Microsoft Scrapped Redfall Development for PS5 After Bethesda Acquisition 4l4t2z Report

Game director Harvey Smith claims that Microsoft came in and outright denied the PS5 version, shifting focus entirely on PC, Xbox, and Game . 3y46e

Written by Rahul Chettiyar, Edited by Manas Mitul | Updated: 23 March 2023 17:51 IST

Microsoft Scrapped Redfall Development for PS5 After Bethesda Acquisition: Report

Photo Credit: Bethesda Softworks 1d3d3k

Redfall has been built on Unreal Engine 4

Highlights

Harvey Smith doesn’t mind the change because it lessens the workload
A PlayStation version was never publicly known until now
Arkane Austin is looking to reverse Redfall’s always-online requirement

ment

A PS5 version of Arkane shooter acquisition of Bethesda-parent ZeniMax Media.

While PlayStation — in the former's favour.

While Redfall was strike a 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty and other Activision games to Nvidia's gaming platform if the Xbox maker was allowed to complete its acquisition of Activision. The company also signed a similar arrangement with Nintendo in hopes to assuage regulators.

Microsoft previously adhered to timed launches for PC and PlayStation.

In a different Arkane Austin is also looking into removing the much frowned-upon always-online requirement from the game for solo mode, with Smith noting that it's a “legitimate critique.” Smith realises that gamers with bad broadband do exist, and for that reason, he takes the initial backlash with empathy.

“We listen. And we have already started work to address this in the future. We have to do some things like encrypting your save games and do a bunch of UI work to it,” he said in the interview. “And so we are looking into — I'm not supposed to promise anything — but we're looking into and working actively toward fixing that in the future.” Redfall is an open-world co-op looter-shooter where you hunt down vampires who have blocked out sunlight from the titular island town. Smith cleared that there are no microtransactions or an in-game store in Redfall and that the always-online requirement exists to monitor player behaviour and come up with “accessibility stuff.”

“It allows us for telemetry, like — if everybody's falling off ladders and dying, holy shit that shows up. And so we can go and tweak the ladder code. There are reasons we set out to do that that are not insidious,” he said, while assuring that the team has DLCs planned for the future.

Redfall releases May 2 on PC, Xbox Series S/X, and Xbox Game .

From Elden Ring to BGMI's ban, 2022 gave us a lot in the gaming space. We discuss it all on Orbital, the Gadgets 360 podcast. Orbital is available on Spotify, Gaana, JioSaavn, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and wherever you get your podcasts.

links may be automatically generated - see our ethics statement for details.

Redfall 2u2z31

KEY SPECS
NEWS

Genre Shooter

Platform Xbox Series S/X, PC: Windows

Modes Single-player, Multiplayer

PEGI Rating 18+

More Bethesda Games

Comments

For the latest reviews, follow Gadgets 360 on X, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads and Google News. For the latest videos on gadgets and tech, subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you want to know everything about top influencers, follow our in-house Who'sThat360 on Instagram and YouTube.