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• Patch Notes·17 Apr 2019Official

  LEFT ALIVE Version 1.03

  ■Update History ・Version 1.03 Update Contents ■ Bug fixes ・Fixed an issue that caused crashes under certain circumstances in the Steam version. ■ Difficulty level adjustments ▼Updates to all difficulty levels ・Added 2 First Aid Kits to each main character's starting equipment. ・Increased the amount of each main character's starting ammo. 　-Additionally, changed the number of bullets lost in the encounter with the ally soldier in Chapter 01 from "all" to "eight." ・Reduced enemy accuracy. ・Reduced damage dealt to players by frag grenades. ・Added a new difficulty level and changed the wording of the "Survivor" achievement. Previous text: Finished the game on Light or Standard difficulty. Updated text: Finished the game for the first time. ▼New Difficulty Level: CASUAL ・You can now play on a new difficulty level called CASUAL. 　This mode is for those wanting to go in guns blazing. 　It is a level below LIGHT. ------------------------------------------------------------- ・Increases your attack strength and heavily reduces the damage you take ・Increases your ammo limit ・Heavily reduces enemy health ・Increases damage dealt by headshots and attacks from behind, making it possible for one blow to deal heavy damage ・Increases durability of the Wanzers you pilot ------------------------------------------------------------- You can start a new file with these updates by selecting NEW GAME from the title screen. You can change the difficulty level of your current save file in the in-game OPTIONS menu.
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• Press Coverage·8 Mar 2019

  Left Alive review - a maddeningly messy mech/stealth hybrid

  Left Alive is the second new release this week that reminds me of a PS2 game, although perhaps the comparisons this time around aren't so favourable. Devil May Cry 5 is a full-blooded return that reimagines Capcom's action formula and delivers it with the muscle and aplomb of the current generation. Left Alive, meanwhile, takes some fairly rusty, more contemporary mechanics and smothers them in the janky wrappings of a mid-tier PS2 game. It's a flaky, barely functioning stealth game that's almost entirely awful. I kind of love it. Maybe that's because the promise of its set-up still manages to occasionally shine through the grot. This is ostensibly a spin-off of Square Enix's Front Mission, the mech-infused strategy series whose last entry was another spin-off - Double Helix's third-person shooter Front Mission Evolved - some nine years ago. It's helmed by a veteran producer of FromSoft's Armored Core games - another mech series that's been missing in action - though surprisingly given the expertise on tap, as well as the thirst for a decent mech game, the machines remain mostly in the background. Instead, this is primarily a survival-infused stealth game - think Metal Gear Survive without that game's strong foundations, with a clunky, unreliable moveset and AI adversaries who aren't undead but don't seem to act on any human impulses, and who are either blindly ignorant or supernaturally aware of your presence depending on their own whims. It's bizarre how much Left Alive wants to be Metal Gear Solid; there are fudgy treatise on the human cost of war and hard to follow strands of conspiracy theories while familiar audio and visual cues have been seemingly lifted and clumsily pasted over the action. Read more
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• Press Coverage·5 Mar 2019

  Left Alive is out now but may be best left alone

  Left Alive – Square Enix’s stealthy reboot of the Front Mission mech-tactics series – is out now, but word on the information super-street is that it never should have been cleared for deployment. It’s not a huge shock, as footage released a couple weeks back looked very stiff, and its branching dialogues felt stilted. Worst sin of all was that the mech-on-mech battles just looked awkward and flailing. A shame, considering this had some noted talent involved, including a director from the Armored Core series, and Metal Gear’s character artist. There’s a launch trailer for the curious below, plus an alternative recommendation. (more…)
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• Press Coverage·5 Mar 2019

  Now Available on Steam - LEFT ALIVE

  LEFT ALIVE™ is Now Available on Steam! LEFT ALIVE™ is a brand-new survival action shooter telling a human story of survival from the perspective of three different protagonists during the devastating invasion set in war-torn Novo Slava in 2127.
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• Announcements·1 Mar 2019Official

  Two new in-depth videos to prepare you for launch!

  Catch the full developer diary interview with game director Toshifumi Nabeshima, character designer Yoji Shinkawa from KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, and mech designer Takayuki Yanase on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMLmQrqX3o You can also watch an extended gameplay walkthrough with developer commentary, providing new detail about the various skills and tactics players muse use to achieve victory against the odds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GELmGHJlQ6o We're only a few days away from release, and we're so excited to see how everyone will play through the game.
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