Fallout-style MMO PIONER enters Open Beta and you can get in on the action

Fans of post-apocalyptic adventures have been clamouring for some form of multiplayer Fallout-like title, where you can travel across radiation-ridden lands with others, for seemingly an age.

PIONER seems to offer exactly that with its MMO qualities mixed with pushing back some weird and wacky creatures in the wasteland. After being in development for some time, it has now entered Open Beta, and you too can get in on the action ahead of the full 1.0 launch.

The PIONER Open Beta is live, and you can get access now

When you think of traditional betas, you usually go to small snippets of the experience that are essentially ‘stress testing’ servers or mechanics.

PIONER’s Open Beta, however, isn’t barebones at all, allowing you to tour the island’s full early game. The story campaign (Acts I–V) lays out the factions, hotspots, and a bigger mystery under Tartarus. Expect a mix of firefights and hushed runs through places that probably fail every safety inspection known to man.

If you’d rather squad up, two raids are available. “Manufacture” is the headline PvE gauntlet needing tight comms, while “Crash Site” works as a training raid, walking new teams through the basics so they don’t evaporate.

The world itself gets louder, too, thanks to Global Quests, including three large-scale missions and a World Boss tied to the narrative, pushing servers into a mess of cross-fire, callouts, and someone insisting they’re nearly there on backing you up.

If you’re up for a bit of competition, you can dip into PvP Deathmatch to grind reputation as a Legend of Tartarus, or simmer things a little with Carnage, a surprisingly tactical card mini-game with collectible decks, ranked ladders, and rewards.

If you like the sound of any of this, you can get access to the PIONER Open Beta simply by heading over to the Steam page for the game and hitting the all-important request access button.

How long does the PIONER open beta last?

The Open Beta runs through November 11, after which all progress is wiped. Treat this as a few days of learn the routes, feeling out any of the meta gear, and potentially figuring out which faction’s vendor you actually like.

PIONER’s test build delivers around 30 hours of shoot-scavenge-survive with proper group content, so you should have enough time to get through a good chunk of that before that end date comes around.