ROOTS:deadlocked is a fast paced multiplayer action oriented topdown shooter that combines the twitch gameplay of competitive first person shooters with the local awareness of a topdown shooter, resulting in fast paced skill based action. A topdown shooter like you’ve never seen before.
This alpha represents the FREE version of ROOTS, it will only be maintained until the game is stable enough, after that point, we will be focusing on the full paid release.
Who is teamINOV?
We’re 2 guys collaborating from different parts of the world, this makes it incredibly difficult. Roots is powered by the free version of Unity but we still feel we have something to offer gamers, something fresh and new in this world of repetitive fps’ and though that’s hard to show in a video, we ask that you take the time and give it a short play as we feel we’ve really added alot to the topdown genre.
What makes Roots different from other topdown shooters?
- ROOTS does not restrict the third axis, what does this mean? It means that the battlefield isn’t flat, hills, rooftops, stairs are all traversable allowing you to rain sweet terror upon your enemies above or below you.
- Sprint, melee and grenades, these are standard fps features that are available together for you for the first time in a topdown shooter allowing you to inject new strategies into your battles.
- Bullets, grenades and other projectiles in Roots are all physics based, resulting in bullets curving around explosions and rockets twirling back at their users when combat gets intense.
- Equipments like deployable shields, sonars and jump pads.
- Multiple powers that you can activate and tip battles in your favour allowing you to go invisible, take extra damage, get a quick speed boost or repel all bullets and projectiles around you.
- Match control, when a match ends in Roots, youre taken to the lobby where you can vote on what weapons you spawn with in the next match and weapons are on map, what game mode and maps, no more playing the same setups until you get bored.
- Customize your character with colours, emblems, accessories like hats and helmets.
ROOTS Features
- online support for up to 10 players
- Chaotic unscripted action, resulting in emergent mechanics like grenade jumping and bouncing bullets around corners
- Wide character customizations
- 9+ equipment types, sticky grenades, deployable cover, mines and more.
- Unique character abilities like shields, invisibility and physics manipulation.
- Physics based combat, watch as bullets and rockets curve around explosions
- Lobby system allowing you to vote for EVERYTHING you want in your next match, from weapons to gamemodes
- 10+ finely tuned weapons, no weapon is a clone of another, each serves a role
- 5+ multiplayer modes
- full 3d combat in a topdown shooter
- Sprint, melee and jumping together for the first time in a topdown shooter
What else is planned?
- Cooperative survival modes
- Huge maps with vehicular support with the ability to commandeer enemy vehicles
- To release with atleast 5 maps, with constant support adding more FREE maps and weapons after release
- Taking the best gamemodes and hat ideas from the community.
ROOTS has finally gotten to the point where I would like to try releasing a public alpha. The main purpose of this is to continue its development while taking some community feedback into account. There are issues that can only be spotted if the game is being played by many people.
ROOTS is currently powered by unity FREE so we still need your support, you can help us by any of the following:
VOTE for ROOTS on steam GREENLIGHT , SUBSCRIBING to our YouTube channel or DONATING to help us get to Unity Pro
Test the alpha
DOWNLOAD LINK HERE
