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ALPHA 0.36.1 THE LIVING SECTOR

Dead Sector: a free top-down PvPvE extraction shooter

Raid a city the state abandoned. Fight players and AI for what is left inside, and get out alive to keep it.

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THE GAME

One raid. Everything on the line.

Dead Sector is a multiplayer top-down extraction shooter. You are a freelance operator in the Dead Sector: the industrial core of the Veltrava basin, which the state cordoned off and wrote off during the collapse. Every raid is a bet with your own gear: what you carry in, you can lose; what you carry out is yours.

  1. GEAR UP

    Take a kit from your stash: a gun you built, armour, medicine and an empty bag to fill. Everything you bring in, you can lose.

    The stash screen of a Field Edition operator: his equipment, rig and pockets beside a stash with a medical case, armour, rigs, bags and medicine.
    The stash: a messy medical case packed with one press of its own Auto-sort.

  2. DEPLOY

    Drop in alone or in a group of up to five, into a raid shared with other players and AI. The raid clock starts.

    A raid in the Facility's basement with the game's HUD: an operator holds the corridor outside a doorway after a fight with the Watch, blood on the floor, while the PA announces the garage shutter.
    In raid in the Facility's basement, with the game's own HUD: the health outline, the hotbar and the PA announcing the garage shutter.

  3. LOOT & FIGHT

    Search crates, bodies and locked rooms while others hunt for the same things. Every door, step and shot can be heard.

    Soldiers of the Watch pushing a wounded operator through the Facility's basement while the PA announces the garage shutter.
    A fight with the Watch through a doorway: a soldier at the door, blood on the floor, and the operator's health outline shows the hits he took.

  4. EXTRACT

    Reach one of your exits and hold it for ten seconds. Make it out and everything you carry is yours. Die, and you keep only your secure container and armband; insured gear may come back.

    An operator on a forest road at Blackwood's East Gate, the EXTRACTING ring counting down over the game's HUD.
    Blackwood's East Gate: holding the exit while the extraction counts down.
The stash screen of a Field Edition operator: his equipment, rig and pockets beside a stash with a medical case, armour, rigs, bags and medicine.
A raid in the Facility's basement with the game's HUD: an operator holds the corridor outside a doorway after a fight with the Watch, blood on the floor, while the PA announces the garage shutter.
An operator on a forest road at Blackwood's East Gate, the EXTRACTING ring counting down over the game's HUD.

The stash: a messy medical case packed with one press of its own Auto-sort.

THE SECTOR

Four places to raid.

Inside the cordon, the Ironworks, the freight terminal and the Blackwood forest stand empty, and under the reservoir shore lies Axiom Biomed's sealed laboratory. Loot is rolled fresh every raid, and no sign marks the exits: you learn the ground.

  • The Ironworks on the region map: the smoking stacks beside the river.

    IRONWORKS

    6 OPERATORS 20 MIN

    A mothballed steelworks of machine halls, offices and cramped service tunnels. Small, close and quick. The Foreman is often there.

  • The Freight Yard on the region map: the rail yard and terminal by the river.

    FREIGHT YARD

    10 OPERATORS 35 MIN

    The customs rail-and-river terminal, split by the Velta: workers' hostels, warehouses, a tank farm and bunkers. The Fixer and his guards may be there.

  • Blackwood on the region map: spruce forest around its lake.

    BLACKWOOD

    10 OPERATORS 35 MIN

    Spruce forest around a lake: a lumber mill, camps, a plane crash and army bunkers under the hills. The Warden may be at the mill.

  • The Axiom campus on the reservoir shore on the region map, with the Facility beneath it.

    THE FACILITY

    8 OPERATORS 30 MIN

    Axiom Biomed's laboratory under the reservoir shore, two floors and a basement deep. Entry costs an access card, every exit opens from a control panel, and the Custodian may be on his rounds.

THE THREAT

Nobody in there is on your side.

You see only what your operator sees, a cone of sight cut off by walls, and you hear the rest. A gunshot carries more than a hundred metres, a footstep through the next room. The AI sees and hears by the same rules, takes cover and hunts whoever shot at it, and its factions fight each other as readily as they fight you.

