The upcoming Frostpunk 2 is about to develop and construct on its beloved predecessor in a lot of methods, from the introduction of districts to factions and extra, however one specifically that’s certain to assist tremendously prolong the sport’s life is the truth that, in contrast to the unique, Frostpunk 2 goes to characteristic full modding help.
Talking in a latest interview with Polygon, co-director Jakub Stokalski defined that for the reason that unique Frostpunk was constructed on developer 11 bit studios’ proprietary Liquid Engine, giving gamers entry to full modding instruments proved fairly difficult. Nevertheless, with Frostpunk 2 constructed on Unreal Engine 5, enabling mod help grew to become a lot simpler, which, as per Stokalski, is one thing that’s probably going to elongate the sport’s shelf life considerably.
“It’s one thing that we truly have been desirous to do even since Frostpunk, however weren’t actually in a position to,” he mentioned. “We constructed Frostpunk on our proprietary engine, which allowed us to do numerous cool customized issues, however the funding wanted to make it obtainable to the gamers was simply not warranted. This choice is loads simpler now, as a result of Unreal is a longtime sport engine with a identified pipeline for this kind of stuff.
“Technique video games, and PC video games specifically, profit from having a vibrant modding neighborhood. Folks take pleasure in taking part in with the video games — not solely by taking part in them. That’s an incredible factor to help, interval.
“The neighborhood for Frostpunk and Frostpunk 2 appears to be very invested not solely within the sport, with the way in which the sport works, however on this planet of the sport. There’s individuals developing with fanfiction, like writing totally different eventualities, taking part in eventualities on Reddit in correspondence type. So simply having the chance for many who wish to have a go at attempting to develop this world to what they think about is thrilling for the entire workforce.”
Frostpunk 2 is launching for PC on September 20. PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S variations are additionally within the works, however don’t but have a launch date.
