https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/569820437/ion Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale is an online, competitive, first-person shooter inspired by works such as Battle Royale and The Hunger Games. Drop in. Gear up. Stay alive! Combining modern FPS action with the scavenging mechanics of popular survival games, Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale will put your wit and grit to the test in an ultimate challenge of gladiatorial might. Drop into massive arenas and fight it out among ninety-nine other bloodthirsty participants to come out on top. Key Features: 100 PLAYERS PER MATCH – kill, outrun, or consort your way to victory amongst 99 other players in timed matches that last up to 30 minutes. Match pace is set by a damage-inducing plasma field that is released from the perimeter of the map in stages, funneling players into progressively tighter combat situations. 3 LARGE-SCALE MAPS – designed by a technologically superior alien race, each arena is engineered to provide a unique and obstacle-ridden battlefield for players, designed to reward strategic thinking and tactical decision making. A FULL, COMPETITIVE RANKING SYSTEM – play against others at your skill level and win bigger payouts. Advance in rank, unlock special tier armor and distinguish yourself from the rest as an elite. MULTIPLE GAME MODES – not everyone’s a lone wolf. Team up with a friend in Doubles mode or queue up as a team in 5-Man. SKILL-BASED REWARDS – earn rare armor sets, weapon skins, game credits, and more depending on how long you can outlast the competition. Receive bonus items and unlock special achievements for actively engaging others or recording impressive stats. PLAYER BETTING SYSTEM – use in-game credits to place bets on individual players or teams. Think your friend can finish in the top 10? Make things interesting and turn your faith in them into profit... or loss. Spend those hard earned winnings on fancy armor pieces or weapon skin unlocks. Players are placed at random over the arena map and dropped in. You'll have limited control over your movements, but with some careful maneuvering, you’ll be able to slightly alter where you land. Some areas will have a higher rate of item spawns; risk it all on these popular areas, or land on the outskirts for a more covert approach. As soon as you land, you'll have to search nearby landmarks for weapons, ammo, medkits, armor, and vehicles. Spawning locations are randomized in each landmark, so each match is truly a test of strategy and speed rather than memorizing the map. The game has an inventory system that limits the amount of weapons and items you can carry, so you’ll need to be selective about the loot you find scattered around the arena. Players you’ve killed will be lootable so you can take their items and assemble your very own weapons and armor stockpile. A few minutes after everyone has touched down, the announcer will begin the countdown for plasma field convergence. The safe zone will be displayed as a green circle on your map; anything inside the circle is safe and everything outside will be slowly vaporized. The safe zones, much like the weapon and item spawn locations, are randomized every match. The plasma field will release from the corners of the map and close in until it reaches the outer edges of the circular safe zone. Once the plasma field has closed in completely, a new safe zone will be randomly assigned inside the current safe zone. This process will continue until the plasma field encompasses the entire map, leaving only a tiny area for the last few gladiators to fight it out. Competitive Ranking System: Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale uses a point-based ranking system where points are awarded based on your in-match rank at the time of your death. By adopting familiar aspects of popular leaderboards and other ranking systems, your progression is easy to chart, even for those new to competitive FPS gaming. There are five tiers in Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond. Each of these tiers is subdivided into five divisions, with V being the lowest tier and I being the highest. All players start off in the bottom-most tier, Bronze V. Every one hundred points you earn will bump you up a tier. We will be listening very closely to player feedback when the ranking system goes live in order to craft the optimal competitive and balanced experience.