-written individuals. And who could forget the “shy and awkward” white boy Adi, who gains confidence with a gun in his hands and tells his competition to “git gud.” There are more you can buy in the in-game store, but the lack of depth in the characters I currently have isn’t making me eager to spend real-world money to meet more of them. If you like accents, there’s Scottish Burns and Japanese Takeshi–the former is described as “brains and brawn” and the latter is a fanboy for the character you get at level 100 in the paid battle pass track. There’s also bubbly streamer girl Noor, strict mom Myrto, and “a big punch in a small package” Cruz. Of the black characters I’ve unlocked, there’s an athlete, a “street-smart” journalist, and an artist. There’s no backstory or reason to like any of them, so I’ve ended up disliking pretty much all of them.
To put it bluntly, these characters are shallow most seem to be completely defined by their culture or profession. There’s not much variety in the spoken lines for each individual character, though, so each one gets old real fast and switching between them constantly is really the only way I can maintain my sanity. None of the characters change the gameplay, but each has their own personality and sounds off with unique one-liners and quips when they pick up weapons or Hacks, ping a location, or make note that they’re under fire or wandering away from their squad. The new characters are really the only reward worth pursuing, as they do have an impact on your personal experience with the game, albeit one that is pretty insignificant. The emotes and sprays at least allow you to add a bit more of your own personal style to your character, though it’s rare to find opportunities to paint the walls with a cute design or interact with your teammates with silly movements in the midst of a battle royale game that’s as fast-paced as Hyper Scape.
None of the weapon or character skins are particularly exciting it’s your standard affair of simple recolor options. Most of Hyper Scape’s in-game rewards are weapon and character skins, emotes and sprays, and new characters–and they’re all kind of meh.
Hyper scape characters free#
Certain rewards on the free battle pass track will only unlock if you have Prime Gaming. You can ignore it, of course, but the battle pass highlights that you’re missing items if you don’t have Prime Gaming, which feels a little predatory. So, if you want to complete either the free or paid track, you need to drop some cash. It’s got a free track and paid one, which normally would be fine except that nearly half of the items (12 of the 33) on the free track can’t be accessed unless you have Prime Gaming, which requires paying the $13 USD/month for an Amazon Prime subscription. Here’s the thing: I don’t like Hyper Scape’s battle pass.
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