History VideoGame / Spacelords

''Spacelords'' (formerly known as ''Raiders of the Broken Planet'') is a FreeToPlay ThirdPersonShooter, developed by ''Creator/MercurySteam'' and launched on September 22nd, 2017 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]], UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/PS4.

* AGodAmI: General Marmalade, the leader of the Umbra Wardogs, has this.

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Spacelords (formerly known as Raiders of the Broken Planet) is a Third Person, Action-Adventure Online game developed by ''Creator/MercurySteam'', launched in 2017 for PC, XBox One and [=PS4=].

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!!Tropes:

** Snipers who can deal a large amount of damage to a raider from a distance, and [[VillainTeleport teleport]] away with the use of an Aleph charge.

* PhlebotinumOverload: The main way Raiders destroy stuff in the game. Hell, sometimes they need to overload THEMSELVES to destroy stuff.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Standard policy in the Hades Divsion and Fifth Council. Harec [[FlawExploitation exploits]] this to recruit a few people into the Raiders.

* JustifiedExtraLives: The Raiders have a shared set of these (4 in solo missions, 10 in co-op missions and 16 when an Antagonist is present) due to Cortez rebuilding the Raider using a supply of Aleph on his ship. When that Aleph runs out, the raiders have to survive a FinalDeathMode while Cortez flys off to find more Aleph. The period for which respawning is unavailable starts at 30 seconds and doubles each time the number of lives hits 0.
[[AvertedTrope Averted]] for Antagonists since Uras Beherit can seemingly resurrect them without limit, but doing so takes time. Time the Raiders can use to accomplish their mission and drive the Antagonist closer to losing.

** Uras Beherit is a pretty downplayed variant. During Antagonist missions he can even be pretty supportive, cheering you on as you ruin the Raiders’ collective day, but he'll get more testy the further you get into the mission without successfully killing them off or making them fail the mission (and thus letting them get closer to victory). ''Actually fail'' to stop them and hoo, boy, the verbal abuse... though if you got a decent score anyway irregardless of failing he'll just say he “expects better” next time and let you go.

* Mutants: The Umbra Wardogs are a faction full of these due to their [[PhlebotinumOverdose overdosing on Aleph]].

* VideoGameLives: The Raiders have a shared set of these (4 in solo missions, 10 in co-op missions and 16 when an Antagonist is present) due to Cortez rebuilding the Raider using a supply of Aleph on his ship. When that Aleph runs out, the raiders have to survive a FinalDeathMode while Cortez flys off to find more Aleph. The period for which respawning is unavailable starts at 30 seconds and doubles each time the number of lives hits 0.

* InnocentAliens: By the time the Humans arrive to the broken planet, the natives have forcefully modified themselves to be primarily pacifistic, for fear of another cataclyms. Though it doesn't apply to every one, as some of them (like [[SerialKiller Doldren]]) are still as murderous as they were before.

* InnocentAliens: By the time the Humans arrive to the broken planet, the natives have forcefully modified themselves to be primarily pacifistic. Though it doesn't apply to every one, as some of them (like [[SerialKiller Doldren]]) are still as murderous as they were before.

* InnocentAliens: By the time the Humans arrive to the broken planet, the natives have forcefully modified themselves to be primarily pacifistic. Though it doesn't stop some of them (like [[SerialKiller Doldren]]) to continue being murderous.

* MeleeATrois: Shortly upon being abandoned on the broken planet, members of the human expedition from the Hades Division, the Umbra Wardogs, and the Fifth Council began fighting one another for control of the planet. The addition of the Raiders in this war has not lead to any alliances but instead offered Harec and Raiders exploit opportunities, as seen in missions like A Low Blow and In Medias Res.

* MightyGlacier: The standard stats for a raider from the Fifth Council makes them one of these. Their cybernetic bodies allow them to resist a percentage taken from firearms but they're unable to run much faster than a light jog without some special ability.

* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. When a mission is about to change sections the Raiders have a small amount of time to get into a certain area before they're killed for being left behind. This doesn't affect the mission result, however, as it's only required for one Raider to successfully escape for Raiders to win, but it does affect a small score of "Raiders extracted" at the mission reward screen.

* PhlebotinumOverload: The main way Raiders destroy stuff in the game.

* SuplexFinisher: Two characters have a version of this.

* VideoGameLives: The Raiders have a shared set of these due to Cortez rebuilding the Raider using a supply of Aleph on his ship. When that Aleph runs out, the raiders have to survive a FinalDeathMode while Cortez flys off to find more Aleph.

* VolcanicVeins: Using Aleph to suppress your stress causes this with your nervous system. Generating too much stress means you're glowing brightly enough to be seen through walls.

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Most of the Raiders hate each other's guts for one reason or another, but that doesn't stop them from taking on the three big factions.

* StealthExpert: Locals are MADE for this. Their health is capped at 60, meaning they are weak in direct engagements, but their Stress Meter almost doesn't fill up when running, very slowly fills up when they attack in melee and falls down to 0 faster than other Raiders. Their abilities usually involve [[InvisibilityCloak taking advantage of enemies]], [[escaping out of their sight for [[AstralProjection an ambush]].

