Treatment’s new multiplayer sport set in the Control universe has been totally revealed for the first time beneath the identify FBC: Firebreak.
Billed as a three-player co-op expertise, it contains a extra colourful tackle Treatment’s in style universe. The primary gameplay trailer reveals three characters in environmental fits battling a wide range of enemies in fast-paced first-person gameplay. There’s additionally a backyard gnome. Try the trailer beneath.
In a follow-up publish on Xbox Wire, director Mike Kayatta mentioned that FBC: Firebreak is “not Control DLC and it is positively not a Control sequel.” As a substitute, Treatment calls it a sport you may “take pleasure in with your mates and sort out a number of hectic co-op missions.”
It casts gamers as first responders from the Federal Bureau of Control battling enemies in The Oldest Home utilizing “paranatural augments,” that are “Altered Gadgets” engineered into software attachments. That apparently consists of
“We’ve all the time carried out single participant video games at Treatment, and relaxation assured, we’ve extra single participant video games in growth, and they are going to be superior, however for a very long time we’ve wished to make a PvE multiplayer sport.,” Kayatta says. “There are a great deal of us right here who love multiplayer apart from single participant. We don’t need to be doing the identical sorts of video games all the time; it’s good to tackle new challenges.”
Notably, Treatment says that FBC will not be a typical stay service sport. Whereas there will likely be a lot to unlock and can function a gentle provide of contemporary content material, it will not be geared round “logging in on daily basis for some loot or concern of lacking out on supplies.” It would additionally function loads of new tales set in the world of Control, albeit with a considerably totally different strategy.
“For the people who find themselves maintaining with the single-player journey, we wished to ensure that FBC: Firebreak was a reliable and impactful a part of that historical past and lore. The narrative fashion you’ve seen in our earlier video games simply wasn’t ever going to work right here, for this type of sport,” Kayatta explains. “When you concentrate on these variations in FBC: Firebreak’s gameplay – world over story, multiplayer over single-player, voice-chatting along with your teammates, motion over exploration and so forth – you may most likely see why it was essential that we made FBC: Firebreak a stand-alone expertise. That mentioned, you will notice extra of Control’s world. Extra of the Federal Bureau of Control. Meet extra of the individuals who work there. Discover extra of the Oldest Home. Run into extra bizarre stuff. And importantly, expertise this world, previous and new, from a totally totally different perspective.”
In the meantime, work continues on Control 2, which is at present in the design stage of growth. Treatment can also be making ready new Alan Wake 2 DLC. As for FBC: Firebreaker, it will arrive in 2025 for Xbox Collection X|S and PC, and will likely be obtainable on day one on Xbox Game Go. For extra, take a look at every thing introduced at the Xbox Accomplice Showcase.
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