Redfall Arkane most ambitious title yet.

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Redfall has made an appearance at QuakeCon 2022 and Arkane Austin has used the event to give us our best insight into the game and what the studio is hoping to achieve with it yet.

Core members of the Redfall development team got together for a twenty-minute deep dive, during which creative director, Ricardo Bare, said that for the team at Arkane, Redfall “represents our most ambitious title that we’ve tried to do here in the Austin studio ever”, with studio director Harvey Smith adding that it was “our effort to take what Arkane does well [...] and stretch ourselves a little bit.”

Art director, Karen Segar, said that while Talos in Prey was “five football fields”, Redfall is “kind of ‘hold my beer’” and that it “definitely challenged the whole team with making something this big.”

To give a sense of the scale, Harvey Smith described a moment during development when a developer working on Redfall’s “rural” district two took the whole of Talos and dropped it on a farm there to find “the district just eats the whole space station [...] It’s gigantic.” Lead producer, Aaron Carter, added, “It was the size of the actual farm area and that’s just one mission.”

Making it clear that the team is trying to create a sense of place as much as a sense of space, Segar said that the town of Redfall is “quaint, it’s small. Even though it’s our biggest game, it feels like small town Americana.” As part of that, Bare said that the team has “put so much effort into the narrative, the world-building, the environmental storytelling” and more in the hopes of making "players feel transported to someplace that feels real.”

“It’s an open world, but it’s not an open world based on the scale of vehicles, it’s an open world based on foot,” Smith explained, adding that you can “traverse the place, go into mom-and-pop grocery stores, apartments, get on the roofs of buildings and we tried to put as many environmental storytelling scenes around as we possibly can so it just feels very lived in.”

Arkane are among best AAA developers today. always try something new, always make new ips.

Really looking forward to it. seem like tons of exploration and content in game.

Yep, I'm also looking forward to it. Some people say it's l4d clone, but with vampires. I'm looking forward to the different mechanics...game looks totally dope.

Besides back 4 blood was trash.

its primarily SP game.

@ghosts4ever: I thought it was 4 player coop, no?

its story driven SP game like arkane game. also have 4 player coop.

Every developer says this. I remember Bioware saying the exact same thing for Anthem🤭

but Arkane never made a game bad. cant compare them to bioware who never made a single good game.

Their last game was pathetic.

Looks interesting, glad there is co-op, which gives more legs to the game.

It was innovative game.

people dont want innovation in games.

Didn't it get a 10/10 here and many places?

Its like Infinite getting a 9. On some games it means nothing.

Zoomer cringe yuck, gaming is dying!!! stop lying to yourself IT'S OVER!!!!

I look forward to this game.

then why dont you sell your gaming PC and get cheap laptop?

you cant judge game by its design or gameplay. just by setting only.

You don't get it Ghost Zoomers are the developers now the veterans have left the building and now the TIK-Tockers are making games while eating Tide Pods IT'S OVER!!!

you trying so hard.

this game being develop by harvey smith. the man who created Deus Ex 1 the best game of all time.

but you never played their games. stick to trash allied assault. Arkane games had too much contents or too much deep.

You are mad very sad.

its you who are mad. wasting time in gaming board if you dont like gaming anymore.

why you keep your gaming PC still? sell it. get cheap laptop. any needy person who cant afford expensive PC can get it to play games. problem solved.

I call it like I see it Ghost.

Time to tighten up the quote chain. 😊

gaming is not dead. its just developer do not make games you want.

luckily there's still developers who are making games for me.

Deathloop was most innovative game of last 10 years but you wont play it because its from arkane. Atomic heart looks another innovative game which you wont play it because its not AAAAA mainstream game.

Very sad with the insults again no need to get mad.

Prey was pretty darn big, hard to quantify game world size there as Prey's station had a lot of verticality to it. Anyhow, Arkane is behind Redfall and that's all I need to know.

I wont let you to play my Atomic heart.

It's all yours Ghost have fun!!!

