Microsoft Redfall (Xbox/PC, 02 May 2023) - Open World Co-Op Shooter from Arkane, update: multiple hands-on previews/videos posted, developers "looking into" removing always online requirement for single-player, MS acquisition of Bethesda killed PS5 version

[Keyser_Soze]

 

AN OPEN WORLD CO-OP SHOOTER COMING SUMMER 2022
Launching exclusively on Xbox Series X|S and PC in Summer 2022. Play it Day One with Xbox Game Pass.

 

Bite Back
Redfall is an open-world co-op FPS from Arkane Austin, the award-winning team behind Prey and Dishonored. Continuing Arkane’s legacy of carefully crafted worlds and love of creative game mechanics, Redfall brings the studio’s signature gameplay to the co-operative action and FPS genres.

 

Welcome to Redfall
The quaint island town of Redfall, Massachusetts, is under siege by a legion of vampires who have blocked out the sun and cut the island off from the outside world. Trapped with a handful of survivors against diabolical enemies threatening to bleed the town dry, choose your hero from a diverse roster, grouping up with others to create the perfect team of vampire slayers.

SLAY TOGETHER
Redfall blends single- and multiplayer options seamlessly, allowing the player to venture into the darkness alone or to squad-up with up to three friends for four-player co-op. Teammates can try different hero loadouts and combine their strengths to overcome the vampire legion and their brood of maniacal followers.

 

 

 

Devinder Crousley
Devinder Crousley is an internet-famous paranormal investigator, amateur cryptozoologist, and aspiring inventor. His recent book tour landed him in Redfall, just before it went dark. After years of struggling to create cutting-edge tech to hunt paranormal phenomena, everything is finally starting to click. In Redfall, monsters are real and his inventions work. As he puts them to use fighting vampires, he documents every step of the way. If he gets out of this alive, he’ll have all of the validation he needs.

 

 

 

Layla Ellison
Layla Ellison moved to Redfall from Wisconsin. She studied biomedical engineering at Redfall Technical University and interned at the ominous Aevum Therapeutics research facility, where apparently something went very wrong. She says everything after that is kind of a blur. The last thing she remembers is waking up with a killer headache and wild telekinetic powers.

 

 

 

Remi De La Rosa
Remi De La Rosa is a combat engineer, and a brilliant one at that. She’s lived her life on the frontlines of conflict, using her brilliant mind to protect her loved ones and help those in need around the world as part of an elite Navy rescue unit. On their way to investigate the Redfall incident, her ship was destroyed, and her entire crew was lost. Now, with the help of her robot cohort, she’s determined to help rescue Redfall’s survivors and eliminate any enemies that stand in her way.

 

 

 

Jacob Boyer
Jacob is an ex-military sharpshooter, sent in to Redfall just before the sun darkened as part of an elite private security force. Dark circumstances separated him from his platoon, forcing him down a rogue path. Now he stalks the streets of Redfall, neutralizing evil from the shadows with supernatural precision. Look for a mysterious, ragged raven circling overhead—you may not see him, but Jacob will be nearby.

REIGN IN BLOOD
Redfall’s vampires aren’t your typical bloodsuckers. They were created after a scientific experiment went horribly wrong and are continuing to evolve. After their transformation, some vampires develop powerful abilities and grow into bigger and badder vampires. But they’re not the only thing standing in your way – players will also face off against the human cultists who worship the island’s hungry new leadership with the hopes of joining their ranks.

 

[Bloodporne]

I know their other games didn't sell but that description is the opposite of what I'd want from an Arkane game. 

[Keyser_Soze]

3 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

I know their other games didn't sell but that description is the opposite of what I'd want from an Arkane game. 

 

Well the other studio is busy making Deathloop.

[BloodyHell]

Game looks amazing for a coop shooter. 

[Bloodporne]

13 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Well the other studio is busy making Deathloop.

