
Over the decades leading up to the 2050s, the world grows darker.

The setting has been likened to that of The Oasis found in Ready Player One. Within this metaverse, players do battle with each other in a sport known as Crown Rush. The game takes place in the year 2054 in Neo Arcadia, part of a metaverse created by the company Prisma Dimensions. Ubisoft insists that playing the game is still the best way to rank up players can only earn up to 400 experience points - or 2 tiers - per day, whereas there is no limit when actually playing the game. Those points can be obtained in many ways completing daily and weekly challenges, performing well in games as well as watching and interacting with Twitch streamers will net you experience points. In order to move up a tier on the battle pass, players need to gain 200 experience points. Some battle pass rewards would require an Amazon Prime Gaming membership to claim those rewards. Possible rewards include new champions along with player skins, weapon skins, melee weapons, deployment pods, emblems and sprays, none of which give the player any competitive advantage. The technical test had a free battlepass with 10 tiers, with 2 player skins at tier 10. Each season, there will be a battle pass with 100 tiers, each of them including at least one reward. Like many games in the Battle Royale genre, Hyper Scape uses a tiered battle pass as a reward system for its players. Viewers watching the game on Twitch can vote, which will help the AI decide what modifications to turn on. Throughout the match the AI host can modify the game world, including revealing every enemy on the game's minimap, giving weapons infinite ammo or turning on a low-gravity mode. When an enemy is killed, they drop a revive point which allows a team to respawn fallen teammates. While Echos can't kill any opponents they are able to "ping" other members of their team to alert them to dangers or points of interest. When a player is killed in the squad game mode, they become an "Echo".
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Players can only have two weapons and hacks available at a time, although each item can be swapped out during a round. Throughout the game, players can find both weapons as well as special abilities known as "Hacks," such as letting the player transform into a giant ball from which they can bounce around, or letting them become invisible. Alternatively, the game also ends when only one player or team remains. The game however differs in that once the last sector closes, a crown appears, any player that is able to hold on to the crown for 60 seconds is automatically declared the winner. One main difference between Hyper Scape and other popular battle royale games is that in Hyper Scape, insteading of a circle shrinking as the game progresses, random sectors of the map disappear. The game's main mode shares elements with other battle royale games, where up to 100 players are dropped on to a map that slowly shrinks over time with players seeking to eliminate the competition.
