Close to the start of July, Microsoft unleashed a brand new spherical of layoffs and sport cancellations, together with Venture Blackbird, an action-RPG MMO from The Elder Scrolls Online workforce at ZeniMax. Now, a report has shared a number of beforehand unknown particulars about Venture Blackbird and its story, which can probably by no means be completed.
True Achievements has posted an in-depth report about Venture Blackbird, which feels like it will have included components from Cyberpunk 2077, Future, and Warframe. Gamers would have assumed the position of a completely customizable human cyborg generally known as a Revenant. The sport was set on a distant world known as Soteria in a floating capital megacity known as Exodus that was dominated by a sentient AI known as PAN. It could have additionally featured 5 completely different alien syndicates to take care of, in addition to quite a few different species from throughout the galaxy.
The sport’s major story had noirish overtones as PAN duties the participant’s character to resolve the homicide of a high-profile determine in Exodus. PAN would additionally give gamers quite a few facet missions to maintain the peace in Exodus with out letting any of the alien syndicates overpower the remainder. The syndicates themselves would additionally provide gamers assignments that furthered their objectives throughout the energy wrestle to regulate Exodus.
Venture Blackbird was supposed to have live-service components, PvP, shared-world components, and co-op gameplay that permit gamers workforce up. Nevertheless, the sport by no means entered full growth after a prolonged interval of early growth formed the sport and its world. The choice was reportedly made by Microsoft to desert the in-progress title quite than ramp up its sources and push it in the direction of a projected 2027 or 2028 launch.
This sport wasn’t the one casualty of Microsoft’s cuts. Uncommon’s Everwild and the Good Darkish reboot had been each canceled over the last spherical of layoffs.