So warmie my dear friend, Alan wake 2 another my game are you going to play?

If the game is good I probaly will.

@warmblur: but you will not. You bash lot of good games.

Eh, I love Arkane, one of my favorite developers, but the initial showings of this game just leave me a bit suspicious. Might be "the beginning of the end" for Arkane, just like with all our once-great developers i.e. Bioware.

The initial advertising and reveals leave a lot to desire. From the quippy "we're hipsters but we're badazz" attitudes of the heroes, the misleading presentation that this is a co-op game only...not getting a good feeling from it.

But at the same time, it's Arkane. They haven't done me wrong yet.

That's what you were led to believe, but no, it is a single-player game.

Sadly it seems Arkane is not in charge of marketing and Bethesda or whatever wanted to capitalize off the co-op trend of games like Destiny, Back 4 Blood, Left 4 Dead, etc.

It is a story-driven, single-player campaign with possibly tacked on multiplayer co-op because some suit that doesn't play games was shown a build and was like "Yes but where is the multiplayer? I heard kids like that".

No, let it go on...I must feed

@ghosts4ever: @warmblur:

Same here. I look forward to start killing Vampires.

@mrbojangles25: as long as it's coop campaign, then I'm good. I enjoy playing coop campaign mode with friends more than I do playing by myself.

Game is looking pretty good. I’m interested.

Yeah I have nothing against coop.

My competitive days are behind me though, for better or worse haha

Maybe if you're 12. Dragon Age and Mass Effect were both awesome.

both were trash.

Mass effect was cover based shooter disguised as RPG.

add one single redfall mission area being bigger than the whole of prey to the list of reasons why this game continues to be the only arkane game i have little interest in

people in 7 gen 10 years ago complain about games are being too restricted, now complain about games are being too open.

9 out of 10

and? what's your point? we've been saturated with shitty huge quantity over quality open world games for years. arkane are masters of intricate level design. when a single mission in redfall is bigger than the entire game of prey, you're not at all concerned the quality and attention to detail in the level design might suffer?

Arkane never made bad design.

beside harvey smith is lead designer here. so we are not expecting it to be like far cry.

Me too, I doubted that the structure and multiplayer in Deathloop would break the arkane loop that I loved so much.

Holy Hell Arkane blew me away, they are masters of their craft. When they say: "We're gonna make this one area bigger than the whole of prey" I reply:

"yes, Arkane overlords, your game will be brilliant, your ideas are gold and I will never doubt you ever again, no sir"

Even Arkane's cancelled projects look a million times better than any other game we're getting from AAA devs these days. Simple facts.

@ghosts4ever: deathloop was the first game where the level design wasn't top drawer. it had its moments but nothing compared to prey or dishonored. now we're in uncharted territory for arkane, redfall is orders of magnitude bigger than previous games. after the hit and miss deathloop and another misfire of a marketing campaign with redfall confidence in them is shook. we'll have to wait and see but ballooning in size is not a good sign for a sp focused game

Redfall made by different team lead by harvey smith. its arkane austin who made Prey.

Deathloop was made by dinga babaka. beside Deathloop level design is fantastic. tons of exploration. its not Prey or dishonored but it was different approach.

tell that to warmblur who think arkane make childish games LOL!!

People missing out on Arkane games... I don't get it: what other AAA games are there to play? COD and Fifa??

Have you played Youngblood? Levels were designed by Arkane and the level design was the only solid thing in that game.

Arkane is fine, no, they are not in uncharted territory. This game is lead by Harvey Smith, who has worked on plenty of games with huge levels.

people complain about not having new IP

Arkane give new IP

People complain

People complain about we only have remakes, remaster, same game

Arkane give old school style game

Poeple complain

Gamers are getting ungrateful

that's why my suggestion was to sell PC. why keep gaming PC?

Nothing I've seen from this game has grabbed me yet. Might be the weird and messy trailers that don't really tell me how it is to play.

If it turns out good, I'll play it.