Omega Protocol: Extraction

The robots turned on the same night.

In the Kessa system, Hale Corp's expedition came to study the ruins of a vanished people, and brought robots to do the heavy lifting. Then something in the ruins reached out to the machines. Every robot on every planet turned on the scientists it was built to serve. The survivors are the ones who hid. Hale Corp has hired Replenish Tactical to get them out. Replenish doesn't send soldiers. It prints them.

You are Echo Platoon.

Omega Protocol: Extraction is a grim third-person extraction shooter. You command a platoon of commandos printed from DNA, one at a time. Each print is a new person, with a new face and a new name, and each one knows exactly what they are. A commando serves until they fail to come home. When they fall, Colonel Vance marks it with a single line, and the next print wakes up in the tank.

Get them out.

Drop onto a planet that never ends. Every run crosses new ground, built hex by hex as you push deeper: overgrown jungle, buried outposts, alien ruins, and lanes where something is always watching. Find the scientists cowering in the dark. Calm them, keep them close, and lead them to a landing zone or a stolen Interceptor. Call the dropship and hold out while the hatch closes. Get everyone you can into the back of the ship. Rescues are what count. There's no score for robots destroyed.

The longer you stay, the worse it gets.

The robots are connected to something in the ruins, and it feels every one you hurt. Threat climbs the longer you're in contact. Robots grow faster, sharper and deadlier, and heavier machines join the hunt. Hack the core of a downed robot, or a terminal in a lost outpost, and you flood the link with noise. The threat falls back, for a while. Each hack is a gamble, and a failed one makes a sound.

Fight smart, or don't come back.

• +Cover that moves with you: snap to walls, run from cover to cover, swing round corners and vault low walls.
• +Robots that fight as a squad: they flank, suppress, throw grenades into your cover, fall back when they're hurt and search for you together.
• +A loadout you carry, not a backpack of everything: three weapons, throwables, accessories like the recon drone and the silencer, hacker upgrades, and backpacks that change how you play.
• +Stealth when you need it: bushes, water and fog hide you; silenced shots don't bring the whole jungle down on you.

What you keep, and what you lose.

A commando who extracts keeps their gear for the next run. A commando who dies loses everything they carried, and their name goes on the memorial wall. The platoon's loot bank survives every death. So does what you've learned. Between runs, walk the decks of Mission Control: talk to the people you brought home, piece together what happened on Kessa, and choose where to drop next.

Four planets. One system.

• +Kessa-1: the closest to the sun. Scorching days, freezing nights, dust storms and lava.
• +Kessa-3: a swamp drowned in fog, where the only warning is a pair of red eyes.
• +Kessa-9: the jungle, where the ruins were found and the growth never stops.
• +Kessa-11: the furthest out. Glaciers, blizzards, and cold that kills.