History VideoGame / Synthetik

In April 2021, a sequel, ''VideoGame/SYNTHETIK2'' was announced for Early Access.

In December 2020, a the game received a major update, as well as Xbox One and Nintendo Switch releases, coined '''''SYNTHETIK ULTIMATE'''''. The update added new items and item shops, new enemies (including randomized squadrons of unique elites), new music, and a grueling new final chamber following the (former) final boss, as well as new cutscenes and boss dialogue to flesh out the barebones story.

Released in March 2018, '''''SYNTHETIK''''' is a fast-paced and relentless [[{{Roguelike}} roguelite]] shooter with singleplayer or two-player CoOpMultiplayer modes developed and published by German independent studio Flow Fire Games. Your mission is simple; as an AceCustom Android prototype of Kaida Corporation, fight your way to the Heart of Armageddon and prevent the rogue AIs from wiping out humanity.

In April 2021, a sequel, '''''Synthetik 2''''' was announced for Early Access.

* KillSat: There are items that can release satellite beams. The G87"BEAMER" shoots a slowly-moving beam, The "Icarus" shoots triple beams at once, and The Legendary-tier "Redline" can shoot a massive orbital beam for a long time.

* StockNinjaWeaponry: There are ninja items like Kunai or Acidic Throwing star. The Z1 Sundering Shuriken is one of the best items in the game.

* BottomlessMagazines: Weapons with the ''Ammo Printing'' perk have semi-bottomless mags; as long as you don't empty them ''completely'', they'll slowly regenerate ammo for the current magazine whilst held. Notably a default feature of the [=KSG 2000=], [=SS58=] Plasma Mod, and Kaida Nailgun.

* HitboxDissonance: Enemy hitboxes have astonishingly little to do with where they visually appear. Non-humanoid ground enemies have mostly reasonable hitboxes, humanoid enemies much worse, and hovering enemies are so bad that you can't reliably hit them even while you're using a perfectly accurate gun and they are not moving at all.

** The Seth-Up suitcase turret, which was added to the gave after WebVideo/SsethTzeentach's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5tsEJgPn30 review.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Nemesis Prototype has a shade of this. Bullets from this sniper rifle have extremely high damage (even by sniper rifle standards), deal double damage to bosses. This weapon also have pinpoint accuracy, and a very short reload time. Sounds good? Unfortunately, bullets from this weapon ricochet off the walls, so there are chances that you will be heavily injured or outright killed by a ricocheted bullet unless you are very careful.

* BackStab: Assassin class has "Scoundrel's Dagger", and you can deal 2x damage when you stabbed the enemy from the back.

In December 2020, a the game received a major update, as well as Xbox One and Nintendo Switch releases, coined '''''Synthetik ULTIMATE'''''. The update added new items and item shops, new enemies (including randomized squadrons of unique elites), new music, and a grueling new final chamber following the (former) final boss, as well as new cutscenes and boss dialogue to flesh out the barebones story.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The Viking Riotshield is a SMG/Riotshield combination. Wielding this weapon gives 30 armor bonus to the player, but also reduces their move speed. Even when not wielding it you still get 15 armor.

* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Nobody told the Raider this rule; one of their starting options is a {{Vibroweapon}} knife. Dealing damage to enemies with this knife will increase its blade damage and heals your health. Finishing enemies with it resets its cooldown, so this blade is very good at killing a group of wounded enemies.

* RoboSpeak: Enemy androids speak like this. Their dialogue consist of only a few phrases.

* TheStraightAndArrowPath: The Ballistic CRX-Bow is a powerful weapon for sniping enemies. It can increase its damage by scoring headshots.

* ThisIsADrill: The legendary active item, Infinity Drill Piece shoots a mysterious drilling projectile. This attack is quite damaging.

* ArmorIsUseless: Nope. There's two forms of it in [=SYNTHETIK=] - straight Armor, and Plating;

* EliteMooks: Some enemies in the levels are the elite variant, and they are noticeably tougher than normal ones.

* HeyItsThatGun: The "Enforcer Carbine" is an essentially unmodified [=G36C=], with a fancy paint job... except it shoots purple energy bolts.

* InvisibilityCloak: Assassin class has one. It works great with their dagger.

* ColorCodedItemTiers: For weapons and items. Dull blue (Common), Blue (Uncommon), Purple (Rare), Red (Legendary). These are preset by the base type, and altered only by the ''ULTRA'' variant.

* ActionBomb: Spider bots will charge into you and explode.

* AutoRevive: The Divine Reconstructor can save you from death. It's one-use, though.

* BlobMonster: The "Unstable Mass" boss. It doesn't have any projectile attack and just try to crush you. The main problem is, it can spawn massive amounts of slime enemies to attack you.

* DashAttack: When you have the Lighting Boots, you can damage enemies by dashing into them.

