Treatment’s new multiplayer sport set within the Management universe has been absolutely revealed for the primary time below the identify FBC: Firebreak.
Billed as a three-player co-op expertise, it includes a extra colourful tackle Treatment’s common universe. The primary gameplay trailer reveals three characters in environmental fits battling quite a lot of enemies in fast-paced first-person gameplay. There’s additionally a backyard gnome. Take a look at the trailer beneath.
In a follow-up submit on Xbox Wire, director Mike Kayatta mentioned that FBC: Firebreak is “not Management DLC and it is undoubtedly not a Management sequel.” As an alternative, Treatment calls it a sport you may “take pleasure in with your pals and sort out a number of hectic co-op missions.”
It casts gamers as first responders from the Federal Bureau of Management battling enemies in The Oldest Home utilizing “paranatural augments,” that are “Altered Gadgets” engineered into device attachments. That apparently contains
“We’ve got at all times finished single participant video games at Treatment, and relaxation assured, we’ve extra single participant video games in improvement, and they are going to be superior, however for a very long time we’ve needed 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 wish to be doing the identical forms of video games on a regular basis; it’s good to tackle new challenges.”
Notably, Treatment says that FBC will not be a typical reside service sport. Whereas there will probably be a lot to unlock and can function a gradual provide of recent content material, it will not be geared round “logging in every single day for some loot or concern of lacking out on supplies.” It would additionally function loads of new tales set on the planet of Management, albeit with a considerably totally different method.
“For the people who find themselves maintaining with the single-player journey, we needed to make it possible for FBC: Firebreak was a reputable and impactful a part of that historical past and lore. The narrative model 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 consider 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 in all probability see why it was vital that we made FBC: Firebreak a stand-alone expertise. That mentioned, you will notice extra of Management’s world. Extra of the Federal Bureau of Management. Meet extra of the individuals who work there. Discover extra of the Oldest Home. Run into extra bizarre stuff. And importantly, expertise this world, outdated and new, from a very totally different perspective.”
Within the meantime, work continues on Management 2, which is at the moment within the design stage of improvement. Treatment can be getting ready new Alan Wake 2 DLC. As for FBC: Firebreaker, it’s going to arrive in 2025 for Xbox Sequence X|S and PC, and will probably be obtainable on day one on Xbox Sport Go. For extra, try every thing introduced on the Xbox Companion Showcase.
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