This year’s Microsoft conference at E3 brought Redfall game announcement – new cooperative events from developers from the Arkane studio, specifically the Austin branch. After Deathloop from the Lyon team, this is another big project, which is to be released next summer exclusively on the PC and Xbox Series. As we could see in the June trailer, the theme is a peculiar discharging of vampires using strange weapons and special abilities, but we still could not get a real picture of the game, because the first video was composed exclusively of film-tuned cutscenes. However, the situation changes unexpectedly with the escape of many screenshots from the unfinished version of the game and the first details. Materials appeared on Income, allegedly comes from a private playtest, and regardless of the fact that the original source was immediately deleted, the leak could no longer be stopped.
As for the basic description, the player will most likely have a big open world and a main storyline with many side branches. According to the escape, Redfall acts as a mix of Borderlands and Breath of the Wild – from the first game it takes crazy action, from the second a large number of side story arcs, missions, but also a smooth passage through the entire available game world, allegedly about the size of Fallout 76. previously, Redfall will emphasize cooperation, but even according to the new escape, it is possible to play the game comfortably in solitude. There are 6 playable characters with different abilities to choose from, which is in line with the trailer from this year’s E3. As described in the escape below, one of the characters has the opportunity to use the bird as a drone – probably a previously seen raven, the other can be invisible for a limited time and the other uses a short-distance teleport, not unlike Blink’s ability from Dishonored.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxX-4U5uJqk
When it comes to one of the most successful games of the Arkane studio, Redfall also has to give the player the choice of deciding to proceed quietly or throwing himself into everything with a loaded weapon. This could also apply to fights with bosses, who should not be recruited only from the ranks of vampires. He will allegedly also fight against ordinary people, which is undoubtedly related to the story that the escape does not tell. However, he confirms that if players choose to play Redfall without live teammates, the team will not be complemented by characters controlled by artificial intelligence. Whether it is an advantage or a discontinuity, of course, is impossible to estimate at a time when we could not try the game ourselves, but it will all depend on the design and fun hidden in both possible approaches to the game. The latest information about the leak is the weapons – the screenshots show that in this respect, Redfall will be close to the looting games, so it will very much depend on the rarity and individual statistics.
As for the reaction of Microsoft or the developers, they have not commented on the leak yet and we do not expect that to happen. It is possible, however, that thanks to / due to the published screenshots, they will delay their own closer revelation of the game in order to alleviate the wave of disappointments that began to spread in the comments on social networks. The players are ruthless and don’t even take into account the fact that this is an unfinished game in godless phase, they are already prophesying a cardinal failure for Redfall. For us, such a rating is very premature and, as in all cases, let’s wait until the game is available and there really is something to evaluate.
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