Treatment drew again the curtain on its multiplayer title, previously codenamed Condor, at at present’s Xbox Associate Preview occasion. FBC Firebreak is a first-person shooter, set in the identical location as Treatment’s single-player hit Management, however will not be, the studio insists, a sequel. Firebreak is Treatment’s first enterprise into the world of multiplayer, and the studio plans to launch it on PC and Xbox Sequence X/S someday in 2025.
The trailer exhibits a few of FBC Firebreak’s gameplay: It’s a horde mode shooter with co-op for as much as three gamers. The participant characters are first responders on the Federal Bureau of Management, who’re known as upon to deal with the supernatural threats that crop up inside The Previous Home, the FBC’s eldritch workplace area. FBC Firebreak loses a few of Management’s visceral horror components, opting as a substitute for brighter colours and extra action-style gameplay.
FBC Firebreak does combine some components of the Previous Home proven in Management into its personal gameplay — for instance, gamers can get hold of Altered Objects, Management’s mysterious objects of energy, so as to filter out the hordes. Recreation director Mike Kayatta informed Xbox Wire, “[You] will see more of Control’s world. More of the Federal Bureau of Control. Meet more of the people who work there. Explore more of the Oldest House. Run into more weird stuff. And importantly, experience this world, old and new, from a completely different perspective.”
Treatment teased a multiplayer spin-off for Management in 2021, with 505 Video games publishing on the time. Treatment has since acquired the rights to Management and its sequels and spin-offs from 505 Video games earlier this yr for $18 million. The corporate informed traders on the time that it was in search of potential companions for Management 2 and Condor — the previous of which continues to be in improvement. Along with Firebreak, Treatment additionally confirmed a gameplay trailer for its upcoming growth of Alan Wake 2, known as The Lake Home.
