Behaviour Interactive’s Meet Your Maker is a brand new first-person building-and-raiding recreation set in a darkish post-apocalyptic future. On this dying world, gamers tackle the function of the Custodian, servant to the Chimera: a dwelling experiment created as a final resort to save lots of life on Earth.
To assist the Chimera evolve, you’ll want to offer it with pure genetic materials, the world’s most valuable remaining useful resource. However as you’ll have guessed, it received’t be straightforward to come back by.
Gameplay revolves across the creation and infiltration of stand-alone ranges known as Outposts, as gamers search to guard or steal genetic materials from one another. Each single Outpost within the recreation has been constructed by gamers, for gamers, making user-generated content material the driving drive of the expertise.
Contemplating the Outposts you’ll be constructing are large maze-like constructions teeming with lethal traps and guards, the probabilities are almost infinite.
Thoughts Video games
Constructing in Meet Your Maker is targeted on strategic, block-based design. The center of an Outpost is its extractor dice, which fills canisters with the valuable genetic materials. To guard it, gamers will draw from a customizable toolbox of traps and guards as they create environments to lure, outwit, and eviscerate different gamers trying to take what’s theirs.

“In terms of constructing a profitable Outpost, I’d say that psychology is essential,” shares Meet Your Maker’s Senior Sport Designer Inouk Samson. “You could suppose strategically and put your self within the thoughts of a raider, attempt to perceive how they’ll act in numerous conditions, and plan accordingly.”
“Good entice and guard combos are crucial as a result of a single entice or guard will not often be environment friendly. There are actually tons of of various mixtures at your disposal with out even factoring in block placement. How you set them collectively makes all of the distinction.”
Strategic Customization
However what does a superb entice combo appear like? Traps vary from Corrosive Cubes crammed with acid, to Bomb Ejectors, Incinerators, Impalers, Holocubes, and plenty of extra. Every entice may also be modded in a wide range of methods to assist assure most carnage in your diabolical designs.
Bombs can change into bouncier. Detection ranges might be elevated. Traps might be programmed to self-destruct. And each sort of guard might be set by itself customized patrol path, drawn up by the builder themselves.

“I prefer to take the raider without warning, which is why I just like the Holocube,” explains Inouk. “It lets you cover traps in plain sight. The following one is the Corrosive Dice as a result of it permits projectiles to cross by way of it whereas showing strong. Killing raiders in an space they have been satisfied was protected is really satisfying.”
“I’m a fan of mid-sized rooms as I like utilizing the Bomb Ejector,” shares Meet Your Maker’s Artistic Director Ash Pannell. “This entice drops bombs that bounce everywhere. I exploit a spread entice to pin down the raider on the entrance to the room and drive them to make use of their grapple hook to fly throughout the area to flee. This inevitably triggers the Bomb Ejector I’ve hidden within the ceiling, and growth!”
Blueprints
The very best half about constructing an Outpost in Meet Your Maker is the prospect to create one thing deviously distinctive.
“My strategy is at all times to start out by creating an area I can play in,” shares Ash. “This may very well be a cave, a tower, or one thing extra incredible like a temple. You wish to create a pleasant move by way of your area to make sure the raider experiences your world.”

“Second is the enjoyable half – fortification. Assume strategically and add your traps and guards in cool mixtures to essentially convey your Outpost to life. And at last, you enhance. You wish to personalize your area, and have it imply one thing, however cosmetics additionally exist that can assist you mess with the thoughts of a raider. A path of lights, one thing that catches your eye in a nook – you need them to get confused, misplaced, and distracted by simply the suitable factor as you hit them along with your traps.”
“You could take your time and suppose what you need the raider to expertise,” provides Inouk. “Perhaps you’re not even seeking to create the deadliest Outpost, however quite take the raider on a really particular journey. It’s all attainable. Simply resolve on a path and begin constructing.”
Duality
Lastly, whether or not you gravitate extra in direction of constructing or raiding in Meet Your Maker, one of the best ways to excel at one a part of the sport is to develop a deep understanding of the opposite.

“What I like about raiding is that every part I come throughout has truly been constructed by one other participant. And it’s all been crafted to kill me,” says Ash. “It’s additionally by way of raiding that you simply come to grasp numerous the subtleties of constructing as you deconstruct guard/entice combos to see how they managed to get you, after which implement these concepts in your individual Outpost.”
“I imagine that the most effective builders are additionally raiders,” finishes Inouk. “It’s all about discovering setups you could by no means have considered by yourself. Raiding is my finest supply of inspiration as a builder.”
Meet Your Maker will launch in 2023 on Xbox One and Xbox Collection X|S.