Treatment Leisure’s communications director, Thomas Puha, has revealed that the studio’s upcoming multiplayer title – FBC: Firebreak – could have decrease {hardware} necessities than its single-player video games. Talking with GamesRadar, Puha spoke about being acutely aware concerning the recreation’s PC necessities, since framerate is vital for multiplayer.
Puha spoke about the truth that, whereas FBC: Firebreak will function nice visuals, the studio is seeking to maintain its PC necessities decrease than its different video games as a result of it needs to draw a wider participant base.
“We’re fairly acutely aware of holding the minimal required PC spec cheap, and never going so excessive with the necessities as we did with Management and Alan Wake 2,” stated Puha. “We’ll nonetheless have nice graphics and visible results, all that you simply count on from Treatment, however in a multiplayer expertise like this, framerate is king in addition to the responsiveness of the controls.”
It’s price noting that among the hottest multiplayer titles on the market don’t are inclined to require innovative PC {hardware} to play. Quite the opposite, video games like Fortnite, Counter-Strike 2 and Valorant have targeted on holding their {hardware} necessities low as effectively, since that implies that extra gamers can really play the sport.
Usually talking, FBC: Firebreak has been one thing of a development breaking title for Treatment, since additionally it is the studio’s first foray into multiplayer. Recognized for its single-player video games like Alan Wake 2 and Management, FBC: Firebreak is an opportunity for the studio to discover an area it hasn’t actually tried earlier than, whereas on the similar time additionally increasing its personal universe of video games.
In the identical interview, recreation director Mike Kayatta spoke about how FBC: Firebreak is a brand new expertise for the studio. Amongst different issues, the choice to make FBC: Firebreak a multiplayer title additionally arose from the need to see emergent storytelling that may solely occur when gamers should band collectively and share the world they’re enjoying in.
Initially introduced again in October, FBC: Firebreak places gamers within the footwear of a primary responder for the Federal Bureau of Management. The sport is slated to be a model new entry, fairly than a sequel or spin-off of Management. Within the recreation, gamers will discover the labyrinthine partitions of the Oldest Home a number of years after the occasions of Management. Whereas it could happen in the identical location as Management, nevertheless, the Oldest Home we see in FBC: Firebreak goes to be reimagined from the bottom up so as to supply new and extra fascinating encounters for co-op gamers.
The sport is slated for launch in 2025, and might be coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. Together with having decrease {hardware} necessities than different video games by the studio, FBC: Firebreak can be going to be a mid-price title. The sport can be going to get extra content material within the type of post-launch help, but it surely received’t be a live-service recreation.
For the time being, Treatment can be engaged on a follow-up to Management, aptly titled Management 2.
