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First Major Update for ‘FBC: Firebreak’ Coming “Late September”
FBC: Firebreak players won’t have to wait too long for the game’s first major update. Remedy Entertainment has announced more details for the late September update, codenamed “Outbreak”, which will include improvements based around community feedback collected since the game’s launch last month.
Due to the focus on the upcoming update, the team will be posting fewer news items pertaining to Firebreak. However, during that time, the development team will be focusing on four key areas for the update:
- Understanding the game: Improving the onboarding process and playable tutorial level to help new players understand the game and its systems faster.
- Upgraded Gunplay: Giving players more control over how weapons progress with a new gun mods system. Introducing three new (heavy) weapons and dropping all “generic” upgrades to start players with a playable and powerful version of everything a Firebreak needs from the beginning.
- New Ways to Play: Major changes to the way players access Jobs and to the content of jobs themselves, giving more ways to play and a more surprising and exciting way of getting there.
- New Job: This first major update will bring a brand-new Job into Firebreak, requiring players to identify and eliminate and hopefully not eat strains of mold using something that is internally called “the sushi train” … but more about that later. This will include a new handcrafted level, three Zones, a new status effect, two more enemies to deal with, and all the rest you would expect from a new Job.
Including Outbreak, all future playable content for FBC: Firebreak, including new Jobs, will be free. Players will have the option to purchase cosmetics, but none of these items will affect gameplay, and there will be no limited-time rotations or daily log-ins.
FBC: Firebreak is available now on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, Xbox Series, and PlayStation 5. And in case you missed Aaron’s review, check out the what Jay and Neil (and Aaron) had to say about FBC: Firebreak on the Safe Room Podcast.
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Escape a Literal Hellhole in First-Person Survival Horror Title ‘Nature of Dread’ [Trailer]
Described as a nightmare “torn from the pages of Lovecraft, Nikolai Gogol, and Mikhail Bulgakov,” Nature of Dread is a newly-announced survival horror title coming to Steam. This sci-fi horror title has players fighting their way out of a nightmare deep within the northern wilderness, uncovering what has been buried under top-secret clearance for centuries.
The story for Nature of Dread that’s been revealed so far sees players awaken in the classified settlement of Hellhole in the northern forests. Built as humanity’s final defense in a war that has raged for over a millennium, the settlement was designed to contain an ancient evil. As these things go, in a desperate attempt to stop said evil, people tried to contain it, isolate it, and study it.
Ultimately, the military stepped in to do their usual cover-up routine, sealing the borders of the settlement off from the outside world and denying access. Unfortunately, things that were buried tend to have a habit of rising to the surface. Now you’ve been thrust into this centuries-old conflict, where you must decide how far you’re willing to go to protect what truly matters to you.
You’ll be facing off against the spawn of primordial evil, where these creatures learn, adapt, form packs, and change tactics the moment they sense your next move. Luckily, you’ll have plenty of weapons with which to fight these monstrosities, with the devs touting the game having a realistic weaponry system. Of course, since this is a survival horror title, you’ll need to be smart about your gear choices and manage your resources carefully in order to survive.