News Spectre Divide is a fascinating Valorant-like shooter where you control two bodies

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Spectre Divide. | Image: Mountaintop

I am getting absolutely stomped in Spectre Divide, the just-revealed 3-on-3 online shooter from a new game studio staffed by talent from Oculus VR, Valorant, Apex Legends, Halo Infinite, and more. I am not good at this free-to-play PC game. But I can’t stop thinking about how I might get good — by intelligently swapping between two bodies to outmaneuver my enemies.

If only I’d placed my doppelganger here instead of there, I could’ve had my own back. What if I had teleported my clone behind enemy lines to flank them while I drew their attention elsewhere? Maybe if I’d planted the bomb with one body while camping that door with the other, I’d have caught them unawares?

I’ve never played a shooter like this before — even if, at first, it...

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