Battlemetal

Battlemetal is a mech combat game in which you choose and customize a war machine, then deploy to the blighted world of Geiserath. Its initial campaign has 15 missions across desert, glacier and urban war-zone maps, with four difficulty settings. You select mechs and weapons to suit each mission’s objectives, while a civil war gives way to the arrival of something worse.

Mech combat

Mechs have distinct speeds for forward movement, strafing and reversing. You do not need to manage torso alignment, and the default controls use an FPS-style layout. Each mech has destructible hit locations, so you can damage and destroy targets piece by piece.

You manage your mech’s energy, shields, armor and weapons in combat. Mechs can have up to nine weapon slots, and the game includes 14 weapons and seven upgrade modules. Missions offer varied combat approaches and objectives, with rain, snow and fog affecting the battlefield.

Game modes

Networked play includes Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch PvP, as well as co-op support for the campaign.

Modding

The game’s code is open source, and players can modify almost everything in it. New maps can be made with a common map-editing tool, using an approach like Quake mapping.