Third-person co-op shooter where squads of up to four players drop onto hostile planets to complete objectives against two alien factions. Missions involve calling in supply drops, deploying stratagems (air strikes, turrets, reinforcements) via directional input codes, and extracting before time runs out. Friendly fire is always on—your orbital laser can vaporize teammates as easily as bugs. You customize loadouts between missions with unlockable weapons, armor, and stratagem picks. Planets exist on a persistent galactic war map where the entire playerbase's completed missions determine which territories humanity controls. Expect chaos: you'll accidentally call napalm on your squad, get ragdolled by explosions, and scramble for the extraction shuttle while half your team is dead. Works best with friends who can laugh at disasters.