* GlassCannon: Local characters are this. They only have 60 health but their weapons do some of the highest damage in the game.

* HealingFactor: Thanks to Aleph, everybody has one to some degree. The most notable one belongs to the Umbra Wardogs, who can constantly regenerate damage to the point of rebuilding lost parts in lore pages.

* InnocentAliens: By the time the Humans arrive to the broken planet, the natives have forcefully modified themselves to be primarily pacifistic.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: The Hades Division have some mechs, but the Raiders only encounter two of them.

* MadeOfExplodium: If it contains Aleph, there's gonna be some way to blow it up.

* MeleeATrois: Shortly upon being abandoned on the broken planet, members of the human expedition from the Hades Division, the Umbra Wardogs, and the Fifth Council began fighting one another for control of the planet. The addition of the Raiders in this war has not lead to any alliances.

* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. When a mission is about to change sections the Raiders have a small amount of time to get into a certain area before they're killed for being left behind.

* BadBoss: Each of the three human factions have one. General Marmalade treats everyone under him as fodder or a [[TestedOnHumans guinea pig]] for his Aleph experiments. General Krausher, in the Destroyer of Worlds mission, yells at his own troops through the radio that the Aleph transported on the ship Raiders are currently on is worth more than his troops' lives, and doesn't tolerate ANY kind of failure, if Ayana is any indication. Schneider and Valeria are no better in regard of seeing their subordinates as nothing but cannon fodder.

* BadBoss: Each of the three human factions have one. General Marmalade treats everyone under him as fodder or a [[TestedOnHumans guinea pig]] for his Aleph experiments. General Krausher

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Mostly [[AvertedTrope averted]] for the Raiders, Antagonists, and EliteMooks. Going down to 0hp puts them in a downed state that makes them unable to grapple, use their abilities, move faster than a limp, quick melee normally, drop their stress to a subtle amount, or use any scopes their weapons might have. If they can avoid taking a certain amount taking a melee hit or a certain amount of damage, they get half their health back.

* GameplayGrading: Missions are scored from 1.0 to 10.0 depending on the ELO modifier for the match, the time it took to be completed, how much progress the raiders made, and the amount of raiders killed. This score affects how much loot the players can get as a reward.

* AGodAmI: General Marmalade by the time the Raiders get to him.

* EvilKnockoff: The Antagonist is this to the Raiders. Taking the form of one of them to try and sabotage their missions.

** Commanders who can make raiders the target of all the normal mooks,[[EnemySummoner call in special rocket launcher mooks]], and summon an orbital bombardment on themselves with the use of an Aleph charge.

* HumanoidAliens: The locals could pass for HumanAliens if not for their MysticalWhiteHair, black sclera, and BarbieDollAnatomy.

* LivingMacGuffin: The Protectors, the only natives who still understand how all the old Aleph-based technology works. While the Hades Division and the Umbra Wardogs don't know about their existence, the Raiders and the Fifth Council often fight to secure them.

* VolcanicVeins: Using Aleph to suppress your stress causes this with your nervous system. Generating too much stress means you're glowing brightly enough to be seen through walls.

The game is comprised of a number of missions, divided into campaigns, whith four players pitted against enemies of various factions, each with its quirks and strenghts. Gameplay, while mainly following the conventions of Third Person Shooters with a cover-based system, makes large use of a fluid, brawl-like melee system. A fifth player can drop in, as the Antagonist, whose role is to foil the players's objectives (or kill them all), with the help of the AI-controlled enemies.

Spacelords (formerly known as Raiders of the Broken Planet) is a Third Person, Action-Adventure Online game developed by ''Creator/MercurySteam'', launched in 2017 for PC, XBox One and PS4.

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In the far future, humanity has reached a far away planet, cracked and halph destroyed. The planet is revealed to be the only source of Aleph,an incredibly powerful substance capable of generating almost unlimited energy, its uses including (but not limited to) spaceship fuel, physical augmentation (to the point of near immortality), planet-busting weapons and powering all sorts of bizarre powers. In the past, the reckless and aggressive use of the Aleph by the local population caused the near destruction of the planet, and thus their subsequent abandonment of their violent ways for a peaceful lifestyle made them easy prey for the human expeditions who reached the planet to seize the Aleph in the hopes of gathering enough power to control the Universe itself.
Aside from their constant infighting, a small group of rebels stands in the way, sabotaging, rescuing and salvaging whenever possible: the Raiders, a RagtagBunchOfMisfits led by Harec, a local tribe leader forced to pick up a gun and fight to fend off the invasion.

The game is comprised of a number of missions, divided into campaigns, whith four players pitted against enemies of various factions, each with its quirks and strenghts. A fifth player can drop in, as the Antagonist, whose role is to foil the players's objectives (or kill them all), with the help of the AI-controlled enemies.