Publisher Electronic Arts and developer Velan Studios have revealed that Knockout City is getting a limited-time free trial when it launches next week, which will also coincide with the title’s newly announced Block Party event.
Knockout City’s free trial runs for a whole ten days, between May 21 at 5 AM PDT/1 PM BST and May 30 at 5 AM PDT/1 PM BST, giving players on all platforms access to the entire game with no restrictions. If you’re on the fence about purchasing the team-based multiplayer dodgeball game, this should be more than enough time to make up your mind.
The Block Party event runs during the same period of time, introducing a set of Contracts meant to give players a running start for when Season 1 kicks off a few days later. There are essentially in-game challenges rewarding players different items and bonuses upon completion. The following four playlists will also be available at launch: Team KO, Diamond Dash, Party Team KO, and Face-Off.
Anyone who ends up purchasing Knockout City during the Block Party event will get the Block Party Bundle – also available to EA Play or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers –, which comes with the following goodies:
- Epic Outfit: Cyber Spike
- Epic Hairstyle: Locked Horns
- Epic Glasses: LED the Way
- Epic Glider: Mach 1
- Epic Intro Pose: Calling In Reinforcements
- Epic KO Effect: By the Horns
- THREE Player Icons: Bomb Ball, Pixel-Dillo, and Noodles Gone Bad
- 500 Holobux!
Knockout City’s Season 1 begins on May 25, introducing its own Contracts and eight new playlists. Here is the Block Party event’s full schedule, as detailed on publisher Electronic Arts’ website:
- May 20th - The Night Before Knockout City Twitch stream, featuring gameplay content and live chats with the developers
- May 21st - Launch Day! (12 p.m. noon UTC)
- May 22nd - Community Crew Up kicks off with your favorite streamers inviting their communities to help them reach in-game goals to unlock prizes for their audience
- May 23rd - Start rocking custom Crew Logos, Crew Banners, and Player Icons from content creators like JonSandman, Ohmwrecker, H2ODelirious, AyChristine, Gorillaphent, and NorthernLion
- May 24th - Join the Velan Hideout: join our Discord to play rounds of Knockout City with the dev team, chat, and hang out
- May 25th - Season 1 Kickoff: Welcome to Knockout City drops with the new map, new Playlist, League Play, Season Contracts, Weekly Crew Contracts, and more!
- May 26th - Watch as community members take on the current world’s best dodgebrawl players in Round 1 of Dodge the Devs. Can they beat the best? Or will they go home crying to their mammas?
- May 27th - Once wasn’t enough—we’re coming back for Dodge the Devs: Round 2!
- May 28th - Community Tournament Day 1: We’re hosting two tournaments—one for North America, one for Europe. For both, 64 teams will enter, but only one will emerge victorious. Will it be your team?
- May 29th - On the last full day of Block Party, don’t miss Day 2 of the Community Tournament, where we’ll take the top 8 teams in both regions and whittle them down to a single winner. With a $10k prize pool for North America and a $5k prize pool for Europe, this tournament is sure to have nonstop, high-stakes dodgebrawl action.
- May 30th - Block Party ends at 12 p.m. UTC
- June 1st - Week 2 of Crew Contracts, plus the brand-new playlist KO Chaos. Each week of Season 1 brings a new Playlist, new Crew Contracts, and new items in the Brawl Shop!
Knockout City is set to release on PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch on May 21.
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