NetEase Games announced that a technical test for its upcoming Mission Zero mobile/PC game will open on July 8 in select regions, with players able to pre-register their interest ahead of launch.
Mission Zero is a 2v4 competitive stealth game, where one team takes on the role of the Sirius (Invaders) and the other team is the Mobius (Chasers). The final release of the game will have cross-platform play on Android, iOS, and PC, although iOS players won’t be able to join the Technical Test this time.
▍Mission Zero Technical Test Details
The Technical Test for Mission Zero will be held on July 8, at 9:00(GMT+7) in Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Thailand, with availability on Android and PC through Google Play, the official website, and TapTap.
The Technical Test will be the equivalent of a small-scale beta test, with players having a chance to experience the current version of the game without any in-app purchases, and with their progress resetting in the final release.
▍Mission Zero Gameplay
In Mission Zero, players will be divided into teams of four Sirius against two Mobius. The Sirius players need to hide from the Mobius agents, using disguises that let them resemble the NPCs in each area, allowing them to dress like a janitor, waiter, cook, or whatever is needed to blend in. It’s the role of the Mobius players to catch the Sirius, by determining which characters stand out, and using their powerful abilities to knock them unconscious.
The Mobius agents are outnumbered, but it’s easier for them to work as a team, in order to combine their unique traits and abilities, as they belong to specific archetypes, including Assault-type, Scout-type, Strategy-type, and more. The Sirius also has high-tech equipment that can be used to help them escape if needed, with eleven different types of gadgets available to them.
Mission Zero is an intense game of hide & seek, where players who play as Mobius must use their skills of deduction to find their foes or play as the Sirius to make important snap decisions, in order to evade capture.
▍Mission Zero Chasers
In Mission Zero, the Mobius player will take on the role of characters with unique abilities, with eight available in the Technical Test. As officially released previously, these include Aya, a delinquent girl who rocks a gothic aesthetic and smashes foes with her baseball bat.
She is joined by Gabriel, a warrior with a powerful prosthetic arm that he uses as a weapon to grab fleeing Sirius from afar and pull them into his grasp.
There is also a Mobius agent named Murphy, who can beat the Sirius at their own game. Murphy is a strategy-type agent, with the ability to disguise herself as an NPC and reveal the position of nearby Sirius agents.
Vanessa, on the other hand, is a cleaning robot manager and absolutely despises dirt. For her, Sirius members fall in the same category so she looks to clean them up as well. Her passive skill gives her a movement boost when going towards allies, with her other skills slowing enemies down and giving Vanessa some teleportation abilities.
The Sirius players can fight back with powerful equipment, in order to gain an edge on the battlefield. There are eleven pieces of equipment in the Technical Test, including the Cloak Shield, which creates an optical camo barrier that makes the agent invisible; Stand-In Badge, which turns the agent invisible and spawns a decoy that keeps walking ahead; and the Shockwave, which stuns nearby enemies, and can be charged up to reach a wider area.
