ShooterofIO: Wargrounds

***ShooterofIO: Wargrounds*** was a free-to-play *ShooterofIO* game developed by two different studios and War Games's help. It released on April 18th, 2015. The game also was released only on Microsoft Windows, the game was soon also released on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Playstation 4, and Playstation 5 in early-2021, while also announcing that the game won't be on the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 no longer.

A sequel, *ShooterofIO: Wargrounds 2*, was released on March 10, 2023. It was shut down on November 15, 2024.

## Overview

Wargrounds features more modes to play than any other Battle Royale game out there before.

### Progression and Controller Support

This is the first game in the ShooterofIO franchise to be Cross-Progression safe, meaning you can play either the current year's game and progress through the new Battle Pass every season either on Wargrounds or the game you're playing.

ShooterofIO: WWII introduced Controller Support for the Multiplayer mode and it has been added to Wargrounds. Wargrounds will have Controller use enabled if you choose to use a controller.

### Integration

ShooterofIO: Wargrounds will integrate between yearly released games. Beginning with Dark Warfare, Wargrounds has been updated every season and had new features, weapons, and items added into the games files. *Wargrounds* will also have shared progression with all games released in the ShooterofIO franchise.

It also intregrated with Dark Warfare 5 in 2024.

## Features

### Weapon Rarities

Weapons in this game have a rarity, and the rarity can be increased just by getting Scrap, which can be found around the big map, getting kills, and doing small quests.

* Player Loadouts (Default weapons and/or obtained via Loadout Drops)
* Common (No attachment included)
* Uncommon (1 attachment)
* Rare (3 attachments)
* Epic (4 attachments)
* Legendary (5 attachments)
* Ultra (Unobtainable from ground loot)

### Gunplay

There are at-least 40 weapons to use in the battlefields.

### Scraps

Scraps are easily obtained and are the currency used in the game. It allows you to buy things from the Buy Stations. You can earn Scraps from getting Kills, earning acheivements, milestones, small quests, and surviving amounts of time, but you can easily get Scraps from opening Crates around the map. Every match it starts at none and you must get it to buy Killstreaks and more.

### Buy Station

Buy Stations are laptops located around the island where you can purchase Special Packs, or specific Killstreaks from the list. However, you aren't able to purchase weapons from Buy Stations.

### Events

ShooterofIO: Wargrounds holds multiple events which gives rewards to the players who compete in them. Rewards could be something like Free Camos, Free EXP, and maybe some EXP Boost Tokens.

### Operator Boosters

Players will be able to get Operator Boosters inside of the arena, a new type of weapon that helps players kill enemy players at times of needs; obtaining them are very hard and require a heap of work but it pays off well when you could possibly win. These are removed from all players when 2 zones remain in the match, in order to make it fairer when the match reaches 20 remaining players.

## Game Modes

### Wargrounds

The original/main mode on ShooterofIO: Wargrounds. 100 players spawn into the island and they must kill each other. The last player standing wins! In this game, once you're eliminated you're out!

There is a Combat Zone which gets smaller over time; and if you're out of it, you take damage and will die if you don't get back into the combat zone.

### Royale Deathmatch

Royale Deathmatch is a mode released during 2021, and it's main goal is to teleport 50 players in little specific locations. There are five waves, and each wave is 400 points to win. Each kill is worth 1 point. Once the point requirement is reached, players will be teleported to another different location and a team must get 400 points again. After they reach 400 points, again they'll be teleported to a different location. Players are able to spawn in with a pre-selected loadout.

## Challenges and Quests

In ShooterofIO: Wargrounds, players can complete small Quests to earn easy higher up rarity Weapons.

* A quest could be get # amount of kills by shooting from a specific distance.
* A quest could be something as little as run a distance or buy something from a Buy Station.

## Events

In Wargrounds, Events are held to reveal, give, or celebrate new games, special occasions, or even collobrate with content creators.