I don't really get that one's concept either but it does look cooler than this. 

[Keyser_Soze]

56 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

I don't really get that one's concept either but it does look cooler than this. 

 

Honestly, this seems more of a proof of concept. I'll reserve my thoughts until some gameplay. There are a lot of co-op shooters coming out so I hope this one can stand out.

[Brian]

I am surprised that a game scheduled for summer 2022 only had a CG trailer.  I love Arkane so I am in regardless. 

[Brian]

 

 

 

 

Stolen from Reddit. Some user took these from a play test. Gives off a Destiny/Divison vibe. 

[heydude93]

Seems ok, but not something I'm hyped for. Hopefully it sells enough copies to fund development of another immersive sim.

[Keyser_Soze]

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

 

[Brian]

 

[Keyser_Soze]

 

[DPCyric]

This looks REALLY fucking good I'm in 

[TheLeon]

Just knowing myself, I hope it’s actually satisfying as a single player game, because I’m just not a social gamer. 

[BloodyHell]

5 hours ago, DPCyric said:

This looks REALLY fucking good I'm in 

I hope it's better than Back4Blood, because that looked amazing too. Though this looks very different. I'm definitely excited for it. 

[Mr.Vic20]

Its Arkane, so I'm there. I'm personally don't think much of the presentations of this game so far, with a tone of narrative that is like nails on a chalk board to me, but I know Arkane gets good game play, so I'm not worried that they will deliver anything short of a fun game. 

[BloodyHell]

I actually really like the presentation. 

But I love cheesy vampire horror.

[DPCyric]

3 hours ago, BloodyHell said:

I hope it's better than Back4Blood, because that looked amazing too. Though this looks very different. I'm definitely excited for it. 

 

This looks way more strategic than those types of games at least. Honestly hope I can find someone to co-op this with and agreed on the cheesy vampire horror 

[Paperclyp]

I hope the jumping in and out of multi and who gets credit for progress etc is handled well. That’s a downfall for a lot of these games for me. If they do that well I’ll likely get this day one.

[Keyser_Soze]

4 minutes ago, Paperclyp said:

 If they do that well I’ll likely get this day one.

 

On game pass all that other stuff you said wouldn't even matter.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Redfall is Arkane Studios’ take on an open world, with an ensemble cast

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Think Dishonored or Prey, set in a seaside town overrun by vampires

 

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If there’s one thing Harvey Smith wants you to take away from Redfall’s gameplay trailer shown at Sunday’s Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase, it’s that Arkane Studios Austin’s next game is not a Left 4 Dead-like.

 

“It should, unless I’m mistaken, it should put all the Left 4 Dead comparisons to rest,” Smith, the studio’s director, said in an interview on Monday.

Redfall looks more like Borderlands than any of the asymmetrical or PvE cooperative multiplayer games that have made a revival of Left 4 Dead’s gameplay loop over the past two years.

 

This is mainly because it’s an open-world title (although, to a certain degree, so are L4D-likes such as Second Extinction). More importantly, the campaign is a completely solo-able experience, and no, you can’t bring along bot teammates, another important distinction.

 

 

 

Redfall Will Be a Classic Arkane Single-Player Game (Even When You’re Playing in Co-Op) - IGN

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Redfall's creators aim for their co-op vampire slaying shooter to be just as great solo as it is with four players.

 

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When Arkane Austin announced its vampire-slaying shooter Redfall last year, it was understandable that a portion of its community was a little skeptical. Why were the creators of Prey and Dishonored moving away from meticulous, hand-crafted precision in favour of the messy chaos of co-operative open worlds? A year later I’ve learned that, well, they haven’t. The minds behind Redfall are determined to translate Arkane’s trademark smarts into a game that can be enjoyed by four cooperating players, and that begins with what the studio has always done best: single-player.

