In case you haven’t heard, FNTASTIC, the developer behind The Day Earlier than, introduced its closure lower than every week after launching its zombie sport in Early Entry.
To accompany the announcement, FNTASTIC posted an announcement on X/Twitter that was oddly structured, which included in the long run of an abridged timeline of FNTASTIC’s historical past from stem to stern.
Not lengthy after this assertion was launched, the builders behind DayZ and Rust determined to troll FNTASTIC. DayZ developer Bohemia Interactive was the primary to troll FNTASTIC with an announcement of them celebrating DayZ’s tenth anniversary of its launch in Early Entry (despite the fact that it isn’t for one more 5 days). Bohemia Interactive additionally took a number of different jabs at FNTASTIC, together with how the Early Entry model of DayZ launched with melee.
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— DayZ ? ? ❤️ (@DayZ) December 11, 2023
In the meantime, the builders behind Rust additionally determined to play alongside. However as an alternative of creating their very own assertion parodying the identical construction as FNTASTIC’s, they merely used a “purple marker” method to exchange sure phrases when relevant, as you’ll be able to see from its put up beneath.
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— Rust (@playrust) December 11, 2023
For these unaware, each DayZ and Rust are two open-world survival video games. The previous is an open-world sport set in a zombie apocalypse, whereas the latter is an open-world survival sport the place you must deal with surviving within the wilderness. Each video games began as mods primarily based on Arma 2 earlier than changing into video games that will be launched in Early Entry and ultimately see full releases years later.
There’s a sure degree of irony that these two accounts are trolling FNTASTIC. Each video games in concept ought to have been opponents to The Day Earlier than, however as many gamers found final week when it launched in Early Entry, FNTASTIC’s zombie sport was something however an open-world, however somewhat an extraction shooter.
The Day Earlier than was as soon as probably the most wishlisted sport on Steam and simply 4 days after its launch on Early Entry, its participant rely dropped to nearly 90 % and it’s now one of many worst reviewed video games on Valve’s digital retailer.
Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You possibly can comply with her on Twitter @TayNixster.
