Right now, as a part of State of Play, we’re excited to disclose a primary have a look at the gameplay, universe, and characters of Concord, in addition to how and if you’ll be capable to get your palms on the sport–beginning with a beta deliberate for later this 12 months, adopted by Concord’s international launch on PS5 and PC* on August 24, 2024.
Concord is a 5v5 character-driven, first-person multiplayer shooter set within the Concord galaxy.
We constructed Concord as a love-letter to aspirational sci-fi journey, impressed by our favourite artwork, anime, movies, and TV collection. Mixed with our deep love of multiplayer, we’re devoted to creating these had-to-be-there, all the way down to the wire moments with your pals and creating a way of journey as you uncover extra concerning the galaxy, the characters you play as, and the worlds you go to each time you log on.
Freegunners: They’re not heroes, they’re professionals
In Concord, you play because the crew of the Northstar—a gaggle of guns-for-hire identified in our galaxy as Freegunners. The Freegunners roam the celebrities taking high-stakes jobs on worlds throughout Wild area, the place they face different fiercely aggressive Freegunner crews. From match-to-match, you’ll kind your crew of Freegunners with different gamers and battle it out with rival crews to take residence the reward throughout quite a lot of maps and modes.
Freegunner code: Crew first, job second
From the very starting, we wished to make a good, well-balanced FPS that feels nice to play from the second you decide up the controller.
Whereas our core gunplay will really feel acquainted to shooter followers, the flexibility and number of every Freegunner and their talents makes it so purpose and thumbskill alone aren’t at all times sufficient to come back out on prime. Every Freegunner’s talents are designed to make it in order that gamers of a variety of ability ranges and play kinds could be efficient—even these which might be new to the style—whereas offering extra problem and depth for these on the lookout for high-stakes, high-sweat aggressive play.
From highly effective mystics and towering robots to expert gunslingers and snipers, we wish every Freegunner’s persona and gameplay talents to come back alive in each factor of how they play and the strategic issues they create. Some Freegunners’ talents are made for in-the-moment techniques, together with casting partitions of fireside, throwing exploding knives, or lobbing trash bombs. Others can have a permanent influence on a match, like deployable partitions that may block whole lanes, explosive traps, bullet-blocking domes, speed-granting spores, and extra that persist throughout rounds and respawns.
Impressed by some our favourite preventing and technique video games, all of those talents and mechanics come collectively to create a singular asymmetry to the characters and alternatives for improvisation that make each battle and each match-up an opportunity for one thing totally different and sudden to occur.
Alongside attending to know the crew of the Northstar by way of gameplay, you’ll even have a chance to see their tales unfold by way of cinematic vignettes that can premiere in-game, beginning weekly from launch. These transient cinematic vignettes will function ongoing narrative arcs that develop the characters’ tales, relationships, and unpack the broader Concord galaxy and life as a Freegunner.
An evolving universe
The Concord galaxy is filled with hazard and journey, and we’ll be unwrapping extra within the coming weeks and months. At launch, Concord can have a roster of 16 distinct Freegunners to be taught and grasp, and the Northstar crew will develop over time by way of common, free post-launch updates that introduce new playable Freegunners, maps, modes, cinematic vignettes, and extra.
We constructed Firewalk to ship superior multiplayer video games, and we’re excited to get Concord in your palms. Starting subsequent week, we’ll share extra particulars about Concord’s editions for PS5 and PC and launch pre-orders, which gives you and 4 buddies early entry to our beta later this summer time.
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