* ExcusePlot: You are an android soldier. Enter into the building of robot-making corporation and destroy the army of robots.

* MookMedic: The Healing Turrets can send healing drones to heal other enemies. [[ShootTheMedicFirst Destroying them first is usually a good idea]].

** RandomlyGeneratedLoot: Active/passive items are fixed (except for their quality percentage), but each gun can generate as one of seventeen variants (plus/minus some that are exclusive to certain weapon types). Each is effectively a 'template' that alters its fixed stats; for example, ''Siege V'' increases magazine capacity, ''Military Spec'' removes the jamming chance, and ''ULTRA'' weapons are [[AceCustom better in every way]].

* SentryGun: There are two turret items, the DMR Sentry Turret and the [[MoreDakka LMG Sentry Turret]]. Also, there are many enemy turrets in the levels.

* SimpleYetAwesome: The primary playstyle of the Riot class is charging enemies, stunning them, and blowing them away with shotguns. The combination of these abilities allow a Riot class character to bulldoze right through most opposition, and as their primary source of healing is ''getting shot'' they're going to ignore most anything short of rockets and other high-damage single shot attacks.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Certain enemies use targeting laser beams and you can add a LaserSight to your weapons, but all energy weapons fire discrete bolts rather than coherent beams.

** There is the 'Master Chief' handgun. As you can guess, this gun is very similar to M6 Series handgun of ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''.

** The Liandry Rail Gun? you mean [[VideoGame/{{Unreal}} Liandri]]? Also, The 'Ripjack' sawblade launcher is very similar to [[VideoGame/UnrealTournament Unreal Tournament]]'s 'Ripper' sawblade launcher.

** The "Road Warrior" shotgun is taken straight from [[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior Mad Max]].

Released in March 2018, '''''SYNTHETIK''''' is a fast-paced and relentless TacticalShooter [[{{Roguelike}} roguelite]] with singleplayer or two-player CoOpMultiplayer modes developed and published by German independent studio Flow Fire Games. Your mission is simple; as an AceCustom Android prototype of Kaida Corporation, fight your way to the Heart of Armageddon and prevent the rogue AIs from wiping out humanity.

Released in March 2018, ''SYNTHETIK'' is a fast-paced and relentless TacticalShooter [[{{Roguelike}} roguelite]] with singleplayer or two-player CoOpMultiplayer modes developed and published by German independent studio
Flow Fire Games. Your mission is simple; as an AceCustom Android prototype of Kaida Corporation, fight your way to the Heart of Armageddon and prevent the rogue AIs from wiping out humanity.

On January 21st, 2019, a standalone expansion, ''SYNTHETIK: Arena'', was released for free. It contains several game modes where the player must perform objectives such as defending a core, hunting down elite units, killing enemies near generators to power them up, and more.

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Released in March 2018, ''SYNTHETIK'' is a fast-paced and relentless action-roguelite with singleplayer or two-player CoOpMultiplayer modes. Your mission is simple; as an AceCustom Android prototype of Kaida Corporation, fight your way to the Heart of Armageddon and prevent the rogue AIs from wiping out humanity.

Available on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/528230/SYNTHETIK/ Steam]], [[https://flowfiregames.itch.io/synthetik itch.io]], and [[https://www.gog.com/game/synthetik_legion_rising GOG.com]].

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Available on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/528230/SYNTHETIK/ Steam]] and [[https://flowfiregames.itch.io/synthetik itch.io]]

* GrenadeLauncher: Two primary, one 'passive'. The classic [=M79=] as a unique unlockable for the Specialist class, and the Milkor [=M32 MGL=] with its six-round cylinder. The passive is the [=M205=], which causes your next standard shot with any weapon to also launch one (sometimes two) bouncing grenades.

* StuffBlowingUp: This is a specialization of the Demolisher. They can gain health and shield from explosions that hit enemies, and have items/perks revolving around ammo recovery and regeneration, so they can keep on blowing stuff up. Also, they start with a classic break-action [=M79=] Grenade Launcher. That can potentially hold two rounds at once. Somehow.

** Armor is a flat reduction on all incoming damage dealt to Health, but doesn't apply to Shields. If you have 60 Armor, you take 60 less damage from attacks. Rapid-fire weapons have difficulty with Armor, but it's not as good against high-damage attacks, as it's a flat effect rather than a percentage.
** Plating is a 'get out of damage free' card; one point of Plating (default max 2, enemies can have up to 4, bosses can have even more) completely absorbs a single attack's worth of damage, and is then removed. Plating excels at defeating high-damage single attacks like sniper shots, but is poor against [[MoreDakka rapid-fire]] or [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter multi-projectile]] weapons.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The Viking Riotshield is a SMG/Riotshield combination. Wielding this weapon gives 100 armor bonus to the player, but also reduces their move speed.