Mountaintop will launch closed beta for Spectre Divide shooter on August 13

Mountaintop recently revealed its innovative Spectre Divide shooter game and now it will launch a closed beta for the game on August 13.

The closed beta will run from August 13 at 9 a.m. Pacific time to August 21 at 6 p.m. Pacific time on Steam. Players can earn invitations via Twitch Drops, and they can also request access on the Steam Store Page for the game. I had a chance to demo the game and liked the design.

The PC game is a 3v3 multiplayer tactical shooter game with a unique twist: your spectre. You get to start out in the game with a twin, a virtual self, in the same match. And you can switch between the bodies during the match and use your twin to outmaneuver and outflank your enemies. You get the benefit of one mind, two bodies, CEO Nate Mitchell, a cofounder of Oculus, said in a game preview. That’s duality.

The company started in 2020 and the game has been in the works for four years. It raised $30 million and then disappeared into the ether. I attended an online preview event to be one of the first to play the game. Mitchell, CEO of Mountaintop, said he was psyched to show off the game.

“For the past four years, we’ve been dreaming of this moment,” Mitchell said. “It’s been a true labor of love. We can’t wait to hear what you think.”

Mitchell said the team of about 70 developers are super fans of shooter games such as PvP extraction games. They made the game with help of creators like Shroud.

Lee Horn, the game director for Spectre Divide, was previously the lead for product on Respawn Entertainment’s Apex Legends and he also worked at Riot Games on Valorant. He also played Counter-Strike since the days of its beta and has put in multiple thousands of hours into playing the game. That makes him a lifelong shooter diehard.

“This game is a love letter to the tech shooter community. We’re really excited to show you Spectre Divide today. The game is driven by a new feature we call duality, which we think is gonna massively evolve the genre and bring in some exciting new magic.”

Spectre Divide is a competitive 3v3 tactical shooter with duality. There are three players per team, but every player will control a second body, and you can swap between these two bodies at any moment. If one of your bodies is shot in the match, you reappear in the second body. If you lose that second body, then you’re eliminated from the round.

The cool thing is that you can toss a puck to an upper floor position and then press a key to switch from your body on the ground floor to animate your second body in the spot where you throw the puck. The enemy may think you’re still on the ground, and then you can flank around and ambush the enemy from above.