After muttering about Godfall for over a 12 months, Duelyst builders Counterplay Games as we speak opened up just a little about their upcoming “looter-slasher” action-RPG with a wee trailer at The Game Awards. Godfall has additionally drawn the eye of Borderlands gang Gearbox, no strangers to looter-thingers themselves. Their publishing arm, Gearbox Publishing, as we speak introduced that they’ve picked this one up and will likely be serving to it in the direction of a late-2020 launch. Come watch this cinematic for shiny armour and speak of “a thousand-year war, just to the start the apocalypse.”
What you don’t see there’s that Godfall could have third-person fight targeted on melee murders, smashing by baddies in quest of shinier loot to raised smash by baddies to get shinier loot and so forth. What you do see is three buddies, as a result of Godfall will help co-op for as much as three on high of the standard solo play. We nonetheless don’t know a lot in regards to the game, thoughts, solely the desires and buzzwords.
“We’re innovating with Godfall to provide a fresh take on action RPGs by rewarding skill-based offensive gameplay and making every hit matter,” inventive director Keith Lee stated in as we speak’s announcement. “Namely, we want to feed into that yearning for the next best piece in your character build, so we plan to provide plenty of loot to players to ensure there’s meaningful impact to gameplay and playstyles.”
Given how a lot good I’ve heard about Duelyst, I’ll be curious to study what that really means. See our Matt’s Duelyst review for reward of the way it constructed upon established card game concepts, in addition to phrases like “Duelyst is fantastic, and with time it’s likely to only get better.”
Godfall will debut on the Epic Games Store across the 2020 vacation season (November-December-ish). Gearbox inform me Godfall will likely be an Epic unique on PC for one 12 months. It’ll even be on PlayStation 5. For now, the game’s site ought to have extra information as soon as it emerges from this pre-Game Awards blackout.
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