While I beelined toward creating Rin’s unique gun, there are shield upgrades, consumables, and even vehicles to spend scrap on. To have a good shot at surviving you’re encouraged to attack NPC-inhabited camps to earn scrap, which pays for all sorts. Whilst running around looking for better guns is certainly a major part of Scavengers at first, the early game feels much less like the cornucopia at the start of Hunger Games than others in the genre. Scrap is how Scavengers separates itself from the BR pack. For anyone who hasn’t played Scavengers before, every explorer has their own unique gun that they alone can craft in a match, and this uses up a resource called scrap.

READ MORE: How ‘Scavengers’ is listening to players to become a successĪ lot of this comes down to my time playing Rin, lobbing nanobot smokescreens and running across a frozen wasteland with her signature gun, a craftable Shin-48 that, sincerely, means business.

Subsequently, I’m taken completely by surprise when I realise that I’m very much vibing, as the kids say, with Scavengers‘ newest update.

Not since my days of terrorizing PUBGhave I really enjoyed a proper battle royale, as – much to my own disappointment – I completely bounced off Fortniteand Warzone.

I’m about halfway through my second Scavengersmatch, previewing Winter’s Fury, when I stop and notice just how much fun I’m having.

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