The Custodian and four armoured guards walking their rounds through the Facility's test hall, seen from above.
The Custodian and his four guards on their rounds through the Facility's test hall.

  • OTHER OPERATORS

    Real players on their own runs, alone or in groups, carrying gear worth killing for. They want what you found, and you want what they brought.

  • LOOTERS

    Armed scavengers on Ironworks, Freight Yard and Blackwood. Their guns are cheap, but more of them keep arriving while the raid runs, and they fight the Watch and most boss crews on sight.

  • BOSSES & THEIR CREWS

    In some raids a boss is waiting: the Foreman alone, the Fixer and the Warden with guards who fight as a squad, and in the Facility the Custodian, whose squad flanks and clears rooms. An alarm panel there can bring the Watch, and Watch convoys with an armed escort roll through Freight Yard and Blackwood.

BETWEEN RAIDS

What you bring home makes you stronger.

Sell what you found to the traders, earn their trust and take on their quests. Build guns part by part and learn their recoil: there is no random spread. Your operator's skills grow from what you do in raid, and Shelter 7 is yours to build up and to hold.

MODULAR WEAPONS
38
TRADERS
7
TRADER QUESTS
108
SKILLS
18
The character screen: the operator's helmet, armour, rifle, sidearm, rig and pack beside a stash of cases, medicine, grenades and spare gear. The traders screen with portraits of Volkov, Nurse, Rook and Wrench.
Your operator and stash, and some of the traders who buy what you bring out.

EDITIONS

Free to play. No pay-to-win.

Every account starts on the Field Edition with a full starting kit. Editions change only your head start (stash size, starting kit and secure container), and the largest secure container, the Rampart, is earned only through quests. What decides a fight is what you bring into the raid and what you do there.

A lightning flash over Freight Yard's scrub in a severe storm, heavy rain slanting past an operator by a boulder.

LATEST UPDATE · ALPHA 0.36

The Living Sector

The Sector remembers now. The Looters, the Watch and the boss crews fight each other on sight, and a Looter that kills you can walk out in your gear and come back as a revenant. Fog, rain and storms roll over Freight Yard and Blackwood, Watch convoys run the roads and the crews fight over turf. Your new Shelter has to be held, players can hire each other through the Broker, and the week's best raid clip is featured on the main menu as the Replay of the Week.

Read the 0.36 patch notesAll patch notes

HOW TO START

In the sector in three steps.

  1. PRESS PLAY

    The game runs in a desktop browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari) on Windows, macOS or Linux, with keyboard and mouse. Nothing to install.

  2. MAKE AN ACCOUNT

    A username, a password and an email code, or Sign in with Google. Every account starts on the free Field Edition with a full kit.

  3. TRAIN, THEN DEPLOY

    Pick a nickname and take the optional Proving Yard: a short training raid where you can't die and nothing is at stake. Then pick a map.

BRIEFING

Frequently asked

What kind of game is Dead Sector?

A free online top-down shooter built around extraction: a multiplayer PvPvE extraction shooter you play in your browser. Deploy with the gear you choose, fight other players and AI, loot what you can carry and reach an exit to keep it. Fall, and it stays where you fell.

Is Dead Sector free? Is it pay-to-win?

It is free to play and not pay-to-win. Editions change only your head start: stash size, starting kit and secure container. The largest secure container is earned only through quests, and nothing that wins a fight is for sale.

What do I need to play?

A Windows, macOS or Linux computer with a current desktop browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari), a keyboard and a mouse. Nothing to install. Phones and tablets are not supported.

Where are the servers?

In the EU, in Germany. The game is fully playable from the Americas, Asia and Oceania too; the farther you are from Germany, the higher your ping. Turn on Show FPS and ping in Settings to see yours.

What do I lose when I die?

Everything you carried except your secure container, what is in it, and your armband. The rest stays on your body for other operators to loot. Gear you insured at a trader comes back after the raid, unless another operator carried it out.

Can I play with friends?

Yes. Add friends in the messenger and form a group of up to five that readies up, matchmakes and spawns together.

What does alpha mean? Will my progress be wiped?

The intended core game is in, but balance, maps and items still change often and you will meet bugs. Progress can be reset between alpha versions (accounts, nicknames and editions are kept), and every wipe is announced in the patch notes.

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