Harmony, the brand new team-based hero shooter with Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-meets-Overwatch vibes, is playable this weekend as a part of the sport’s early entry beta check. And in the event you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber, you may get into that early entry beta on PlayStation 5 and Home windows PC with out having to pre-order the sport.
Beforehand, Sony’s plan for entering into the Harmony beta early entry weekend on PS5 and PC was restricted to pre-orders solely. However Sony Interactive Leisure and developer Firewalk Studios are sweetening the deal, inviting all PS Plus members to play this weekend. Pre-loads for the PS5 model of the Harmony beta are actually stay, and the beta will go stay Friday, July 12 at 10 a.m. PDT and run via Sunday, July 14.
A second beta check, open to all PS5 and PC gamers, will run July 18-21.
The Harmony-curious who’ve pre-ordered the sport will nonetheless get an early entry code, in addition to 4 extra codes for associates. Harmony is a 5v5 first-person shooter, in order that’s sufficient to place a full staff collectively.
Harmony’s beta early entry weekend will embody three modes:
- Trophy Hunt, described as a “respawn-based mode the place you struggle to take down members of the rival crew and gather their bounty playing cards to earn factors to your staff” — so, principally, Kill Confirmed
- Cargo Run, wherein gamers don’t respawn and groups compete to retrieve a bundle, plant it at a zone, and defend it in opposition to the enemy staff
- Conflict Level, a round-based sport mode the place groups struggle to manage a seize zone at a central location on the map
Harmony’s open beta weekend will provide a fourth mode, Space Management, wherein groups struggle over a number of seize factors and try to carry them.
Sony and Firewalk revealed the first gameplay from Harmony — and its colourful forged of alien and robotic characters often known as Freegunners — throughout a State of Play showcase in Might. PlayStation followers had been launched to the forged of heroes and misfits (Haymar, Vale, Lennox, 1-0FF, Star Little one, It-Z, Teo, Bazz, and others), and the sport’s irreverent humorousness throughout that occasion. The builders additionally confirmed a launch date for Harmony throughout that showcase: Aug. 23 on PS5 and PC. Harmony prices $39.99.