 

“We put an inordinate amount of work into making the single-player feel right,” says Harvey Smith, studio director at Arkane Austin. With no desire to make solo and multiplayer separate modes, Smith and his colleagues set about creating a game that worked as a satisfying single-player game just as much as it did a great co-op experience.

 

“It was very important to us that we allow you to play the game alone,” says Smith. “So you can pick your way along very slowly, play at your own pace, observe things at a distance, plan, formulate, harvest resources, do all those things that you probably like doing in an Arkane game.”

 

 

[Moa]

The game looks fun but the quippy characters and general ‘tude is awful. 

[best3444]

Looks pretty good imo and I'm happy to hear there is a quality sp experience. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

1 hour ago, Moa said:

The game looks fun but the quippy characters and general ‘tude is awful. 

 

As someone on ResetERA posted:
 

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Everything is Marvel snark now.

 

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Find out more about Redfall at QuakeCon

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Bethesda has confirmed that Arkane's new vampire game, Redfall, will get a 30-minute slot at its upcoming QuakeCon even…

 

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Bethesda has confirmed that Arkane's new vampire game, Redfall, will get a 30-minute slot at its upcoming QuakeCon event.

 

QuakeCon itself is set to kick off at 6pm UK time on 18th August, whilst the Redfall-flavoured reveal will run for 30 minutes from 6.15pm and "takes you inside [Arkane's] upcoming squad-based vampire shooter with new insights, gameplay details and more!"

 

 

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[Brian]

 

[skillzdadirecta]

That looks... not bad. Too bad they couldn't get it out for Halloween.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Redfall isn't Arkane's Left 4 Dead – it's the studio's spin on Far Cry | GamesRadar+

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Big in 2023: We speak with Arkane Studios' Harvey Smith and Ricardo Bare to dive deep into Redfall, one of the most anticipated Xbox Series X exclusives of the year

 

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Few video game developers have as clear a creative mandate as Arkane. The studio has become synonymous with deep world creation and smart environmental storytelling, and for the intentional emergence that erupts as simple rulesets clash against complex combat and movement systems. Even as the studio weaves so deftly between genres and styles – from Arx Fatalis to Dishonored, Prey to Deathloop – these threads of commonality bind the best Arkane games togehter. What then of Redfall, the cooperative shooter that sees a squad of mischievous vampire hunters work to exterminate an infestation of bloodsuckers from a small coastal town in Massachusetts?

 

Redfall isn't special because it is bound by those same threads, woven so tightly with arcane magic – it is special because it is willing to loosen them. "It's certainly true that if you work on the same thing for long enough you eventually want to clear your head and stretch a little," says Arkane studio director Harvey Smith. "Maybe we stretched too much this time – we probably should have picked either an open world or cooperative multiplayer. But if Redfall comes together at the quality level we think it will, then it will be a different beast. It's really tremendous; it does a lot of cool stuff." 

 

 

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Many of these aspects of Redfall aren't predefined activities, but part of the simulated space. "Redfall sometimes feels like what you'd get if you blended the Arkane creative values with Far Cry 2 or S.T.A.L.K.E.R.," Smith continues. "That's the kind of thing that we have wanted to do for a long time." You may find instances of combat, story vignettes, or countless chaotic results as Arkane's systems clash together. One part of this complex puzzle is the day-night cycle, which remains despite a powerful Vampire God – the Black Sun – having established a local Eclipse. "The sun sets and the sun rises, and we have different times of the day," says Smith. "It changes the feel of the game radically."

 

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[best3444]

Fuckin nice!

 

Edit: Very promising video. I watched it all and it looks really polished. I'm looking forward to it!

[Dre801]

This is one of those high profile titles that just isn't doing it for me.  Looks. . .OK.

[crispy4000]

The vampire design looks like Timesplitters x Darksiders.  I like the general look of the game otherwise.  Not all scary concept games need to be dark.

 

Also, can we stop having so many black characters in games characterized as lacking money?  I'm seeing a pattern emerging.