HEATSINK

One gauge. No health bar, no ammo, no timer.Fast shooters all need an engine that forbids waiting. This one usesthermodynamics. Your core heats up when you fire, and the only heat sink in thegame is the air moving over your body.The consequence needs no tutorial: take cover to shoot in peace, and you melt ineight seconds.The ground is where you burnWalking doesn't cool you. Sprinting doesn't cool you. [b]Standing on solid grounddissipates nothing at all[/b] — and the faster you fly, the harder you cool.Every weapon's recoil is a thruster. The starter pistol pushes back exactly ashard as gravity pulls, so holding the trigger holds your altitude. You do notshoot [i]and[/i] move. Shooting [b]is[/b] moving.The red zone paysDamage scales with your own temperature. At 92% you hit nearly twice as hard, sothe whole economy of the game pushes you to the edge of an explosion and keepsyou there. Overheat and you spend a cycle. Spend your last one, and the coremelts.Three ways to playLA DESCENTE — the campaign. Five sectors, five rooms each, a boss atthe bottom of every one, and an ending. Each boss makes one rule compulsory thatthe rest of the game only rewards: the red zone, flight, weapon rotation, adeliberate overload. Learn one, and the next one sends you back to school.LA COULÉE — endless waves, one arena, one score.LA VOLÉE — twelve movement courses, no enemies at all. A launch pad, avoid, a gate and a clock. Two ways to lose: the void, and your own core.And a foundry between runsIngots earned in a run buy permanent upgrades — and every one of them can berefunded at any time, in full. A meta-progression you can permanently getwrong is a trap, not a system of choices.Six weapons. Twenty-two species. Five bosses.